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I’m just one little person, but feels to me like one way to show solidarity to all the negatively threatened artists across industries is to STOP playing with the current batch of generative models, stop putting it in your work, stop baking it into things, stop sharing the funny/cute/weird outputs. Stop giving it oxygen.

All the major models are built on extractive exploitation, with zero consideration of systemic harm. All designed absent the “should” and only caring about the “could”.

—@sara

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“This lawsuit against Adrian Roselli impacts every person who cares about including disabled people in the digital world. It impacts all of us who speak, write, and advocate for digital accessibility that is fair, equitable, and ethical.”

A software vendor sued a prominent accessibility consultant for (soundly) criticizing their product. Here’s @LFLegal on why that matters: https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/adrian-roselli-slapp-lawsuit/

#accessibility #a11y

—@beep

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what sort of a world have we made when a student almost bursts into tears because they’ve knocked on the wrong door and disturbed someone?
Someone working at a school, who’s lifeblood is students.
Someone who’s wages are being paid by the fact that students exist in the first place.
It costs nothing to accept their apology graciously, direct them to where they need to be with a smile, and tell them that everyone gets lost sometimes.
Why would you even go into teaching if you can’t cope with that level of being a basic Human being.

—@cachondo