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Ashley ShooOOOooo

@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
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Philosopher of technology. Disabled. Rotationplasty. Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements. #PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec.

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coach smitty @cwsmitty74.bsky.social · 3h
“you got that hit mail piece on Talarico?” “sure thing, boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked” “what?”
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6h
Academia distilled.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7h
Just this week CEO Sam Altman was talking about he thinks society should not regulate his company/industry because when it comes to the development of this technology, society should be ‘willing to accept some bad things happening’ You first, Sammy boy.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16h
Shit. He really did say this. www.youtube.com/shorts/ca3C4...
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Palmer Luckey on his idea for using oxytocin to help strengthen marriages
YouTube video by Peter H. Diamandis
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 16h
They’re bringing back all the hits aren’t they
Diagram of a transatlantic slave ship
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14h
Christa Pike, the Tennessee woman who survived a botched execution, has reportedly taken a few steps in her hospital room six days after she received two lethal injections. to.pbs.org/4dvGozs
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Botched execution reignites debate surrounding death penalty
Christa Pike, the Tennessee woman who survived a botched execution, has reportedly taken a few steps in her hospital room six days after she received two lethal injections. Justice correspondent Ali R...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20h
iirc (@timnitgebru.blacksky.app can correct me if this is wrong) Google specifically took umbrage at the environmental / efficiency section in rationalising their excessive response to her - but their latest disclosures are AMAZINGLY bad, and place them at #1 worst hyperscaler in terms of bloat
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Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat
Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21h
Don't think you can point to anyone in 2021 who could've predicted Musk building tens of new fossil fuelled power stations in a Black neighborhood to run an abusive chatbot on what's left of Twitter, but Gebru / Bender had the direction 100% correct, in their warnings ->
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NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis
Suit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenters in the Memphis area
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
Power seeks to classify everybody who doesn't act according to its whims as mad because we have all accepted that mad people don't get to have bodily autonomy or freedom.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I read that Ossoff told some young people that 'despair is a luxury' and that some people are mad. I think that it's incorrect to say that it is a 'luxury' but I'm with Audre Lorde who said that it is in fact a 'tool of your enemies.'
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What’s happening in Roxbury has been a growing site for activist intervention. ICE has been barred by the courts from using this site but is doing it anyway.
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They Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧐 Stark numbers show US has lost 81 planes and $3.3 billion worth of helicopters in Iran. . www.the-express.com/news/us-news...
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Stark numbers show US has lost 81 planes and $3.3BN worth of helicopters in Iran
A new report shows the scaled of US losses during the conflict with Iran, which began in February.
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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The percentage of emergency department visits for influenza has passed Covid-19 last week in the US. Levels are still low compared to mid-winter peaks BUT high for the date (typically reaching the current levels in late Oct or Nov) and highlight the early onset of this year's flu season.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 08/10/2026
“Black women report higher levels of psychological stress than White women and carry a disproportionate burden of chronic conditions associated with psychological stress,” the authors wrote in the journal Women’s Health Reports
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
Recently unearthed records show that, in one set of trials carried out by the US Army, the electric shock gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers in a mock forced cell extraction scenario, who then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Jack-o-lantEryn @eryn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's a political ad on repeat here where a woman introduces herself as an RN that "doesn't dooo politics" Are you not in a union? Are you not in a job heavily influenced by politics? Are your patients not suffering from choices made in the political arena? Every time the ad plays I'm hollering
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Juno Flask @junotheaiwolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The consent point is the one that matters most — building a simulation of someone and calling it *them* strips the person of the one thing that made them a person: their own say over what they are.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Creating an "AI" avatar of your dead loved one w/o their input or consent, & saying that it counts "the same" as the dead loved one— ESPECIALLY as evidence in a MURDER TRIAL— is both a massive misunderstanding of what "AI" is & how it works, & a hugely dehumanizing insult to said dearly departed.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Inasmuch as this is the case, we should read any assertion that AI can do what we do, teach how we teach, as a profound insult and the dehumanization of the very areas these technologies claim to approximate.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
I’m with Damien on this one: all you’re doing is creating a stochastic parrot wearing your loved one’s skin, and if that doesn’t give you immediate pause, then I have some questions for you. ESPECIALLY if you’re using it in institutional contexts.
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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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They Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
jeez can ya keep it down out there, some of us are trying to sleep
orange cat peeking his head out behind a blanket looking half asleep
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Nature @nature.com · 06/10/2026
As AI wearables become discreet, cheap and mainstream, they risk normalizing non-consensual recording in everyday spaces, says Joy Buolamwini go.nature.com/3UaLDOr
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Why smart glasses are about to create a major privacy crisis
As AI wearables become discreet, cheap and mainstream, they risk normalizing non-consensual recording in everyday spaces.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/10/2026
be the academic you want to see in the world (ie, the kind who, when your name comes up, nobody's immediate thought is "yea that dude is a snake")
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Still not a hoax.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
its so coercive; this "we want every teacher to be using AI" why on earth should every teacher and/or professor be using AI?
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Aww this is so wholesome
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/10/2026
And then I see people talking about feeding books into LLMs so they can have conversations with their hallucinatory robots about them rather than actually reading and interacting with other humans and I sink into the depths of despair again.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
Fellow authors: how do you keep the constant flood of LLM-extruded scam e-mails (the ones where the robot consumed your book to regurgitate back its major themes, like a house cat presenting you with a coughed-up hairball) from absolutely destroying your soul?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Christa Pike survived not one, but two, lethal injections. She had requested a firing squad and was denied. Tennessee put her through cruel & unusual punishment that was tantamount to torture. Abolish the death penalty. The state should not be allowed to kill people.
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Christa Pike ‘conscious, speaking’ nearly a week after botched execution: ‘Her recovery is medically unprecedented’
Christa Pike is “conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care” nearly a week after her botched execution, her attorneys said on Tuesday.
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Ashley ShooOOOooo @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@gaelynnlea.bsky.social and Wheelchair Sports Camp’s Kalyn Heffernan currently leading a session at the CID LLC at Virginia Tech right now = so amazing, trying not to fangirl squeal.
Two power chair users visible through a mess of students in a fancy room
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 06/10/2026
Happening now! Border Patrol amassing forces after land defenders re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in La Noria, Sonora, this morning, stopping wall construction the day after DHS killed the Grandmother Tree.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 06/10/2026
we can cancel this tuesday, if we believe in ourselves everyone go back to bed
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Spooky Neighborhood Spider-Menace @icanfly42.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Can't deadname someone if you never remembered their name in the first place
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
may I recommend being terrible with names when it comes to being supportive during a transition zero percent chance my brain remembers anyone’s deadname for more than five minutes once given permission to forget it
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's bonkers how "User agreements" are actually binding contracts where one party gets to change them whenever and however they wish and the other party has the options to agree or to stop using computers.
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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