Craig 'VI' Slee: VALIS, right?
@mrvi.cold-albion.net
Cripple. Writer of Stuff and Things. A dream of Cold Albion. I write and talk about disability, ableism, magic, myth and story. 🥟 Some sort of wizard. Here since 2023.
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Per Fiona Kumari Campbell: "Ableist systems involve the differentiation,
ranking, negation, notification and prioritization of sentient life." (Campbell 2017, 287 – 288).
See Valley obsessions with IQ, eugenics, colonial impulses, surveillance capitalism-- the whole TESCREAL stack etc.
ranking, negation, notification and prioritization of sentient life." (Campbell 2017, 287 – 288).
See Valley obsessions with IQ, eugenics, colonial impulses, surveillance capitalism-- the whole TESCREAL stack etc.
I love this show so much. One of the major reasons is its not afraid to avoid dialogue whenever possible. The silences are luxurious.
Dark Winds has gone from strength to strength and takes on aspects of even grittier noir and even the metaphysical in a rough and tumble season 3 that is both intense and rollicking and emotional. Really first rate writing, acting, direction. Highly recommended.
December 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I love this show so much. One of the major reasons is its not afraid to avoid dialogue whenever possible. The silences are luxurious.
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A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
Thing is, it isn't inaccurate. Or wrong. It's bullshit in the technical sense. Media might be wrong, or stories might be structured for an agenda or a narrative.
LLMs and their designers don't have the same agenda as media, and conflating or suggesting they are similar is also an error.
LLMs and their designers don't have the same agenda as media, and conflating or suggesting they are similar is also an error.
There’s this idea that I’ve been pondering for a bit that’s probably yet another Everyone Will Yell At Me thing, but… I don’t think that pointing out that AI is full of inaccuracies is an effective tactic at getting people not to use it. It’s based on cultural context that not everyone shares…
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Thing is, it isn't inaccurate. Or wrong. It's bullshit in the technical sense. Media might be wrong, or stories might be structured for an agenda or a narrative.
LLMs and their designers don't have the same agenda as media, and conflating or suggesting they are similar is also an error.
LLMs and their designers don't have the same agenda as media, and conflating or suggesting they are similar is also an error.
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this is indeed the one vital service they have provided us
really gotta hand it to the rationalist community: they've given me a whole vocabulary of jargon where I now know, if I see it in the wild, I should entirely disregard the speaker
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
this is indeed the one vital service they have provided us
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What a time to have just watched Succession
Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
What a time to have just watched Succession
Because the media and political classes are basically indistinguishable here, and have been for centuries. You average person doesn't give a shit and is live and let live, but because most media is anti-trans? Overton window style shifts occur.
How is Britain so consistently batshit about gender
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Because the media and political classes are basically indistinguishable here, and have been for centuries. You average person doesn't give a shit and is live and let live, but because most media is anti-trans? Overton window style shifts occur.
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Rewatching scenes from Godzilla 1998 and while pretty much everything that could be said about this movie has been said, the concept of a kaiju who can crouch low to the ground to stare at you, intimidate you, etc. has some pretty strong horror potential.
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Rewatching scenes from Godzilla 1998 and while pretty much everything that could be said about this movie has been said, the concept of a kaiju who can crouch low to the ground to stare at you, intimidate you, etc. has some pretty strong horror potential.
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Too frigging stoked about this not to share it again.
Old Skies is PC Gamer’s adventure game of the year! (Magazine held by @rsmoushall.bsky.social)
December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Too frigging stoked about this not to share it again.
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And like… the fucked up thing is, some people *will* want to be a boot, fully not understanding that a) it's fucked up to want to be the boot, & b) they're only going to be useful to these people as long as they're *Useful To These People.* And "Useful" can mean lots things; scapegoats are "useful"…
"Palantir. Neurodivergent. Fellowship."
"Hey kids! Wanna be a boot? 😃"
Plus: Not "neurodivergence" as if valuing qualities you hold. Not neurodiversity, as if seeking community (plus that icky "diverse" word). Not "ND Peoples'." Neurodivergent. Singular.
That is some shit-tier pandering guys. F-
"Hey kids! Wanna be a boot? 😃"
Plus: Not "neurodivergence" as if valuing qualities you hold. Not neurodiversity, as if seeking community (plus that icky "diverse" word). Not "ND Peoples'." Neurodivergent. Singular.
That is some shit-tier pandering guys. F-
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
And like… the fucked up thing is, some people *will* want to be a boot, fully not understanding that a) it's fucked up to want to be the boot, & b) they're only going to be useful to these people as long as they're *Useful To These People.* And "Useful" can mean lots things; scapegoats are "useful"…
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I think "this motherfucker probably doesn't even get glycon" is going to be my new all-purpose insult
Moore: KNOW YE NOT THE WAYS OF MAGIC
Moore: JUST BECAUSE IT'S FAKE DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T REAL
Maxwell: what
Maxwell: that doesn't make sense
Moore: oh really? that doesn't make sense?
