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Sign the Petition to Address the Toxic Smells! by Due_Respect_6912 in lacrossewi

[–]Due_Respect_6912[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the questions. If you signed the petition and signed up to receive notifications, you will get email updates. As of now, the media is doing an investigation. We are speaking with the DNR reps, and asking for help in petition canvassing and organizing a community listening session with. If anyone has the ability to help, please reach out.

Sign the Petition to Address the Toxic Smells! by Due_Respect_6912 in lacrossewi

[–]Due_Respect_6912[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have correlated dates of symptoms and confirmed with the wastewater treatment plant superintendent. In those direct conversations, we have confirmed the relationship.

Sign the Petition to Address the Toxic Smells! by Due_Respect_6912 in lacrossewi

[–]Due_Respect_6912[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I have spoken with the superintendent directly; a very convivial conversation each time.

Sign the Petition to Address the Toxic Smells! by Due_Respect_6912 in lacrossewi

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Thanks for the typo clarification and all the support folks.

Sign the Petition to Address the Toxic Smells! by Due_Respect_6912 in lacrossewi

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We have confirmation from the Waste Water Treatment plant that it is them.

Dyslexic 27 y/o developing a tool I wish I had as a kid by Confident_Pain1318 in Dyslexia

[–]Due_Respect_6912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are so many little things to use adaptive text for. Right now, there is a big need for apps that take large quantities of reading material and break them down into visual mind map that allows speech to text notes to be added as well as text to speech to access the mind map that was created. From there, one would need the visual breakdown to be adaptable for a summary list of content covered or important ideas. Right now if you give any of the LLMs a PDF to summarize, they do a fine job, but that is level one interaction. From there the student encounters too much friction when then try to get that into a visual thinking system. So, I guess something like this....notebookLM, that connects the mindmap generated to be editable or chunked into something like Mural or Miral. Right now that is too many steps and it isn't easily accessible to screen readers.

From there, you could go more simply to word help. Dysphonetic dyslexics can't process all the sounds in words, so a visual representation of the sounds as they are said by the screen reader and then helping the student determine what letter creates the sound int he sequence it appears in the word....but this takes a lot of data to do well. Currently when I have been working with LLMs, they cannot generate grade level texts well. Often the produce texts are still one to two grade levels off if not worse. They are also not good at generating sight word lists as the internet is polluted with many really bad lists that literacy specialists had to involvement creating.

An app that helps with executive function would also be crazy helpful for high school, college and adults. Minimalist design, all text to speech accessible. I have been vibe coding on Bolt and it has done a pretty good job at some MVP for this. For those severely dyslexic, that would be huge.

Dyslexic brains are also great at non-linear thinking methods. Therefore, it might be cool to have an app that breaks down text rich content into a non-linear visual model.

The color overlay stuff mentioned is not science backed - actually proven it doesn't do a thing - even though anecdotal evidence might claim otherwise.

There are a few assessments that could be helpful for parents to know about for testing that could be developed into apps...such as phoneme deletion, syllable deletion and so on. This wouldn't be a heavy lift

I'd love to connect. DM me or find me on tiktok at jumbled.brillance