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After facing criticism from some of his viewers, blind and sighted alike, the driver who encouraged rideshare drivers to discriminate against service animal handlers has released a second video. The short version is, “sorry not sorry”. I’ll talk more about why this is an important issue we must confront, and I’ll read you the questions I’ve sent to Lyft’s media team.

Apple has announced the date of its big reveal, and of course we’ll have a special episode covering it, with analysis available to Plus subscribers right after the event. We’ll continue to discuss iOS 17, which is likely to be released officially on 18 September.

If you’d like to talk with ChatGPT on your Alexa-capable device, a listener has discovered a skill that will let you do just that. It’ll cost you a small fee to make full use of it though. I’ll give it a quick demo.

And if you’ve always dreamed of having the power of Android on your wrist, Elijah Massey brings us a demo of the Lemfo Lem16

All this and much more in episode 246 of Living Blindfully.