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#hearing

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Mike

Even moderate hearing loss is very odd.
It's not until I stick my hearing aids in that I realise how much I'm missing out on - mostly birdsong, but also little household noises.
My hearing aids sometimes feel like a lot of bother, almost a cruel imposition, but the benefits are immense.

Get your hearing checked - you may not know what you are missing.
The RNID has a very good online screening tool rnid.org.uk/information-and-su

RNIDTake our free hearing checkCheck your hearing in 3 minutes. Our free, easy, reliable and independent online hearing test will tell you how well you're hearing
#hearingLoss#hearing#hearingAids
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getmisch

Murdered, point blank. Unarmed, walking toward the other guy's truck at a stoplight. The guy shoots him dead. And his family make a video of the dead guy, forgiving the murderer, to be played at sentencing. Just, wow. First time being used in the U.S. & this feels like a very slippery slope.
#generative #artificial #intelligence #impact #victim #statement #court #judge #sentencing #hearing #appeal #jail #murder #gun #shot #dead #testify #testimony #deepfake #faked inc.com/associated-press/how-a

Inc · How an AI-Generated Video Gave a Victim a Voice at His Killer's SentencingIn an Arizona courtroom, a deceased man was able to speak thanks to AI and his family's efforts. Here's what happened.
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Jer 🚵🏼

Something different to start the morning. One of the 6yr old rechargeable hearing aids showed “battery failure” light (using what for power, eh?) yesterday so I carefully nudged the clever little pins holding it together. Batteries at the back, they appear to be soldered/spot welded to tiny wires. Most of the device seems dedicated to enclosure.
#electronics #hearing #phonak

side view of hearing aid with bottom plastic cover removed. There’s round button batteries, maybe a coil or two, some kind of electronics “sandwich” circuit boards, and small round catches holding the top on. A push pin is shown for scale and the wire with three leads/pins leading to actual ear speaker is on bottom right
The top removed and now there’s another layer of “stuff”, this being clear flexible plastic that interfaces with rocker switch controls and maybe two screened openings where sound is guided to microphones below. There’s a thin green flexible circuit board below, but components are probably on the other side.
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getmisch

People are not being "deported". They're being #kidnapped, sold into #slave #labor. They're victims of #HumanTrafficking. Even if we were at war, even if he could invoke the AEA from 1798 (#AlienEnemiesAct), he'd have no right to deny anyone #DueProcess. A #hearing before a #judge, #trials are not needed.
Human Rights Watch (link) calls for the repeal of the AEA.
#OurPutin & #PresidentMusk #fascist #dictator #free #elections #gone #generational #loss #HumanRights #GOP hrw.org/report/2025/05/01/unit

Demonstrators holding up placards
Human Rights Watch · United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies ActThe 59-page report, “United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act, A Human Rights Argument,” describes how the Trump administration has utilized the act as a vehicle for its attempted end run around basic due process and human rights protections. Modern international law binds the United States to respect human rights through treaty frameworks and customary norms, many of which have been incorporated into US domestic law. The Alien Enemies Act is an archaic statute that predates these legal norms and is entirely incompatible with them.
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michael

16-Apr-2025
Your cells can hear
Uncovering the relationship between life and #sound

There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your brain and ears perceive it, but your cells may also.

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #perception #hearing #vibration #sensory

EurekAlert!Your cells can hearKyoto, Japan -- There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your brain and ears perceive it, but your cells may also. Technically speaking, sound is a simple phenomenon, consisting of compressional mechanical waves transmitted through substances, which exists universally in the non-equilibrated material world. Sound is also a vital source of environmental information for living beings, while its capacity to induce physiological responses at the cell level is only just beginning to be understood. Following on previous work from 2018, a team of researchers at Kyoto University have been inspired by research in mechanobiology and body-conducted sound -- the sound environment in body tissues -- indicating that acoustic pressure transmitted by sound may be sufficient to induce cellular responses.
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

This is a very long thread, reporting on a hearing for Rümeysa Öztürk, the college student who was snatched by ICE on video.

I understand only some of it. What’s important here is that there’s a glimmer of hope. The ACLU is fighting for her, and the judge is listening. That’s monumental in the fight against fascism.

#RümeysaÖztürk #ACLU #ICE #Palestine #OpEd #Xenophobia #Hearing
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Bluesky Social · Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵
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Karsten Johansson

New hearing aid day.

Every time, it feels like one hand giveth, and the other hand taketh away.

So I'm playing around figuring where each improvement and each disprovement (?) occurs.

Already found that the speech-in-noise really sucks compared to my old ones. The overall sound is better, though. Also, it hates my cell phone. I'll see if my streamer works with it (which is how I fixed it with my previous pair). But my previous pair had some functionality with my phone. This pair has none.

#hearing#hearingaids#oticon
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Headfonics

Flare Audio Definition Review

We start the weekend with a new and unique set of acoustical inserts designed to target distortion in your everyday listening scenarios such as headphones, concerts, and speakers.

Do they work? Louis finds out in his full review, now published on Headfonics!

headfonics.com/flare-audio-def

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Headfonics · Flare Audio Definition ReviewIndependent Portable and Desktop Audio Reviews
#review#hearing#listening
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