Chloë Lum

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Installation artist. Perfume fanatic. Chronically ill. Communicates with objects. Concordia University PhD student (disability studies + performance studies + practice-based research.) Ex jammer, current failure. She/her Edmonton/Montréal

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Maybe it’s time to reassess the idea that fiction instils empathy?

two literary lions down in the same week, I’m so disgusted

Everything AI seems like a race to the bottom

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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It’s funny that rest is so undervalued in society when the number one trope in any fiction between a doctor and patient is the doctor emphasizing “GET SOME REST.”

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR

Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children”www.hollywoodreporter.com The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions

Seeing a lot of folks using AI images in their newsletters and blog posts and it’s a guarantee that I won’t read. It you disrespect art enough to use the plagiarism machine, why should I trust you aren’t using it to generate the text as well?

Too real.

The Moby Dick bot is my new favourite thing.

Humph! in my poor, insignificant opinion, I regard this as queer.

Just had the weirdest experience with the secretary at medical clinic I go too. I’m convinced that tons of folks are walking around unaware they have long COVID.

I joined a zone 3 fb gardening group because my new place in Edmonton has a very neglected yard I need to do something with. Not only is it a hub of climate change denial, but folks are ready to throw Roundup on their yards in the most casual way. I’ve always lived in apartments so I’m shocked.

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Why the Disability Earnings Cap Is Holding People Back via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024...

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"The Harper government was notorious for its disdain of the civil service, academia, and more. The current Conservative party is becoming more personal, even vicious, and the Sereda example was a clear escalation."

A safe supply doctor effectively being threatened with jail; economists attacked. Under Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party's attacks on experts have accelerated: blunter, nastier, and more personal. Is this the future in Canadian governance? www.thestar.com/politics/peo...

Bruce Arthur: ‘People should be afraid’: Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have been targeting experts. Is this just the beginning?www.thestar.com Experts whose research and opinions don't dovetail with the policies of Pierre Poilievre's Tories are becoming political targets, Bruce Arthur writes.

Some things that make access for certain disabilities, reduce access for other disabilities which is known as an access clash. It can be awkward to be a disabled person when the go-to access feature makes things less accessible for you. It’s hard AF to self advocate in these situations.

It’s really hard to be a person.

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After having my hands in it for only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it were, to serpentine and spiralise.

I have no idea what’s blooming nearby, but the air smells like the most gorgeous perfume.

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true posters upload our brain waste directly to the web

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

Somehow the internet is full of ‘former gifted kid’ memes again, which is always kind of off as a vibe. We should normalize having been weird, mediocre little children.

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JSTOR: “people trust us too much. I know! Let’s destroy our reputation with half-assed autocomplete!”

Nothing is sacred anymore.

Fuck this.

Nothing is sacred anymore.

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if you’re a trans ally, please consider

You can contact the Labour Party here if you would like to ask them why they are meeting with JK Rowling, who is on record denying Nazi crimes against trans people. You can also ask local candidates at their offices, on the doorstep etc. labour.org.uk/contact/

Contact – The Labour Partylabour.org.uk We want to hear from you – here are the ways to get in touch.

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Mask bans are eugenics and ableism coded in law and I would have loved to see people who think they will be able bodied forever (spoiler, you most likely won’t) care about this too.

This seems bad.

Gift link to the Governor's folly. Canceling Congestion Pricing Could Kill 100,000 New York Jobs www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/n...

Canceling Congestion Pricing Could Kill 100,000 New York Jobswww.nytimes.com Thousands of high-paying jobs in the state could be at risk if the funding that had been expected from congestion pricing is not restored, a new report says.

As a former jammer, curent artist, I often have public presentations of my work. Each time, I’ll get tons of messages from people apologizing for not coming, often from people I barely know or am not in touch with. It always deflates me & is an energy suck, even when the event is successful.

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Counterpoint public transit should be free and not expected to turn a profit and we can do that with things like congestion pricing anyway I guess I’ll be governor of NY if no one else wants it

Kathy Hochul and CNBC Anchor Agree: Who Needs Congestion Pricing When You Could Crack Down on Fare Evasion Instead? (Guess which state this anchor apparently lives in) hellgatenyc.com/kathy-hochul...

Kathy Hochul and CNBC Anchor Agree: Who Needs Congestion Pricing When You Could Crack Down on Fare Evasion Instead? - Hell Gatehellgatenyc.com In her latest appearance since stopping America's most consequential initiative for mass transit and the environment, Governor Hochul told CNBC that instead of implementing congestion pricing, officia...

Seriously! My TL is awesome because I follow tons of scholars, journalists, and disability advocacy folks. Feeds are a great way to find cool folks to follow. I also mute people whose vibes are not for me.

If you hate your TL check out some new feeds

Sounds bad.

All this for technology that is destroying search engines and corrupting the internet with AI-generated garbage pages.

AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.wapo.st Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

Me, except I’m also bad at winter. I’m just terrible at weather.

oh my god