#bridge communication gaps

[wysax]

In the modern educational landscape, technology plays an integral role in bridging communication gaps and enhancing the learning experience. School management apps have emerged as powerful tools to keep students and parents engaged, fostering a stronger connection between home and school. These applications streamline communication, provide easy access to information, and create a cohesive environment for all stakeholders involved. This blog post delves into the various ways school management apps achieve these goals, emphasizing their importance in today's educational framework.

[mikayesha]

Imagine if he started getting scared of bridges too

[blujayonthewing]

[softly-- with a note of revelation] forest gnomes can probably purr...

[irbcallmefynn]

Eventually the cringe energy within me will start bouncing around at such a high speed it will only be comprehendable as a tone. This tone will, of course, match the resonant frequency of reality (comparable to the resonant frequency of an orange) which will cause the laws of physics to be shaken apart violently, allowing me to perform ACE (Asexual Code Execution) and run Doom on every Chrysanthemum on Earth simultaneously. The combined satanic energy from this (identified by the Catholic church) will activate a sleeper agent gene in every therian in the world, causing us to all immediately transmogrify into our true selves.

When will this happen? Uhh idk I'll have to get back to you on that.

[alternativeulster]

habitual be is my favourite dialect feature of all time ever, bc it originates in BOTH hiberno-english (specifically scots-irish dialects) and AAVE, and while we don't know for sure if one influenced the other or not, the prevailing theory is that they evolved completely independent of each other. the irish language, and many caribbean languages, have native habitual markers!! there's no direct translation in english, so it's natural to use the verb "be"!! it's literally translating the conventions of a bunch of different native languages onto english to fill in a gap!!!

[sirensongster]

I'm thinking of starting a Substack for posting my silly little hobby essays on food and disability advocacy. Would anyone be interested at all?

[eumeliafeu]

Can I just say something? Okay, so, I think the funniest live bloggers are the Brazilians. They are so funny, and for what? I can almost always find something to laugh at in their live blogging for each day and I am just sitting looking through my tags and nearly laughing in the middle of one of my classes. Thank you, so so much Brazilians. You guys and your CCs are so dear to me. I can almost always find enjoyment in the live streams even if I can't understand a word they are saying(I can pick up little things here and there and it honestly makes me so happy) and it is so awesome coming on here and looking at the QSMP live blogging tag and figuring out through the live bloggers.

Other English speakers that are fans of the QSMP need to realize that the Spanish speakers and Brazilians are a part of our community and without them, we wouldn't have some really cool content. I am tired of seeing people make fun of or generally being awful to the CCs or even fellow fans. Do better.

Again, thank you Brazilian fans and also thank you to the Spanish speaking fans. You guys are awesome. Keep doing you and I hope other English speaking fans start appreciating you more, or even as much as I do and that they try to understand even a little bit, whether it's through learning one of the languages, even just watching the Brazilian and Hispanic creators and finding the cognates and understanding even a little bit, or even just interacting with fans who don't speak English as their first language and taking the time to even put their words through google translate(honestly, as someone learning Spanish, it isn't great but if you have a reading level over that of a first grader then you should be able to figure it out even then) just to help it reach more people as most social media sites are more English friendly than they are to any other language.

Feel free to translate this post so it can reach more people. I don't really care for credit but it would be really nice because we need to start crediting people more in not just this space but also in other spaces. Credit artists and writers, they are the back bones of many fandoms, especially ours. The museum in the QSMP itself credits the artists. Give credit where credit is due.

[snekdood]

i mean i should probably stop saying shit just to be mean

[daybreakrising]

VAUTRIN DRABBLE; BREAKING NEWS

The news was quick to break across Fontaine. Captain Vautrin, right-hand to the Iudex, has been arrested for murder.

Aurélie was not one for gossip, and often disregarded the sly whisperings passed between her neighbours should it reach her own ears. Gossip was unsavoury, its intentions usually to slander, to sully. Therefore, it was not worth her time. There were, however, certain key words that would draw her attention without fail – and one of those was the name of her son.

She had barely taken three strides from the gates of her home before she felt the gazes of many upon her, heard the blanket of whispers descend around her. This in itself was nothing out of the ordinary for her. A star upon the stage since her girlhood, possessing of both great beauty and talent, she has spent a lifetime in the spotlight, for better and for worse. But there was an air about Fontaine this morning that filled her with a sense of building dread. And then… she heard it.

