Sobbing

and i think what's interesting about that is that these are both sort of synthetic, manufactured computational targets like it was necessary to invent something to compute such that having the biggest computers would mean you had the power

They really can’t make a case for why people would want these in their community except to invoke some scary foreign other and an undefined need to “win” in a way they can’t connect to the quality of life to the average person but only shareholder value.

When all else fails, try xenophobia.

“In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment, saying ‘our nation can’t afford to lose’ the race for AI dominance.”

The whole time I was writing I was like "surely this will have the shelf life of raw milk" Narrator: it had the shelf life of a twinkie.

Wonderful! You might enjoy the Mad Scholars Anthology too. I have a chapter in there.

It's my bookiversary. (check comments for a link that works.)

When you write a paper on [sociotechnical topic] and ADHD, I notice when you completely ignore the literature on autism and [sociotechnical topic]. All that to say - this is a way that bias, stigma, and lateral ableism shows up in research.

🧵How are data and automation shaping child welfare practice today? How can children and families be at the center of these conversations and decisions? What harms must we guard against? What might be coming down the pike?

I call it the Disability Diversion :)

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

Seriously what the everloving fuck.