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Jen H

@jenhirsch.bsky.social
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Parent & PhD student; MSW, disabled, trans/nonbinary, & autistic interested in adjustment to illness & healthcare trauma any pronoun

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/04/2026
Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/four-horseme...
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Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse
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Jen H @jenhirsch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Universities are such a weird wonky bubble. me: hey, HR, these forms you want me to sign have out of date policies on them and are circa 2020, do you have new ones? HR: contact Faculty and Student Affairs. me:...? In no other world would HR not be in charge of the forms they have new hires sign.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/11/2025
This is brilliant
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/03/2026
Free newsletter: The Subprime AI Crisis is here. I explore the disturbing parallels between the run-up to the global financial crisis and the heavily-subsidized AI bubble, and how Anthropic and OpenAI's rush to IPO accelerates the crisis further. www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/
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The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here
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the society of the spectre cult @dymphna.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Like painting, writing is an actual skill that is developed by doing the work. We all recognize that anybody can pick up a paintbrush and paint, but we don't call everyone who paints "a painter" because we make a distinction between skilled and unskilled painters; professionals and amateurs.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/03/2026
Honestly thinking about stealing of zoom calls to publish without consent along with fake profiles of real people on grammarly & gen AI more broadly & realizing again how much of tech bro culture seems to be stealing knowledge because they can't create what we can. There is no merit, just theft
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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🦓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
From my Tumblr
A tumblr post by enbycrip

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Big thing I've got from my study of disability in the early modern period in Britain, including dissertation research?

Poor relief that gives money out to the poorest people is probably the most benefit per amount of money, but it's *massively*, *massively* resented by wealthier people. Not only because it's redistribution of wealth, given it was usually raised by local taxation, but because it takes both control and opportunities to benefit from them.

The big thing money gives is options, choice, and freedom. Wealthier people value having that and massively resent poorer people having it. They much prefer giving charity to paying their taxes because a) giving charity lets them keep control of the money, even at a remove, and b) they usually find a way to benefit more directly from it.

This is basically why we have the current social security systems we have, where so much more is spent on control and policing of the behaviour of poor and disabled people than actually helping. Universal benefits were popular when the systems were set up for a variety of reasons, including reducing resentment by wealthier people, but largely because means-testing is *more expensive* and *less efficient*than universal benefits.

Wealthier people screaming for more means-testing are doing so because they prefer to have more money spent on tormenting people who are struggling with the conditions that those wealthier people create and maintain because it benefits them than that money actually reaching them.

That's not how they parse it in their heads, I'm sure, but it *is* the reality of the situation.

#disabled #disability #disableism #ableism #social security #social safety
net #wealth redistribution #social control #charity #universal benefits
#universal basic income
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⧖ big rock big water ⧖ (they/them) @bigrockbigwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Every set of my grandparents had a stay at home spouse, it is an ingrained part of American culture, you will never convince me that more than 40% of our population needs to work, because it doesn't. I'm not falling for the propaganda.
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June Northey 🏳️‍⚧️ @junenorthey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It is funny/sad how study after study after study shows that a Universal Basic Income (or something similar) would be far cheaper than the mess done now in the USA, in Canada, and in other nations. But too many worry that someone somewhere will get paid to stay at home. Sigh.
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Jen H @jenhirsch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is beautiful! www.npr.org/sections/hea...
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When illness or death leave craft projects unfinished, these strangers step in to help
It can be heartbreaking to let go of a hand-made rug or sweater that a loved one didn't quite finish. A group of volunteer knitters, quilters and other crafters offer some closure.
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High Pass Education @highpassedu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New article: ASWB made troubling changes to its exam process. Then it misinformed examinees about those changes. www.psychotherapynotes.com/aswb-misinfo... #socialwork #asw #lcsw #stopaswb
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ASWB misinformed examinees about social work exam changes
ASWB made problematic changes to the format of its social work exams. It also described a testing process different from what was delivered.
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
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Jen H @jenhirsch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I just keep turning it back on.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Jen H @jenhirsch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I love working with National Council of Dementia Minds because I get to hang out with fabulous folks like Bonnie! yellowstonevalleywoman.com/changing-the...
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Changing the Stigma
Billings woman gives a voice to others like her living with dementia
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Jen H @jenhirsch.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
This sounds incredible and generative!!
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Jen H @jenhirsch.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
MOHELA is supposed to be open 7am -8pm Central time, so tell me why when call at 845am eastern time the office is closed. Plus wait times these days are stretching to 190 minutes and longer. Why didn't they hire more staff for us all going back to payment?
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𖤐Luna_Maria𖤐 @lunademaria.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
The anti-colonial power of Jim! What a gift to have a non-binary Latine rebel. #ofmd #OurFlagMeansDeath #jimjimenez #nonbinary
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