@drnikko.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue proposal for Big Data and Society on "Trans Data"! If you're an #STS nerd, or a #transstudies nerd, or ideally both, do submit ideas if you have them - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you started your workday telling someone they don’t have a job anymore, you get to leave early. That’s just the rules

Spending Friday evening researching fiscal sponsorship models for our fledgling Rhode Island UX coalition AMA

Ahh!! Neko Case and Destroyer are playing a show at the Park Theater in Cranston, RI this fall and I am freaking STOKED theparkri.com/event/neko-c...

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

Reason 1000 I love living in Rhode Island: today I learned that my favorite local NPR host lives nearby because they’re in my neighborhood Buy Nothing Group 💅🏻

Why do the Lyft drivers always switch it over to Christian music when I get in the car: A very visibly queer person’s memoir

NO NO NO NO NO NO - dashare.zone ADMIN

On my bullshit! Donate and get a fact fund.nnaf.org/expats

RE-UPPING THIS THREAD help us reach our goal by midnight Eastern! Only $415 to go…

Only a few more hours on this fundraiser! Can you help out? fund.nnaf.org/expats

Southern expats, do you have $20 to spare for abortion access for folks in Alabama and Mississippi? fund.nnaf.org/team/824933

I was reading a little while back and looking at this picture I took of my granddad and thinking about warmer weather and wrote this a poem about the things we remember. It published at @theatlantic.com today:

My last brain cell trying to power through the last 90 minutes of the workweek

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

Don't use headings to arbitrarily style text. If you apply “Heading 4” style, you add a <h4> heading tag to the item. When screen reader users navigate from heading to heading, the item will be treated as a heading. This will be confusing. Only treat actual headings as headings.

I have had multiple calls with pre-pre-seed startup founders over the years and they all sound like they have never lived on planet earth a day in their lives - is this regular? I always feel like I’m the unknowing participant in a social experiment

Perfect fuckin weather

“Why are women less bullish overall on AI than men” is not actually that mysterious of a question

The Pope has said many of the same things Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, Alex Hanna, Emily Bender, and many other people who are not white men have said about AI for years, and ya know what, if this is what it takes for people to listen, then so be it www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming

Rhode Islanders, a reminder that there’s an e-bike rebate program if you buy your bike from a Rhode Island bike shop. $350 or 30% of the cost of your bike, whichever is lower. drive.ri.gov/erika-niedow...

After about a year of lurking around on review websites, debating pros and cons, and wondering if I *really* needed it…I am now that smug “we got a second e-bike” guy

After two years in Providence, this guide is perfect.

For the morning crowd: A resource for southerners new to Rhode Island erinrwhite.com/southerners-...

If you feel daunted by the idea accessibility testing and don't know where to begin, this resource from accessibility engineer Rachele DiTullio can help. This includes an accessibility testing spreadsheet, along with guides on how to prepare for testing. racheleditullio.com/projects/acc...

Four years in the making, my offering for fellow southerners new to Rhode Island: erinrwhite.com/southerners-...

AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree, N/A

Claude admits bias against accessibility and look at that! It’s the same bias that a whole lot of humans have against accessibility. “Claude treats accessibility fixes as optional trade-offs rather than requirements, even when the project's own rules say otherwise.” github.com/anthropics/c...

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

20 years of friendship with @lecagle.bsky.social in 2 pics! 2002/2022 Older, wiser, hotter, queerer, and obstinately still From Alabama-er And one of us (it me) has a family made possible by legal, safe abortion access in the South. Donate to support abortion access in AL/MS! fund.nnaf.org/expats

Y'all are The Best!! 😭😭 We already raised $900, only $600 to go! Any other Deep South ex-pats gonna pitch in? @biscuit.quest will share a True Alabama Fact™️ if you do!!

Okay *knuckle crack* I’m gonna need to amp up this challenge If you, a non-southerner, have ever talked shit about the South and had to have a southerner educate you, you’re gonna need to drop some money in the hat to help fund abortion access in the Deep South ➡️ fund.nnaf.org/team/824933

Hey, you - person who moved away from the Deep South but still cares deeply about it: Join your fellow expats in supporting abortion access in Alabama and Mississippi! fund.nnaf.org/expats

For every donation I will list one Alabama Fact You Probably Don’t Know™️ (In case I haven’t been insufferable enough how I am from Alabama! And woe to those who discount the South outright, and ignore the hard work of southern organizers!!!)

“The AI boom, Rodgers says, is creating a “perfect storm” of forces reshaping household dynamics, playing out along predictably gendered lines.”

Kannapolis, NC.

Oh, these? These are my Croissocks™️

Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.

My wife is out of town so I am indulging in my favorite vice: Love is Blind

I’ve been so thirsty for spring to start that now every time I see a robin, it looks like it’s straight out of a Rankin and Bass movie (respectful)

This is the bit that stood out to me in this very moving, thought-provoking post—“The level of discomfort or not-knowing that students can tolerate has taken (another) drastic free fall…AI has made everything so smooth, so easy, that it’s harder for them to stomach that discomfort”

@theiaconf.bsky.social always feels like a reunion - a time to see UX peeps I have known and admired from every era of my career, and to meet new folks who are keeping our practice alive. Grateful for the space to spend quality time, catch up, and learn from some super smart, passionate folks 💜

I saw an ossified squirrel on the sidewalk near the Liberty Bell. Never change, Philly.

I’m headed to Philly to once again peddle my wares (give a talk) at @theiaconf.bsky.social! This time, I’ll be talking about how UX can be twisted to harm users - and ways we can push back. #IAC26

So excited to help Mikel make this book available for a wider audience 💕

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.