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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1h

And I don't think anything we have currently meets those criteria. But mostly, for me as a disabled person, my convenience doesn't outweigh destroying the planet. GenAI doesn't currently solve any disability related problems better than other less harmful tools.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1h

There could be good use cases for it, but I think they'd need to be developed specifically for disabled people with specific needs and with input from those communities (and done in a way that works with copyright and tries to mitigate environmental and labor disasters).

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 50m

That’s where I’m at with it. Automation can’t make up the gap in support and resources that communities and governments can and should provide to disabled people. It’s a systemic failure, I think, to even resort to it.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 57m

Right! for most of us, the transcription is a shortcut. But I, fully sighted and not hard of hearing, can still access the original. But if the person relying on it can’t verify it due to disability, that error rate is absolutely egregious and is not really accessibility!

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1h

so I’m asking in good faith here, can people say what ways LLMs actually help the disabled community? I’m willing to be wrong here, but on its face, as a chronically ill individual, I honestly find the statement kinda offensive.

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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 6h

my current take is that LLMs are great to automate bullshit labor but do we really need to spend money on automating bullshit labor when we could just do away with it? the eternal question

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 5h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah weird line to draw which native populations “count” here given Christopher Columbus was active in the Caribbean/central/South America and never made landfall in what is now the US mainland.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12h

Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.

California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed

Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 11h

people (Stancil and his coterie again) argue that supporting two adults off $60k is not living in poverty because it’s above the federal poverty line as if the same government that set a minimum wage that low can also be counted to accurately index poverty.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23h

What's funny — unbearably sad and pathetic — is they mostly seem (these days and since recently, circa 2019) totally bought out by the tech industry. theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

“AI ethics” is a field that barely existed before 2017. It’s become a Silicon Valley-led lobby to avoid legal restrictions of controversial technologies.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23h

Also: "This paper reflects on the tech industry’s colonization of the AI ethics research field and addresses conflicts of interest in public policymaking concerning AI." — Gerdes. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. doi.org/10.1007/s441...

Client Challenge

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

It’s how obsessed with optimization we’ve become as a culture. Surely there should be an empirical answer to most held up author!

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Smalls as one of the POV characters? Commandeering the Planter? That's way more interesting than the drama in Turn I'm sorry.

Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

We can stop being sensitive to the confederates feelings when telling stories about them now too, because they already hate our media for being woke.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

(this is me pitching a netflix prestige drama if anybody wants to hop on with this and make it happen for me?)

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Every state that seceded also raised unionist regiments except South Carolina. So I guess they win most confederate more than competitors Georgia and Virginia. Still seems to be true of current electoral trends ahem.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Also? Union and Imperial Russia fought on the same side and where is the story about that?

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

We love an aggrandizing tale of white supremacist woe in this country! Where is my movie?!?

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

A ship built and sailed out of Maine with more accurate gunnery bc they believed in science, named for a mountain in New Hampshire, adapted from a native word — the USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

The union ran the confederacy all the way to France and was like well do you want your racists back and France said nah, but Great Britain was like WE’LL TAKE EM

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Fun reminder—we do not have enough triumphant naval stories of the civil war. Like I get WWII is very exciting, but Sorry, you can’t beat the drama of early iron-hulled ships battling slavers off Cherbourg.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

I take it we’re not counting the indigenous population of Hawaii?

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond that, it is not good for anybody’s brain to not have the regular exercise of reading and writing. Like sorry you don’t want to do your mental pushups, I’m sure having the computer do it for you won’t progressively make the issue worse or anything!

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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