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T. Lizarazo 🇵🇸

@lizarazo.bsky.social
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Moving in crip time. 😷🐌 Author of Postconflict Utopias: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p…

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A new study found that sycophancy is a pervasive function of leading chatbots, which are likely to give users bad/antisocial advice when asked about real-world interpersonal conflicts -- warping users' judgement and promoting dependence. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users
A study found that sycophancy is pervasive among chatbots, and that bots are more likely than human peers to affirm a person's bad behavior.
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
People are quick to condemn dead rapists. Living rapists? Not so much.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
On this year’s long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.
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I'm so frightened and angry. I'm continuing to take notes because I want somebody to sue if I die. I was already fighting big shit.
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I'm going to say, again, that when long COVID effects kill me - sooner than later - I need y'all to recognize and say LOUDLY what it was.
Long COVID is keeping my blood pressure at 230/128, in spite of taking an elaborate cocktail of meds.
Long COVID is shredding my kidneys.
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I'm not going to be alone. And this won't be considered a massive crime against humanity until we're all gone.
Just tell them I fought and tried.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/03/2026
Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism. (This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)
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The Iconic Civil Rights Protest You Don't Know | American Experience | PBS
Meet the protesters who crawled their way into history—and changed how all Americans live.
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We're thrilled to release the #LongCovid Treatment Guide! This is a collaboration with @rthm.bsky.social to help patients & providers explore treatment options together. The guide focuses on 24 medications, but includes a few other interventions for breadth /1
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Long COVID Treatment Guide
An evidence-supported guide covering treatments addressing multiple Long COVID symptoms & mechanisms — focused on prescription medication, with a limited set of supplements, OTC medications, procedure...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
How many of the people screaming about how anti-vaccination parents should be tarred and feathered mask during surges in COVID? Or when they’re around vulnerable people? Asking as someone whose mother passed away of Covid complications likely from infections contracted by unmasked visitors.
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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
For this #InternationalWomensDay I’m sharing a symptomatology #embroidery, body map (2016), in which I stitched my #MECFS symptoms freehand over a few months. ME/CFS affects mostly women, and the symptoms are often ignored or not taken seriously because of medical misogyny. #SciArt
An outline of a naked woman is embroidered on linen in the same bone white colour as the linen. She stands legs together, her right hand covering her groin, her left hand, palm up, extended slightly to her side. She looks to the right. Her entire body except for her belly is covered in intricate markings representing different neurological sensations. Her face is a mask of green lines, feathery grey lines cover her shoulders and chest. There is a thick band of intricate burgundy stitching around her waist. Her forearms and hands are covered in thick blue undulant lines. Her right leg has bands of burgundy along the muscles, with small dots around them. Her inner left leg has a thick line of blue running up it, with thin branches spreading towards her outer leg.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse newrepublic.com/article/1793...
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How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War
The cutting-edge products that Big Tech and the Pentagon are developing could be rebuilding an untold number of lives. Instead, they’re being sent to the battlefield to ruin more.
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T. Lizarazo 🇵🇸 @lizarazo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I see you at the virtual meetings while refusing to provide even hybrid access for the events you organize.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day. Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.
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T. Lizarazo 🇵🇸 @lizarazo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Alt text: Poster with a photo of Tania wearing a red KN95 mask and a black keffiyeh at UMBC and the book cover of Tania's book Postconflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Chocó, Colombia with the Atrato River and members of COCOMACIA. The text reads: BOOK AWARDS: TANIA LIZARAZO.
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T. Lizarazo 🇵🇸 @lizarazo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
So grateful for all the support l've received from UMBC and beyond that has made this book (and these awards!) possible. Invite me virtually to your classes/events/universities to talk about how we can imagine different worlds together.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
you wanna know why people with long COVID are insistent about masks so much so that they "annoy" you? Because there is often no real treatment/care easily accessible for many of us. Workplaces make it hard for us to earn a living. Have a little consideration, ffs.
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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We can't rely on this lawsuit alone, though: keep pressure ON to stop Maryland's concentration camp: 2 steps, starting tomorrow: - Feb 24 www.wcindivisible.com/take-action.... & - March 28: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... & stay in touch w/our new coalition here: -> stopthecampsmaryland.com <-
Blue and green flyer reading: DHS paid $102 million in January for a warehouse they will convert to a concentration camp. Washington County Commissioners embraced this deadly deal. But together, we can stop it. Join us to fight back: 

→ Feb. 24: Hagerstown: protest at the Board of County Commissioners meeting, learn more here:  https://www.wcindivisible.com/take-action.html
→ March 28: Hagerstown: On National No Kings Day, join us from across Maryland to demand: No Kings, No Camps! Sign up here to protest, 1-3 PM. https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/904854/
 https://stopthecampsmaryland.com/
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Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Unoriginally, the layoff monster finally came for me 👾 But my bad news might be good news for you if you’re a fan of the show! I guess I can go all in now. If you can and would like to, please help me make more of the show you love 🥳 (Exciting partnership news coming soon!)
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
“Confusion” doesn’t begin to describe our emerging predicament. Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing. They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools.

