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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

Also, I cannot stress this enough. The world that makes it feel necessary to use an LLM to trick those in power into engaging with us respectfully is the same world that puts profits over people and is THE VERY SAME WORLD that wants us dead. It's all connected. This is very "the masters tools."

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

They want us dependent on their little water guzzling, power draining, techno bubble, pyramid scheme. They want us to fight amongst each other as to who's using it "properly" so that we forget to argue with them about why it should exist at all.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

Also, I cannot stress this enough. The world that makes it feel necessary to use an LLM to trick those in power into engaging with us respectfully is the same world that puts profits over people and is THE VERY SAME WORLD that wants us dead. It's all connected. This is very "the masters tools."

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

Even so, it could never know the precise intent of the person who shared the image, and so any auto generated description will always have dubious ability to convey full contextual meaning.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15h

One of the nastiest things from these nasty pieces of work has been the lie that kidlit creatives, teachers & librarians are somehow grooming kids.

Statistically, a parent, guardian, or other relative is more likely to be the perpetrator: www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/n...

National Statistics on Child Abuse - National Children's Alliance

A look at the scope of the problem of child abuse, including how it impacts kids, where and how it happens, and how CACs help.

www.nationalchildrensalliance.org

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

Even so, it could never know the precise intent of the person who shared the image, and so any auto generated description will always have dubious ability to convey full contextual meaning.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

A system which uses image processing to identify features and spit out a gestalt is possible without the absolutely monstrously wasteful systems we are currently pushing onto everyone as fantastic and inevitable.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

That specific use case is one of the troublesome ones I also address. Because a blind person cannot verify if the image processor and LLM has spit out something wrong. So it is actually quite dangerous. And W have seen significant improvements in people developing a practice of Alt text. Still...

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

I am very clear that the fact that neurodivergent have found use of LLMs effective to navigate a hostile world is not praise for AI but a condemnation of society.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 16h

That's like asking if there are any capitalists with good intentions

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 16h

I write a bit about this in a section called the Disability Diversion and disability diversion (reprise)

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

Annoying! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Disabling Intelligences

This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

link.springer.com

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

... growing relations away from toxic and hateful ones. This configuration requires that we acknowledge our role in oppression. We must abolish our internal metaeugenic logics, our ideologies of replacement, and our fascist alienation and domination as a part of this revolution.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

Instead, it is necessary to understand that while our current relations are ones of alienation and subjugation, they are still relations. We are not tasked with building relations where there previously were none, but with forging new relations, healing relations, and...

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

We often talk about human relationships as a way out of dystopia (Hayes and Kaba 2023; Piepzna-Samarasinha 2018; 2022), and I believe that, firmly. However, we sometimes interpret our social problems as stemming from absences of relation, from which relation will save us.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes, it can feel as though the structures of oppression are fractally distributed in never-ending spirals (Williams 2021). These structures become legible at every layer of our sociotechnical world...

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

Disabled articulations, our sociotechnical assemblages, chart a new future for us all by undermining what we believe is possible in the present.

This book has been an exercise in working my own way out of hopelessness.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

With every breath, disabled people write a disabled future, one in which we all belong, regardless of the circumstances of our births or the collisions of our fragile flesh with a harsh and sometimes toxic earth.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

The chapters of this book describe technological projects that enact eugenics through medical exclusion, educational exclusion, employment exclusion, and incarceration which produce layers of stratification and removal of disabled and oppressed people from public life.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

Disabled people know how to live in a world that wishes we would die. Technology has long been in the business of writing disabled and otherwise oppressed people out of the future.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

“[W]e owe it to ourselves to name the world we cannot live without, even as we diagnose the world we cannot live within.” (Benjamin 2022, 279)

“[T]ransformative change happens when we are willing to build the things that we know must exist.” (Hayes and Kaba 2023, 13)

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

Furthermore, I have named this book “Disabling Intelligences” because the concept of intelligence is inextricable from the heart of eugenics and must be dismantled as a socially constructed, metrically derived, and algorithmically upheld category of oppression.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17h

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Rua M Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, publushed by palgrave macmillan, is held in front of rainbow glass. The cover is deep pink with orange vines.

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 22h

has anyone written about the process of conversational repair in analog games? specifically thinking about stuff like:
- "i move my meeple 5 spaces" "i think it's 6 spaces"
- "oh, last turn i should've given you an extra 3 tokens. do you want them now?"
- "it's too late now, but for next time..."

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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