M Eilo
@blinkpopshift.com
Artist working on Disability Justice and Al prosthetics.
BlinkPopShift.com
Ford and Mellon Fellow | Mozilla Builder | Leonardo CripTech | Gray Area Incubator | SOZO Fellow
San Francisco
BlinkPopShift.com
Ford and Mellon Fellow | Mozilla Builder | Leonardo CripTech | Gray Area Incubator | SOZO Fellow
San Francisco
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The image of Kristi Noem at CECOT and the saga of the Venezuelans the US government exiled to a notorious gulag should be seared into America's collective memory.
But displays of inhumanity were a normalized phenomenon in 2025.
But displays of inhumanity were a normalized phenomenon in 2025.
A year of hell for immigrants
In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The image of Kristi Noem at CECOT and the saga of the Venezuelans the US government exiled to a notorious gulag should be seared into America's collective memory.
But displays of inhumanity were a normalized phenomenon in 2025.
But displays of inhumanity were a normalized phenomenon in 2025.
It me. I am millions of people.
In about 22 days, a large portion of government health care subsidies expire, affecting the cost and availability of insurance for no less than millions of people.
https://to.pbs.org/4oJ9wFZ
https://to.pbs.org/4oJ9wFZ
Republicans are torn over health care. Here’s what we know
In about 22 days, a large portion of government health care subsidies expire, affecting the cost and availability of insurance for no less than millions of people. And yet, Congress is set to leave Wa...
www.pbs.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It me. I am millions of people.
The demo for Heaps, our sandbox game that builds 3D from your interests, premieres at @grayarea.org tomorrow.
I'm nervous/excited to see what folks think. We are looking for a publisher interested in helping us flesh it out.
Here's the demo trailer
#indiedev #game
I'm nervous/excited to see what folks think. We are looking for a publisher interested in helping us flesh it out.
Here's the demo trailer
#indiedev #game
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The demo for Heaps, our sandbox game that builds 3D from your interests, premieres at @grayarea.org tomorrow.
I'm nervous/excited to see what folks think. We are looking for a publisher interested in helping us flesh it out.
Here's the demo trailer
#indiedev #game
I'm nervous/excited to see what folks think. We are looking for a publisher interested in helping us flesh it out.
Here's the demo trailer
#indiedev #game
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Karp's viral interview was unusual for him which is why it went viral. It was not punching down but up. DEI as PR stunt from Palantir is not unusual but it is scary. Palantir is stockpiling personal data that can easily be used to prevent equal access, imprison, deport or kill disabled people.
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Karp's viral interview was unusual for him which is why it went viral. It was not punching down but up. DEI as PR stunt from Palantir is not unusual but it is scary. Palantir is stockpiling personal data that can easily be used to prevent equal access, imprison, deport or kill disabled people.
Y'all I got to work with aphid this year and let me tell you the banger lines they were handing out were such a snack
put a new piece out into the world on friday. it's a transmission of medical images using slow-scan television and radio teletype. it's a rumination on cancer surveillance. aphid.org/enhance-reda...
enhance-redact
aphid.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Y'all I got to work with aphid this year and let me tell you the banger lines they were handing out were such a snack
You know what uses more water than AI globally? Cows
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
You know what uses more water than AI globally? Cows
We have an actually functioning build y'all!
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We have an actually functioning build y'all!
"AI Cheating" "Literacy crisis" "Critical thinking skills"
All I hear is symptoms of income inequality and mass exploitation
All I hear is symptoms of income inequality and mass exploitation
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
"AI Cheating" "Literacy crisis" "Critical thinking skills"
All I hear is symptoms of income inequality and mass exploitation
All I hear is symptoms of income inequality and mass exploitation
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TLDR: Racial trauma can become intergenerational economic trauma. #blacksky
Studying lynchings of Black Americans in the South between 1880 and 1940 finds that children of individuals who were exposed (as children) to lynchings see a reduction in their income relative to counterfactual individuals, from Condra, Jones, and Walsh www.nber.org/papers/w34523
December 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
TLDR: Racial trauma can become intergenerational economic trauma. #blacksky
Indie game update! #gamersoftiktok #gamedeveloper
YouTube video by Droidknot
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December 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
We out here cripping AI at the Slow AI exhibition
Fully accessible by screen reader and with audio description
leonardo.info/slow-ai
Fully accessible by screen reader and with audio description
leonardo.info/slow-ai
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
We out here cripping AI at the Slow AI exhibition
Fully accessible by screen reader and with audio description
leonardo.info/slow-ai
Fully accessible by screen reader and with audio description
leonardo.info/slow-ai
I just want to scroll down when reading an ebook on Libby and Hoopla?!
Flipping pages is a horrible experience and I lose track constantly
Flipping pages is a horrible experience and I lose track constantly
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I just want to scroll down when reading an ebook on Libby and Hoopla?!
