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Call Luna. Learn Anything: Meet Derek Fine and Luna AI, Now Sponsoring Access Information News

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Access Information News weekly newsletter, introduces Luna AI, the publication’s newest Sponsor, and the person who built it. Luna AI is an AI tutor you reach by making an ordinary telephone call. There is no app to download, no account to create before you can hear anything, no smartphone requirement, and no screen anywhere in the process. You dial the number, or reach the same service on WhatsApp, and a tutor answers: it explains a concept out loud, asks you about it, listens to your answer in your own words, and tells you when you have it wrong. Load your own lecture notes, transcripts, PDFs or a Quizlet set into a Study Library first, and the session comes out of your material rather than out of whatever an AI happens to know. Calling is free, there is no paywall, and every caller has access to the full product, with a paid Luna AI Pro tier planned for 2027.

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Welcome, Even Though I’m Blind: Why Our Newest Sponsor Named His Organization After His Own Song

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Access Information News weekly newsletter, welcomes Cazerny Bussey and Even Though I’m Blind, Inc. (ETIB) as the publication’s newest Sponsor, joining on August 10, 2026. Di Blasi opens with the detail that gives the piece its title: in 2021, Bussey, a Brooklyn-born recording artist who lost his eyesight at fifteen, released an album called Cfly 728, and one of its tracks was called “Even Though I’m Blind.” Four years later, that song title is the name of an organization running an internet radio station, an interview podcast, a curated directory of blind-owned businesses, a blog, an events calendar, and a project that collects encouragement from the community in fifteen-second voice recordings. The introduction came from Dr. Kirk Adams in late July 2026; Bussey accepted the following morning, and his first note back thanked Adams before it thanked Di Blasi.

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The Front Door Problem: Braille Institute, Vision Support America, and the Free Help Line for Anyone Whose Vision Is Changing

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Access Information News weekly newsletter, introduces readers to Braille Institute and its new initiative, Vision Support America, a free national resource for people whose vision is changing. He opens on a scene that plays out thousands of times a day, the person who is told to “look into the Braille Institute” and thinks, almost reflexively, “but I’m not blind,” and uses it to name the barrier plainly: most people losing vision today are older adults who keep real, functional sight and never identify as blind, so the very name meant to reassure the blindness community quietly turns newcomers away. Aaron frames Vision Support America as Braille Institute’s answer to that “front door problem,” the same century-old institution standing behind a friendlier, lower-barrier door that greets visitors with a simple question, “Changing Vision? You’ve Come to the Right Place.”

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