"We need to undo people’s view of dependency as a source of shame (...) centring the principles of the disability justice movement is a good place to start."
Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 14h ago"Look around at the paltry nods to accessibility in our public spaces or the degrading assessments of people seeking to claim disability benefits. For people who have lived their lives independently and able-bodied, the slip into dependency can be hard to accept" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Disability history largely remains a missing part of the UK’s story. Understanding it helps explain why contemporary debates often feel so fraught." By @profdavidturner.bsky.social theconversation.com/todays-argum... #Disability #History
Today’s arguments about disability benefits have been raging for 500 years
From Tudor welfare claims to modern PIP assessments, disabled people have long faced suspicion and bureaucracy.
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Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...
As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.
The data center fight is going global
As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.
wagingnonviolence.org
New research confirms what Disabled People's Organisations have been saying: that #SocialCare charging pushes people into poverty, debt and ill health. The Government now have the opportunity to do the right thing and end this scandal once and for all.
Research that says ‘unjust’ care charges cause ‘spiralling debts’ could support Burnham’s push for reform
Disabled people have told researchers that charging for social care is “unjust and harmful”, just as the new prime minister has spoken of his determination to address reform of the social care syst…
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bristol, uk! 8th august, 10.30am, queens square counter protest against bristol rises & 10+ other far-right groups who are mobilising from across the country bristol is antifascist, let's run them out of town again 🏴 via @bristolantifascist.bsky.social 🖤
"You can't put the genie back in the bottle" is usually a command, not an observation
Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com · last wk.People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation
The dead children represented on the children's panel of our national covid memorial will never have any life at all. ❤️
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d agoThere are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?
This is 💯 entryism. He wrote a piece seemingly critical of AI, got caught & admitted to chatGPT use, but also gaslights us it's a search engine & it's useful for checking links — why not just click them? We can't be anti AI if we don't agree we see it. They did it with climate change, tobacco etc.
Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w agoHi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.
These are excellent posts. In particular: "recovery may not mean going back to before"
Stimpunks Foundation@stimpunks.org · 5d agoNew 2 part blog series from Autism Central written by our co-creative director at Stimpunks, Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms). Part 1. What is Autistic burnout? Part 2 How to support Autistic burnout recovery www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-wh... www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-ho...
New 2 part blog series from Autism Central written by our co-creative director at Stimpunks, Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms). Part 1. What is Autistic burnout? Part 2 How to support Autistic burnout recovery www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-wh... www.autismcentral.nhs.uk/news/blog-ho...
Blog: What is autistic burnout? | Autism Central
Helen Edgar looks at understanding autistic burnout and how you can support autistic family members who may be going through this.
autismcentral.nhs.uk
The AI project “talkie produces bigoted responses then frames them as a representation of 1930; an outcome of the project’s methodology. The hard work of expanding the archive is being subverted.” activehistory.ca/blog/2026/07...
The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI
talkie’s poor representation of history is a side effect of a larger problem. The model was conceptually built as an experimental tool to see if language models can accurately predict the future, a…
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We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.
There is strong evidence that ADHD has a genetic component, as high as 80%. That is not deterministic genetics, but an increase in likelihood of having ADHD. What genetics does do is conclusive show it is real, not a social construct, and has a basis in human biology. neurolaunch.com/what-evidenc...
Genetic Causes of ADHD: Scientific Evidence and Research Findings
Discover the genetic evidence for ADHD: twin studies show 70-80% heritability. Learn how multiple genes and environment interact to shape ADHD risk.
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The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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"Someone who suspects they are autistic but does not want the risks associated with having the diagnosis in their record still deserves community support." From @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com: www.verywellmind.com/self-diagnos... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
As an Autistic Psychologist, Here Are My Thoughts on Self-Diagnosed Autism
Self-diagnosis is an often-discussed topic in the autistic community. Learn what it means to self-diagnose and how self-diagnosis impacts the autistic community.
verywellmind.com
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is about to begin a “life-threatening” project that will reassess the remaining 150,000 working-age disabled people who are still receiving disability living allowance (DLA) www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-warned-a... Via @johnpring.bsky.social
DWP warned as it begins another ‘life-threatening’ disability benefits migration project
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is about to begin a “life-threatening” project that will finally reassess the remaining 150,000 working-age disabled people who are still receiving disabi…
disabilitynewsservice.com
Tories block Disability News Service from receiving press releases, and stop answering its calls and emails www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tories-block... Via @johnpring.bsky.social
Tories block Disability News Service from receiving press releases, and stop answering its calls and emails
Disability News Service (DNS) has been blocked by Conservative head office from receiving any of the party’s press releases or even submitting media requests. The move appears to have followed a se…
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"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company did not respond to a request for comment."
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
This is such a bad faith framing. There's different models of disability: social, legal, for-benefits, for educational support, for healthcare support etc etc... Different people are dis-abled by different things depending on their social environment, resources and yes, their impairment(s).
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · last wk.Bad quote, bad coverage, exploiting the equivocation between DWP data on disability, disability benefits themselves, and popular conceptions of disability to deliver a real mess.
Well this bodes well for anyone needing social care after her report. Doesn’t understand what disability is, doesn’t understand the difference between the Equality Act definition and the bar for qualifying for benefits, and has demonstrably internalised ableism.
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · last wk.Don’t piss me off please
Agreed that this is a good segment. There is not a single component of the AI stack that is not antagonistic to human welfare. An interviewee in this segment compares this to noise torture, and anyone exposed to constant noise of this sort knows it’s hostile to one’s wellbeing.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
Now do your partnership with OpenAI...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...
UKRI launches two AI research labs to stay ahead in global race
Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK’s position as a global leader.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The #spycops inquiry has heard how senior Scotland Yard officers arranged for covert surveillance by New Zealand police on a leftwing campaigner visiting family in Auckland, to protect the identity of her former partner, the undercover police officer John Dines www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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Engineer son of a heating and ventilating engineer here. Buildings like this are designed with air-conditioning included before any building starts. It's an integral part of the safe management of the internal environment and the building is not intended to be used with it switched off. Ever.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Homeless families in London temporary housing told not to use air conditioning
“The liberal fantasy had been sold to us as a bulwark against fascism. In fact, really existing liberalism has not only failed to counter the resurgence of fascism, but has in fact been fuelling it all along.“
Why we need Red Lines (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses the need for red lines in the struggle against reactionary politics.
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Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · last wk.I stressed the need for red lines at an event recently saying that if we are to turn the tide I was told that saying that we should not waste our energy "debating" bad faith reactionary actors who seek to dehumanise entire communities and entrench authoritarianism was "cancel culture" Sigh
These are designed to break people. This is what’s left of British democracy in 2026.
CarolineJMolloy@carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · last wk.“A terrorist sentencing also means defendants’ serve at least two-thirds of their tariff in prison, much longer than is the norm. To obtain parole they must rescind their political views.”
