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Just a reminder that I wrote a book on AI and Eugenics. It's short. Fairly cheap. And sometimes funny. No reason. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

It's ALIVE!!! dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

I’ve had this debate in class with STEM students before. They NEED to believe that eugenics and scientific racism etc are things of the past and are ‘pseudosciences’ because ‘science is objective’ and the ‘scientific method defends from bias.’ It’s a dangerous way to think.

The fact that race science and eugenics are inextricable from this technology is also why its makers and sellers and pushers do not want you looking too deep into its histories and/or consequences, why they shout you down so hard, why they demonize critics.

@disabilitystor1.bsky.social my darling how I wish your DMs were own right now lmao

When historians etc use the phrase, they’re not saying these ideas have scientific value, far from it. These ideas ARE part of the broader history of science and if we frame it as ‘not science,’ it only will perpetuate the uncritical notion that ‘Science’ would never produce such ideas.

We've got to be able to hold two things in our minds at once: a lot of science can be good and helpful and used for antiracism, and also we are always discovering new ways that every single scientific tool can be biased.

You're getting tangled in a variation of the "just world" fallacy, assuming that if you rigorously adhere to the scientific method, you'll be safe from accidentally doing a racism. But you're not - the entire history of science and the enlightenment is tangled with racism.

Galton's eugenics should be understood through the lens of race, class, gender AND disability: the latter especially so, given how the gAI industry uses #DisabilityAsDiversion (@fractalecho.bsky.social) to bypass and short circuit legitimate critiques.

A review of my book! (there are better ones but this one makes me laugh.)

For the people erecting these data centers, poisoning Black people is a fun bonus on the way to building their ai god.

I wonder if when I do Q And A there are people in the audience screaming internally about how annoying I am.

The thing about systemic discrimination is that the system... Is people.

I am 40 years old but There. Is. A. BUMP. In. My. SOCK.

Currently reading "Disabling Intelligences" by Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social in the UCGIS Humans and Geospatial AI Book Club. I should have read this one sooner!

…I've said it so many fucking times, now, but I'll say it again, that it's really fucking messed up that all of these conversations seek to apply to fucking LLMs a standard of personhood we still don't consistently and meaningfully apply to other fucking humans.

So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."

"For many, it has become a magic box: problem + AI = profit." "There is a lot of effort spent in making systems more fair, without ever asking if the system itself is fundamentally designed to cause harm, whether it's egalitarian about it or not." communities.springernature.com/amp/posts/di...

Under no circumstances should we allow OpenAI to become the self-authorized educational research evidenve source that it is trying to be. Vendors must not be research authorities. openai.com/index/unders...

In comments of the quoted thread, @fractalecho.bsky.social says: "In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism." "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI" by Rua M. Williams

The Autistic People of Color Fund is hosting their 1st virtual political education workshop on AI, eugenics, and disability, on March 10th at 6pm EST, with @fractalecho.bsky.social & @lydiaxzbrown.com as a fundraiser, so please consider supporting them, if able! 🫂 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-apoc-f...

The panopticon, The Disability Diversion, and a Disability Dongle all in one.

Sitting in a department meeting about our mandatory system for reporting everything we do, because a word doc CV is somehow not good enough. Discussed when the system claims data that isn't yours. The speaker "It's supposed to learn. I haven't SEEN it learn. But it's supposed to." I have died.

Read Christina Cogdell, read @cyborgapologist.bsky.social, read @fractalecho.bsky.social, read @shirachess.bsky.social, read the history of "AI" and the internet and on and on and on. It's… it's all right there. bsky.app/profile/wolv...

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.

Being on linked in is so crazy because I'll see something and assume it's parody but it will be a totally serious post simping for military AI.

In our latest, @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social joins us to discuss “anti-aging” trends and longevity influencers as symptoms of imperial decline and the role the wellness industry has played in producing this moment of heightened fascism www.patreon.com/posts/150271...

GIVE THE SUICIDE BOT ADVERTISING CAPABILITY WHAT COULD GO WRONG

You know that making yourself a little picrew and reading a horoscope is just as if not more fulfilling and less evil than asking chat fucking GPT to "draw" you right?

Hello Disability Internet. I know we know that the professions (like medical, veterinary, dentistry, other clinicians) are extremely ableist. Like they cannot figure out how to accommodate disabled students. Does anyone do this well? For Veterinary students?

"intelligence has to be embodied, so of course that means the more Normal your body the more intellegence you have" this is a real... the speaker is revealing more about themselves that they realize, huh?

This is also my take on OpenClaw and Moltbook and that "AGI" piece in Nature. Plus that people are *once again* misunderstanding what statistically correlative stochastic text and operations generation systems do At All let alone when placed into context and extended conversation with each other. …

My favorite GIF of all time captures the joy

"Whether you are an AI optimist, skeptic, or pessimist, none of us can afford to be fatalists. When we resign ourselves to the inevitability of oppressive systems, we give in to a desperate world." - Disabling Intelligences, Ch. 5, RMW

I have a student using @fractalecho.bsky.social 's Disabled Robots and Jillian Weise to argue that chatbots are Tryborgs *from the other direction* and I couldn't be more excited to see where this goes.

There's a giraffe joke in my book and idk if anyone found it

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

Imagine this is the time and we are the generation that derails the fascist agenda before it annihilates us all. Imagine yourself a part of the critical mass of communities that could and does take power back from these death mongering institutions.

This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment. TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Just finished @fractalecho.bsky.social ‘s Disabling Intelligences, and wow I will be thinking about the closing sentence for quite a while. Definitely recommend if you are in any kind of relationship to “AI”.

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Reading this, I was shocked not only by the level of dependency on display here, but also by the lack of shame in that level of dependency. Students pay a fortune to learn from us. The least they should expect is that we created teaching materials ourselves.

They tell students papers sound like AI — even when they're the students' own writing — so the company can scare them and sell them a product. This goes beyond the general problem that even good AI detectors aren't perfect and shouldn't be the sole reason to accuse someone of writing with AI.

Yesterday, I interviewed a tech guy who told me something too important for me to wait until the podcast comes out for you to hear it: Many free AI detectors have especially high false positive rates because they make money selling software that "humanizes" writing. 1/2

Very accessible and very engaging. Thinking of "AI" as part of the longer program of eugenics is a very helpful frame for understanding it, what its function is, and how you can think about and react to it. I loved it and highly recommend reading it if it sounds even remotely up your alley.

I've just started reading it and am so enamored with it, I'm putting the first two chapters on my digital religion syllabus. May add more as I go through it. Very readable and I think teachable.