Flipping pages is a horrible experience and I lose track constantly
Flipping pages is a horrible experience and I lose track constantly
Happy international day of disabled people!
Let's celebrate not by accommodating a few to meet the standards of an exclusionary system but instead redesign it!
Access is not a bolt-on afterthought. Access is an technique, a design system, and a lens thru which we create systems and projects
Let's celebrate not by accommodating a few to meet the standards of an exclusionary system but instead redesign it!
Access is not a bolt-on afterthought. Access is an technique, a design system, and a lens thru which we create systems and projects
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy international day of disabled people!
Let's celebrate not by accommodating a few to meet the standards of an exclusionary system but instead redesign it!
Access is not a bolt-on afterthought. Access is an technique, a design system, and a lens thru which we create systems and projects
Let's celebrate not by accommodating a few to meet the standards of an exclusionary system but instead redesign it!
Access is not a bolt-on afterthought. Access is an technique, a design system, and a lens thru which we create systems and projects
For international day of disabled people I'm focusing on accomodations.
Usually talk about accommodations gets bogged down in who deserves them? How do they prove they deserve them? And how do we prevent cheaters?
But this framing misses the point
Usually talk about accommodations gets bogged down in who deserves them? How do they prove they deserve them? And how do we prevent cheaters?
But this framing misses the point
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
For international day of disabled people I'm focusing on accomodations.
Usually talk about accommodations gets bogged down in who deserves them? How do they prove they deserve them? And how do we prevent cheaters?
But this framing misses the point
Usually talk about accommodations gets bogged down in who deserves them? How do they prove they deserve them? And how do we prevent cheaters?
But this framing misses the point
When bell hooks says patriarchy is hurting men because it limits their access to emotional like please also read that ablism is hurting able bodied people by limiting their access to embodiment.
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
When bell hooks says patriarchy is hurting men because it limits their access to emotional like please also read that ablism is hurting able bodied people by limiting their access to embodiment.
We are never gonna get housing without public banks to finance builds.
Currently development relies on Wall Street investing.
medium.com/@el.compay.n...
Currently development relies on Wall Street investing.
medium.com/@el.compay.n...
Upzoning Fantasies
Last week I invited a market-rate developer as guest speaker in my graduate housing class at the University of San Francisco. I told him…
medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
We are never gonna get housing without public banks to finance builds.
Currently development relies on Wall Street investing.
medium.com/@el.compay.n...
Currently development relies on Wall Street investing.
medium.com/@el.compay.n...
Apparently this doesn't read "White house bullshit"
White House bullish on economic growth as Thanksgiving spending rises
White House bullish on economic growth as Thanksgiving spending rises
Economic adviser Kevin Hassett dismissed economic bedwetters, saying strong spending bodes well for the economy.
dlvr.it
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Apparently this doesn't read "White house bullshit"
Pro AI: It will revolutionize every single thing and be the best at everything
Anti AI: It will steal all the water and rot your brain
Me: Automation is nuanced. It needs to be regulated based on resource use, ownership model and application
Pro and Anti AI: Shut the fuck up. Pick a side
Me: 👍
Anti AI: It will steal all the water and rot your brain
Me: Automation is nuanced. It needs to be regulated based on resource use, ownership model and application
Pro and Anti AI: Shut the fuck up. Pick a side
Me: 👍
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Pro AI: It will revolutionize every single thing and be the best at everything
Anti AI: It will steal all the water and rot your brain
Me: Automation is nuanced. It needs to be regulated based on resource use, ownership model and application
Pro and Anti AI: Shut the fuck up. Pick a side
Me: 👍
Anti AI: It will steal all the water and rot your brain
Me: Automation is nuanced. It needs to be regulated based on resource use, ownership model and application
Pro and Anti AI: Shut the fuck up. Pick a side
Me: 👍
We are a cult now? I had no idea. I've never had symptoms or tested positive and I mask indoors so I guess that makes me Covid Zero.
Also I cook better than most restaurants and don't drink. It is not a big loss.
Also I cook better than most restaurants and don't drink. It is not a big loss.
I don’t know, I thought after Long Covid effectively ended my chance at a directing career, ruined my health, my energy, my ability to eat a lot of foods, and my body, it would seem pretty obvious why I don’t want to get it again, even going so far as to sacrifice (the horror!) bars and restaurants.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
We are a cult now? I had no idea. I've never had symptoms or tested positive and I mask indoors so I guess that makes me Covid Zero.
Also I cook better than most restaurants and don't drink. It is not a big loss.
Also I cook better than most restaurants and don't drink. It is not a big loss.
Bad decisions is what takes me out of stories. If a character makes a decision that feels out of character I just can't keep reading. Decisions can become bad later on but they can't be clockable from go.
Great keynote talk on the fundamentals of storytelling by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social at the ever-brilliant AdventureX
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Bad decisions is what takes me out of stories. If a character makes a decision that feels out of character I just can't keep reading. Decisions can become bad later on but they can't be clockable from go.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM