@david-s.bsky.social
Disability, mental health, politics, technology.
Tory Government *repeatedly* failed to take action to protect disabled people in the early months of the pandemic, despite risk of dying being much higher
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tory-governm...
Via @johnpring.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tory-governm...
Via @johnpring.bsky.social
Tory government failed to protect disabled people in early months of pandemic, inquiry concludes
The Conservative government repeatedly failed to take action to protect disabled people in the early months of the pandemic, even though their risk of dying was twice as high as non-disabled people…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Tory Government *repeatedly* failed to take action to protect disabled people in the early months of the pandemic, despite risk of dying being much higher
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tory-governm...
Via @johnpring.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tory-governm...
Via @johnpring.bsky.social
UK health and social care 'leaders' have collaborated in critical washing of the 'AI' hype industrial complex.
(Eg: 'Magic Notes AI', having been adopted by / forced on adult and children social work, is now being grasped by charity sector bosses, enabling the risks set out in this paper.)
(Eg: 'Magic Notes AI', having been adopted by / forced on adult and children social work, is now being grasped by charity sector bosses, enabling the risks set out in this paper.)
“Reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
zenodo.org/records/1567...
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
zenodo.org/records/1567...
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
zenodo.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
UK health and social care 'leaders' have collaborated in critical washing of the 'AI' hype industrial complex.
(Eg: 'Magic Notes AI', having been adopted by / forced on adult and children social work, is now being grasped by charity sector bosses, enabling the risks set out in this paper.)
(Eg: 'Magic Notes AI', having been adopted by / forced on adult and children social work, is now being grasped by charity sector bosses, enabling the risks set out in this paper.)
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“Reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
zenodo.org/records/1567...
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
zenodo.org/records/1567...
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
zenodo.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“Reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
zenodo.org/records/1567...
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
zenodo.org/records/1567...
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Tag yourself
I'm Fexcectorn
I'm Fexcectorn
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tag yourself
I'm Fexcectorn
I'm Fexcectorn
This is a central narrative from much of the British left, centre & right.
The architects of the Welfare State were eugenicists, who believed in support for a 'deserving' working class (white, abled), and control or erasure of the 'undeserving' ('residium': disabled, houseless, migrants, poor)
The architects of the Welfare State were eugenicists, who believed in support for a 'deserving' working class (white, abled), and control or erasure of the 'undeserving' ('residium': disabled, houseless, migrants, poor)
A key part of the backlash to ending the two child limit is the idea parents won’t actually spend the extra money on their kids. Why not give them vouchers for food and clothes instead? critics ask.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is a central narrative from much of the British left, centre & right.
The architects of the Welfare State were eugenicists, who believed in support for a 'deserving' working class (white, abled), and control or erasure of the 'undeserving' ('residium': disabled, houseless, migrants, poor)
The architects of the Welfare State were eugenicists, who believed in support for a 'deserving' working class (white, abled), and control or erasure of the 'undeserving' ('residium': disabled, houseless, migrants, poor)
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A key part of the backlash to ending the two child limit is the idea parents won’t actually spend the extra money on their kids. Why not give them vouchers for food and clothes instead? critics ask.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A key part of the backlash to ending the two child limit is the idea parents won’t actually spend the extra money on their kids. Why not give them vouchers for food and clothes instead? critics ask.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.
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Look, man, you really can't walk into a room and loudly announce "Hey how do you feel about the thing ripping you off" and then get upset people don't like it. My dad died three years ago and assholes running LLMs stole his books. I didn't need that emotionally, let alone legally.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Look, man, you really can't walk into a room and loudly announce "Hey how do you feel about the thing ripping you off" and then get upset people don't like it. My dad died three years ago and assholes running LLMs stole his books. I didn't need that emotionally, let alone legally.
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Hey there, you’re using WhatsApp?
Recently, researchers found a significant privacy flaw that enabled them to uncover phone numbers associated with 3.5 billion accounts.
Read more about this and learn how to limit who can see your WhatsApp information in our digital security newsletter:
Recently, researchers found a significant privacy flaw that enabled them to uncover phone numbers associated with 3.5 billion accounts.
Read more about this and learn how to limit who can see your WhatsApp information in our digital security newsletter:
Researchers find flaw exposing billions of WhatsApp numbers
Researchers discovered phone numbers and, in some instances, associated profile photos and names through WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool
freedom.press
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hey there, you’re using WhatsApp?
Recently, researchers found a significant privacy flaw that enabled them to uncover phone numbers associated with 3.5 billion accounts.
Read more about this and learn how to limit who can see your WhatsApp information in our digital security newsletter:
Recently, researchers found a significant privacy flaw that enabled them to uncover phone numbers associated with 3.5 billion accounts.
Read more about this and learn how to limit who can see your WhatsApp information in our digital security newsletter:
MPs who support forcing Disabled people experiencing mental distress to have face-to-face assessments, despite the lack of evidence (as below), and despite the evidence of harm caused, would do well to read the copies of 'The Department' they were given.
www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
#Budget
www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
#Budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
MPs who support forcing Disabled people experiencing mental distress to have face-to-face assessments, despite the lack of evidence (as below), and despite the evidence of harm caused, would do well to read the copies of 'The Department' they were given.
www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
#Budget
www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
#Budget
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People who are ‘AI’ boosters and whine about ‘anti-AI’ sentiment bewilder me. You have Twitter and LinkedIn; you have politicians and journalists on your side; businesses are all pro-AI.
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
People who are ‘AI’ boosters and whine about ‘anti-AI’ sentiment bewilder me. You have Twitter and LinkedIn; you have politicians and journalists on your side; businesses are all pro-AI.
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI
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🚨#Budget NEWS 🚨
Motability scheme has been changed to make it less supportive and more like commercial leasing.
