Blakeley H. Payne
@blakeley.bsky.social
fat liberation and technology
info phd student @ cu boulder | before: math + cs @ UofSC, ai + ethics @ MIT
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info phd student @ cu boulder | before: math + cs @ UofSC, ai + ethics @ MIT
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Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities
Online communities are important spaces for members of marginalized groups to organize and support one another. To better understand the experiences of fat people -- a group whose marginalization ofte...
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🌟 New paper alert! 🪩
Our paper “Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities” is out & will be presented at GROUP ‘25.
So much care from @jordant.bsky.social, @katta.bsky.social, @cfiesler.bsky.social, & I went into it! 💜
Read here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04614
Our paper “Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities” is out & will be presented at GROUP ‘25.
So much care from @jordant.bsky.social, @katta.bsky.social, @cfiesler.bsky.social, & I went into it! 💜
Read here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04614
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From a friend who was there today: MIT class president denounced the MIT administration and said “we MIT students showed the world what we want is an end to Israeli military collaboration," the crowd erupted in chants of "free palestine," flags everywhere, they cut the livestream 🇵🇸
May 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
From a friend who was there today: MIT class president denounced the MIT administration and said “we MIT students showed the world what we want is an end to Israeli military collaboration," the crowd erupted in chants of "free palestine," flags everywhere, they cut the livestream 🇵🇸
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If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
hi folks! I'm teaching tech ethics this summer, and part of the course is having students read news articles about ongoing tech issues.
can anyone recommend publications that cover tech issues in a non-US context (either issues in countries beyond the US and/or do not center the US)?
can anyone recommend publications that cover tech issues in a non-US context (either issues in countries beyond the US and/or do not center the US)?
May 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
hi folks! I'm teaching tech ethics this summer, and part of the course is having students read news articles about ongoing tech issues.
can anyone recommend publications that cover tech issues in a non-US context (either issues in countries beyond the US and/or do not center the US)?
can anyone recommend publications that cover tech issues in a non-US context (either issues in countries beyond the US and/or do not center the US)?
hi folks - especially journalism friends! I have a dear friend who is an expert on detransition and is looking to communicate about their research and its implications in light of the new NIH directives - anybody know who I might connect them or an appropriate place to pitch an op-ed? thank you!!
April 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
hi folks - especially journalism friends! I have a dear friend who is an expert on detransition and is looking to communicate about their research and its implications in light of the new NIH directives - anybody know who I might connect them or an appropriate place to pitch an op-ed? thank you!!
Breaking out the billionaire tears mug this morning apropos of nothing (or no one, or company)
January 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Breaking out the billionaire tears mug this morning apropos of nothing (or no one, or company)
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Addendum: whether DeepSeek or OpenAI, there's no such thing as AGI and attempting to build it results in harm.
See our paper.
See our paper.
January 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Addendum: whether DeepSeek or OpenAI, there's no such thing as AGI and attempting to build it results in harm.
See our paper.
See our paper.
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Sharing tools I created in #p5xjs for creative coding basics for often explained concepts that lacked demos. With AI, blending ideas is now easier. I am going to try with my students in class today.
sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/Tools-for-cr...
sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/Tools-for-cr...
Tools for creative coding | Notion
Here is a set of interactive p5.js sketches that should help beginner coders understand how p5.js and other language work make graphics. These tools were inspired by the CC Fest - Teacher Training Cam...
sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site
January 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sharing tools I created in #p5xjs for creative coding basics for often explained concepts that lacked demos. With AI, blending ideas is now easier. I am going to try with my students in class today.
sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/Tools-for-cr...
sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/Tools-for-cr...
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I just created this BlueSky starter pack of Researchers and Creators of Trans Technology (loosely defined). Please share, and let me know if you want to be added (or removed)!
January 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I just created this BlueSky starter pack of Researchers and Creators of Trans Technology (loosely defined). Please share, and let me know if you want to be added (or removed)!
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This is one of the biggest design flaws of this app: it’s all in the clear. That’s design for people who don’t have security and privacy concerns, not design for all. I’ve run the studies myself and it’s clear: visibility controls are the #1 way to help marginalized folks protect themselves online
January 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is one of the biggest design flaws of this app: it’s all in the clear. That’s design for people who don’t have security and privacy concerns, not design for all. I’ve run the studies myself and it’s clear: visibility controls are the #1 way to help marginalized folks protect themselves online
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ICYMI, last week I posted the icebreaker activity I did with my first day of my course on data literacy of/by/for the humanities. Had the students make a dataset about themselves and go through the steps of organizing, questioning, and analyzing it.
Taught the first day of "Data for the Rest of Us" and tried an activity I'm calling "We Data." Students construct datasets about themselves in small groups and look for stories in the spreadsheet. A good icebreaker and introduction to the themes of the course. More here:
We Data: An Icebreaking Activity · Brandon Walsh
Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library
walshbr.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
ICYMI, last week I posted the icebreaker activity I did with my first day of my course on data literacy of/by/for the humanities. Had the students make a dataset about themselves and go through the steps of organizing, questioning, and analyzing it.
As @crystaljjlee.com says… trying to be the person my dog thinks I am today.
January 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
As @crystaljjlee.com says… trying to be the person my dog thinks I am today.
I’m going through and saving some of my favorite tiktoks before leaving that app and something that I think is underarticulated about the value of TikTok is that it just makes me like other people more. Like look at these beautiful humans doing human things.
January 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I’m going through and saving some of my favorite tiktoks before leaving that app and something that I think is underarticulated about the value of TikTok is that it just makes me like other people more. Like look at these beautiful humans doing human things.
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The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit
January 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit
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MERMAIDS CAN BE FAT!!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!!
January 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
MERMAIDS CAN BE FAT!!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!!
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idk I feel like the government shutting down a very popular app due to how widely we were able to access information concerning a hushed genocide should be alarming to everybody regardless of your interest in using the app yourself
January 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
idk I feel like the government shutting down a very popular app due to how widely we were able to access information concerning a hushed genocide should be alarming to everybody regardless of your interest in using the app yourself
Because TikTok isn’t around to remind you, now is a good time to go check in on our Palestinian neighbor’s GoFundMe’s.
January 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Because TikTok isn’t around to remind you, now is a good time to go check in on our Palestinian neighbor’s GoFundMe’s.
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It’s nearly impossible to explain to non disabled people the hope we had at the beginning of the pandemic.
Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness.
Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating
Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness.
Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating
Remember when the pandemic began and everyone started accommodating remote work? Everyone began showing brand new movies and live concerts streaming? Disabled people had been fighting for this for decades. Now it’s all taken away. It’s not that they can’t accommodate us, they just don’t want to.
January 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
It’s nearly impossible to explain to non disabled people the hope we had at the beginning of the pandemic.
Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness.
Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating
Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness.
Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating
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“Lord take Teams not TikTok”
RIP TikTok. It should’ve been Twitter
January 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
“Lord take Teams not TikTok”
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Thank goodness the TikTok ban is in effect and now no one can ever use my data for nefarious purposes.
January 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Thank goodness the TikTok ban is in effect and now no one can ever use my data for nefarious purposes.
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A short story in two frames.
January 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A short story in two frames.
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I am so sad TikTok is gone and I don’t want any version Trump “saves”
January 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I am so sad TikTok is gone and I don’t want any version Trump “saves”
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I’m gonna spend 2025 reading books and thinking about them.
January 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m gonna spend 2025 reading books and thinking about them.