Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.
Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.
If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.
So must you.
My local drugstore permanently unlocked the shampoo aisle. We won the war against the imaginary shoplifters.
Congrats, here’s that engagement you were looking for. Too bad it’s people dunking on you.
EVEN IF you believe AI can be useful (you should stop thinking that), it cant coexist with education
Students dont know what they dont know. So trusting a faulty model that relies on stolen work (and hallucinations) and lacks access to countless sources…
You cant learn how to learn while using AI
Jalapeno chicken, garlic asparagus, seasoned corn on the cob with corn on the claws and a blackberry lemon Waterloo soda water
Healthy dinner and Deep Space Nine is back, tonight it's the fuckinnnnn Bell Riots bayBEE
Removing pride flags from public view “suppresses free speech on campus” and is “just one of a growing number of disappointing choices by the administration to contradict the values it purports to champion."
—Joseph Harris, Boston University AAUP
Black and white tuxedo cat with fat white whiskers and a lopsided mustache looks into the camera, as if posing for a portrait but also alarmed
Mustachioed tuxedo cat with lopsided mustache screams at a houseplant
Mustachioed tuxedo cat poses for a homemade headshot as if prepping his LinkedIn profile
Portrait mode pic of black and white tuxedo cat looking handsome sitting on top of table near plants
More cute visitor pictures, my child’s ward for the past week. Happy Caturday!
#QueerWritersChat Q5
Since this week's theme is about jobs, I'm a freelance book editor! I couldn't get a job as a Gen Z college grad, so I decided to chase my dreams and go out on my own.
But I wouldn't be here without all of you! So if you need an editor, let me know.
ottersediting.com
Pep talk (or I guess lack-of-pep talk) brought to you by a great day yesterday giving a talk at College of Charleston and talking shop with old and new friend-colleagues.
And now I’m exhausted and might flare up if I don’t settle down.
I have to regularly give myself the pep talk, in case others need to hear it.
You’re a chronically ill person. Of course you are tired after a big day of things. You are doing it disabled. It’s fine to take it easy. You need to take it easy if you want to do stuff later. Rest.
CONCLUSIONS In our sample of 650,173 COVID cases among active-duty military personnel, a total of 278,278 were identified as having post-COVID-19 syndrome (42.8%). Of these, 273,405 reported post-COVID symptoms in at least two visits (42.1%). Our findings showed that the top three symptoms of post-COVID-19 syndrome in military personnel are related to pulmonary, neurological, and fatigue issues. Mild to moderate cases of this syndrome could leave military personnel with long-term deficits in their overall fitness and readiness. This readiness is a critical aspect of military effectiveness, ensuring that personnel can respond rapidly and decisively to threats. Thus, continued assessment and potential treatments are needed to assist active-duty military personnel to improve their overall health outcomes.
Oh look, the 🇺🇸 military concludes over 40% of COVID infections lead to Long COVID, among a population sample that is all adults, & on average in better physical condition & younger than the national/global population.
www.amjmedsci.org/article/S000...
Unpopular take: I want there to be as much energy going into physical accessibility as there is going into digital accessibility. I don't want new software or AI tools hyped to me until we can get ramps, handrails, and accessible toilets. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.
A flawed calculation (based on an assumption that Black bodies work differently) that discounted Black patients on transplant lists is being corrected (but slower change because of disparities in clinic paperwork and documentation).
Nesting dolls of systemic racism.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Hell yes, research: "Because stimming is frequently targeted for reduction or elimination, its positive functions are overlooked. This may contribute to stigma, pressure to mask, and harm to Autistic well-being."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #autism #neurodiversity
One of the excluded systematic reviews is the York systematic reviews commissioned as part of the Cass Review itself. NHS England excluded from its evidence review a systematic review produced for the very process this evidence review is supposed to implement. It's a joke.
New STS / Disability Studies / Maintenance Studies article from @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Josh Earle!
dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...
nearly a fifth of Iran's population lives within the Tehran metro area. these are the people you would want to lead an uprising, and Israel wants them to choke in oil fire smoke.
Don’t forget it’s Daylight Savings. We springing forward. At two am it will go to three am
a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.
"unhinged protestor" = uniformed marine standing politely and correctly stating that we are warring on behalf of Israel and he doesn't want to fight such a war.
"fighting back" = thrown down onto a chair necessitating he stand up to detangle himself
"deescalate" = broke the dude's bones
anyway as someone grappling with very fresh grief over the loss of a parent, can I just say read more poetry, folks. For millennia, we've been feeling pain and grief, and translating it into art and poetry, and its all there, waiting for us.
There can be a kind of healing and comfort in that.
Photo of page 118 of the hardback copy of Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew. There's a paragraph about how post-Polio disability and how COVID is a mass disabling event. The text relevant to this post: "The future is disabled, cosmically. Even with hopeful futures like space travel and adventure, we can expect the production of disability. Space is already disabling for humans. Just as the built environment on Earth is not suited for disabled bodies, space as an environment is not suited to any human bodies. Every astronaut comes back from the low gravity of space with damage to their bones and eyes and the longer they are off Earth's surface, the worse the damage. Some things can be restored over time, but some changes are long-lasting. These realities are absent from futurist..."
Photo of pg 119. Text continues, "writing about technology, which is framed as simply magicking away the disabling effects of space travel. This is why technofuturists' discussions of "The End of Disability" are so silly. Disability isn't ending; we're going to see more and newer forms of disability in the future. This doesn't mean that all medical projects aimed at treating disease and disability are unpromising. I certainly hope we will come up with better diagnosis and treatment for conditions like asthma and Lyme disease. But disability is multi-faceted and a much larger category than can be covered by any simple case. No nondisabled person without experiential knowledge of disability and engagement with the disability community should be making claims or decisions about the future of disability and disabled people. We need to prepare for the disabled future, becoming more comfortable with other people's disabilities, accepting the fact that we ourselves will eventually be disabled (if we aren't already), learning to recognize and root out ableism—these are all moves toward building a better future for everyone. Because the future is disabled, working toward and planning for a future without disability, without disabled people, is a ridiculous prospect."
All 135 pgs of Against Technoableism are relevant, but esp Chapter 6 arguing we'll see MORE disability for @ least 6 reasons. "Space is already disabling for humans. Just as the built environment on Earth is not suited for disabled bodies, space as an environment is not suited to ANY human bodies."
Announcing the selections for #SIGCSEReads 2027! #TS2026
We are looking at ways to extend our thinking about who benefits from technology and how. For non-fiction, we have Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew.
This was precious. Oh Happy Day on the 30th anniversary of Sister Act 2
this reminds me
check on your elders and see about the misinformation they are absorbing/believing and may be repeating.
if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!
if you want a vent or wheelchair or oxygen or shower chair, you have to use one of the approved medicare DME providers. they're freezing the ability of new DME companies to join
