Reporting this story in Cameroon, I met people who were blind because larval worms died in their eyeballs: NTDs cause immense suffering and disability.
But they're preventable! And treatable! And eliminatable!

I have what my audiologist now terms "profound" hearing loss. I am basically deaf without my hearing aids. I still play guitar and write music and mix tracks and study every day engineering, and it is immensely fulfilling despite my "disability." I have never wanted or "needed" to use AI. fuck you

This goes to my longstanding soapbox: everything is a disability policy from housing to health care to urban planning to mass transit.

Neurodiversity doesn’t mean autism isn’t a disability.

It means the disability doesn’t live inside us as a defect.

It lives in the friction between our bodyminds
and systems built for someone else.

Difference and disability aren’t opposites - they’re inherently entangled.

we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.

so we don’t actually need ACLs. the anatomical establishment has lied to us for the last time

"space data centers" continues to be quite the scam.

Here @zachweinersmith.bsky.social focuses on heat sinking in vacuum.

But there is also radiation hardening, power limits, unavoidable light travel time lag, and that nobody can launch the mass they would require.

Hype is unconstrained by facts.

Like we have so many stories about the dangers of AI and everyone was like yup sounds good and uses it as their master plan, like skynet

I’d much rather you make sincere and embodied “bad art” than make insincere and hollowed out “good art”

*notices ‘racist’ being in quotes*
*sighs*

some folks from the long term care facility across the street turned out (they lead weekly protests in the neighborhood)

“The full impact of the executive order will take decades to realize, since already-tenured faculty are not affected by the new policy. But its scope is significant: Oklahoma’s regional and community colleges employed more than 900 tenured professors in 2024, according to federal data.“

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.