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cybernetics

Mind the Gap: Hidden Disability

Invisible disability exposes a structural mismatch between experience and assessment. Institutions rely on narrow snapshots — fixed criteria, discrete checkboxes, procedural thresholds — to determine what counts as relevant evidence. These frames compress complexity into a form legible to an administrative workflow, but the compression also screens out the fluctuating cognitive load, episodic variation, and […]

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cybernetics

Social (in)Security: Criminalising Poverty

Societies consistently construct narratives that assign blame to those who occupy marginal positions, even as they depend structurally on their existence. Numerous sociological studies confirm that poverty and unemployment are not simply outcomes of individual failings but consequences of systemic factors. William Julius Wilson in When Work Disappears (1996) demonstrates how the erosion of stable […]

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culture

Hollow, Haunted, Unwanted: callous social systems

It’s interesting that when you get sick and fall through the gaps in regards to unemployment, social engagement, there’s no support. You’re basically thrown out as far as possible, as quick as possible, and it is made as hard as possible to come back. That is the basis upon which social value is built, upon […]

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cybernetics

Disability Services Fail

Bureaucracy is a dissipative structure, built not to solve problems but to metabolise them. Flows of energy, information, and compliance pass through its channels, and in passing they feed its continuity. The structure consumes instability and recycles it as order, but only order of its own kind—recursive loops of policy, paperwork, and oversight. Like a […]

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life

Post-Stroke Recovery

Statistically, stroke is among the most disabling medical events. About one-third of survivors regain independence, another third live with permanent disability, and roughly one in four will experience another stroke within five years. The danger is sharpest in the first year, but risk never disappears. Rehabilitation outcomes depend on severity, treatment speed, therapy, and other […]

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Philosophy

Brain Damage 2.0

What acquired brain damage has taught me about human intelligence is that it behaves less like a monolith and more like a composite frequency structure—stacked capacities, each tuned to a distinct operational band. When one of these layers is lost, the system doesn’t fail outright. Instead, the remaining functions persist, but with distortions—subtle misalignments, delays, […]