Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

high tech + self help is a toxic (and not totally unexpected??) combination

"deep" as keyword is so load bearing lol. i wonder how much of it draws on "deep" as opposed to "shallow" attention/work/interaction, i.e., the specific form the "tech is ruining our brains" discourse took in the recent past, in addition to "deep" as in "deep learning"

auntroduction... aunterventions... love to see people having fun with academic writing... lexical auntics if you will

but if you think about it aren't the scores of computing research papers that use these companies' models to build more intelligent and human centred whatevers also effectively reproducing their marketing

😭😭 yes this worry has also occurred to me

the University Keywords chapter on Debt by Schirmer and Wozniak, quoting Moody's Higher Education (credit) Rating Methodology: "A strong brand name...allows a uni to compete effectively for tuition revenue, private gifts, research grants, faculty & staff, and govt support"

likewise, it's almost like we should write one or more papers together or something

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... @saysvera.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on this paper about this topic in aarhus a few weeks ago!