This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

kid#2 found a US history book in the little free lib nearby. it seemed ... off from even the first page. looked up the pub-- turns out it's a phonics reader published by a higher ed institution that doesn't allow women to wear pants on campus

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OTD in 1950, Judy Wajcman was born. A pioneering sociologist and feminist theorist, Wajcman reshaped the philosophy and sociology of technology by showing how technological systems are deeply entwined with gender, power, and social organization. 1/

tis the season (meals based around chex mix)

the pond is frozen

It’s an incredible success of ADA+IDEA: many disabled students can make it to college now. We should be thrilled to have student pool that better reflects society and shows the benefits of inclusion and accommodations in k-12. Celebrate that we have so many disabled students! This is a win.

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

night walk in the snow

stumbled upon in the woods

went to wonderful talk by @maryfissell.bsky.social on the history of abortion that had the audience reflecting, making lots of connections, even laughing-- thanks to @slobogin.bsky.social and Corner Society for organizing

My doctoral dissertation, ‘Chasing flames: Racial capitalism in fire ecology research and praxis,’ is finally online! yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...

a tree I met today

New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

first snow of the season

these bubs are everywhere around now

rust belt riverway

spending the time change extra hour figuring out if the thing found in the woods is bone or rock 🤔

look down

looking down

look up

look up

ecology of a half dead mall

took a long walk in the woods. saw a red tail take a squirrel.

this is the website for elder millenials with humanities degrees. everyone has done the reading on why people invest meaning in public buildings. you can’t fool me

If you want a good laugh, you will find Reuters' AI assistant pop up the minute you click on this link from Reuters about how AI assistants make widespread errors about the news

yellow was the color of the day

someone left william gibson quotes in my office mailbox 🤔

As a deaf person with a deaf kid, I'm the first to admit IDEA isn't perfect. I fight people's (often willful) misinterpretations of the Least Restrictive Environment every day. Just gave a lecture at BU about how change is needed. Deleting all legal oversight in the middle of the night isn't it.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

the sidewalk has questions for passerby

@rebeccapscales.bsky.social lolsob

saw the poster for @mw-m.bsky.social upcoming Conable Futures lecture and cackled, very excited: "Thanatocapitalism, or, the death drive of complacency and accumulation in the Anthropocen"

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welp, just got a peer review probably written by AI (comments on things not in the paper and full of headers/bullet point lists not in the review Qs). sucks that student-led work is treated so poorly by colleagues.

sigh. (seen in a kid toy section of store)

Oct is when the reality of a changing climate and local traditions are in stark contrast. Stuff starts "closing for winter" and it's 80 degrees out.

a beautiful if alarmingly warm fall day in #ROC

welp, a new first - scheduling a guest speaker months ago + realizing today, the day of the visit, that I scheduled them not for the class time 😱🙃😭

The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel, and an important vector for economic growth and urbanization. It also played a large role in Indian removal, something most modern Americans associate with the West, or even the South, but not New York State. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

We pulled up to the Rochester, NY, Amtrak station and tried to get around without a car. The buses were pretty great, actually! But they weren't very frequent. Sometimes we walked instead. Paying with @transit.app was a nice surprise. howdoyou.guide/transit-gett...

It’s not that it should surprise you. We know prisons, surplus population, wage theft go hand in hand. It’s just an elegant little case — as employers terrorize workers with AI replacement threats, and compel them back to the office imprisoned people are “WFH” www.mainepublic.org/2025-08-29/i...

Disability accommodation represents a failure to plan and build accessible infrastructure —work structures, public spaces, events. We force people thru appts, paperwork, mtgs w their boss and HR…bc of structural failures. The work of being included too often falls to individual disabled people.

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Sign seen along the #ROC marathon route this AM: "keep going! you're running better than the government!"