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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 18 2026: From Star Stuff to Progressive Learning

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▶ Table of Contents

  1. Star Stuff: From a Page to a Universe
  2. AI: One Page Becomes Two
  3. Building Anti-Ableist Learning Space: A Series Gets Its Architecture
  4. Education Access and Other Pages
  5. Campfire
  6. The Throughline
  7. Changelog

Week 18 was a week of expansion and architecture.

The star stuff project, seeded in Week 17, became a full universe. A page became a microsite, a microsite became zines, a zine became a field guide, a field guide became a broadside, a broadside became a call for contributors. Meanwhile, the AI Collaboration page grew so large it needed a sibling — so we split it, published a dedicated AI and Disability Justice companion page, and kept building both.

The learning space got its own infrastructure: five pages that had been living separately became a named series with a landing page, series intros, and connective writing throughout. The Library got a structural overhaul. Education Access got a logical arc. The glossary kept growing.

If there’s a single thread: things that had been scattered got gathered. Things that had been growing got shaped.

Star Stuff: From a Page to a Universe

In Week 17, we published Love You Down To Your Star Stuff and added it to the footer. In Week 18, we kept going.

The main page grew significantly — new sections on belonging and radical inclusivity, reflection questions, the cosmos riffs expanded, a “Crystal Under Pressure” section, “What LYDTYSS Is Not” and “What LYDTYSS Is,” the shorthands, the inspirations, community voices, Carl Sagan video embeds, notable star stuff quotes, related concepts, and a Transcendental Empiricism section featuring Helen’s Deleuze work.

Then the ancillary pages arrived: a playlist, a meditation on The Fold and the Crystal, and Bone Song.

And then the microsite: ★ stuff — Stimpunks Foundation launched at star-stuff.netlify.app with five publications:

And the Star Stuff Manifesto was published on the main site.

The shorthand is settling. LYDTYSS becomes L★S. It fits.

AI: One Page Becomes Two

The AI Collaboration page kept growing in Week 18. Then it became too much for one page to hold, so we gave it a sibling.

AI and Disability Justice launched as a companion page, split from the main AI Collaboration guide to give disability justice analysis the room it needs. It immediately got its first major addition: “Alignments between Stimpunks AI and Disability Justice guidelines and A People’s Guide to AI.”

The main AI Collaboration at Stimpunks page kept receiving content this week:

We added the John Oliver “AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight” alignment section — the show covers the same territory we hold as guardrails, and it’s useful to name the overlap. We added data from CDT’s 2025 Hand in Hand report, a 2025 systematic review of AI interventions, and Penn State research on AI sentiment and toxicity tools showing trained disability bias. We added the EDSAFE SAFE Benchmarks alignment and a full “Prioritizing Students with Disabilities in AI Policy” alignment section. We added Ruha Benjamin’s New Jim Code analysis, Joy Buolamwini and the Algorithmic Justice League’s “impact over intent” standard, and a disability justice intersectionality section drawing on Sins Invalid’s framework. We added a disabled creators / training data paragraph, a masking/camouflaging passage drawing on Hull, Cage, and Miller, and a “Crafting Livable Worlds” subsection drawing on Rose & Lupton (2026). We added Ng, Stull & Martinez (2019) empirical grounding to the MADTech section. We added an annotated Resources section — eleven entries — and a container “Alignments and External Frameworks” H2 to organize the growing alignment work.

The page now has evidence depth to match its ethical positions.

Building Anti-Ableist Learning Space: A Series Gets Its Architecture

Five pages had been living on the site without a clear relationship to each other. This week they became a series.

We published Building Anti-Ableist Learning Space as the series landing page for the five-part series. Each of the five parts — The Need, The Answer, The Feeling, The Learning, The Gift — received a series intro and updated intros. A reusable “The Shape of This Series” block was updated with links to all five parts.

The Feeling: Electric Belonging and Soaring Inclusion got section intros, a connector between crip space and access intimacy, and a closing line.

