Rua M. Williams
@fractalecho.bsky.social
Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus
This was like... Written specifically to insult me personally. There's no other explanation. Someone was possessed by a demon hell bent on causing me psychic damage.
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This was like... Written specifically to insult me personally. There's no other explanation. Someone was possessed by a demon hell bent on causing me psychic damage.
It's more for making game like things.
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It's more for making game like things.
Basically lol. I'm just looking for the nerds to tell me what they're currently in love with so I can simultaneously expand and narrow my options.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Basically lol. I'm just looking for the nerds to tell me what they're currently in love with so I can simultaneously expand and narrow my options.
Has a respectable battery life with a battery which could be replaced by someone with average tools and skills.
Is less than $2500. (such that I may purchase it with the money from a contract I have lol)
What should I buy?
Is less than $2500. (such that I may purchase it with the money from a contract I have lol)
What should I buy?
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Has a respectable battery life with a battery which could be replaced by someone with average tools and skills.
Is less than $2500. (such that I may purchase it with the money from a contract I have lol)
What should I buy?
Is less than $2500. (such that I may purchase it with the money from a contract I have lol)
What should I buy?
Can dual boot Windows and Linux (and/or has a beginner friendly Linux OS for a UI dependent human brain).
(I wish to be able to ignore Windows as much as possible as their AI obsession is reprehensible.)
Doesn't weigh 8 fucking pounds.
(I wish to be able to ignore Windows as much as possible as their AI obsession is reprehensible.)
Doesn't weigh 8 fucking pounds.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Can dual boot Windows and Linux (and/or has a beginner friendly Linux OS for a UI dependent human brain).
(I wish to be able to ignore Windows as much as possible as their AI obsession is reprehensible.)
Doesn't weigh 8 fucking pounds.
(I wish to be able to ignore Windows as much as possible as their AI obsession is reprehensible.)
Doesn't weigh 8 fucking pounds.
Has a respectable battery life with a battery which could be replaced by someone with average tools and skills.
Is less than $2500. (such that I may purchase it with the money from a contract I have lol)
What should I buy?
Is less than $2500. (such that I may purchase it with the money from a contract I have lol)
What should I buy?
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Has a respectable battery life with a battery which could be replaced by someone with average tools and skills.
Is less than $2500. (such that I may purchase it with the money from a contract I have lol)
What should I buy?
Is less than $2500. (such that I may purchase it with the money from a contract I have lol)
What should I buy?
Can dual boot Windows and Linux (and/or has a beginner friendly Linux OS for a UI dependent human brain).
(I wish to be able to ignore Windows as much as possible as their AI obsession is reprehensible.)
Doesn't weigh 8 fucking pounds.
(I wish to be able to ignore Windows as much as possible as their AI obsession is reprehensible.)
Doesn't weigh 8 fucking pounds.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Can dual boot Windows and Linux (and/or has a beginner friendly Linux OS for a UI dependent human brain).
(I wish to be able to ignore Windows as much as possible as their AI obsession is reprehensible.)
Doesn't weigh 8 fucking pounds.
(I wish to be able to ignore Windows as much as possible as their AI obsession is reprehensible.)
Doesn't weigh 8 fucking pounds.
I chose this picture because you can see the hotel employee in the background and we need to remember that these cute little innovations result in staff cuts, hour cuts, and pay cuts. Currently, automation is motivated by profit, not social good.
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I chose this picture because you can see the hotel employee in the background and we need to remember that these cute little innovations result in staff cuts, hour cuts, and pay cuts. Currently, automation is motivated by profit, not social good.
I had one of these relay robots in my hotel this week and it reminded me of this section from chapter 4 in my book. (refer to image at top of thread)
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I had one of these relay robots in my hotel this week and it reminded me of this section from chapter 4 in my book. (refer to image at top of thread)
Gen AI is currently doing the tasks we feel “make us human” because the people who are selling it hate us. Art and culture are “those tasks capital hates.”
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Gen AI is currently doing the tasks we feel “make us human” because the people who are selling it hate us. Art and culture are “those tasks capital hates.”
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
promises of automation have consistently produced new and more intense forms of labor exploitation at scale, displaced across time and space. It is critical to understand this because the “wrong direction” of AI implies that there is a correct site of labor displacement and ignores the fact that...
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
promises of automation have consistently produced new and more intense forms of labor exploitation at scale, displaced across time and space. It is critical to understand this because the “wrong direction” of AI implies that there is a correct site of labor displacement and ignores the fact that...
Whether it’s historic enslavement, modern day assembly-line wage slavery, invisibilized data work, exploitative and deadly
mining work, domestic labor, nursing care, or other forms of “back stairs” work—
mining work, domestic labor, nursing care, or other forms of “back stairs” work—
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Whether it’s historic enslavement, modern day assembly-line wage slavery, invisibilized data work, exploitative and deadly
mining work, domestic labor, nursing care, or other forms of “back stairs” work—
mining work, domestic labor, nursing care, or other forms of “back stairs” work—
JMac clarifed, “This post isn’t about wanting an actual laundry robot. It’s about wishing that AI focused on taking away those tasks we hate.”
Our cultural obsession with automation of “those tasks we hate” is inseparable from our historic and current hatred of the human beings who do those tasks.
Our cultural obsession with automation of “those tasks we hate” is inseparable from our historic and current hatred of the human beings who do those tasks.
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
JMac clarifed, “This post isn’t about wanting an actual laundry robot. It’s about wishing that AI focused on taking away those tasks we hate.”
Our cultural obsession with automation of “those tasks we hate” is inseparable from our historic and current hatred of the human beings who do those tasks.
Our cultural obsession with automation of “those tasks we hate” is inseparable from our historic and current hatred of the human beings who do those tasks.
The tweet excerpt above captures the present cultural anxiety and despair around the proliferation of generative AI and its insipid infltration and contamination of cultural production. While some responses to the tweet identifed “low-tech” robots like washing machines and dishwashers...
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The tweet excerpt above captures the present cultural anxiety and despair around the proliferation of generative AI and its insipid infltration and contamination of cultural production. While some responses to the tweet identifed “low-tech” robots like washing machines and dishwashers...
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9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter
Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes,
"Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist
www.gofundme.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
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"I find the question of robot rights to be a wholly contemptible distraction from the present-day human rights violations already being perpetuated by human executives of automated systems." (Williams, p118)
(I put a book dart by that, @fractalecho.bsky.social & I would have clapped in a live talk)
(I put a book dart by that, @fractalecho.bsky.social & I would have clapped in a live talk)
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"I find the question of robot rights to be a wholly contemptible distraction from the present-day human rights violations already being perpetuated by human executives of automated systems." (Williams, p118)
(I put a book dart by that, @fractalecho.bsky.social & I would have clapped in a live talk)
(I put a book dart by that, @fractalecho.bsky.social & I would have clapped in a live talk)
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"Hitler's skull circumference to jawline protrusion ratio tells us that he was predestined to become a monster so not too much more to worry or think about"
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Hitler's skull circumference to jawline protrusion ratio tells us that he was predestined to become a monster so not too much more to worry or think about"
Because people have free will
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Because people have free will