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Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · 5d

Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · 18d

This has been excellent so far! I’m about 10% in. 📚💙

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Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · 18d

Never underestimate the power of ND pattern recognition.

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Styna Lane @stynalane.bsky.social · Sep 29

“I asked ChatGPT–“ okay well I asked the seashell I held up to my ear, and it said SHHHHHHH

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Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Sep 27

Beeeeeeert

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Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Sep 27

Thinking these hives that show up when my stomach goes sideways are further evidence that maybe I’ve got MCAS to go with my POTS and hEDS but I’ll never know bc there’s two allergists in the whole state with 18+ month waitlists and one of them is terrible at their job 🤦🏻‍♀️

Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Sep 27

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Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Sep 27

Can't wait to read this.

$fractalecho.bsky.social$ Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · Sep 27

I forgot that I did eventually edit the first line of the book. It was originally, "I did not want to write this book."

Disabling Intelligences eBook is available now link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I’ll be honest. When thinking about what books might live in me, this was
never one of them. It was certainly not the book I thought I would write
first. I never wanted to become known for artificial intelligence (AI) criti-
cism at all. I want to sit in a lab and tinker with tech, building little gadgets
that delight my disabled kin. I want to maintain surreptitious code bases
of free little hacks that disrupt our perpetually inaccessible and downright-
hostile world. I want to share disabled DIY specs through crumpled little
zines posted in libraries and coffee houses. I want to run a free digital
manufacturing center just for disabled people to come and build exactly
what they want without a doctor, insurance company, or bank account
telling them what body they’re allowed to have.
But in order to do that, I have to fight the inadequacies in technology
policy and medical care. And in order to do that, I have to fight the AI
industrial complex. Because underneath every insurance rejection is a pre-
dictive algorithm, behind every assistive technology is a data collection
scheme, and now, behind every technology policy is an AI hype man.
If I look back, it feels as though the specter of AI has followed me all
along. In the pages that follow, you will find several stories from my life
left like the breadcrumbs leading to this book. Here, I will give you two
more stories that elicit the echoes of eugenics and AI in my life.

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Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Sep 26

I dunno but I remember doing it as a kid ALL THE TIME when it came to dancing at parties/weddings. I *loved* it but it always took me ages to get up the gumption to DO it.

Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Sep 26

*crouching down to hook the leash to my harnessed cat*

Ugh, WHAT is stabbing me? That hurts!

*looks*

Of course. It's the tag on my pants. Why do I have to be a cliche?

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Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Sep 26

Bert

Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Aug 24

#currentlyreading #books 💙📚

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Spencer @dinoreader.bsky.social · Aug 22

Garden folk, what causes this with potatoes? They are split and broken.