Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave

We live in a time of deep epistemic crisis, and everything we have depended on to make meaning and certify consensus reality is either suspect or in peril. It didn't have to be this way, and it doesn't have to stay this way.

Like… this baseline assumption that things from sources that are treated as authoritative obviously must thus be trustworthy is circular reasoning that is doing and will continue to do a lot of harm unless and until we tackle this shit at a BUNCH of levels of society.

…a certainty these answers are correct either because they were told that Bullshit Engine LLMs are Perfectly Objective Magic Super Google Answer Engines™ and the Perfectly Objective Magic Super Google Answer Engine™ told them so, Or because they think *Buster from Arthur go on the internet dot meme*

This is yet more of the shit that traps people into a cycle of epistemic & hermeneutic injustice and deception— frameworks where people don't know what they think they know and can't trust the mechanisms that are supposed to help them gain knowledge. Not only that, but now they have false CERTAINTY…

"Beyond Critique: Bringing the Humanities into Technology Research" ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

If you enjoyed today's episode of @the1a.org of disability and technology, i recommend looking up the work of @lizjackson.bsky.social, originator of the term "disability dongles" as well as that of @ndkane.bsky.social, who originated the similar-but-distinct concept of "means well technology." Then…

…I also recommend checking out the @discotec.bsky.social center's work on centering disabled people as credited, PAID subject matter experts and research consultants in the design & development of ALL technologies, not just as focus groups or research subjects for assistive tech. More on that here:

"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

as a protester disrupts JD Vance's speech in Montana, the camera pans out to show the rather modest crowd he's speaking to

Ah hell. Goodnight Walter Koenig. You were a delightful human.

Scientists discovered that human brain organoids, which are small neural clusters derived from stem cells, could identify the Braille alphabet with a high degree of accuracy. www.404media.co/computers-ma...

And who knows how often this is brought up to patients who aren't white? But then the reason we don't have universal healthcare is also mostly racism so, what else is new.

Hypertension is also a particularly tricky one. The first-line meds we have also often have higher side-effect rates for non-white people, sometimes serious ones, and they aren't always as effective for non-white people either.

We need free healthcare and a completely different culture of medicine in this country, and we need it NOW. Until then, take care of yourselves and help each other stay on top of shit.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Eric Bauza. Legend.

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

Oh my god

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

My kind of Peleton class

One thing about @stephengrahamjones.com is, that man STAYS writing (and we are all better off for it): www.npr.org/2026/10/25/n...

This country is really deeply fucked up and racist.

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

Y'all the sigh of relief I just let out, the breath I didn't realize i was holding

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

My talk was "'AI' Regulation as Necessary But Not Sufficient" arguing that while we definitely need strong "AI" regs, vested interests too often direct its shape via regulatory & even paradigmatic capture; thus, we need more of particular types of social change to help us foster Effective regulation

I'm not a Christian, and haven't been one for a long time, but i've always found these words and what they're supposed to mean to be the fundamental core of Christianity, even over and above the Sermon on the Mount, and I truly don't understand people who miss this.

Just told Josh Turek his anti-trans ass needs Jesus while unsubscribing from his substack that I never signed up for??? (I don't sign up for substacks, period, so i guess ActBlue gave his team an address i use for political spam & they signed me up w/o asking me; so that's shitty in a different way)

Shirley and Chelsea together on THIS SONG??? FUUUUUUUUUCK chelseawolfe.bandcamp.com/track/seethe