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JustGrist

@JustGrist@disabled.social

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Blind, ADHD, autistic, chronically ill.

Queer, nonbinary, demisexual.

Antifascist, anti capitalist, anarchist leaning.

I have too many interests for one person to keep up with.

My profile pic is of me, a masc presenting person with long tied-back blond hair and a beard. I am kneeling down next to my Black and Tan German Shepherd service dog. She is in harness and we are both facing the camera.

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vlrny, to random
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I am having a terrible week.
But hey! I accidentally created a new pain/malaise scale. It's based on how many times I exclaim motherf🤬ker in an hour.
Wheeee! 😃

JustGrist,
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@vlrny Hope things improve for you. 💜

JustGrist, to random
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Not sure why I always feel kind of shitty bursting ppl's bubble about the likelihood of actually getting the ADA enforced. Maybe because these people think the ADA should actually function well and help disabled ppl more extensively and that's a good thing to think. In reality even during the ADA's conception and passage, the main reason it passed is that it was composed and promoted as a kind of welfare reform.

JustGrist, to random
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If you think throwing a milkshake at a fascist is bad, you'll be horrified to know that I think we should step it up to pouring giant buckets of that green nickolodeon slime on them.

JustGrist, to random
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Lotta abled ppl in the replies here who should 100% shut the fuck up until they talk to some actual disabled ppl. Though in this case, I also have to admit that a lot of blind ppl are disturbingly enamored with this so-called AI shit, and that I remain in opposition to what seems to be the mainstream thinking about AI among western blind ppl. It’s very simple for me: something that will hasten climate collapse if comes into wide use is not a good option.

https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/112552008112665604

JustGrist,
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Aside from the environmental aspect of so-called AI, I’m also in opposition to the model of training so-called AI via theft of data and refinement of those models through exploitative labor in the Global South. Nothing about these tools is currently acceptable, not even for the purposes of accessibility.

JustGrist,
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@weirdwriter Yeah. I definitely think our outlooks are very similar here. I used to want to go into blind tech in some fashion but everything in the last decade has been a slide into the same shitty practices that mainstream tech is built on.

JustGrist,
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@jackf723 @weirdwriter Yes, this would be better. That said, I think that given the lack of understanding from most people of what so-called AI is and what it's capabilities realistically are, this is overall going to normalize the use of any so-called AI tools, and those other tools have already been shown to be destructive and unethical. My comments on the mozilla post about it flooding the web with poor quality alt-text also stand.

JustGrist,
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@jackf723 Yeah. That would be good ideally. You've pointed out one barrier to it actually happening. I also think there is a behavioral barrier as well, as Hannah pointed out in her comments on mozilla's posts. Ppl feel pressured to include alt-text but don't particularly feel invested in making sure it's good, and that's because minimum standards for accessibility are honestly pretty crappy. Making good alt-text proliferate requires a base level value change. It's not simply a tech problem.

JustGrist, to random
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A google sheet of fundraisers for Palestinian families.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-DDMFyn-ttboPXrz1bB3MFk7BlzCwfugh4259Wh7U1s/htmlview

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