Dylan R. Fox
@dylanrfox.com
Director of Operations for XR Access at Cornell. Accessibility, XR, tech enthusiast. I support systems that work for everyone, be they technical or political. Proud nerdy Californian. Gamer. 🎮🎲♟️
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ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone
A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work.
apnews.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
"Who else does this need to work for?" That's a question Owlchemy Labs asks with every major design decision in Dimensional Double Shift.
With our newest blog, we dive into Owlchemy's approach to accessibility and personalization for everyone: owlchemylabs.com/blog/dimensi...
With our newest blog, we dive into Owlchemy's approach to accessibility and personalization for everyone: owlchemylabs.com/blog/dimensi...
June 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Excited to be rolling straight from #AWE2025 to the #AccessibleFuturesConference held by the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Looking forward to figuring out how to apply #InclusiveTech to real #accessibility challenges!
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Accessible Futures Conference
Join us this summer for a disability-led community conversation on housing, transportation, the environment and more.
mtc.ca.gov
June 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Excited to be rolling straight from #AWE2025 to the #AccessibleFuturesConference held by the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Looking forward to figuring out how to apply #InclusiveTech to real #accessibility challenges!
mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/pu...
mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/pu...
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Great read about a good faith effort to remove bias from AI that failed. Perfect finish:
“We are being seduced by technological solutions for the wrong problems...Why doesn’t the municipality build an algorithm that searches for people who do not apply for social assistance but are entitled to it?”
“We are being seduced by technological solutions for the wrong problems...Why doesn’t the municipality build an algorithm that searches for people who do not apply for social assistance but are entitled to it?”
New from me @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social + Justin-Casimir Braun:
Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work.
Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work.
Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?
www.technologyreview.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Great read about a good faith effort to remove bias from AI that failed. Perfect finish:
“We are being seduced by technological solutions for the wrong problems...Why doesn’t the municipality build an algorithm that searches for people who do not apply for social assistance but are entitled to it?”
“We are being seduced by technological solutions for the wrong problems...Why doesn’t the municipality build an algorithm that searches for people who do not apply for social assistance but are entitled to it?”
Excited to be speaking at #AWE2025 for XRAccess! I'll be moderating "Stronger Together: Accessibility & Diversity in a Post-DEIA XR Landscape," where we'll defend why #DEIA makes us more creative, perceptive, and efficient.
#InclusiveTech #XR #a11y
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#InclusiveTech #XR #a11y
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June 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Excited to be speaking at #AWE2025 for XRAccess! I'll be moderating "Stronger Together: Accessibility & Diversity in a Post-DEIA XR Landscape," where we'll defend why #DEIA makes us more creative, perceptive, and efficient.
#InclusiveTech #XR #a11y
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#InclusiveTech #XR #a11y
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For anyone interested in #XR #accessibility, come to our XR Access Symposium on June 26-27! We have some great presentations from academics, disabled artists, and more lined up. Join us in NYC or online: xraccess.org/symposium
#XRAccess2025 #a11y #InclusiveTech
#XRAccess2025 #a11y #InclusiveTech
XR Access Symposium
The XR Access Symposium convenes leaders in research, advocacy, engineering, policy, and business to make XR accessible to people with disabilities.
xraccess.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
For anyone interested in #XR #accessibility, come to our XR Access Symposium on June 26-27! We have some great presentations from academics, disabled artists, and more lined up. Join us in NYC or online: xraccess.org/symposium
#XRAccess2025 #a11y #InclusiveTech
#XRAccess2025 #a11y #InclusiveTech
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if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.
May 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.
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Two weeks to go until the AA Summer Showcase 2025.
Press, email laurakbuzzofficial@gmail.com if you'd like to recieve the showcase video, demos, and interview ops in advance, to get a head start on Summer Games Fest coverage.
Press, email laurakbuzzofficial@gmail.com if you'd like to recieve the showcase video, demos, and interview ops in advance, to get a head start on Summer Games Fest coverage.
The Access-Ability Summer Showcase is just one month away.
45+ mins of trailers for upcoming, accessibility focused video games.
ASL, BSL, and Audio Descriptions.
A steam page for all the games.
Reaction streams encouraged. Press previews available upon request.
LauraKBuzz on YT and Twitch.