“Zero percent of my emotional needs are met by A.I.,” an executive who ran a team mitigating safety risks at a top lab told me. “I’m in it up to my eyeballs at work, and I’m careful.” Many others said the same thing: Even as they build A.I. tools, they hope they never feel the need to turn to machines for emotional support. As a researcher who develops cutting-edge capabilities for artificial emotion put it, “that would be a dark day.”Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits: They support guardrails in theory, but don’t want to compromise the product experience in practice. It’s little wonder the protections that do get built can seem largely symbolic — you have to squint to see the fine-print notice that “ChatGPT can make mistakes” or that Character.AI is “not a real person.” “I’ve seen the way people operate in this space,” said one engineer who worked at a number of tech companies. “They’re here to make money. It’s a business at the end of the day.”But even if companies can curb serious dependence on A.I. companions — an open question — many of the developers I spoke with were troubled by even moderate use of these apps. That’s because people who manage to resist full-blown digital companions can still find themselves hooked on A.I.-mediated love. When machines draft texts, craft vows and tell people how to process their own emotions, every relationship turns into “a throuple,” a founder of a conversational A.I. business said. “We’re all polyamorous now. It’s you, me and the A.I.”
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
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Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante
Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
You cannot talk about the measles outbreak without talking about the widespread erosion of public health - from vaccines to COVID mitigations. ICE facilities have been wracked with TB, measles, and COVID outbreaks. Community spread stops with you. Wear a fit tested N95.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
We need a better way to get the 3800+ kids out of ICE detention than this. We know Liam’s name and we can advocate on his behalf, but that isn’t true of almost any of the other people stuck in detention centers. We have to stop ICE on a systemic level.
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Not to diminish the very real threat of fascism, but I really could’ve used an article called “Your friends are acting like COVID is harmless. What do you do?” 3-4 years ago. The gaslighting’s been a total mindfuck. Anyway, this article’s worth a read.
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Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?
All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.
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T. Lizarazo 🇵🇸 @lizarazo.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Such a great Q&A! Grateful for all of this.
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/01/2026
Jonathan Ross—the ICE fascist who killed Renee Good—is an 18-year ICE veteran, firearms instructor, & active shooter trainer. The people claiming "ICE needs more training" are missing the point. Ross's 2 DECADES of training IS what led him to execute Good. ICE Training IS the problem. Abolish ICE.
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Hazel Newlevant @newlevant.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant

[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.

Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]

[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]

[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine

[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE
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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE has a new tool to use location data from data brokers to identify the movements of protestors. Please remove your phone's Advertising ID and disable always-on location access forapps that sell your data (most of them). Instructions for Android and iOS from the EFF: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now
The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling it will make it substantially harder for advertisers and da...
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T. Lizarazo 🇵🇸 @lizarazo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
After learning from peasants in Colombia how toxic glyphosate is, I was so horrified to see it sold everywhere and used domestically in the US.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Im in my late 40s, and im just flashing back to every ‘justified’ regime change and invasion for decades, every ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lie, every ‘evil communists’ trope bought and sold by politicians, journalists and people, and all the incredible suffering that followed
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T. Lizarazo 🇵🇸 @lizarazo.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s a coup but the euphemisms abound.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/12/2025
As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
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The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.
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T. Lizarazo 🇵🇸 @lizarazo.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Can’t wait to read this book with my students!
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 22/12/2025
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Holiday gathering reminder 🎁 If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%! This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
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Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center
Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/12/2025
Mumia Abu-Jamal — who has spent decades in prison for a crime he says he did not commit — is at risk of losing his eyesight without urgent treatment.
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Save Mumia’s Eyesight: Supporters March to Prison to Demand Medical Care for Him & Aging Prisoners
Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal are on a 103-mile, 12-day march ending Tuesday in Frackville, Pennsylvania, where he is imprisoned at the Mahanoy state prison. The march ends on the same day Abu-Jamal w...
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Myra Batchelder @myrabatchelder.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It’s so striking when people focus on how horrible they felt it was they were encouraged to stay home when they could in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and not how horrible it felt to see hundreds of thousands of people pass away from COVID-19 in the US and millions around the world.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2025
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/3MTlm33
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
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ReCalibri
They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway
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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 08/12/2025
I love learning better and more precise wording. This afternoon's discovery is from Anna Mills and Nate Angell, and their paper I missed from February. "Using mirage instead of hallucination enables us to stop anthropomorphizing AI and see the incongruities it generates for what they really are."
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Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations
There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Cannot wait to read @fractalecho.bsky.social's book!!! Drawing on both critical STS and disability studies, the book provides "a toolkit for evaluating and resisting metaeugenics in technology." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Disabling Intelligences
This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.
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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It’s been more than 1,000 by some counts
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Live: USC layoff and budget cut tracker
Morning, Trojan's live tracker of USC budget cuts and layoffs.
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colin feral @sal.gay · 03/12/2025
They should do MyChart Wrapped
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Aging with complex chronic illnesses and disabilities at home
Hi! My name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging ind...
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