The infamous 1916 shark attacks that inspired "Jaws" 
Correspondent Anna Werner looked back at a fateful string of shark encounters along the New Jersey shore a century ago that stirred the public imagination, and inspired Peter Benchley's bestselling novel "Jaws".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXo-V9wQCWo
#Jaws #Jaws50 #Matawan #NJ #JerseyShore #1916
Does anybody know if debugging functionality is accessible with #VSCode? And if so, am I right you need to switch back and forth between virtual cursor and forms mode (#JAWS terminology), or browse mode and focus mode (#NVDA terminology)? #Accessibility
#Jaws #Movie #Film #Cinema #Movies #Iconic #Shark #RoyScheider #Spielberg #RichardDreyfus #RobertShaw #Films #StevenSpielberg #PeterBenchley
Fifty years on, and I still absolutely love it!!
“Smile, you son of a…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vVjrzxRlW4
A #shark #scientist reflects on #Jaws at 50
Ars spoke with #marinebiologist and shark #conservationist #DavidShiffman, author of Why Sharks Matter, to discuss the #film's depiction of #sharks and its enduring place in popular culture—both good and bad.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/a-shark-scientist-reflects-on-jaws-at-50/
People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP
Fifty years after "Jaws" vilified sharks, real-world overfishing, climate change and misunderstanding — not cinematic horror — now threaten their survival, though conservation efforts offer hope for their recovery. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/22/world/movie-jaws-demonized-sharks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #jaws #sharks #conservation #climatechange #endangered
Jaws is on AMC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release. It is in color. I thought the only movies that were 50 years old had to be black and white...
Fifty Years After ‘Jaws,’ Shark Science Is Still Surfacing.
The film’s release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a generation of scientists helped to turn the tide.
https://archive.ph/n9YTu #sharks #Jaws #movies #globalmuseum #science
How many of us are watching Jaws tonight?
It's such a good film, so well put together.....being on Monsterdon you see so many examples of people doing everything wrong making a movie, it's a delight seeing it done right.
lol, that Mayor is every political figure currently in power really....
Nu op Veronica: Jaws, met vaste huistelefoons, encyclopedieën en zulks.
#1975 #Jaws
Watching #Jaws.
Now that #JAWS is 50 years old, I would like to bring attention to a wonderful gaming mashup that involves pinball & NES gameplay, that was built in as a challenge mode to Stern's absolutely wonderful JAWS deck.
Pinball is already hard enough, but when you combine it with video gameplay on the backbox in the middle of a pinball game, it becomes nearly impossible, yet this game is still fun & a cheeky throwback.
Here's a playthrough.
I have to find the meme a made years ago for Jaws. It was the still of Brody saying "We're going to need a bigger boat" followed by a picture of SeaQuest with the caption "Let's get that shark."
PSA for #Jaws fans.
If you happen to have purchased the movie through the iTunes/Apple, it appears they added a new extra for the 50th Anniversary. It is a making of documentary with current and past interviews. Really fun film geek stuff. I bought my copy over a year ago, so I guess they update extras now?
Jaws Anniversary is trending on Bluesky, and while they mean the film (which is excellent, from bts to the finished cut), the #Book by Peter Benchley that released the year before is also worth a read.
Owlvillage_H on Twitter (wish they were here)
Jaws 50th Anniversary Airing Tonight on NBC 7PM CDT 
“We want to celebrate 50 years of this enduring film that has captured the public imagination for generations by bringing it to audiences at home in all the ways they love to watch.”
https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/jaws-50th-anniversary-airing-on-nbc-with-intro-from-steven-spielberg
The night 'Jaws' premiered in Dallas - with Spielberg nervously watching in the audience 
The Medallion Theatre at 125 Medallion Center, Dallas, was chosen to be the site of the first public screening of "Jaws."