Moore: lol
Moore: this motherfucker probably doesn't even get glycon
Moore: JUST BECAUSE IT'S FAKE DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T REAL
Maxwell: what
Maxwell: that doesn't make sense
Moore: oh really? that doesn't make sense?
Moore: lol
Moore: this motherfucker probably doesn't even get glycon
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I think "this motherfucker probably doesn't even get glycon" is going to be my new all-purpose insult
Feels familiar, no?
"A mentally ill person costs 4 RM a day, a cripple 5.5 RM, a criminal 3.5 RM. In how many cases does a civil servant only have around 4 RM [in salary] per day…Visualize these numbers"
"A mentally ill person costs 4 RM a day, a cripple 5.5 RM, a criminal 3.5 RM. In how many cases does a civil servant only have around 4 RM [in salary] per day…Visualize these numbers"
"It began with children, then became the much larger, adult Aktion T4. T4 refers primarily to the killings that happened in gas chambers built into six asylums across Germany and Austria in 1939. After T4 came wild euthanasia..."
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Feels familiar, no?
"A mentally ill person costs 4 RM a day, a cripple 5.5 RM, a criminal 3.5 RM. In how many cases does a civil servant only have around 4 RM [in salary] per day…Visualize these numbers"
"A mentally ill person costs 4 RM a day, a cripple 5.5 RM, a criminal 3.5 RM. In how many cases does a civil servant only have around 4 RM [in salary] per day…Visualize these numbers"
No surprise.
"The figure includes between five and ten thousand children. Euthanasia would kill mostly non-Jews but initiate and make routine the practice of targeting Jews for death. At least one child was euthanized even during the Allied occupation."
"The figure includes between five and ten thousand children. Euthanasia would kill mostly non-Jews but initiate and make routine the practice of targeting Jews for death. At least one child was euthanized even during the Allied occupation."
"We should collectively want to understand the euthanasia program that enabled so many ordinary German workers and doctors to kill so many. For far too long, we’ve barely looked—especially now, in the wake of historic antisemitism."
The forgotten history of disabled children under Nazism
Hitler's first order of mass murder wasn't about Jews.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
No surprise.
"The figure includes between five and ten thousand children. Euthanasia would kill mostly non-Jews but initiate and make routine the practice of targeting Jews for death. At least one child was euthanized even during the Allied occupation."
"The figure includes between five and ten thousand children. Euthanasia would kill mostly non-Jews but initiate and make routine the practice of targeting Jews for death. At least one child was euthanized even during the Allied occupation."
"We should collectively want to understand the euthanasia program that enabled so many ordinary German workers and doctors to kill so many. For far too long, we’ve barely looked—especially now, in the wake of historic antisemitism."
The forgotten history of disabled children under Nazism
Hitler's first order of mass murder wasn't about Jews.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"We should collectively want to understand the euthanasia program that enabled so many ordinary German workers and doctors to kill so many. For far too long, we’ve barely looked—especially now, in the wake of historic antisemitism."
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I strongly second this rec:
You could get all seven seasons of Legends of Tomorrow on Blu-ray for $60 (or $51 with coupon if this is your first order from Gruv, Warner's online store!) The first season is a bit rough but if you make it through there is a wild, fun, and very queer ensemble superhero adventure awaiting you!
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Series (Box Set) [Blu-ray]
"DC's Legends of Tomorrow follows a ragtag group of misfit heroes charged with protecting time itself. This responsibility takes them across history, bringing them up against bizarre threats unlike an...
gruv.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I strongly second this rec:
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hahaha what the fuck
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
hahaha what the fuck
Hey kids! Have a a question I learnt to ask myself in therapy:
"IS THIS IMPOSTER SYNDROME JUST INTERNALIZED ABLEISM?"
"IS THIS IMPOSTER SYNDROME JUST INTERNALIZED ABLEISM?"
Know I can write. Won a national award for writing/reporting as a kid. I've written & appeared in various anthologies (fiction & non) in small presses. Co-wrote a small-press book a couple of years ago that sold out its print run. Selling my first short story as soon as contracts arrive. And yet...
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hey kids! Have a a question I learnt to ask myself in therapy:
"IS THIS IMPOSTER SYNDROME JUST INTERNALIZED ABLEISM?"
"IS THIS IMPOSTER SYNDROME JUST INTERNALIZED ABLEISM?"
Know I can write. Won a national award for writing/reporting as a kid. I've written & appeared in various anthologies (fiction & non) in small presses. Co-wrote a small-press book a couple of years ago that sold out its print run. Selling my first short story as soon as contracts arrive. And yet...
