Kavana Ramaswamy

@kavana@scholar.social
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PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge. Lefty. Brown #crip #queer #agender. Caste traitor.

Profile pic: Brown person with short black hair squatting in a green lawn wearing large turquoise glasses, a purple shirt and a red vest. There's a dog on my left, a cat on my right, and a hen in front. I look delighted to be there.

#disability, #accessibility, #SocialJustice #activism, #research, #trauma, #CPTSD, #Socialism

Art account: https://mastodon.art/@kavana

Websitehttps://kavanaramaswamy.com/
Pronounsthey/them
Pronunciationkʌvʌnʌ
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"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

https://organizingmythoughts.org/some-thoughts-on-techno-fascism-from-socialism-2025/

Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025

"This is the endgame of our isolation."

Organizing My Thoughts

Me, jaywalking across a fairly empty road
"thankfully, jaywalking isn't illegal in the UK"
My date: "I'd give it a year for Keir Starmer to ban it. 'These unruly people are threatening the law and order of our fair nation, victimising our drivers!!'"

Should go out with them again 😁

I know, I know. "Blocking replies is impossible". "You can't stop people from disagreeing with you on the internet".

I've heard it all, and don't really care.

Here's my proposal: much like how I can set the post visibility here, I should be able to tell my server to drop any replies to that post.

Not "don't send notifications about replies". Drop them. Don't host them.

And compliant servers would honor that request in the UI.

Do you want this poster? Just donate $15 to Mohammed in Gaza who is trying to keep his family alive despite losing his brother and DM me a screenshot of your donation! I will ship this poster to anywhere within US!

https://chuffed.org/project/118369-help-mohammeds-family-bear-the-heavy-burdens-of-life-in-gaza

Okay, I've mentioned this a few times, but let's talk about The Orange Alternative. It's Poland in the 80's and an art history student noticed that when someone would paint an anti-authoritarian message, it would very quickly get painted over by the government. He decided to paint a dwarf with an orange hat any time he'd see the white paint that covered these messages. Soon other people were doing the same. They embraced this kind of absurdism, what the government was doing was ridiculous, so they leaned into it. The paintings of dwarves soon became organized street parties. They would all wear orange pointy hats and walk through the streets with banners, chanting Dwarf Dwarf Dwarf! They would pool what little extra funds they had together and buy things that people needed like toliet paper and tampons, and would have street fairs with food and dancing, and hand them out. At Christmas, they would dress as Santas, and do the same. The police were flummoxed by what to do, if they arrested people for wearing hats and giving out tampons, they looked foolish and would be embarrassed, not sure what to do with these surreal forms of protest.

There is so much more to this, definitely read up on it, but it was an effective form of protest, creating community, spreading joy and absurdism, because authoritarian governments are absurd. Protests are going to look like a lot of different things, and this is just one of them.

In Russia, they have created Little Picketers, tiny rough clay figures holding banners, that they press into people's hands to remind them, that they aren't alone.

So, don't believe the propaganda, you aren't alone in caring, you aren't alone in wanting a different world, put on your goofiest hat, and let people know they aren't alone either.

PLEASE DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS PLEA🆘
Our flour and food supplies have run out — this is all we have left.
We have nothing left to eat. We are hungry.
Can anyone hear me? Can anyone feel what we’re going through?
Answer me… I’m hungry… I need you
https://gofund.me/69f962fc

#PhantastikPrompts 04.07.2025
Plots, die nur funktionieren, weil alle dumm sind? Discuss.

Ein Thread. Zunächst über mich:
Ich bin autistisch. Mein Alltag, wenn ich mich mal in Gruppen von Menschen bewege, besteht darin, zu ~90% nicht zu verstehen, worüber sie reden und was sie meinen. Das liegt an:
- kaum Subtextverständnis.
- kaum Viben über Soziale Untergründigkeiten.
- wenig oberflächliches Wissen, weil ich Tiefe brauche, um überhaupt zu verstehen.

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Folks need to understand how dehumanizing and discriminatory it is to say the “genuinely disabled” don’t have to worry about Medicaid cuts.

First, everyone needs to worry about millions of people losing their healthcare.

Second, invisible disabilities are real. Mental health disabilities are real.

Saying some are “genuine” infers others are not.

It infers some are faking.

We don’t fake being disabled. We fake being well.

You should never have to “prove you matter”

Your value isn’t determined by your job, your bank account or your physical ability.

Disabled people matter.

Poor people matter.

Homeless people matter.

Immigrants matter.

Trans people matter.

Stop dehumanizing others.

That’s what the fascists want. You want to resist? Be inclusive. Practice intersectionality. Leave no one behind.

Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype