Really looking forward to even tighter restrictions on pain relief for people with uteruses (the most in pain demographic) because hypothetical fetuses might hypothetically get autism. Meanwhile autistic people have chronic pain. And gestate autistic babies.

It's taken me over a year to figure out that "notesnook" is notes nook and not note snook. @notesnook.com

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there's a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line," he said.

can I interest anyone in direct democracy? so we both get out of this and so we don't end up back in it in another 8 years or whatever hammerandhope.org/article/dire...

Our collective belief in our own inadequacy is required to sustain the AI project—a metaeugenic worship of intelligence and a belief that most people do not possess enough of it.

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps. arcg.is/aqCD4 Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

I would love it if someone asked themselves why legitimate warnings about Tylenol - it has a very low threshold for liver consequences - have *never* broken through but the lie that “Tylenol causes autism” is a thing I have seen several major outlets cover without adequate rebuttal.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

I also made sure to insert ADDITIONAL emdashes. At least 5 more per chapter. Just to piss yall off and tickle the ghost of Emily Dickens.

I submitted the corrected proofs of my book. Which meant I had to read my own book. Which means I am now more paranoid than ever that I've made a huge mistake somewhere that will undermine everything I stand for. Or that I have cited someone incorrectly or not cited someone who deserved it.

In class and I overheard a student say "Philip K Dick" but I heard "4K Dick" and now I'm going to hell.

We are proud to celebrate Dr. Rua Williams, a member of #AiiCE's External Advisory Board, who was recently recognized as a DO-IT Trailblazer! 🏆 @fractalecho.bsky.social names #AiiCE Director @drnickiw.bsky.social, as one of their personal trailblazers. #AiiCEinnovates 🔗 doit.uw.edu/trailblazers/

“What if your friend was owned by a predatory company who could turn it off on a whim” is not something that seems to come up in these discussions.

🔥 Holly and Will Alpine, former tech employees are sounding the alarm on how AI and cloud tools are enabling fossil fuel expansion, locking in decades of emissions, and escaping climate accountability. Read their letter here:

"Working with an expert personal tutor is generally regarded as the most efficient form of education" well, maybe, depending on how you define "expert", "personal tutor", "efficient", and, uh, "education"

Sign up will remain open until we hit 30 or until August 31st.but we are already over half way there! If you've signed dip already, I will be contacting you early next week.

Researcher Recruitment Participants will be enrolled in a 6-month course (approx. 3 hours of work per month) on disability issues in research design and will be supported by a growing community of researchers interested in transformation of the field. tinyurl.com/counterHRI

There’s a lot of competition for most dystopian tech headline of the day or week, but this is definitely a front runner.

Thanks, @americanstudier.bsky.social, for including Unraveling the Disability Pride Flag in your newsletter (authored with @fractalecho.bsky.social ) buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

Autocaption error gems: "trans academics" becomes "transcendents"

Important reading from @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social‬ on the Disability Pride flag, cultural imperialism, and the incomplete, recent histories of the (very commodifiable) Disability Pride Flag. buttondown.com/TYFYF...

it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

Attention all instructors of mechanical, structural, architectural, and/or civil engineering. On this Disability Pride Day, I give you an assignment that every one of your students, and the world, would benefit from. (yes I sound pretentious and I do not care)

«To say that the verbiage and phrasing of this ad functions as a dog whistle for White supremacy and White nationalism would be an insult to dog whistles ... it is a bullhorn—and a sign that Palantir isn’t just willing to openly signal allegiance to fascism, they aim to leverage and recruit on it.»

Fresh interlibrary loan and hunkering down in the ac on a hot summer afternoon, lfg

TAPPING THE SIGN

May not have health insurance but I'll always have schadenfreude

The purpose of THIS MACHINE a system KILLS FASCISTS is what it does

Centralized calling in hospital systems is entirely designed to disrupt communication, lose information, and lead to death. You cannot change my mind. It is impossible to call back the correct person if you miss a call and that is on purpose.

I don't think it is okay for either disabled and abled people to push this line: "AI might be used as an accessibility aid so we must refuse to criticize it, its systemic impacts, or Big Tech." SV and tech have long been weaponizing disability to minimize social and cultural critique and regulation.

Yesterday, after @fractalecho.bsky.social and I published our most recent piece, Jesse Rice Evans - a longtime Twitter acquaintance - reached out to express solidarity with our critique of Sara Hendren. I, in turn expressed frustration...

“The idea of a flag that unites us all is no different than a universally designed product that is intended for all. Both require the totalizing force of colonization to unify the masses through homogeny.” Read my and @fractalecho.bsky.social latest: buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

This pride month, as trans people watch their bodily rights erode, and disabled people watch their right to life slip further away, we reflect on the parallel and echoic histories of gay and disability pride, and muse on what kinds of convictions might best move our collective movement forward.

For the past year, @fractalecho.bsky.social and I attempted to unravel the origins of the 'Disability Pride Flag'. We believe it is less a flag and more an underlay, which we define as a stock image that packages disability under the guise of representing it. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

This is just a shitpost, but there's something to the idea that Almost every design choice and optimization for large language model-based "AI" comes from the designers' terror of ever hearing the words "you're wrong" or even just "no."

I might quibble with some phrasing, but this is honestly also a startlingly good summation of how and why marginalized people are disproportionately harmed by the proliferation of "AI": You're being trained to think the machine is "like us" and also to disbelieve us when we tell you it's not.

Honestly I should write a paper on "experimental designs to interrogate the usefulness of LLMs I cannot do because the thought of entering even a single prompt into the world eating machine makes me physically ill"

Besties, I am at my fuckin limit

What kind of grief is it when one of your research participants that you were doing ethnomethodology with for over two years passes away?

The newsletter I write with @fractalecho.bsky.social doesn’t have a single subscriber. And I get it. We can’t maintain a ‘content creator’ pace of one piece a month. There isn’t a model for pieces that take months to write. I wish there was a non-subscription model.

Is "the right way" in the protest with us now?

"Many of the policy workers I interviewed were always anxious about how complaints ... could lead to the removal of those policies — and now we see that they’re taking it all away anyway. So now, more than ever, we really have to think about how we can organize outside of this structure."

I was honored to work with Cannach MacBride, Taraneh Fazeli, and Allie Lynn at United States Artists on Shift Space 5.0. www.shiftspace.pub

Why do cats head butt your hand right as you're pouring their food in their bowl goddammit.

the chief source in evil in all researchers, and of all base and cowardice, is not research, but the fear of research.

You might find this interesting link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.