December 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Know I can write. Won a national award for writing/reporting as a kid. I've written & appeared in various anthologies (fiction & non) in small presses. Co-wrote a small-press book a couple of years ago that sold out its print run. Selling my first short story as soon as contracts arrive. And yet...
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"Palantir. Neurodivergent. Fellowship."
"Hey kids! Wanna be a boot? 😃"
Plus: Not "neurodivergence" as if valuing qualities you hold. Not neurodiversity, as if seeking community (plus that icky "diverse" word). Not "ND Peoples'." Neurodivergent. Singular.
That is some shit-tier pandering guys. F-
"Hey kids! Wanna be a boot? 😃"
Plus: Not "neurodivergence" as if valuing qualities you hold. Not neurodiversity, as if seeking community (plus that icky "diverse" word). Not "ND Peoples'." Neurodivergent. Singular.
That is some shit-tier pandering guys. F-
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Palantir. Neurodivergent. Fellowship."
"Hey kids! Wanna be a boot? 😃"
Plus: Not "neurodivergence" as if valuing qualities you hold. Not neurodiversity, as if seeking community (plus that icky "diverse" word). Not "ND Peoples'." Neurodivergent. Singular.
That is some shit-tier pandering guys. F-
"Hey kids! Wanna be a boot? 😃"
Plus: Not "neurodivergence" as if valuing qualities you hold. Not neurodiversity, as if seeking community (plus that icky "diverse" word). Not "ND Peoples'." Neurodivergent. Singular.
That is some shit-tier pandering guys. F-
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“A ‘neurodivergent fellowship’ at a corporation like Palantir isn’t meaningful inclusion or representation so much as it’s an exercise in having an often punitively surveilled population be complicit in making platforms of weaponized surveillance." – @wolvendamien.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“A ‘neurodivergent fellowship’ at a corporation like Palantir isn’t meaningful inclusion or representation so much as it’s an exercise in having an often punitively surveilled population be complicit in making platforms of weaponized surveillance." – @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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“Being a disabled token for a morally questionable industry is by no means a step toward disability liberation or true inclusion of any sort, but rather leads us in the other direction." – @ashleyshoo.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“Being a disabled token for a morally questionable industry is by no means a step toward disability liberation or true inclusion of any sort, but rather leads us in the other direction." – @ashleyshoo.bsky.social
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Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship
Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Don't yell at librarians when they cannot provide you with materials LLMs told you existed but don't exist.
Come on folks.
Come on folks.
December 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Don't yell at librarians when they cannot provide you with materials LLMs told you existed but don't exist.
Come on folks.
Come on folks.
This is just _dark_:
"TikTok has added shopping prompts to videos coming out of Gaza: A woman in a head covering becomes a promotion for similar-looking garments with headscarves. A bespectacled Israeli activist protesting their government’s besiegement is a billboard for a pair of glasses."
"TikTok has added shopping prompts to videos coming out of Gaza: A woman in a head covering becomes a promotion for similar-looking garments with headscarves. A bespectacled Israeli activist protesting their government’s besiegement is a billboard for a pair of glasses."
"Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. The platforms need influencers and influencers need audiences — but what the influenced need is not so simple." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is just _dark_:
"TikTok has added shopping prompts to videos coming out of Gaza: A woman in a head covering becomes a promotion for similar-looking garments with headscarves. A bespectacled Israeli activist protesting their government’s besiegement is a billboard for a pair of glasses."
"TikTok has added shopping prompts to videos coming out of Gaza: A woman in a head covering becomes a promotion for similar-looking garments with headscarves. A bespectacled Israeli activist protesting their government’s besiegement is a billboard for a pair of glasses."
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Thread.
Like Sir Terry Pratchett once said, "Too many people want to have written."
And i get that want sometimes; i really do. I am so tired so often.
But the time & care of expressing a thought & 🤞🏾 being understood & understanding my thoughts & my self in the process? I actually love that shit.
Like Sir Terry Pratchett once said, "Too many people want to have written."
And i get that want sometimes; i really do. I am so tired so often.
But the time & care of expressing a thought & 🤞🏾 being understood & understanding my thoughts & my self in the process? I actually love that shit.
This reveals such a profound difference in values between [most] artists and [most] "AI" enthusiasts. Walk with me. 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thread.
Like Sir Terry Pratchett once said, "Too many people want to have written."
And i get that want sometimes; i really do. I am so tired so often.
But the time & care of expressing a thought & 🤞🏾 being understood & understanding my thoughts & my self in the process? I actually love that shit.
Like Sir Terry Pratchett once said, "Too many people want to have written."
And i get that want sometimes; i really do. I am so tired so often.
But the time & care of expressing a thought & 🤞🏾 being understood & understanding my thoughts & my self in the process? I actually love that shit.
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⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS, our first ever novel, is out now! ⚔️
Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!
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Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!
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December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS, our first ever novel, is out now! ⚔️
Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈
Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