New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

“AI is inevitable” is bullshit > LLMs are useful when you need a compromise between fast and good. You will never get a good outcome fast.

A photo of the book Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew

Apologies for the radio silence! We hope to keep the postings here more consistent moving forward. Our next episode will be on Against Technoableism by Ashely Shew! (7/11) #technoableism

Against Technoableist AI / Cyborg Meets AI: Technologized Disabled People in the Context of Corporatized Technological Development and Health Management

"Against Technoableist AI / Cyborg Meets AI: Technologized Disabled People in the Context of Corporatized Technological Development...

Lecture in person or on Zoom on
March 27, 2025 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time

library.osu.edu/events/again...

#AI #disability #medicine #cyborg
#technoableism

This site has been great in making me more aware of and using (not all the time - I still slip up) alt text. But it also strikes me as one of the more obvious uses of basic AI, ans auto populate alt text for us with a description of the image.

Conspiracy theory: alt text is only there to improve AI image recognition models. Accessibility is a happy byproduct. AI doesn't understand why a single frame of Captain Picard resting his forehead on his hand has cultural relevance in a tweet about, say, sports. Alt text in a skeet adds context.

Yeah, I want to be sympathetic to the idea behind alt text, but it's a pain to do, and often the post text itself already "describes" the image. Plus, like you said, why isn't AI doing this. This is an actual useful use case for AI tools. Also some people are obsessive about blog length alt text.

My thinking on #AltText is evolving to be: rather than nagging individuals for behavioral change (for a relatively high-cost low-reward activity), which will never work, we should all pester @bsky.app product to build AI alt-tag drafting into the app / product. #UX

Most common examples of #Technoableism I see these days? Believing alt text is a "problem" to be solved by AI.

So many of you would benefit from developing a mutual aid mentality. Alt text is one form. Examples: #Alt4Me #Alt4You #AltTextPalestine.

The answer is community, not AI.

Must-read 🧵 highlighting why the proposed design is categorically worse than literally ever other possible wheeled chair. (Yet another infuriating example of #technoableism.)

Includes an excellent taxonomy of existing single-person alternatives + how they're used.