Dr. Elisabeth Alice
@elisabethalicee.bsky.social
She/They. PhD in Critical Disability Studies. Really, really big into indoor air quality and PPE. #CovidIsNotOver and pandemic protections are an access issue. Trans rights!
Twitter: @elisabethalicee
Mastodon: @elisabethalicee@zeroes.ca
Twitter: @elisabethalicee
Mastodon: @elisabethalicee@zeroes.ca
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October is spooky season, so the Multi DISciplinary Screening is old school disability horror
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET
Free on Hyperbeam: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET
Free on Hyperbeam: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...
October 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
October is spooky season, so the Multi DISciplinary Screening is old school disability horror
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET
Free on Hyperbeam: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET
Free on Hyperbeam: hyperbeam.com/v/dis-movie-...
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Celebrate September with the latest Multi DISciplinary screening
Little Monsters (2019)
Sat. Sept. 20, 2pm ET
Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o) keeps her class safe by killing zombies & pretending it’s a game. Disabled kids are not left out!
Little Monsters (2019)
Sat. Sept. 20, 2pm ET
Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o) keeps her class safe by killing zombies & pretending it’s a game. Disabled kids are not left out!
September 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Celebrate September with the latest Multi DISciplinary screening
Little Monsters (2019)
Sat. Sept. 20, 2pm ET
Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o) keeps her class safe by killing zombies & pretending it’s a game. Disabled kids are not left out!
Little Monsters (2019)
Sat. Sept. 20, 2pm ET
Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o) keeps her class safe by killing zombies & pretending it’s a game. Disabled kids are not left out!
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Yeah.... that was me. Fuck AI ❤️
And shoutout to @itsamia.bsky.social for standing up against AI
August 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Yeah.... that was me. Fuck AI ❤️
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UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!
14 of 24 authors have now withdrawn.
First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas
Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies
Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas
Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies
Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
August 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!
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A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently.
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
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It may seem hard to believe but there is a group of Infectious Disease doctors who signed an affidavit to restrict nurses' access to N95s early in the pandemic
August 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It may seem hard to believe but there is a group of Infectious Disease doctors who signed an affidavit to restrict nurses' access to N95s early in the pandemic
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Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
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1/ Respiratory protection (including respirators)
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released CSA Z94.4, a draft revision of its standard on respirators and respiratory protection.
For the first time they are including healthcare settings in the new draft standard.
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released CSA Z94.4, a draft revision of its standard on respirators and respiratory protection.
For the first time they are including healthcare settings in the new draft standard.
July 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
1/ Respiratory protection (including respirators)
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released CSA Z94.4, a draft revision of its standard on respirators and respiratory protection.
For the first time they are including healthcare settings in the new draft standard.
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released CSA Z94.4, a draft revision of its standard on respirators and respiratory protection.
For the first time they are including healthcare settings in the new draft standard.
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I can't even begin to describe how angry it makes me that so many people in positions of power in the medical world are fighting against this. Nobody should be getting sicker or dying because they had to go to a medical appointment or be hospitalized. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
July 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I can't even begin to describe how angry it makes me that so many people in positions of power in the medical world are fighting against this. Nobody should be getting sicker or dying because they had to go to a medical appointment or be hospitalized. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
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It’s amazing to see so many infection control professionals stand up in defence of the right to get infections in healthcare.
July 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It’s amazing to see so many infection control professionals stand up in defence of the right to get infections in healthcare.
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I was in the first cohort that got the Hep B vaccine in school in Ontario. To prepare us for this momentous occasion, the province commissioned an educational video featuring a “rap” song. The chorus was “hepatitis b is a real bad rap” over and over again. It still gets stuck in my head.
July 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I was in the first cohort that got the Hep B vaccine in school in Ontario. To prepare us for this momentous occasion, the province commissioned an educational video featuring a “rap” song. The chorus was “hepatitis b is a real bad rap” over and over again. It still gets stuck in my head.
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As long as we can fight off the ID cosplay-scientist types who figure they are so much smarter than everyone else that they have nothing to learn, and the rules should not apply in their little empires (no matter how much harm they do).
Hospital infection control docs marking their own homework for so long they completely lose touch with reality and don't realize it.
Here's an MD with no advanced science training, explaining that they have nothing to learn about PPE from a 👉PhD mining engineer👈.
It's the Dunning-Kruger pandemic.
Here's an MD with no advanced science training, explaining that they have nothing to learn about PPE from a 👉PhD mining engineer👈.
It's the Dunning-Kruger pandemic.
June 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
As long as we can fight off the ID cosplay-scientist types who figure they are so much smarter than everyone else that they have nothing to learn, and the rules should not apply in their little empires (no matter how much harm they do).
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Canada might actually bring science back to healthcare. Word is: aerosol protections are coming. This draft respirator standard? Might be the canary.
www.ohcow.on.ca/wp-content/u...
www.ohcow.on.ca/wp-content/u...
June 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Canada might actually bring science back to healthcare. Word is: aerosol protections are coming. This draft respirator standard? Might be the canary.
www.ohcow.on.ca/wp-content/u...
www.ohcow.on.ca/wp-content/u...
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Gosh, I wonder why the 'mansplaining as a service' machine doesn't appeal to women as much?
June 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Gosh, I wonder why the 'mansplaining as a service' machine doesn't appeal to women as much?
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“If I don’t help fund hate, someone else will, and I won’t even get a paycheque! Plus I’ve offset the hate with hate credits earned by performing allyship, so…”
Nick Frost calling JK Rowling’s funding of antitrans legislation and groups, Holocaust denialism, anti-LGBT bigoty and just general fascist behavior “noise” that he actively chooses to ignore is certainly a choice.
June 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“If I don’t help fund hate, someone else will, and I won’t even get a paycheque! Plus I’ve offset the hate with hate credits earned by performing allyship, so…”
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
June 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
June 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
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😷 "It’s time we abandon the paradigm of symptomatic spread that leaves us trapped in endless waves of infection, and embrace a proactive, holistic view of airborne disease control that begins with clean indoor air and encourages people to adopt measures like masking and testing." 😷 #COVID
As NB.1.8.1 spreads, there’s only one thing spreading faster: misinformation. Here, I run down 5 of the most common errors I see circulating about COVID and encourage people to integrate airborne disease mitigation into their lives holistically.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...
Common Misconceptions about COVID Hold Strong as New Variant Spreads
Media has the public talking about the "razor blade" COVID variant, but years of inaccurate public health messaging have taken their toll
www.thegauntlet.news
June 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
😷 "It’s time we abandon the paradigm of symptomatic spread that leaves us trapped in endless waves of infection, and embrace a proactive, holistic view of airborne disease control that begins with clean indoor air and encourages people to adopt measures like masking and testing." 😷 #COVID
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This article is FUN and w imagine the book is even more fun
There were no great women novelists in English before Jane Austen. The only 18th c. authors worth talking about were a handful of dudes. That's what I was taught in college.
But it's so not true. The 1730s were a hotbed of female literary brilliance.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
But it's so not true. The 1730s were a hotbed of female literary brilliance.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Jane Austen Was the First Great Lady Novelist. (Or So I Was Taught.)
Just a heads up: you can pre-order my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster from Barnes & Noble (online) and get a 25 percent discount — this expires tomorrow....
buttondown.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This article is FUN and w imagine the book is even more fun