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Liz Jackson @lizjackson.bsky.social · 9d

Posting again, because I think this has an audience beyond my reach. @fractalecho.bsky.social and I published a piece detailing Microsoft's inaccurate 'Inclusive Design' story and what it says more broadly about who 'Inclusive Design' omits from the record. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

Screenshot of the headline, Human Censored Design - and a blurb "The Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit popularized norms about disability inclusion that when teased out, become taboos. It doesn’t just sacrifice the one for the many. It also exploits misconceptions about representation in order to locate and select whichever one can be used to neutralize, undermine, bury, and censor the many. There are three primary methods embedded within Inclusive Design power grabs, and they often work together to achieve something more resembling Human Censored Design"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."

But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

UX so bad that it's illegal

Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Olive (they/them) 🇵🇸 @theministy.bsky.social · 7h

Requested my local library buy a copy for circulation!

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$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 9h

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences, a dark pink book with orange vines.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 9h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 1d

My specialist cancer hospital is downgrading from N95s to surgical masks for apheresis, cell therapies and the haematology ward (which includes autologous stem cell transplant pts).
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 8h

Ethnostates are bad

Sheila @sheilagreenfield.bsky.social · 9h

Some Palestinians and all Jews are indigenous to the Levant, and that's why there should be 2 states.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

In some ways this is the government now

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[email protected] on Mastodon @bskylovesgenocide.bsky.social · 10h

If you think pointing out that a member of Bluesky staff is following THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION while said staff is banning Palestinians & trans folk (and defending people who want us dead) is "unhinged"... what the fuck is wrong with you?

Is anyone surprised @offline.mountainherder.xyz is a techbro?

@Scoiattolo on Bluesky:

Yeah I'm shutting down @for.shame.wtf. I'm sorry, I know a great many of you use it responsibly and in this specific case it is not relevant, but this sort of behavior is unhinged and I don't want to be party to facilitating it.

(Screenshot of the skeet about rose.bluesky.team following the Heritage Foundation)

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MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 9h

after my visit to the doctor today, it is clear that radiation therapy is what has been working. that is amazing news! there is hope. ❤️

i am $2730 away from getting back on track with radiation therapy.

if 140 people gave $20 each, i can get the treatment i need (asap).

please help if you can ❤️

Bea Eli 🏳️‍⚧️ @msbeaeli.bsky.social · 7d

According to Bex's doctor, the radiation therapy is working!

The bad news is they need to pay the $3280 remaining balance ASAP!

$20 from your pocket could literally save their life.
Give it today- their treatment has been interrupted several times due to lack of funds.

ko-fi.com/rebekamash/g...

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 8h

Also alerted Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid (MSMA) in DC too, if you're in DC or MD you can text them at (202) 335-1183. Call if you see an abduction.

REMEMBER TO INFORM THE RAPID RESPONSE HOTLINES

Did you see ICE in your neighborhood? Do you know someone detained by ICE in DC, Maryland, or Virginia?

Call one of our free hotlines for information and resources.

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid (MSMA): DC, MD

(202) 335-1183.

CASA: MD, VA

(888) 214-6016

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If you encounter ICE, know your rights!

DO stay silent - you have the right to remain silent

DO carry with you proof of status and a form of local ID or proof of living here for over 2 years

DO make sure a trusted friend/ relative knows your correct A-N & country of birth and has a your important documents

Do NOT answer any questions

Do NOT sign anything

Do NOT run or flee, it can be reason to detain you

Do NOT provide false documents

DO create an emergency plan for you and your family.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 9h

Ew ew ew just for an ad for one of those AI assistants in which a woman asks it to write a haiku about her cat.

You can’t write a 3 line, 17 syllable poem about your cat?????

What is being alive for if not writing tiny little poems about your cat??!!

Add this to my joker file. Good lord.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

You have to understand that for conservatives, Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl is a grave insult, like when they go to the ATM and they have to push a button to pick either English or Spanish

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 14h

"I use it, it's just a tool like Photoshop," is the refrain from people I know that has me biting virtually clean through my tongue.

No. It's emptying you.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 16h

Never call a trans person cis, regardless of presentation or what type of healthcare they're using ffs this is not complicated.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 16h

Anyway one mildly annoying thing about chronic illness is that if you DO take a sick day, people assume you 'caught something' rather than your own health conditions being, say, unstable things that can suddenly worsen. :(

I wish chronic illness was static! My life would be easier! But!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 19h

release kim ah-hyun cowards

S. Korea urges swift release of activist detained in Israeli seizure of Gaza aid flotilla - The Korea Times

The foreign ministry said Wednesday it has requested Israel to promptly release a ship carrying a South Korean activist that was seized by the Isra...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18h

New drinking game for historians of disability and medicine: take a shot whenever you see someone online rolling their eyes and saying ‘you think everything is eugenics!’

Might as well be drunk through the Age of Eugenics: It’s Going to Get Worse and I don’t Know How to Make People See It

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 20h

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

unusual whales @unusual_whales
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Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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LadyDEADtera32 🍁😷🌈💀 @ladylettera32.bsky.social · 1d

“AI” is built on stolen art.

Show your solidarity with writers and artists by NEVER using it.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

It was created by Germans. What else could it possibly be.

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 1d

“Mastodon is a very white space ... when people tell marginalized subjects to make their own instances, they grossly underestimate the resource intensity of doing so. It is not … the case that we can make an instance and then suddenly be free of all of the things that we're trying to get away from”

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

Teslas
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Data centers

Wanting to be on fire all on their own

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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 1d

The thing that makes eugenics bad is literally that it's about real people. This isn't even a hard one.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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