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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you to all who attended our Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI event on Zoom this afternoon! We had a fantastic conversation with @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social @posada.website @fractalecho.bsky.social @steelecat717.bsky.social and Apryl Williams.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 5h

One of the things I love most about give presentations to conferences is citing my friends who are also at those conferences. @kkoopman.bsky.social and @fractalecho.bsky.social, if more people than usual come find you and bug you about stuff, that may be part of why :D #4SToronto2026 #4S2026

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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

TOMORROW: Join us on Zoom for Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI! Featuring @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social, @posada.website, Apryl Williams, @fractalecho.bsky.social, and @steelecat717.bsky.social.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An entire lineage of humanities scholars are still being brought up in a discourse of cyborg as separate from disability, and are discovering disability within cyborg literature, but are not finding the disabled cyborg literature! And yes, I do blame Haraway! cyborganthropology.com/index.php/Ma...

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Cyborg Anthro Wiki

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 05/10/2026

and i think what's interesting about that is that these are both sort of synthetic, manufactured computational targets like it was necessary to invent something to compute such that having the biggest computers would mean you had the power

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

They really can’t make a case for why people would want these in their community except to invoke some scary foreign other and an undefined need to “win” in a way they can’t connect to the quality of life to the average person but only shareholder value.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

When all else fails, try xenophobia.

““With any change, there will be important questions raised, but there will also be misinformation and outright lies, and in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before,” said Garman. “In fact, this build out is so important geopolitically that there are widespread reports of various countries intentionally seeding misinformation in the US about data centers to trick us into slowing down.””

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

“In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment, saying ‘our nation can’t afford to lose’ the race for AI dominance.”

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Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers

Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The whole time I was writing I was like "surely this will have the shelf life of raw milk" Narrator: it had the shelf life of a twinkie.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wonderful! You might enjoy the Mad Scholars Anthology too. I have a chapter in there.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's my bookiversary. (check comments for a link that works.)

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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meet the panelists of Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI ⚡ 🎤 @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social, @posada.website, Apryl Williams, @fractalecho.bsky.social, and @steelecat717.bsky.social 📅 Fri, October 9 at 2:00 PM ET 📍 Zoom 🔗 Register events.umich.edu/event/149368

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you write a paper on [sociotechnical topic] and ADHD, I notice when you completely ignore the literature on autism and [sociotechnical topic]. All that to say - this is a way that bias, stigma, and lateral ableism shows up in research.

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The Privacy Center @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧵How are data and automation shaping child welfare practice today? How can children and families be at the center of these conversations and decisions? What harms must we guard against? What might be coming down the pike?

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 19/09/2026

Do you want to read up on topics that are covered in the Ghost in the Machine documentary? I'd start with Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social, who also covers the legacies of eugenics that the documentary begins with. My lengthy reading thread: tbsky.app/profile/cgsu...

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This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by [@fractalecho.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qsavm6exsnbprmb2o5utdnst) this week. I'm all wrapped up in a f...

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I call it the Disability Diversion :)

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seriously what the everloving fuck.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 10/09/2026

Everyone claiming this is an "accessibility feature" for Deaf people, I urge you to familiarize yourself with the term "disability dongle." blog.castac.org/2022/04/disa...

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Disability Dongle | Platypus

Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design pr...

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Regular Eli @captainhelion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Disabling Intelligences - Rua M. Williams, 2025. @fractalecho.bsky.social argues forcefully for an understanding of modern AI that incorporates the eugenicist histories involved, using disability as a lens and pivot point to understand the anti-human forces at play. Forceful, angry, and hopeful

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You ever see a kid that looks exactly like a high school friend from 25 years ago - from his face to his body shape right down to his pigeon toed walk and think damn they're really just recycling avatars huh?

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yaaay I like blowing up brain meat

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Why the fuck did my outlook just change to looking like gmail circa 2008.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If it weren't, the generated images would look like children's heads on adult bodies

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

In a short span of time we went from people speculating that companies were listening to their conversations to companies offering listening to your conversations as a feature.

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Plaud is launching AI earbuds

An AI wearable, but for your ears.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 27/08/2026

#IACCAugust2026 #IACC career staff presenting summary of public comments now. They received comments from 4,778 people and orgs - they are giving a very high-level analysis of common themes in the comments. They coded the comments into 17 themes using AI-assisted analysis

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

See also: my students raised on smartphones and tablets do not know what a file structure/hierarchy is.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The funniest (derogatory) thing about all of this is that these "tools" are not particularly difficult to use. The most difficult part is knowing what the fuck you are doing WITHOUT the AI so that you can argue with it effectively. And that's exactly what they are taking away from us!

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not harsh enough? So that's a yes then

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I also love the part of the game that's like did you say no to too many things? You're fired! And you're fired in such a way as to require you to leave your house, town, state, and possibly even country behind!

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I won't say I'm learning my lesson. But I'm definitely experiencing my lesson about not saying no to enough things.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Also also it Very Matters that this has happened at the same time that Arday was targeted in such a way as to imply the only thing a (markedly effeminate) black man could have is insanity.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

(Also it matters that the peices are written by women. Particularly older ones who were more exposed to gender bias in their professional fields. It's on purpose.)

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Uta Frifth's dediagnosis of Peckham notwithstanding.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Not to mention the venn diagram of chronically ill young women and autistic young women is basically a circle. Anyway. Fuck every news outlet doing this shit. *here I am using women to mean all non cis men because that's what the media means.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Have you noticed how all of these think peices about over preponderance of disability and neurodivergence are about how The Young Women Are Wrong? Nobody's complaining that there are too many men getting autism diagnosis. Despite the fact that for decades we've known we are underdiagnosing women.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Some of you think "good trouble" means politely reminding folks in power, via established communication channels, that they might possibly maybe be making a mistake. It is very weird behavior. Anyway now I need an untitled goose shirt that says "goose trouble" and also a drink.

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Every University that is being asked to calculate and prove "RoI" for their majors is being told to report on how the government has defunded education and gutted the economy and then blame themselves for it.

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I met Jason Arday in induction week in my first permanent academic job, at the University of Roehampton. We had been appointed during the same mass hiring, and spent a week together in more or less useless training sessions that felt like components of some kind of deranged summer camp. 1/

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