Rua M. Williams

The panopticon, The Disability Diversion, and a Disability Dongle all in one.

Sitting in a department meeting about our mandatory system for reporting everything we do, because a word doc CV is somehow not good enough. Discussed when the system claims data that isn't yours. The speaker "It's supposed to learn. I haven't SEEN it learn. But it's supposed to." I have died.

Read Christina Cogdell, read @cyborgapologist.bsky.social, read @fractalecho.bsky.social, read @shirachess.bsky.social, read the history of "AI" and the internet and on and on and on. It's… it's all right there.
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"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"

Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.

They are. It's built in to many course management systems. Turnit in, for example. But again most faculty are just operating on *vibes*.

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Neurodivergent people don't write like AI. But some of us write like what people think AI wites like. (AI sounds like a politician. A pointless meandering sycophant.)

Basically there are not objective ways to determine if something is AI, which is why neurodivergent students and students with international English or English as a second language keep getting falsely accused. The suspicion is triggered by an implicit sense of otherness.

Being on linked in is so crazy because I'll see something and assume it's parody but it will be a totally serious post simping for military AI.

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In our latest, @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social joins us to discuss “anti-aging” trends and longevity influencers as symptoms of imperial decline and the role the wellness industry has played in producing this moment of heightened fascism

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GIVE THE SUICIDE BOT ADVERTISING CAPABILITY WHAT COULD GO WRONG

You know that making yourself a little picrew and reading a horoscope is just as if not more fulfilling and less evil than asking chat fucking GPT to "draw" you right?

Yeah. And we have the extra problem of those that do disclose their disability only to say that they can do it so the student can too 🙃

Oh and also the erroneous belief that the stress of an emergency is the same or more debilitating than the stress of being observed by people you know don't believe in you and have the power to rip your dream away from you.

A specific flavor I'm looking at right now is the confluence of a general stigma against cognitive disability, a specific belief that certain cognitive disabilities must be mutually exclusive with veterinary care, and a belief that assessments accurately reflect real world practice

Hello Disability Internet. I know we know that the professions (like medical, veterinary, dentistry, other clinicians) are extremely ableist. Like they cannot figure out how to accommodate disabled students. Does anyone do this well? For Veterinary students?

PALAUT used to work. Idk if it still does

"intelligence has to be embodied, so of course that means the more Normal your body the more intellegence you have"

this is a real... the speaker is revealing more about themselves that they realize, huh?

*slams head on desk* Hawking... Had... A body... Just. What!?

(I would argue, and so would @wolvendamien.bsky.social , that computers are also a kind of body, with sensors and actuators, but that doesn't mean LLMs are people!)

This is also my take on OpenClaw and Moltbook and that "AGI" piece in Nature. Plus that people are *once again* misunderstanding what statistically correlative stochastic text and operations generation systems do At All let alone when placed into context and extended conversation with each other.
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My favorite GIF of all time captures the joy

"Fatalist platitudes like “we have to learn to live with it” may seem mild or even pragmatic, but they represent and engender a deeper sense of powerlessness. Through our own despair, we let injustice live." - Disabling Intelligences, Ch. 5, RMW

"Abolitionist organizers Kelly Hayes and Miriam Kaba write that inevitability is “a construct of the wicked” (Hayes and Kaba 2023, 5) and “… despair is a thief. It saps your energy, depletes your time, and robs you of your ability to dream” (Hayes and Kaba 2023, 227)." - Disabling Intelligences 5

"Whether you are an AI optimist, skeptic, or pessimist, none of us can afford to be fatalists. When we resign ourselves to the inevitability of oppressive systems, we give in to a desperate world." - Disabling Intelligences, Ch. 5, RMW

I have a student using @fractalecho.bsky.social 's Disabled Robots and Jillian Weise to argue that chatbots are Tryborgs *from the other direction* and I couldn't be more excited to see where this goes.

Yeah. I won't be there in person lol

There's a giraffe joke in my book and idk if anyone found it

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned.

Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

Imagine this is the time and we are the generation that derails the fascist agenda before it annihilates us all. Imagine yourself a part of the critical mass of communities that could and does take power back from these death mongering institutions.