Alison
@sfalison.bsky.social
ORF 18 - GSO 8 - SFO 26
Secular dream enthusiast.
Here for the values.
Secular dream enthusiast.
Here for the values.
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Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/
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Disabled people deserve healthcare.
Disabled people deserve housing.
Disabled people deserve food.
Disabled people deserve support.
Our ability to work and produce for capitalism should not determine our value.
Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
Disabled people deserve housing.
Disabled people deserve food.
Disabled people deserve support.
Our ability to work and produce for capitalism should not determine our value.
Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Disabled people deserve healthcare.
Disabled people deserve housing.
Disabled people deserve food.
Disabled people deserve support.
Our ability to work and produce for capitalism should not determine our value.
Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
Disabled people deserve housing.
Disabled people deserve food.
Disabled people deserve support.
Our ability to work and produce for capitalism should not determine our value.
Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
Lenny Kravitz
Prince
Gorillaz
N.E.R.D.
Shakira
Prince
Gorillaz
N.E.R.D.
Shakira
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Duran Duran
Thompson Twins
The Cure
Tears For Fears
Elvis Costello
Duran Duran
Thompson Twins
The Cure
Tears For Fears
Elvis Costello
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
B.B. King
James McMurtry
Aerosmith
Judas Priest
Bonnie Raitt
B.B. King
James McMurtry
Aerosmith
Judas Priest
Bonnie Raitt
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Lenny Kravitz
Prince
Gorillaz
N.E.R.D.
Shakira
Prince
Gorillaz
N.E.R.D.
Shakira
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maybe we just say 'if your AI said it we're treating it as if your CEO said it to their face' for the purposes of liability
The fact that the bot told this kid that rope is “the most classic” method for hanging yourself is insane
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
ChatGPT Lawsuit Over Teen’s Suicide Could Lead to Big Tech Reckoning
The parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine claim OpenAI's bot is unsafe and that it encouraged their son not to tell anyone about plans to take his own life
www.yahoo.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
maybe we just say 'if your AI said it we're treating it as if your CEO said it to their face' for the purposes of liability
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They’re doing eugenics right out in the open now, largely because Trump, RFK Jr, Dr Oz and the rest of the fascists have been pushing a eugenicist agenda since they seized control.
It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous.
Disabled people are not “imperfect”.
We are also not expendable
It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous.
Disabled people are not “imperfect”.
We are also not expendable
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
They’re doing eugenics right out in the open now, largely because Trump, RFK Jr, Dr Oz and the rest of the fascists have been pushing a eugenicist agenda since they seized control.
It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous.
Disabled people are not “imperfect”.
We are also not expendable
It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous.
Disabled people are not “imperfect”.
We are also not expendable
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Emily McGovern
April 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Emily McGovern
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The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
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Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
Yay
Chan running to succeed Pelosi in Congress
District 1 supervisor enters crowded congressional field.
www.sfexaminer.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Yay
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
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And in related, also can't tell a stopped garbage truck:
Clay approaching Polk, San Francisco
Clay is a one way street. The right lane is right turn only, but plenty of room to use it to get around the truck. Just need to be smarter than a robot, which most ppl are by far.
OP: reddit.myironlung42
Clay approaching Polk, San Francisco
Clay is a one way street. The right lane is right turn only, but plenty of room to use it to get around the truck. Just need to be smarter than a robot, which most ppl are by far.
OP: reddit.myironlung42
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
And in related, also can't tell a stopped garbage truck:
Clay approaching Polk, San Francisco
Clay is a one way street. The right lane is right turn only, but plenty of room to use it to get around the truck. Just need to be smarter than a robot, which most ppl are by far.
OP: reddit.myironlung42
Clay approaching Polk, San Francisco
Clay is a one way street. The right lane is right turn only, but plenty of room to use it to get around the truck. Just need to be smarter than a robot, which most ppl are by far.
OP: reddit.myironlung42
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They’re just going to call all basic software updates AI, aren’t they?
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
They’re just going to call all basic software updates AI, aren’t they?
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In a shift away from the proven and effective strategy of “housing first,” the Board of Supes today replaced one of the authors of the housing measure Prop. C from the board that oversees its spending.
Supes toss homeless advocate off the oversight commission she helped create - 48 hills
Move signals a shift away from the 'housing first' model, which has proven effective all over the country
48hills.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In a shift away from the proven and effective strategy of “housing first,” the Board of Supes today replaced one of the authors of the housing measure Prop. C from the board that oversees its spending.
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Normal guy decathlon:
- walk a dog
- change a diaper
- shop and cook for a 20 person backyard cookout (counts as 2 events)
- ride a bike
- drive 2+ kids to activities
- hang out at a normal bar
- buy a dozen donuts
- discuss one random historical event in detail
- tell one joke
- walk a dog
- change a diaper
- shop and cook for a 20 person backyard cookout (counts as 2 events)
- ride a bike
- drive 2+ kids to activities
- hang out at a normal bar
- buy a dozen donuts
- discuss one random historical event in detail
- tell one joke
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Normal guy decathlon:
- walk a dog
- change a diaper
- shop and cook for a 20 person backyard cookout (counts as 2 events)
- ride a bike
- drive 2+ kids to activities
- hang out at a normal bar
- buy a dozen donuts
- discuss one random historical event in detail
- tell one joke
- walk a dog
- change a diaper
- shop and cook for a 20 person backyard cookout (counts as 2 events)
- ride a bike
- drive 2+ kids to activities
- hang out at a normal bar
- buy a dozen donuts
- discuss one random historical event in detail
- tell one joke
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Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction.
The enablers have to feel it.
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The enablers have to feel it.
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We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction.
The enablers have to feel it.
weaintbuyingit.com
The enablers have to feel it.
weaintbuyingit.com
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One convo I will never get tired of is the one about beating children. You are an adult. Control your emotions and keep your hands to yourself.
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
One convo I will never get tired of is the one about beating children. You are an adult. Control your emotions and keep your hands to yourself.
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“Well I was beat as I child.” Yea and you need to tell your parents that they shouldn’t have been hitting you b/c you were defenseless. And if they argue with you, tell them you’re going to beat them when they are elderly and defenseless.
a woman in a sequined jacket says fair is fair in yellow letters
ALT: a woman in a sequined jacket says fair is fair in yellow letters
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Well I was beat as I child.” Yea and you need to tell your parents that they shouldn’t have been hitting you b/c you were defenseless. And if they argue with you, tell them you’re going to beat them when they are elderly and defenseless.
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“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
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There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us.
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
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Alice Wong created a feed about disability justice. We were lucky to be able to share this space with her.
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bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Alice Wong created a feed about disability justice. We were lucky to be able to share this space with her.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.