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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Good evening Amanda and everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Speaking of vehicles since Tesla and Waymo now operate in Austin have you ridden in any of these vehicles? Waymo operates in San Antonio but not in our part of town Stone Oak. We\u2019re near many top tourist attractions and hope Waymo enlarges its geofence to include this part of the city soon. I\u2019ve watched many Waymo and Tesla trips on YouTube and have seen some Zoox trips as well. All of these have one thing in common. They\u2019re not from the blindness perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Thanks to AI we\u2019re making plans to fix that once Waymo and company begin service in our area. Using Gemini we\u2019ve mapped out potential routes and are researching filming companies to have some of our trips filmed and yes they will include audio description. Planning the budget for this venture will also be done with AI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> As for that limousine four and possibly 5 of us will be attending the various events connected with Leila\u2019s quince thus a large vehicle will be needed. My wife Mary uses a walker and Samantha\u2019s car transmission broke down. We identified transportation as a failure point and used good old Gemini to find a limo company that wouldn\u2019t take us to the bank big-time. What did we get?Clark Limousine Service came to our aid and the owner will be our driver. Again we found this company using artificial intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> We\u2019d like to go to Disneyworld and are using AI to explore trip options. I look forward to the day when we master Agentic AI and letting it do the heavy lifting on our behalf including making all of the reservations for us subject to our approval. Since we use AI heavily we upgraded our Gemini Plan from Pro to Ultra and made budgetary adjustments for that to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> This may be an edge post but I thought I would catch everyone up on what Mary and I have been up to. Yup Buddy it\u2019s Pete being Pete. Have a great weekend everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Peter Donahue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Amanda Lacy via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 25, 2026 2:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> NFB in sComputer Science Mailing List <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Amanda Lacy <lacy925@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] Pete Being Pete, Artificial Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A limo would be way too big and show-offey for just me, and I don't like spending much time in vehicles anyway. Fireworks are loud and smelly and hurt my ears, and I hide inside if they're going off near me. I suppose I could lower the noise level with my AirPods, but I still fail to understand the purpose of a bunch of random explosions that sound like gunshots going off.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think I'll just keep testing my Monarch display in my quiet sanctuary.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jun 25, 2026, at 2:14<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>\u202f</span>PM, Peter via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Hello Buddy and everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Yup it\u2019s Pete being Pete. If the NFB wants us to live the lives we want being Pete is job one here. I\u2019ll remember this conversation when the limousine picks us up for our events and the fireworks go off on Sunday. To bring this conversation home we\u2019re big into AI here. AI is playing a significant part in planning our event on Sunday. Programming the YouTube playlist for our Sunday Dinner is one example. Securing the limousine company, researching this event and determining how we could reimagine it for Leila and her mother were all done using AI. Why not use AI to brainstorm ways to raise funding to develop Braille Displays that meet everyone\u2019s specifications and to develop ways to put them into the hands of blind people needing them. We\u2019ve run stuff like this by other agencies and organizations of the blind and don\u2019t receive the kind of pushback we\u2019re receiving here. If this pushback continues and it doesn\u2019t come from anywhere else in the blind community the NFB has a problem. Dream big everyone.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Peter Donahue sjust being Pete Again. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>_______________________________________________<br>NFBCS mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:NFBCS@nfbnet.org"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>NFBCS@nfbnet.org</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br></span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<br></span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/lacy925%40gmail.com"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/lacy925%40gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>