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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@olivia.science

> The earliest account of [the hazards of] asbestos was provided by Lucy Deane [in 1898], one of the first Women Inspectors of Factories in the UK. [T]hese laywomen might not have been categorised as [experts] but they were competent observers [& t]heir reports were not refuted but simply ignored.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science

asbestos is such a depressing case, indeed: "Looking back in the light of present knowledge, it is impossible not to feel that opportunities for discovery and prevention of asbestos disease were badly missed." Thomas Legge, ex Chief Medical Inspector of Factories, in Industrial maladies, 1934

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Thomas Arnold
@thomasarnold.bsky.social

The breathless LinkedIn take that "AI is cognitive asbestos" is itself an untraced echo-- the first mentions I heard were from women educators in school board meetings over three years ago, fighting the "AI in all schools now or else!" push.

Wyl
@wyl.bsky.social

My own Dad passed away at the tender age of 46, back in 1991, due to asbestos cancer related sh1te.