Captain Vautrin… arrested for murder.

Vautrin.

Vautrin.

The blood drained from her face in an instant. No… no it cannot be… this must be a cruel rumour… Yet now she could see the heavy presence of gardes in the streets, the unusual liveliness at what is typically a quiet hour of the morning. And the looks her neighbours were giving her… pity, she recognised, and judgement. The spotlight has often weighed on her shoulders before now, but this is something else. She has never been looked at with such… negativity.

It takes but a few seconds for her to turn on her heel and flee back into the sanctuary of her home.

"Évariste! Évariste!" She dashes through the spacious hallway with none of her usual grace and poise, until she all but stumbles into the concerned arms of her husband. She lifts her gaze to his, sees the surprise, the question that lingers there, and her eyes fill with tears. It is an effort to make her lips move, to force the words out. "Something terrible has happened…"

--

Évariste, at first, refused to believe it. With an insistence that it was a misunderstanding, or some deliberately spiteful lie, he left her cowering behind closed doors whilst he sought answers. She begged him not to go, to stay with her here, but he would not listen. So she lingered, alone, pacing the rooms that were once filled with life, but now feel empty. She drew the drapes over every window, lest the entirety of Fontaine come to peek at the disgraced family, surrounding herself with a darkness that matched the one in her heart.

Time ticks by without her acknowledgement – so lost is she in her thoughts that she finds herself standing in a room she has not entered in many years, quite without realising her feet were taking her there.

Everything is just as it was.

Neither of them could ever bring themselves to move a single thing, and so it remains like a museum display of what once was. She stands amidst the last echoes of her son – a bed still neatly made by his hands, a stack of books left behind on his bedside table, clothes that no longer fit him still hanging in his closet. He had taken some items on his departure, but he had not taken them all, and neither had they sent them to his new place of residence. Perhaps, she mused now, they had hoped he would return for them, would return to them. But he never had.

The room beside this one is similar in its state of preservation. Two children they'd had, and two children they'd lost. Where did we go wrong in life? What did we do to warrant this agony?

There is only one thing out of place here, an addition she has made herself: a book, sitting in pride of place on the empty desk by the window. It is to this that she moves towards, her hands smoothing over the soft leather cover before carefully opening it to the first page. Her fingertips trace over an old flyer, affixed to the page with great care, for a production long since retired: but it is her son's name that features in big, bold letters. His debut on the stage. Oh, how they'd had such dreams for his future.

She turns the page as painful memories rear their ugly heads. Such talent he'd had… he had moved with such grace, such elegance. She had wept every time she watched him dance, and now she weeps for what could have been. She flips carefully through page after page of memories, of recorded achievements and awards, of performance advertisements and playbills. She cannot bear to look at them for long. After a time, the playbills and awards stop, to be replaced instead by notices and clippings from newspapers, many of them bearing headlines:

Notorious Thief Apprehended At Last By Rookie Garde Young Garde Saves Drowning Children Special Security Officer Uncovers Hidden Nefarious Plot! Remarkable Garde Becomes Youngest Special Security Captain In History Captain Vautrin: Right Hand To The Iudex?

She lingers upon this last clipping, her gaze resting heavily upon the image that accompanies it. The Iudex of Fontaine, standing as elegantly and imposing as ever, beside a handsome young man in a pristine uniform. There is no colour to the image, but she can picture the vibrant wine of his hair, the soft hazel of his eyes. Her boy, her beloved boy, achieving greatness in his own way, just as he had promised he would.

It is here that Évariste finds her. He stands at her back, hands upon her shoulders – hands that long to comfort, but cannot, for he brings only dire tidings. It is no lie. Their son has indeed been arrested for murder, and a murder most atrocious at that. He has stained his name, tarnished his previously pristine reputation. He has thrown everything away, yet again. Yet again, it is in the name of a cause he believes in, a cause he will not falter upon.

Amongst the agony of this terrible truth, there is a flicker of something fond: he may have grown, may have changed from the boy that walked away from them without looking back, but at heart… he is still the same. Still their Vautrin.

