Ashley Shew

@ashleyshoo.bsky.social

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Free Link! #PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec. Disabled person. Philosopher of technology. Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements.

Quote from Paul Jaeger: The best platform isn’t the one with the most features. It’s the one everyone can use without needing a tutorial.
Course ad for Fall 2026 STS 4304/5242: Bodies as Science and Spectacle features a freak show line-up framed by hyped headlines like “Step Right Up” and “Amazing Education!” STS 4304 Bodies as Science and Spectacle, Fall 2026, TTh 9:30-10:45am, CRN 91890 co-convening with STS 5242 CRN 91901. Serving DS, STS, MSOC, bioethics, and any student who seeks interest, intrigue, and fascination. Freak show line up includes professor’s body on the left where she sits holding her leg prosthesis as part of the line up.
Gray and white cat on top of a teal pillow looks at the camera in portrait mode
Big tuxedo cat with lopsided mustache looks at the camera. That’s a big laser printer box he’s on top of.
Sleepy Gray and white cat slightly curled to a crescent on a blanket with a tiger print
Bright yellow bag with words saying You Can’t Hack a Tote Bag with a stack of pens on one side and a stack of quizzes on the other.
Wallflowers on stage
Biohazard bag on a countertop. There’s a purple double lumen port catheter in the corner of the bag
Red-brown dog on a light brown couch, her chin rested on a tall pillow. She sleeps without worry.
Gray and white cat sleeps while stretched sideways along the inside of an office chair
Mustachioed tuxedo cat sits in an office chair at my table and looks knowingly at me
Black and white tuxedo cat with fat white whiskers and a lopsided mustache looks into the camera, as if posing for a portrait but also alarmed
Big tuxedo cat and I look up and away from camera, me joyfully and him grumpily. Fridge with lots of magnets behind us
Gray and white cat laying on the seat of a desk chair and looking out from below the arm rest
A Gorn (bipedal lizard creature) in the dessert with the word Diarrhea
A black and white sketch-style painting called Off to A Nervous Breakdown by Robbie Williams has a figure in a hall in his underwear and the words in a bubble “just off to a nervous breakdown, does anyone want anything?”
Bright stage at TU Eindhoven with slide of Li Bocong and a speaker at the podium
Slide behind Shannon Vallor quotes: “playing with your kid or making a work of art is intelligent human behavior, but if you view either one as a process of finding the most efficient solution to a problem or generating predictable tokens, you’re doing it wrong.”
Fancy stage with slide that says De-coding Our Humanity begin a podium with Shannon Vallor
Big auditorium with person at the front with slide of crowd
A man in a king costume holds a sword above the head of a black dog in a pink vest who is sitting very still, while a dude in a Hawaiian shirt takes her photograph.
Side of masked white woman’s head with earring shaped like a floor slippery caution sign read Caution: Slippery when wet
Picture of yellow sign with black lettering Warning Limbs May Fall with image of a stick figure under a tree where a branch is about to fall on him
Classic doge meme riffing on DOGE with misspelled words and wow: wow, musk ratz, no sekurity cleerances, a coo, much illegal, violatin teh rool o law, so projuck 2025, wow, cheeto cheato
Shrunken potato with a lot of roots growing out of it, on a white plate on a skeleton placemat
Question from LinkedIn: Your team is struggling with learning new AI technologies. How can you address their frustration? Answer from Ashley Shew: You can get rid of AI technologies that have been ill-considered. By getting off the AI hype train, you can maintain regular workflows and address your team's frustrations. Explain you were caught up in the bubble and understand that the bubble is just that -- full of air, slippery, and exciting for babies and children.
Half a classroom scene with high up windows overlooking a foggy forest
Screenshot from Twitter treading: Joever with 9370 posts.
Even flier reads An Evening with Anita Cameron and DisCoTec Center Launch Moderated by Damien P. Williams. June 27, 7pm. Registration link: https://bit.ly/3Rs5pk8 Anita Cameron is a disability justice legen who has been involved in social change activism and community organizing for 42 years. Anita will read from her memoir-in-progress, entitled Troublemaker, and then take audience questions. Image of Anita in her wheelchair looking into the camera with head turned to the side
Screenshot reads Appointment Details, Reason: Continued life in this meaty flesh prison
Road sign that reads drive drunk meet a cop
Blue background with image of me with my prosthetic leg. This reads: Reeve Summit 2024 March 6-8 Keynote Speaker Dr. Ashley Shew Register Now ChristopherReeve.org/ReeveSummit
Bulletin board with photocopy of Bias in The System interview with Damien Williams with the words “we know him!”
Cover of Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew atop an image of books with a ribbon to the right with the words Inc Non Obvious Book Awards Shortlist Selection 2023. See all 2023 winners at Inc.com/nonobvious
Gabrielle Hecht at a podium in front of group, pointing at exits. But this is just starting.
Man in front is slide mid-sentence
Presenter and his slides from my seat view
Slide with presenter to the right with audience members kinda blocking view of presenter
Slide with caesarean rates on a map with the question How did the caesarean section evolve from a fatal recourse for women to a routine procedure in the contemporary world?
Pic of program panel on epistemic diversity featuring Brooke Cokes, Aimi Hamraie, Serena Oduro, Freddy Paige, and Aditi Verma.
Dina Pfau in front of slide that’s not super clear in the photo
Flyer at the shot conference has an image of a mask and the words Care for each other: technologies of solidarity
Image of speaker standing with a computer at tall table to the right of a PowerPoint project of a school room of students at computers from 1966.
Masked person at podium and the back of the head of the man sitting in front of me