I need a physicist to cast vicious mockery on all the UXers who are just now starting to realize that maybe frictionlessness is bad.

Man it has been a minute since I have trusted someone, believed what they said, acted on that, and then had them get angry at me for catching them in a lie, when the only way I know they lied is from their reaction.

Anyway. I wrote about this once. In the mad scholars anthology. Chapter 10 The Subject Is Mad (pp. 175-190). Let me know if you want to read it. doi.org/10.2307/jj.1...

I want to say that people who don't understand this have never been irredeemably misunderstood. But I know people that use it compulsively in an attempt to prevent being misunderstood. 1/2

Every day is like “this company is trying to build a gateway to hell” yet we are all supposed to pretend like everything is fine.

There it is. From disability dongle to disability diversion to disability tax. Embrace extend extinguish.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

The fact they did both of these so soon after each other really does signal how little this companies give a shit any more about our opinion, instead assuming that we’re either idiots or can simply force their will on us with arguments that shit like this was “inevitable”.

I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!

Why aren't Britain's colonial history and the Balfour Declaration taught in schools? William Dalrymple joins Zack Polanski to explain thedailybritain.co.uk/polanski-dal...

This is fine.

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Soft power is when you force the British to make 1776 brand cheddar cheese

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

My version of this? The Atomic Age and the Jim Crow Era overlapped by 20 years.

In the spring, I was interviewed by one of our students, Kathryn Grace Shields. I have uploaded our full conversation to my YouTube. Below is an excerpt. youtu.be/HWqSrqAupeo

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

The fact that we turned vibing, a chill flow state, into a synonym for outsourcing our souls is fucking wild.

The German state of Bavaria is trying to ban AI bans in academia. Can't make this shit up

I just saw someone refer to organ donation as biocommunism and this is the dumbest timeline.

Purdue Faculty right after receiving the email granting us a free gemini enterprise license which includes "one data rule you can't skip"

Summer course evaluations: "is interesting to watch/listen to"

“Researchers have given this tendency a name: quantification fixation, the tendency to trust a number over your own account of yourself, even when the number is a rough estimate dressed up as a fact.”

That's what jumped out at me, too. Also, I'm noticing how language created by Black critical theorists is increasingly being coopted for fascistic or shady purposes. Torn about them not citing Hartman directly because cite👏🏾 her 👏🏾, but also this is some foolishness, don't include her in this.

Jesus Christ

475 million of them are accidentally clicking on a link in Instagram and getting annoyed

Cheating is a symptom of an unmet need

Several students wrote of the moral confusion implicit in a college that promotes AI and says don't cheat but makes it really, really easy to cheat. One said they don't pay attention to AI policies because they don't think the college really wants to know what's going on. 9/

I wish I could tell you the responses thrummed with defiance. Instead, some read like substance abuse testimonies. A student whose use of AI grew until AI "wrote" all assignments sophomore fall. Got caught. Crushed by shame. Swore it off. But it's creeping back, & they don't know how to stop. 3/

Sometimes I am bad at sentences but sometimes they are still good thoughts.

I can't believe I'm in a list with Lisa Nakamura and @ruha9.bsky.social

Btw, the first time i heard this sentiment expressed was from @fractalecho.bsky.social in a q&a answer they gave about why they as a disabled person wouldn't use "generative AI." You should go read 'Disabling Intelligences.'

One way you can tell LLMs are good and safe is when they are haunted by a mysterious lighthouse keeper

Broken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.” The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.

good time for a reminder that after 2 years of promising this, DMs are not end-to-end encrypted (outside of external services like Germ)

Yesterday at #RESPECT2026 I presented our satire of AI-powered "professional development" suites. The presentation was an act where I pretended to be one of the participants giving a live demonstration of the system. 1/5

I am so confused why when I ask CS educators how to focus our "interventions" on the institution rather than the students flagged as "at risk" they just blink and look at me like I asked them why they don't have 3 heads.

This piece was written in 2024 and once got nothing but good reviews and was still rejected, but finally here's our satirical research article "ProMe: Supporting the new Merit-Based Professoriate through AI-powered, Robot-Assisted Professional Development." Huge props to @fractalecho.bsky.social.

Someone needs to make a binder with an absorbant, removable, hand washable underboob pad. Signed - Tired of having a literal rainforest in my tits every time.

Heartbreaking: The worst state attorney general you know just made a great point

Today I was reminded that there was a period of time (possibly ongoing) in which Siemens would recruit engineering students with 2.0 or lower GPAs.... To climb the windmill towers. Anyway. I'd say that's metaeugenics but I think it might just be regular eugenics.

DCDD Executive Director Esther Warwick sat down with Dr. @joanbraune.bsky.social of @threewayfight.bsky.social a few weeks ago to talk about the intersection of anti-democracy movements and disability communities and the Three Way Fight. threewayfight.org/disability-a...

“In the early days of the alt-right, blogs were promoting neurodiversity as a kind of — whether it was genuine or not — that we are these special types of people who are different, and that makes us know better than the globalists,” Warwick told @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/03/nick...

So grateful for @wolvendamien.bsky.social and @fractalecho.bsky.social for their presence here and their scholarship. Student asked me today "do you have any readings I could share with a prof about disability justice and AI" AND OH BOY YES

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Since so many people are calling this out for the eugenic charade that it is, here’s a piece @fractalecho.bsky.social and I wrote about Google’s efforts to morph the meaning of access from something democratic to something disabled so it can do evil. bsky.app/profile/lizj...

We promise, bro. We're gonna build utopia, bro. All you have to do is get in this broom closet, bro.