Heather Hill
@rollin-academic.bsky.social
Sitting at the nexus of disability, critical disability justice, accessibility, and libraries. Punk ass book jockey and associate professor, UWO. She/her
"But AI can only examine the past.
It can only see the trends that happened, not the trends that go forward... It understands things that exist, not things that don’t, and therefore, in a job based somewhat considerably on people’s imagination producing original material, it will shit the bed."
It can only see the trends that happened, not the trends that go forward... It understands things that exist, not things that don’t, and therefore, in a job based somewhat considerably on people’s imagination producing original material, it will shit the bed."
This blog post by @chuckwendig.bsky.social is incredible. If I wasn't already finished with my zine with a list of names for LLMs (linked in pinned post), this one has some gems like "giant corpo shit," "THIEVING MAGPIE," and "bad shrimp." The analogy here at the end for a garlic press is excellent.
December 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"But AI can only examine the past.
It can only see the trends that happened, not the trends that go forward... It understands things that exist, not things that don’t, and therefore, in a job based somewhat considerably on people’s imagination producing original material, it will shit the bed."
It can only see the trends that happened, not the trends that go forward... It understands things that exist, not things that don’t, and therefore, in a job based somewhat considerably on people’s imagination producing original material, it will shit the bed."
Same
Students literally take my classes BECAUSE Im perceived as a pressure release valve for their other courses. I offer flexible deadlines (to my own debilitation, EVERY semester, I get auras because of the work I do to keep my class accessible), universal design and re-work syllabi every semester.
December 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Same
adding this to my reading list
As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics.
Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
December 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
adding this to my reading list
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"They found the coats on Thursday morning.
Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies.
Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"
Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies.
Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"
December 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"They found the coats on Thursday morning.
Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies.
Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"
Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies.
Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"
wanted to buy another Subaru but won`t until they remove thee new iPad sized display
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
wanted to buy another Subaru but won`t until they remove thee new iPad sized display
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW OPEN on prohibiting gender affirming care for young people.
Flood 'em with comments!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Flood 'em with comments!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children
This proposed rule would require that a State Medicaid plan must provide that the Medicaid agency will not make payment under the plan for sex-rejecting procedures for children under 18 and prohibit t...
www.federalregister.gov
December 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW OPEN on prohibiting gender affirming care for young people.
Flood 'em with comments!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Flood 'em with comments!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Deck the halls, babes
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Deck the halls, babes
my hobby is literally picking up the trash in the park near my house
I would literally be building a park for my neighbourhood right now btw if I didn’t have to earn a wage so I could live. Also fixing potholes, it’s my hyper-fixation.
not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
my hobby is literally picking up the trash in the park near my house
Campus ai guy, `we`re going to integrate into everything` but also `maybe don't input confidential info in it`
Like, my dude, seriously?
Like, my dude, seriously?
It's happening in every sphere. Non educators have no idea how intense the push is in secondary schools. I've seen a lot of edtech drives, but the insistence on cramming genAI into everything is out of this world.
I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Campus ai guy, `we`re going to integrate into everything` but also `maybe don't input confidential info in it`
Like, my dude, seriously?
Like, my dude, seriously?
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Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.
Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.
This is so effed
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is so effed
looks pointedly at fellow library folk
I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it
December 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
looks pointedly at fellow library folk
yup
Generative AI is also causing me more work as a college professor, in teaching, research, and admin work.
So far AI is causing me more work.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description.
Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.
December 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
yup
✊
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
✊
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Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
November 15, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
a wonderful book
"We Will Rise Again" by @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social (eds.)
What better way is there to end the year than with a compendium of hope and resistance imaginaries!
What better way is there to end the year than with a compendium of hope and resistance imaginaries!
December 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
a wonderful book
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what the absolute fucking fraud is this?
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
what the absolute fucking fraud is this?
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“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.”
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.”
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the good that you do persists in this world
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when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.
Yaasssssss
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yaasssssss
everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling the Beastie Boys
December 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Take care today team.
December 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Take care today team.