The Answer: Reframing, Respectful Connection, and the Presumption of Competence got a full connective writing pass: section intros for all four “Instead of” sections, H3 subsections throughout (In Daily Life / In the Classroom / In Therapy; From Pathology to Neurodiversity / The Double Empathy Problem / Neurodiversity and the Good Human Life; The Harms of Compliance Training / Self-Determination as a Right), transitions, framing sentences, and a closing line.

Learning: Hub and Foundation got a comprehensive editing pass: section reordering, intros for all sections, connective writing, a Fresh from the Campfire block, and a CTA pointing to the series.

The Need for Anti-Ableist Learning Space was split out from the Learning hub as its own page, with series intro added.

Learning Spaces was updated with a section featuring the /space/ series.

Education Access and Other Pages

Education Access: We’ve Turned Classrooms Into a Hell for Neurodivergence was restructured: reordered so the argument follows a logical arc from harm → cause → what becomes possible when pressure lifts, with Self-Directed Learning moved after Autistic Burnout and Behaviorism. A page-level intro paragraph was added to frame the argument and arc, plus eleven bridge paragraphs at each seam. New intros were added to School-Induced Anxiety (naming the “school refusal” misnomer directly), to We Need to Understand Autism and Change the Circumstances, and to Neurodiversity and the Social Model. Internal signposting was added to Behaviorism: Measuring the Surface, Badly.

The Library got a major structural pass: intro paragraph added, TOC moved near the top, framing text added to Our Collections and Books of the Edges, a Start Here pathway added, a connecting paragraph for A Knowledge Commons, bridge sentences for Library Joy and Libraries are Punk AF, a More Stimpunks Library section with Glossary and Learning Space links, brief intros to all sections, and section reordering. “What Is Joy?” was added to the Library Joy section.

Cavendish Space was reordered and received connective writing.

We Believe: Human-Centered Learning received intro paragraphs to several sections.

Bricolage received a “Scenius: The Ecology of Remix” section, reordering, intro paragraphs to several sections, and an expanded “Copia Provides a Strategy of Invention” section moved up in the page.

Competency Network received quotes from Lori Hogenkamp’s LinkedIn post on neurodiversity and the ESF.

Intensive Interaction was updated with quotes from Helen Edgar’s “Neuro-Affirming Practice Is Not a Framework. It’s a Way of Being.” and broken into sections.

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria was updated with six pull quotes from Van Asselt, Reekers & Roke (2026), the first scoping review of RSD in autistic adults.

Love You Down To Your Star Stuff received the “Why this phrase lands — especially for those who have always felt alien” section.

New glossary pages published:

Campfire

We held a Campfire and published Campfire Learn Together: Being Disabled Can Be Pretty Funny.

The Throughline

  1. Star stuff became a project — the page became a microsite, zines, a field guide, a broadside, a manifesto, a call for contributors. L★S is a shorthand that will carry weight.
  2. AI Collaboration page split — too much for one page. AI and Disability Justice is now its own home, with room to grow. The main guide now has evidence depth to match its ethical positions: Benjamin, Buolamwini, CDT, Penn State, Sins Invalid, Rose & Lupton, Ng et al.
  3. Anti-Ableist Learning Space became a series — five pages with a landing page, series intros, connective writing throughout, and a shared “Shape of This Series” block. The series now exists as a thing you can traverse.
  4. Education Access got an argument — structural reorder, arc-building bridge paragraphs, named seams. The page now reads as an argument, not a collection.
  5. Library rebuilt — Start Here pathway, TOC near the top, framing for each section, connective writing throughout. A commons that knows what it is.
  6. Glossary growing — Designed Dignity and Engineered Exclusion published; RSD updated with first scoping review data; Intensive Interaction broken into sections with Helen Edgar’s voice woven in.

Week 18 moved scattered things into structure. The AI ethics work deepened. The learning space found its shape. The star stuff project found its scale.

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