@elisabethalicee
She/They. PhD in Critical Disability Studies. Really, really big into indoor air quality and PPE. #CovidIsNotOver and pandemic protections are an access issue. Trans rights! Twitter: @elisabethalicee Mastodon: @elisabethalicee@zeroes.ca
6 years and 300+ experiments later, I've concluded that sequencing all the viruses going through my house is actually slightly useful, while still wildly impractical of course!
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The first film of this year’s DisMovie screenings is
Sympathy For Delicious
Sat. Jan. 24 at 2pm ET
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Multi DISciplinary Screening Series. Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET.
October is spooky season, so the Multi DISciplinary Screening is old school disability horror
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Sat. Oct. 18 at 2pm ET
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Multi DISciplinary Screening Series. Little Monsters (2019). Saturday September 20. 2pm ET.
Celebrate September with the latest Multi DISciplinary screening
Little Monsters (2019)
Sat. Sept. 20, 2pm ET
Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o) keeps her class safe by killing zombies & pretending it’s a game. Disabled kids are not left out!
I’m so sorry I missed it!! It’s been a weird summer, schedule-wise!
Yeah.... that was me. Fuck AI ❤️
UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!
A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of teachers report using AI weekly, according to a recent survey.
It may seem hard to believe but there is a group of Infectious Disease doctors who signed an affidavit to restrict nurses' access to N95s early in the pandemic
Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
1/ Respiratory protection (including respirators)
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has released CSA Z94.4, a draft revision of its standard on respirators and respiratory protection.
For the first time they are including healthcare settings in the new draft standard.
I can't even begin to describe how angry it makes me that so many people in positions of power in the medical world are fighting against this. Nobody should be getting sicker or dying because they had to go to a medical appointment or be hospitalized. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
It’s amazing to see so many infection control professionals stand up in defence of the right to get infections in healthcare.
I was in the first cohort that got the Hep B vaccine in school in Ontario. To prepare us for this momentous occasion, the province commissioned an educational video featuring a “rap” song. The chorus was “hepatitis b is a real bad rap” over and over again. It still gets stuck in my head.
As long as we can fight off the ID cosplay-scientist types who figure they are so much smarter than everyone else that they have nothing to learn, and the rules should not apply in their little empires (no matter how much harm they do).
Canada might actually bring science back to healthcare. Word is: aerosol protections are coming. This draft respirator standard? Might be the canary.
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Gosh, I wonder why the 'mansplaining as a service' machine doesn't appeal to women as much?
“If I don’t help fund hate, someone else will, and I won’t even get a paycheque! Plus I’ve offset the hate with hate credits earned by performing allyship, so…”
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
She’s the cutest baby in the world!!!
😷 "It’s time we abandon the paradigm of symptomatic spread that leaves us trapped in endless waves of infection, and embrace a proactive, holistic view of airborne disease control that begins with clean indoor air and encourages people to adopt measures like masking and testing." 😷 #COVID
This article is FUN and w imagine the book is even more fun