45+ mins of trailers for upcoming, accessibility focused video games.
ASL, BSL, and Audio Descriptions.
A steam page for all the games.
Reaction streams encouraged. Press previews available upon request.
LauraKBuzz on YT and Twitch.
May 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Two weeks to go until the AA Summer Showcase 2025.
Press, email laurakbuzzofficial@gmail.com if you'd like to recieve the showcase video, demos, and interview ops in advance, to get a head start on Summer Games Fest coverage.
Press, email laurakbuzzofficial@gmail.com if you'd like to recieve the showcase video, demos, and interview ops in advance, to get a head start on Summer Games Fest coverage.
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE.
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid Leave Food Destined for Desperate Millions Rotting in Storage | Common Dreams
Millions of lives hang in the balance as $98 million worth of food aid sits unused in warehouses, set to expire. Childre
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May 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE.
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
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The Social Security Administration (per DOGE) instituted anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone.
Only two out of over 110,000 claims had a high probability of fraud — a rate of .0018%
But it slowed retirement claim processing by 25%.
"Efficiency."
Only two out of over 110,000 claims had a high probability of fraud — a rate of .0018%
But it slowed retirement claim processing by 25%.
"Efficiency."
May 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Social Security Administration (per DOGE) instituted anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone.
Only two out of over 110,000 claims had a high probability of fraud — a rate of .0018%
But it slowed retirement claim processing by 25%.
"Efficiency."
Only two out of over 110,000 claims had a high probability of fraud — a rate of .0018%
But it slowed retirement claim processing by 25%.
"Efficiency."
If they can get arrested, you can call your representatives! #CivilRights #Disability #a11y
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www.commondreams.org/news/republi...
'You Will Kill Me': Dozens Arrested Protesting GOP Medicaid Cuts at US Capitol | Common Dreams
Over two dozen people were arrested at the U.S. Capitol for protesting the GOP's proposed Medicaid cuts.
www.commondreams.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If they can get arrested, you can call your representatives! #CivilRights #Disability #a11y
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www.commondreams.org/news/republi...
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I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...
Former Employees, Community Members Allege AbleGamers Founder Fostered Abuse Behind Closed Doors - IGN
Over 20 years, AbleGamers has become synonymous with the accessibility movement as its presence and influence grew across the industry. However, new reports from former employees and members of the ac...
www.ign.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...
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There are many wonderful game accessibility nonprofits doing life changing work, from SpecialEffect to Makers Making Change, from NothingWithoutUs to Everyone Can, from CapGame to Warfighter Engaged to GameToo to the Let's Play Games Project.
Don't let the current news distract from that.
Don't let the current news distract from that.
May 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There are many wonderful game accessibility nonprofits doing life changing work, from SpecialEffect to Makers Making Change, from NothingWithoutUs to Everyone Can, from CapGame to Warfighter Engaged to GameToo to the Let's Play Games Project.
Don't let the current news distract from that.
Don't let the current news distract from that.
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This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.
I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
May 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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On Friday, ICE unlawfully deported an American child with cancer.
The four-year-old was sent out of the country without medication, according to reports.
This is the second time the Trump regime has deported a U.S. citizen child with cancer.
The cruelty is staggering.
The four-year-old was sent out of the country without medication, according to reports.
This is the second time the Trump regime has deported a U.S. citizen child with cancer.
The cruelty is staggering.
April 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
On Friday, ICE unlawfully deported an American child with cancer.
The four-year-old was sent out of the country without medication, according to reports.
This is the second time the Trump regime has deported a U.S. citizen child with cancer.
The cruelty is staggering.
The four-year-old was sent out of the country without medication, according to reports.
This is the second time the Trump regime has deported a U.S. citizen child with cancer.
The cruelty is staggering.
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When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.
April 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.
Nothing says "we respect the rule of law" like arresting a judge in her own courthouse. #Fascism
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/f...
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FBI arrests Wisconsin Judge Dugan on obstruction charge, escalates Trump immigration enforcement effort
Federal agents arrested Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on obstruction charges, FBI Director Kash Patel said.
www.cnbc.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Nothing says "we respect the rule of law" like arresting a judge in her own courthouse. #Fascism
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/f...
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/f...
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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
www.npr.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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See the problem here?
April 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
See the problem here?
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.