But the flicker cannot survive for long amidst the smothering dread – for they have well and truly lost their last remaining child. He will be sentenced to a life beneath the sea, never to return. He will go beyond their reach for the last time. Tomorrow's paper will bear a new headline, but one that will never make it into this book:

Captain Vautrin: Guilty Of Brutal Slaughter

[fair-lead]

thinkgin about genly and estraven again

[trollbreak]

Ohhh!! i love this idea, umm, what about bloodthirst for the sorting?

This one is a lil tough to convey! Peipre is in pale and ashen with both those guys, and also acts flush with marrow still some of the time, so I was a bit uncertain on where entirely to put that dot, but I think falling most into pale works!

Dexter is from @skull-exe teehee! I like that guy :3

[jcmarchi]

Florian Hillen, Founder & CEO of VideaHealth – Interview Series

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Florian Hillen, Founder & CEO of VideaHealth – Interview Series

Florian Hillen is the Founder and  CEO of VideaHealth, an AI-powered platform designed to enhance dental care by improving diagnostic accuracy, streamlining workflows, and supporting patient outcomes with consistency and efficiency. Trusted by leading dental organizations, VideaAI integrates seamlessly with major imaging and practice management systems. It leverages a vast dataset of dental images and FDA-cleared detections to automatically identify and recommend treatments for a wide range of oral conditions, including pediatric cases. The platform also offers patient-friendly visualizations to improve case acceptance and supports dental networks with actionable insights for performance optimization.

What inspired you to found VideaHealth, and what initial challenges did you face in developing an AI solution specifically for dental health?

The inspiration behind founding VideaHealth was my desire to make a significant, global impact on our society and healthcare specifically. Dentistry presented an incredible opportunity because nearly everyone visits a dental office, making it possible to improve the lives of a billion patients through better diagnostics. One of the biggest initial challenges was navigating uncharted regulatory terrain. When we started, the FDA did not have a clear framework for dental AI, so we had to work closely with them to shape the path forward.

How has VideaHealth’s mission evolved since its founding, and what impact do you hope to have on global dental health over the next decade?

Our mission has always been to empower dental clinicians to deliver better care through AI. While the mission remains constant, the way we fulfill it has evolved—beyond diagnostics, we now automate administrative workflows to further support dental teams. Over the next decade, we aim to touch the lives of a billion patients, and our data shows that roughly half of them receive better treatment through our AI, so a powerful and quantifiable impact we all work very hard on achieving.

You aim to improve care for a billion patients worldwide. Could you tell us about the milestones achieved so far and the strategies you are employing to reach this ambitious goal?

We have integrated VideaAI into the workflows of over 30,000 dental professionals and positively impacted more than 40 million patients annually. Key milestones include a great partnership with Henry Schein One to integrate our AI seamlessly into dentists’ workflows as well as winning the largest dental group in the U.S. and the largest in Canada as our customers. These partnerships help us embed AI into daily practice, ensuring adoption and long-term success. Our provider-first approach sets us apart and positions us to serve clinicians’ evolving needs effectively.

Can you share some details about the recent partnership with Dentalcorp and the benefits Dentalcorp practitioners and patients are already seeing from VideaHealth’s AI?

Expanding into Canada through our partnership with Dentalcorp is an exciting milestone. Dentalcorp’s practitioners are already reporting improved detection accuracy and increased case acceptance rates. This means patients are receiving earlier interventions and avoiding the need for more complex treatments, ultimately improving their overall care experience.

How does VideaHealth’s AI platform improve diagnostic accuracy and patient engagement compared to traditional methods?

VideaAI serves as a real-time second opinion for clinicians, offering insights based on data from over 100 expert dentists. With training on 50 times the data a dentist might see in a lifetime, our AI enhances diagnostic accuracy and builds patient trust. By visually demonstrating conditions like cavities or bone loss, patients better understand their treatment needs, leading to earlier acceptance and improved outcomes.

With over 30 FDA-cleared detections, what are some specific dental conditions VideaHealth’s platform can identify that might otherwise be overlooked?

