Just the other day I asked AI to create an image showing a diverse group of people, it didn’t include a single black person. I asked it to rectify and it couldn’t do it. This went on a number of times before I gave up. There’s still a long way to go.

  • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    Despite living with one arm, Jess doesn’t see herself as disabled, saying the barriers she faces are societal.

    Actually, this is what disability is all about. It’s not that people can’t complete tasks or take care of themselves, it’s that society doesn’t provide the same tools to disabled people that they provide to so called “able bodied” people to allow them to complete those tasks.

    It’s the trope of the single grocery store that everyone goes to, but the person in a wheelchair, but otherwise able, can’t use because there’s a curb. So, suddenly they can’t feed themselves. It’s not that they are unable to feed themselves, it’s that they can’t access the food without assistance and thus are “disabled”. As soon as a ramp is installed they are no longer “disabled”, just differently abled.