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Just sharing this, can’t think of anyone better equipped to speak on this topic than Rua

“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.” - George Bernard Shaw

New from @fractalecho.bsky.social and me. Our piece focuses on one person and organization, but it's about a seedy grift that permeates disability inclusion, in which those who aspire to “be the only” emulate those whose power they worship. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

my latest piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social focuses on how #surveillance tech can chill the first amendment-protected rights of disabled people to engage in protest. protest is a vital check on authoritarianism, and everyone should be able to access it. www.techpolicy.press/surveillance...

look if you watched as much anime for 8 year old girls as I do you'd know there is a stark difference between the personality of a girl who is blue and a girl who is purple. In fact they couldn't be more different.

Light and sound overstimulation is a public health issue. Do you have any idea how unstoppable I'd be if every fucking public space didn't make me violently ill? Imagine how much more regulated and patient people would be if they weren't constantly assaulted by flashing lights and overloud music.

I have an old razer stealth laptop (like 2017) and it's still working great except... The C and F keys are dead. I am looking for replacement keyboards and I've found a few but they are the entire front panel - seems excessive. I'm unsure where I should look for parts. Any ideas? RZ09-01953E72

I love learning better and more precise wording. This afternoon's discovery is from Anna Mills and Nate Angell, and their paper I missed from February. "Using mirage instead of hallucination enables us to stop anthropomorphizing AI and see the incongruities it generates for what they really are."

Volume 3 in this series is called "What Does "AI" Actually Mean? Definition and Synonyms" and is now available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI!

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

This is so bleak

My surgery is in 6 weeks! I now mostly have gift cards on my wishlist so I can pay for transportation to my post surgery appointments and food during my surgery recovery. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks for all the help so far!! I feel so loved! throne.com/bibiblossoms

Cannot wait to read @fractalecho.bsky.social's book!!! Drawing on both critical STS and disability studies, the book provides "a toolkit for evaluating and resisting metaeugenics in technology." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Electrical Engineering 101 cancelled because it discusses resistance

Them: “Why are you trans?” Me:

Hint: books critical of AI will not be approved.

Three weeks ago I was told my book would be featured in the university's newsletter and today I was told it would be "revisited" in a few months because they now require supervisor approval for any books related to AI. LMAO

I have to say, when I started recording songs into a boombox in my employee-housing apartment at MSH, I did not anticipate one day talking about those songs with PEOPLE magazine people.com/the-mountain...

Them: "you're mean over email just FYI." Me: "yes. I'm aware. Stating facts, making clear and concise requests, and respecting people's time is very rude and scary. I know this and I refuse to adapt."

Okay hive mind. I need a laptop which (in order of priority) Supports above average graphics. Has above average ram. Has at least three USB C ports or still retains respectable ethernet and hdmi ports etc. Has at least 1tb local storage (fuck the cloud). (continued)

Okay hive mind. I need a laptop which (in order of priority) Supports above average graphics. Has above average ram. Has at least three USB C ports or still retains respectable ethernet and hdmi ports etc. Has at least 1tb local storage (fuck the cloud). (continued)

"You know what the biggest problem of pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong Direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." (Joanna Maciejewska [@AuthorJMac] 2024) Thread🧵

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

"I find the question of robot rights to be a wholly contemptible distraction from the present-day human rights violations already being perpetuated by human executives of automated systems." (Williams, p118) (I put a book dart by that, @fractalecho.bsky.social & I would have clapped in a live talk)

"Hitler's skull circumference to jawline protrusion ratio tells us that he was predestined to become a monster so not too much more to worry or think about"

Some folks long for AI tools that can do 'those tasks we hate' (or that are undervalued by society). But be wary, because "GenAI is currently doing the tasks we feel 'make us human' because the people who are selling it hate *us*. Art and culture are 'those tasks capital hates'" (Williams, p76)

Williams introduces the term Data Gambit for when startups or other companies release a product, sometimes for "free," which is actually "a Trojan Horse for data collection and algorithmic refinement designed to produce a new asset for future liquidation." (p59)

Welcome back to day 2 of my thread while reading "Disabling Intelligences"! I honestly didn't expect this thread to break containment but I'm glad to have you here! I gave the title and the author at the beginning of the thread but here's the link to it if you don't use search engines?

Lol what the fuck

This image really bothers me because it's framed wrong. It's not about information recall it's about not perceiving any information at all. You can't cite what you've neither written nor read.

Forced to choose between risking my job that pays my bills and risking my access to health care that I die without Fucking love this timeline

I only a few pages into reading this wonderful book by @fractalecho.bsky.social and I've already thought of half a dozen people to whom I should gift a copy for Christmas. #AI #AIEthics #HackingAI

I got to listen to students talk about their experiences reading my book today and it was like... They are getting it. They are learning things from it. They get it and they're not just trying to please me, it makes sense to them. I make sense.

I'm ridiculously chuffed to be in a pile with some of my favorite movement writers.

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

Furthermore public transit teaches you how to live with temporary minor annoyances and cars teach you that you're god's most special baby and your moment-to-moment comfort is the only important thing in the world

Super proud to have some of my favorite work cited in this paper. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I think I've made this post before but I'll do it again. AI is underpants gnome shit. Like South Park Underpants Gnomes shit. 1. Steal underpants 2. ???? 3. Profit I wish I had another cultural reference for this but I don't.

Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law. By @richardawebster.bsky.social

For the first time ever I have the time and the urgency of illness to look for a sunflower lanyard but there's no one at the info desk to give me one. I don't want to fight with gate agents about how they should just let me on the plane bc if I have to stand in line I'm gonna pass out or throw up.

#NowAvailable Disabling Intelligences discusses the influences of eugenics on the #AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people, encompassing the history of AI and disability from popular culture to real-life case-studies. @hss.springernature.com @fractalecho.bsky.social

It's funny, the no kings protests could be the best chace to normalize the idea of nationwide strikes in the US, if the organizers are serious. They do maybe 2 more on weekends to really lock them into people's practice, then say, "hey, let's show them we really mean business & do it on a Wednesday"

I wish academic administrators a very "don't make essential operational processes dependent upon a single proprietary infrastructure goliath"