In other words, the right-wing politicians and media say jump, the Labour Government says how high?
Motability scheme has been changed to make it less supportive and more like commercial leasing.
In other words, the right-wing politicians and media say jump, the Labour Government says how high?
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🚨#Budget NEWS 🚨
Motability scheme has been changed to make it less supportive and more like commercial leasing.
In other words, the right-wing politicians and media say jump, the Labour Government says how high?
Motability scheme has been changed to make it less supportive and more like commercial leasing.
In other words, the right-wing politicians and media say jump, the Labour Government says how high?
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To put that these Motability cuts into perspective...
It will save around £300 million.
Latest figures show the DWP has spent over £400 million fighting people on PIP appeals.
Scrap policies that punish Disabled people & stop pretending it's about economic efficiency! #Budget
It will save around £300 million.
Latest figures show the DWP has spent over £400 million fighting people on PIP appeals.
Scrap policies that punish Disabled people & stop pretending it's about economic efficiency! #Budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
To put that these Motability cuts into perspective...
It will save around £300 million.
Latest figures show the DWP has spent over £400 million fighting people on PIP appeals.
Scrap policies that punish Disabled people & stop pretending it's about economic efficiency! #Budget
It will save around £300 million.
Latest figures show the DWP has spent over £400 million fighting people on PIP appeals.
Scrap policies that punish Disabled people & stop pretending it's about economic efficiency! #Budget
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🚨#Budget2026 NEWS🚨
Despite the Government planning to scrap the Work Capability Assessment, they've committed themselves to enforcing more punitive WCA assessments in the mean time.
Even by their own logic, how does this make any sense?
Despite the Government planning to scrap the Work Capability Assessment, they've committed themselves to enforcing more punitive WCA assessments in the mean time.
Even by their own logic, how does this make any sense?
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🚨#Budget2026 NEWS🚨
Despite the Government planning to scrap the Work Capability Assessment, they've committed themselves to enforcing more punitive WCA assessments in the mean time.
Even by their own logic, how does this make any sense?
Despite the Government planning to scrap the Work Capability Assessment, they've committed themselves to enforcing more punitive WCA assessments in the mean time.
Even by their own logic, how does this make any sense?
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Labour being ****s, joining forces with the lying rightwing ****s who’ve decided that disabled people don’t deserve “free cars” (they’re not free).
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves expected to scrap £300m in tax breaks for Motability scheme
Plan to remove relief from scheme that helps provide cars for disabled people likely to concern some Labour MPs
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Labour being ****s, joining forces with the lying rightwing ****s who’ve decided that disabled people don’t deserve “free cars” (they’re not free).
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
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Been saying this exact thing for two and a half years. Still waiting for the broader public to catch on.
ninelives.karawynnlong.com/language-is-...
ninelives.karawynnlong.com/language-is-...
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Been saying this exact thing for two and a half years. Still waiting for the broader public to catch on.
ninelives.karawynnlong.com/language-is-...
ninelives.karawynnlong.com/language-is-...
Practitioners and researchers working in UK migration and asylum law respond to Labour's "Restoring Order and Control" proposals.
ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
Statement of Consensus, November 2025 - ILPA
We, the undersigned, as practitioners and researchers working in UK migration and asylum law, collectively observe the following issues with the UK Government’s asylum policy announcements which were ...
ilpa.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Practitioners and researchers working in UK migration and asylum law respond to Labour's "Restoring Order and Control" proposals.
ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
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gen ctrl-z
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
gen ctrl-z
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Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
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I think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.
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Windrush victims told impact of scandal “not profound” and “irreversible” by Home Office scheme
The couple who lost their home and were forced to leave the country have labelled the Home Office "inhumane"
The couple who lost their home and were forced to leave the country have labelled the Home Office "inhumane"
Windrush victims told impact of scandal “not profound” and “irreversible” by Home Office scheme
The couple who lost their home and were forced to leave the country have labelled the Home Office "inhumane"
melissasigodothesource.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Windrush victims told impact of scandal “not profound” and “irreversible” by Home Office scheme
The couple who lost their home and were forced to leave the country have labelled the Home Office "inhumane"
The couple who lost their home and were forced to leave the country have labelled the Home Office "inhumane"
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This article is why people should learn from neurodivergent people and the disability community before writing. It takes such an ableist tone toward our kids, and the writer seems to have never heard of the medical model of disability, the social model of disability, or the neurodiversity paradigm.
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Will come back to dissect.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This article is why people should learn from neurodivergent people and the disability community before writing. It takes such an ableist tone toward our kids, and the writer seems to have never heard of the medical model of disability, the social model of disability, or the neurodiversity paradigm.
"Take a look at the world
And the state that it's in today
I am sure you'll agree
We all could make it a better way"
youtu.be/UoFD9MPDbxs?...
RIP Jimmy Cliff
And the state that it's in today
I am sure you'll agree
We all could make it a better way"
youtu.be/UoFD9MPDbxs?...
RIP Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, Beautiful People (Lyrics on screen)
YouTube video by R.P.C. Lyric Videos
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Take a look at the world
And the state that it's in today
I am sure you'll agree
We all could make it a better way"
youtu.be/UoFD9MPDbxs?...
RIP Jimmy Cliff
And the state that it's in today
I am sure you'll agree
We all could make it a better way"
youtu.be/UoFD9MPDbxs?...
RIP Jimmy Cliff
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I've found 45 links between the Labour party and the private water companies. Most of them are sitting MPs..🥀
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...
The Labour Party and the Private Water Industry
The donations from and the revolving door between Labour and the privater water companies, their parent companies and their intermediaries
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I've found 45 links between the Labour party and the private water companies. Most of them are sitting MPs..🥀
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...