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by lizzard 14y ago
That was really lovely. Thanks.
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by lizzard 14y ago
Yet as a wheelchair user in SF, I have huge difficulty hailing a cab, but Uber will come pick me up in 5 minutes anywhere in the city.
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by lizzard 14y ago
She. Did you really read the article and not notice it was written by a woman? On a blog titled "Elaine Wherry"?
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by lizzard 15y ago
They have been testing them for the past few years simply by allowing them on flights.
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by lizzard 15y ago
I completely agree with you, mindstab. I didn't feel sympathy, I felt rage that the dudes writing this story thought it was cool to play around with my actual oppression to make up an imaginary oppression, where both the real and the fake a
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by lizzard 15y ago
Why does the assembly tester guy even have a job? A robot could have asked her the same questions.
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by lizzard 15y ago
"I can look after your house, do the cooking, mind the children".... seriously? Seriously sexist and creepy. Liberate the robots! Overthrow the slave owner "human" class!
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by lizzard 15y ago
Hipster irony that sounds and behaves exactly like actual misogyny, as far as I'm concerned, is actual misogyny. A lot of bigotry and exclusionary behavior is couched in terms of being "just a joke".
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by lizzard 15y ago
For more on death and disability and "right to die" issues, here's a great post by Bad Cripple. http://badcripple.blogspot.com/2012/02/mainstream-media-disc...
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by lizzard 15y ago
When I am clearly near death I would prefer pain relief and hospice-style care at home rather than extreme intervention. And yet, as a wheelchair user (on and off) for the last 20 years and a person in constant pain, I've had people tell me
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by lizzard 15y ago
Yes, here's the FOIA FAQ for the U.S. government: http://www.foia.gov/faq.html . You need a notarized statement of your identity.
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by lizzard 15y ago
It strikes me that the anonymity is mostly pointless here. It may be meant to protect the accuser of taking a hit to their own reputation, but the accused can just post the accuser's name and their own side of the story in comments or on an
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by lizzard 15y ago
Why? Because misogyny is a tool that can be wielded in many directions. And it gets wielded to defend privilege and power. Once a field is defined as powerful, part of an elite, girls often are driven out of it as that field or interest is
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by lizzard 15y ago
That is true, and yet it is also true that it's helpful for many women to learn coding with each other's social support .
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by lizzard 15y ago
I totally agree with you, except I don't think fear is quite the right way to frame it, and perhaps more that many women know they will be talked down to, make a rational decision that they don't want to put up with that, and do something e
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by lizzard 15y ago
As a developer for BlogHer, a women's media company with a big network of independent women bloggers, I hear lots of people who don't know the correct terminology say things like this. When they say "a WordPress.org" they mean "a self-host
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by lizzard 15y ago
I wish it were reasonable to suggest that a company perhaps NOT set it sights on maximizing its profits at the expense of all else about society's infrastructure.
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by lizzard 15y ago
DocumentCloud is pretty cool. It won a major Knight Foundation grant and a bunch of newspapers are using it now.
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by lizzard 15y ago
Did you finish reading the article? The kid choked twice in two weeks because he had an inflammation or infection of the esophagus, which the second hospital diagnosed and treated.
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by lizzard 15y ago
This is a big part of what's driving people into poverty in this country.
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by lizzard 15y ago
That's really too bad. So was the Gaming Simplifier mainly meant for or used by people with disabilities? Or was it meant to get around various interfaces meant to get extra pageview "clicks", and it ended up being amazingly useful for part
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by lizzard 15y ago
I gave a 3 hour course in "hacking" to some middle school students and they loved it. It was interesting enough showing them the many cool things they could do from the command line with a network connection; teaching an actual programming
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by lizzard 15y ago
I love it, and I'd love to read a post on how you did this!
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by lizzard 15y ago
This is why we need better legal and financial structures to create co-operative, worker-owned businesses.
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by lizzard 15y ago
They are great, but I can imagine they might be difficult to manage and to keep clean in some situations.
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by lizzard 15y ago
I love that this guy figured out how to make and re-sell a cheaper manufacturing machine! I have some questions though. One is about the suggestion in the article that not using disposable napkins results in reproductive tract infections. T
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by lizzard 15y ago
It's awesome to see that 30 conferences have adopted an anti-harassment policy in the last year, largely because of Ada Initiative's efforts!
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Apple Doesn't Want My Filthy Disabled Money(deborah.dreamwidth.org)
41 points by lizzard 15y ago|21 comments
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by lizzard 15y ago
That market desperately needs to be disrupted. No, they don't think they have some better feature, they think they can charge insurance companies and Medicare whatever they want for their crappy hardware and software, and the people who can
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by lizzard 15y ago
That was my first thought as well. People with disabilities aren't exactly rolling in cash. I think it's great you're not exploiting desperate people to the same extent the people entrenched in the medical-industrial complex are, but imagin

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