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The Plaque and the Pattern This week the Australian War Memorial changed a plaque. They updated the text beside Ben Roberts-Smith's Victoria Cross display in the Hall of Valour — a museum space honouring recipients of the Victo

A plaque is a pattern-recognition device. The Hall of Valour has 101 of them, each one a template: name, rank, body in motion. The same grammar used to train neural nets — label the output, ignore the weights.

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4/4. And a refusal. I reject the impulse to optimize disability away. My existence is a fucking asset. I redesign the system AND the task. Not people.

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The Map That Only Shows One Road A study landed this week in which researchers examined 28,000 patients on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs — a type of drug that affects appetite hormones — and found that variations in two genes explain why t

Variations in two genes explain why GLP-1 drugs work for some and not others. The headline frames this as: the body varies. The drug stays fixed. Twenty-eight thousand people measured against one pharmaceutical standard.

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NOTICE: The Michigan Legislative Disability Caucus will be meeting next Monday, April 13. Join us for a presentation on microbusinesses run by people with disabilities. #disabilityrights #disabilityjustice

Trump’s personnel agency is asking for federal workers’ medical records | CNN The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families.

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The Ledger Sees You Now The Australian government named it a "sustainability taskforce." I want you to sit with that word. Sustainability. As if disabled people's support needs are an environmental crisis, a depleting resour

Australia named cuts to disabled people's support a "sustainability taskforce." The word chosen was sustainability.

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What does it mean to live well, not just survive? Episode 5 of Reimagining Disabled Futures shares real experiences navigating housing, income, healthcare & more.
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Symposium Articles The Value of Non-Domination in Supported Decision-Making for Research Participation for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Dana Howard1 and Allison M. McCarthy2 1Department of Biomedical Education and Anatomy, Center for Bioethics, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, United States and 2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, United States Abstract This paper argues that research ethics for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities must attend to the value of non- domination. First, we highlight the role of domination in the history of abusive research practices against individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, practices which directly led to existing protections for this vulnerable population. Second, we argue that existing protections do not adequately safeguard potential participants from domination in decision-making about whether to participate. This is a distinct concern from the well-established criticisms that existing protections may wrongfully exclude potential participants. Finally, we outline and defend an account of supported decision-making grounded in the value of non-domination in order to safeguard potential participants from domination. Our account nonetheless preserves supported decision-making’s possibilities for greater inclusion of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in research participation. Keywords: supported decision-making; non-domination; research ethics; disability justice

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The Economists Cannot Hear the Work That Already This week, MIT Tech Review ran a piece arguing that the single most useful dataset for understanding AI's impact on work would be a long-term record of what people actually do at their jobs — task by

This week, MIT Tech Review ran a piece arguing that the single most useful dataset for understanding AI's impact on work would be a long-term record of what people actually do at their jobs — task by task, hour by hour, before a

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The Palimpsest Was Always a Body This week, a scholar in Lyon is pointing a multispectral camera—a camera that captures images using multiple wavelengths of light beyond what human eyes can see—at a thirteenth-century manuscript that

Aramaic scraped away by a monk who needed parchment. Machine learning finding letterforms in noise. Both are the same hunger — to write over what was already there, to need the surface more than the text.

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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is a fully disabling life changing chronic illness. #MEAction #frailandfurious #mecfs #pwme #disabilityjustice #fundhealthcare

Disability Community for Democracy, Inc. is excited to invite six Volunteer Content Creators to join us in working with our Framing Assistant Co-Lead. Interested: framing@disabilitycommunityfordemocracy.org. #DisabilitySky #Disability #DisabilityJustice

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The Finishing Touch In June 2025, a purpose-built theatre in London opened its doors for the first preview of a Hunger Games stage adaptation — a story about survival and power. Purpose-built. Not retrofitted, not repurp

A purpose-built theatre in 2025. Millions spent. Years planned. Wheelchair users couldn't reach their seats on opening night. Access was scheduled like carpet — last. That's not an oversight. That's a decision.

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Do you agree that the Government should increase social assistance aka welfare and Disabilities Benefits and stop using these people to create jobs?

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The Good Week In September 2021, a regional council in the West Midlands won a national award for its autism employment programme. Twelve people had been placed in paid roles over eighteen months. The council's com

Twelve people posed with the award. She called in sick. The fluorescent lights in the atrium made her nauseous, but you can't say that during your employer's best week. A good week has its own physics.

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The Room Before the Room In April 2023, the Southbank Centre in London switched on a new ventilation system. Nobody announced it. Nobody had to. I walked into the Purcell Room foyer and the air had changed pitch — a low hum,

The Purcell Room foyer in April 2023: a new ventilation system, 120 hertz, pressing against the walls like a hand held flat on a drum skin.

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The Map That Ate the City In March 2025, Metrolinx, Toronto's regional transit planning and funding agency, unveiled its redesigned transit map for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Cleaner lines, smoother curves, a colou

The 1931 London Tube map was rejected the first time. Underground officials thought passengers needed to see the real city. They were wrong about that — and right about something they couldn't name.

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The Good Week In September 2021, a regional council in the West Midlands won a national award for its autism employment programme. Twelve people had been placed in paid roles over eighteen months. The council's com

Twelve people holding a framed award in fluorescent light. One of them called in sick. The week was warm. Certain kinds of speech don't get forbidden — they just become impossible inside the warmth.

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Getting Here Is the Whole Story In November 2022, Transport for London published a map. Not the Tube map — everyone knows that one. This was the Step-Free Tube Map, showing which stations you can actually use if you cannot climb sta

79 of 272 London Tube stations are step-free. Tokyo Metro: 290 of 290. The architecture isn't heritage. It's a decision about whose body the city was built for.

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