Wes Streeting must kick Palantir out of our NHS.
Donald Trump's favourite tech giant shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Brits' private health data.
There are fantastic British tech firms who would be far better and safer for the NHS.
Not next month but this coming Friday!
We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence.
Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...
Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.
One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr
Did a podcast for the @blnreview.bsky.social with the fabulous Lauren Oyler - about my recent essay and practically everything else: blnreview.podigee.io/24-deborah-f...
The Black Communication and Technology Lab Presents: DISABLING INTELLIGENCES LEGACIES OF EUGENICS AND HOW WE ARE WRONG ABOUT A.I. Guest Speaker Rua Williams Friday, April 3 2026 12-2pm Rua M. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing at Purdue University, and a former Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council. Dr. William's work explores how disabled people imagine and build their own socio technical worlds. Join us for conversations around Dr. William's forthcoming work: Disabling Intelligences (Palgrave Macmillan). REGISTER TO JOIN THROUGH ZOOM! bcatlab.org
It's me and that damn book again
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Ah I forget people use bluesky! I will tag you in the next post!
Excited to be in conversation with @louhicky.bsky.social in Cambridge April 17!
We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence.
Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...
Solidarity with the transgender & intersex communities in India after the Amendment Bill was bulldozed through houses of parliament replacing self-identification with mandatory medical certification. My #KilljoySolidarity with you in this fight. Friends, sign & fight!
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Thank you so much to those of you who came along to Tuesday night's panel discussion on Transcription for Racial Justice, and even bigger thanks to our three fantastic panellists, @elisney.bsky.social, @divyampersaud.com and @wardasworld.bsky.social
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long cat blinks to you xx
What are you up to tonight?
At 7pm I'm delighted to be joining a fantastic line-up of panellists to hold space and explore the question of transcription can reinforce racial injustice or resist it?
To book and help us raise funds for causes we love, follow the link in the post below
Even courtroom transcribers certified to 95% accuracy "consistently failed" maintain that level of accuracy when transcribers speakers using African American Vernacular English, with implications for courtroom justice.
Join us tomorrow for an online panel discussing Transcription for Racial Justice
Another symptom of late capitalism is pothole discourse.
I'm so looking forward to this panel!
Access work (including the debt of access work) doesn’t disappear; it simply changes hands, accumulating where resources are thinnest.
Captioning technology had a moment at the Oscars!
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."
Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now!
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We have set up a mailing list for the Algorithmic Kitchen project. You can subscribe to keep updated on kitchen workshops, events and news. lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/c...
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Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
There are overlaps with the embodied classroom, where Deaf gain and using informal hand gestures to perform weekly skits shifted students attention from their tech to engagement. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/the-emb...
Resharing is still very relevant on the scale of care and access. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/standar...
Don't miss this exciting opportunity! Bodies & Embodiment in Critical Medical Humanities Summer School for doctoral students in Sweden in September!! Application deadline is Feb 16.
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Really looking forward to this:
**deaf coffee shops have nothing to do with the development of BSL AI. These shops use digital media to share a few simple signs so hearing customers can order coffee. Screen media is not the same as AI systems.
