As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.
But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.
I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
This proposal is for an upcoming special issue which has received strong interest from a leading cultural studies journal. We welcome theoretical inquiry, case studies, and research papers which address the complicated and perhaps inextricable relations between craft, analog and digital technology, and the conditions of artisanal culture and digitized commerce. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Cultural exchange via craft work online Practices and beliefs of digital craft communities Craft and the gig economy Rentierism and exploitation on digital craft platforms The role of algorithmic sorting on digital platforms within craft communities Philosophical inquiry into craft as a salient category in a digitized cultural economy Changes in access to craft after digitization as a mode of work along lines of gender, race, and sexual orientation The role of influencers in the broader craft economy New challenges to craft work from AI and other forms of advanced automation Craft’s relation to industry and regimes of mass production The changing role of video in craft instruction after TikTok/Reels Send abstracts (250-500) words to Ian Williams at igwillia@live.unc.edu or Michael Palm at mpalm@unc.edu by March 5, 2026.
Call for papers: for a special issue on contemporary craft work and digital economies. See below and alt text.
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
We reading ‘apple juice made for women’
Boys I have some bad news. They’re finally going to be able to try it
We invite all University of Miami faculty, students, staff, and alumni, to join our letter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"Algorithmic tools force workers to rush their work and ... penalize workers for safe behaviors, like braking suddenly for obstacles or people in the street ... Drivers are then directed to complete remedial lessons on the Mentor apps ... for these infractions"
I appreciate UTMB's efforts to create opportunities for more runners with disabilities and thought the video they showed on the broadcast was great. But now they need to train their English language commentators how to talk about disabilities in a way that isn't offensive.
![This “first Disability Pride Day” was organized by a broad coalition of AIDS, queer, and disability activist groups who refused to acquiesce to the inevitable cooling period after broad legislation has been signed and political capital is spent. As Ann Hausbrouk, a blind bisexual organizer said at the time, “It’s about pushing boundaries, now that the Americans with Disabilities Act ha[d] passed,” just three months prior. And even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month is now marked as an annual commemoration of the ADA, and conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:no5iqc2nbi3x4exxjze5cztf/bafkreihrui3fzt3xsroie7iuu2njshs7ludnmjikg2opmrfampmr65iygy)
This “first Disability Pride Day” was organized by a broad coalition of AIDS, queer, and disability activist groups who refused to acquiesce to the inevitable cooling period after broad legislation has been signed and political capital is spent. As Ann Hausbrouk, a blind bisexual organizer said at the time, “It’s about pushing boundaries, now that the Americans with Disabilities Act ha[d] passed,” just three months prior. And even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month is now marked as an annual commemoration of the ADA, and conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting.
"Even though the “first Disability Pride Day” was intentionally pegged as the “next step in the disability rights movement,” Disability Pride Month [...] conscripts the organizers of Disability Pride Day into embracing something they were, in fact, resisting." buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...
ICE is getting access to the sensitive data of nearly 80 million Medicaid recipients.
@leahfeiger.bsky.social got the agreement!
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Zohran Mamdani has already heavily ratio-ed Andrew Cuomo’s announcement ad with a donation link and it’s going up by thousands every minute
Health things that talk about "reversing" chronic diseases (and not put them into remission/managing them) are such red flags.
Of course, CHD is a different level of vile.
I have many snarky things to say about this philanthrocapitalist propaganda sponsored by the family that brought you food deserts.
But let’s keep it simple.
Corporations have always used tech bubbles to disrupt labor solidarity & smuggle labor intensification under the veil of efficiency.
A heavy week.
ICE is targeting people through their medical records, as Alberta sets new COVID policy that would make RFK Jr. blush.
This one will stick with you.
Teaching about and against AI means working with students to analyze the connections between AI and environmental racism. In addition, educators, students, and community members can build coalitions for civic actions against Big Tech and its plans for more extractive, harmful infrastructure.
Fears over losing access to medication, the potential impact of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, and attacks on resources: For @rewirenewsgroup.com, I spoke to young people about the toll of the Trump administration on mental health and how it is affecting critical resources.
26 #disability activists were arrested last week protesting at the House committee meeting to cut 10 million off of #Medicaid. One of the lead organizers, ADAPT's Mike Oxford, talks to Bob Kafka of Barrier Free Futures. www.ksfr.org/show/barrier...
Let’s not forget the hurricane season is about to start.
Exactly. Like I wrote back in 2013 about Google Glass, we have to pay attention to what the device does to *other* people.
Facebook's stupid glasses put EVERYONE ELSE under surveillance without their consent.
Can we start dating the deletions of websites with info on trans, disabled, BIPOC folks?
Wild to think that a healthcare system based around the question “How much money can we make off of this?” isn’t working.
can’t wait until my apolitically designed police murderbot hits the streets, in an apolitical way
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All of this for some students watching a documentary on campus. Fucking ridiculous.
Forero sat on the outskirts filming as police dragged protesters from the flagpole. "And before I knew it, I was completely knocked over," Forero said. "I was just sitting there filming, I'm knocked over, and then an officer steps on the barricade trying to keep me pinned under it. And people immediately rush in (to help), like I said, community has always saved me." That day, photos and videos of her trapped under the barricade began circulating around social media. It would later become one of the many images that would make Forero a target. Unlike other students who can use masks to shield their identities, Forero's wheelchair makes her easily recognizable. And she was already a well-known voice on campus for her past activism for disability rights.
"I knew I was being watched, both from the university (and) from Morehead-Cain. There was nowhere where I was 'safe,' because there was nowhere where I could hide my identity," Forero said. "Constantly being surveilled — that is very much a significant form of oppression. And I wasn't going to let my visibility prohibit me from standing for the things that I believe in. And by doing so, I had to pay some extra costs or at least consider them." In the next year, those costs of being an activist would expand to include Forero being doxxed, criminally charged, and losing her scholarship.
A wheelchair-using UNC student who was physically assaulted by police when they broke up the school’s anti-genocide encampment has since had a prestigious scholarship rescinded, been criminally charged, doxxed and constantly surveilled because of her Palestine activism.
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Data centers are the new sacrifice zones
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
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