VideaHealth’s AI is a powerful tool for detecting dental conditions that are often overlooked or underdiagnosed, such as early-stage caries and periodontal disease. While larger cavities are typically identified, early-stage decay confined to enamel can be missed or dismissed without intervention. Our AI enhances the diagnostic rate for these subtle issues, allowing providers to treat them early before they progress into larger, more invasive problems. Similarly, periodontal disease, the leading cause of tooth loss in adults, often goes unnoticed by patients until it reaches advanced stages. VideaAI identifies early signs of bone loss and calculus buildup under the gumline, making it easier for clinicians to address these silent conditions and engage patients in their treatment plans.

Beyond detection, what sets us apart is our vision for using these FDA-cleared detections to streamline workflows, improve patient outcomes, and automate repetitive processes, transforming how dental care is delivered. We are excited about how these capabilities will shape the future of dental practices and enhance care for millions of patients worldwide.

In what ways has VideaHealth helped standardize diagnostic practices across Dentalcorp’s extensive network of practitioners?

In DSOs like Dentalcorp, where patients may visit multiple clinics or practitioners, ensuring consistent, high-quality diagnoses across 550 offices and thousands of clinicians is critical. VideaHealth’s AI has reduced diagnostic variability by 35% across all 10 FDA-cleared pathology indications, leveling the field between less experienced and highly seasoned practitioners. For example, our advanced caries detection model has achieved a remarkable 70% improvement in diagnostic performance for less experienced clinicians. This closes the gap and elevates standards for everyone.

This consistency doesn’t just improve the reliability of care—it also strengthens patient trust. Patients who receive uniform diagnoses across clinics are less likely to seek second opinions, which can undermine confidence in their provider. VideaAI not only ensures consistency but also boosts diagnostic accuracy, with a 24% improvement in identifying previously missed pathologies on average across all indications. By standardizing diagnoses, VideaHealth will help Dentalcorp build trust and loyalty among its patients while improving operational efficiency.

Can you explain how VideaHealth’s patient-friendly visualizations have impacted case acceptance rates and patient understanding of their treatment needs?

VideaHealth’s patient-friendly visualizations have revolutionized how patients understand their oral health, directly impacting case acceptance rates. Traditionally, grayscale X-rays left patients confused, as they could not interpret the images without extensive explanation. With VideaHealth’s innovative tools, clinicians can now use colorized X-rays to highlight problem areas like decay or bone loss, turning abstract concepts into clear, urgent visual stories.

This visual clarity is further enhanced by integrating intraoral photos with annotated X-rays, merging science with reality. Patients can see their own tooth alongside the identified issue, making the diagnosis undeniable and fostering trust in their provider’s recommendations. This is especially impactful in a field where over 60% of treatment recommendations traditionally go unaccepted. With AI simplifying complex issues and improving communication, VideaHealth is closing the gap between diagnosis and treatment, making it easier for patients to say “yes” to the care they need.

How does VideaHealth streamline clinical workflows for dental professionals, and what efficiencies are gained through AI-driven insights?

Our WorkflowAI product automates the daily morning meeting by outlining patient-specific tasks and opportunities for care. For example, it reminds teams to complete preventive screenings or optimize in-chair treatments. This streamlined approach ensures no opportunities are missed, improving patient outcomes and maximizing provider efficiency.

How do you see AI transforming dental practices in the coming years, particularly in terms of disease prevention and early intervention?

AI will soon set the standard for diagnostics, enabling earlier disease detection and more personalized care. Over time, automation will streamline nearly every office process, from scheduling to charting. Perhaps most excitingly, we anticipate deeper medical-dental integration, with AI acting as the bridge to connect oral health more closely to overall healthcare.

Thank you for the great interview, readers who wish to learn more should visit VideaHealth.

[blujayonthewing]

if you cast speak with animals and talk to a forest gnome who's speaking as if to a bird would you understand them or does the magic behind those processes work differently enough that they'd slide right off each other

[wickedzeevyln]

Even Bugs Have Updates

We have grownso accustomedto the expressions:Who cares?I don’t care.So what?I don’t give a damn! We hoist them uplike protest signsand slogans, waving them boldlyas if apathy were a badgeof honor,a shield to deflectthe weight of compassion. We inundate our liveswith them,drenching our languagein their cold indifferenceuntil they becomeas commonas air,as unremarkableas shadows,as coldas the…

[acquaintsofttech]

Bridge Gaps in A Remote Laravel Team To Elevate Productivity

Introduction Outsourcing software development requirements is growing in popularity. It is not uncommon for businesses to hire a professional software development outsourcing company to develop a top-notch Laravel solution. Laravel happens to be one of the most popular web frameworks. Remote setups provide flexibility and access to global talent pools. However, they also come with several…

[pomeraniandancer]

This is something that *SUPER* worries me when it comes to intersectionality issues. I am deaf and an ADHDer, and possibly also autistic (we're waiting to see how my ADHD medication works out before evaluating me for ASD). I am also, and this is relevant, white. On multiple occasions, I have found myself in *very* difficult conversations where I missed a social or linguistic cue, and got myself into very hot water without me having any clear idea of how or what I did to land myself there. Luckily, on the times this has happened, the POC friend/acquaintance who's upset with me knows me well enough that even though they're upset with me for not catching onto what they had been saying, they also recognize that my missing the social cue or (accidentally) crossing a boundary is not a reflection on the entire me as a person.

Nevertheless, when those interactions happen (and they occur about once or twice a year), are quite emotionally traumatic and scarring, and leave me uncertain about just how stable a footing I am on with the person I accidentally clashed with.

I have seen enough rants on social media by people angry at someone they don't know, someone who crossed a serious boundary when asking about feminist theory, intersectionality, racism, etc., and when the OP gets angry with the asker, the asker tells them that they have ASD or some other similar disorder, and that they didn't understand or recognize that they were stepping on a metaphorical land mine with their question.

Inevitably, the angry person accuses the asker of using their diagnosis as an excuse, a "get out of jail free" card for their invasive, rude, or poorly reasoned questions.

Because of those reactions and accusations of using their diagnosis as an excuse, I have never once reminded the persons who have gotten angry with me that I am deaf, that deaf culture has a very different social and communication code from hearing culture, or that I also have ADHD.

On occasion, after we've given each other some space, they will come back and give me some advice about how to more successfully and correctly interpret statements or remarks they or other POC/intersectional/minority people have made. Inevitably, that guidance has demanded more social and communication effort on my end on top of what I already have to do as a deafie and an ADHDer.

At the same time, they, as a marginalized person, are also going out of their way to put more work into communicating and interacting with me as a white person who inevitably doesn't recognize all the privileges I have until they are pointed out to me.

It's as if there's a perpetual gap between me (and other people like me) and other marginalized groups, particularly POC and similarly intersectional groups. And asking either one of us to take the step to bridge that gap is unfailingly going to mean asking one or both of us to put more work and effort into communicating with each other above and beyond the work we are already putting in as a matter of course. Asking either of us to put even more work in would be a wholly unreasonable demand in any other situation where we might be interacting with someone who has the privileges that neither I nor the marginalized person I'm interacting with, have.

So that's the crux of the problem I often find myself wondering about. A white person like myself with invisible disabilities that affect their ability to read and correctly interpret social circumstances, and another marginalized person who does not have those disabilities, who has privileges that I do not, but also has challenges and barriers that I don't have. And therefore there is this seemingly unbridgeable gap in communication structures between us. How can we get two such communities to effectively and productively communicate together? I'm hesitant to suggest putting disabled POC in a mediating position unless they volunteer for it, since they by definition are battling twice the number of barriers that either I or an able-bodied POC is living with. And all of this is setting aside the fact that disabled people are rarely wholly disabled -- most of us are able-bodied in some respects, and disabled in others. This is how and why many disabled people live with internalized ableism towards some other groups of disabled peoples, without having that same sense of ableism towards others. Just because we're disabled doesn't mean that we universally recognize and understand the disabled experience in every circumstance.

So how do we bridge that gap? Surely some people have managed it successfully? Who and where are they? What can we learn from their experiences and observations to build a more comprehensive framework for bridging those gaps in situations where everyone is justified in objecting to adding more communication and emotional labor on their already heavily burdened backs?

As an autistic person, the implications of "if they really cared I wouldn't have to say it" culture are really scary. Because I want to know what hurts your feelings, what crosses your boundaries, where the line between teasing and being mean is at for you, what you need, and how to make you feel loved. And the implication that if my disability makes me unable to figure out these things through intuition alone, then I'm just not worth having around, is genuinely heartbreaking