From three pages that had everything but an opening to three sources that named the door code slams shut, Week 23 worked the same threshold from both sides — it built the doors we hold open and named the ones coded shut.
Throughline
- Three pages got front doors. Justice & Systems: Name the Power, the Neurodiversity and Gender course, and the Bodymind Affirmation glossary entry all carried real work behind a missing entrance. Each got an opening — a lead, a landing, an introduction — that does what the body of a page can’t: name the stakes before a reader starts to scroll.
- The AI critique named the gate. Three alignment sections landed on AI, Disability Justice, and the Ethics of Making, each a convergent critique of the same machine from a different angle, each landing on impact over intent. Tetsubayashi named exclusion from the receiving end — “coded out.” Hebert carried it into hiring, where résumé screeners reject Autistic candidates before a human reads the application. Watters carried it into education. Engineered exclusion, pushed into its highest-stakes domains.
- The frameworks converged. The Stimpunks Design Method crosswalked the Human Restoration Project’s ARC model — Autonomy, Relationships, Competence — onto SPACE-TIME, Cavendish Space, and our mastery formula. ARC comes out of Self-Determination Theory, the same base we already build on, so the three needs map cleanly — and the crosswalk names where ARC stops: no environmental layer, no systemic layer, the two we treat as non-negotiable.
- June arrived in color. Celebrating Pride Month with Lilypad Library shares the month’s thread with the Gender course’s double rainbow and the Bodymind Affirmation lead — the refusal to treat queerness or neurodivergence as a phase, and the reframe of accommodation as belonging. You hit so hard with all the colors that there are.
The Work
Front Doors
A page can hold everything and still fail the person who arrives at it cold. Three pages this week were proof. Each carried real work behind a missing entrance, and the work was to build the way in.
Justice & Systems: Name the Power was a link directory — section headings pointing outward, with no prose to hold a reader who hadn’t already decided to stay. The rewrite turns it into a landing. Every section gained stakes prose, including the Compliance section, which had stood under its accusation with nothing beneath it. A throughline now runs the length of the page — power, then who gets believed, then compliance, then design — and the closing line, “harm is patterned, so is resistance,” finally has something to pay off. Key glossary terms — ableism, neuronormativity, epistemic injustice, administrative burden — are woven into the prose, so the page works for readers, not just scanners.
The Neurodiversity and Gender course had a premise, a purpose, and seven lessons. What it didn’t have was anything that named the stakes before a reader started to scroll. The new introduction does that. It opens on the parallel that holds the whole course together: the same impulse that tells an Autistic kid to put their hands down tells a trans kid their gender is a phase. It frames the double rainbow with the co-occurrence data — gender-diverse people far more likely to be Autistic, Autistic people far more likely to be gender-diverse — and names that pattern as one the pathology paradigm was never built to hold. Then it previews the work the course does — deconstruct gender, construct community — across Gender Copia and bricolage, minority stress, autigender and neuroqueer, chosen family, queerness, and bathroom access. It closes where the course closes. You hit so hard with all the colors that there are.
The Bodymind Affirmation glossary entry carried rich examples but never opened with one. The new lead defines bodymind as the refusal of the mind/body split — the two are not separable — frames bodymind affirmation as an invitation to meet your needs rather than suppress them, and reframes accommodation as belonging. The entry also got a layout pass.
Coded Out
The AI ethics work pushed one idea into its highest-stakes domains: engineered exclusion. Three alignment sections landed on AI, Disability Justice, and the Ethics of Making, each a convergent critique of the same machine from a different angle, each landing on impact over intent.
Dr. Dédé Tetsubayashi’s TEDx talk, You’ve Been Coded Out: How to Make AI Work for All, names exclusion from the receiving end. “Coded out” is engineered exclusion felt by the person it filters. The ER-triage “death sentence” she describes is POSIWID — the purpose of a system is what it does, regardless of intent. And “build for one, extend to many” is curb-cut logic by another name. The alignment maps the talk against the engineered-exclusion-to-designed-dignity spine, then turns on where we go further: her case for inclusion rests on techno-optimism and revenue; ours rests on justice. Placed after the Watters “Of Course They Booed” entry — both closing on convergent-but-distinct critiques of the same machine.
Paul Hebert’s “AI Hiring Systems Systematically Exclude Neurodivergent Workers,” from Algorithm Unmasked, carries engineered exclusion into employment — the highest-stakes domain our pages had only referenced in passing. Résumé screeners, video interview analyzers, personality assessments: they filter out Autistic and neurodivergent candidates before a human reads the application, and the rejection is invisible and unappealable. The piece lines up cleanly with the New Jim Code, with impact over intent, and with the double empathy problem rendered in code. Where Hebert proposes more representative training data as the remedy, we hold with Srinivasan: the architecture is the problem, not the sample size.
Audrey Watters’ At What Cost? is the education companion to her Of Course They Booed. It takes apart the false teaching/learning divide in the AFT’s “AI era” plan, and the alignment maps it onto our frame — the factory model as transactive dualism, captured “AI literacy,” and constitutive work that shouldn’t be automated. Then it carries further: Watters trends toward refusal, and we hold harm reduction, because toolbelt theory resists coercive prohibition as much as it resists coercive adoption.
Three Frameworks, One Method
The Stimpunks Design Method gained an ARC and the Three Frameworks section. It crosswalks the Human Restoration Project’s ARC model — Autonomy, Relationships, Competence — onto SPACE-TIME, Cavendish Space, and our mastery formula. ARC comes out of Self-Determination Theory, the same base we already build on, so the three needs map cleanly onto what we make. The crosswalk also names the divergence: ARC has no environmental layer and no systemic layer. ARLES and SPACE-TIME do, and they carry on where ARC stops. The point isn’t that the frameworks agree. It’s that they share a base, speak to each other, and that ours reaches further into the conditions a bodymind actually lives in.
All the Colors There Are
June arrived in color. Celebrating Pride Month with Lilypad Library went up in partnership with Lilypad Library, our fiscally sponsored project. It shares the month’s thread with the Gender course’s front door — the double rainbow, the co-occurrence, the refusal to treat queerness or neurodivergence as a phase — and with the Bodymind Affirmation lead, where accommodation becomes belonging.
Two glossary entries deepened the same week. Justice Sensitivity gained selections on the ADHD and Autistic experience of fairness as a felt, bodily thing — sensitivity to injustice named as a trait, not a flaw. And Library Economy expanded with quotes from “What If We Ran The Economy?” — the library held up as model, not metaphor.
The month’s other publications went out around them. The Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter for May synthesized the month from framework to fabric. Two community gatherings got their pages: Campfire Learn Together: Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real and Infodumplings: Hot Metal and Cold Light. And the Learning Space page got a Zine Wall — its philosophy distilled into scannable declarations, eight headings, font-size emphasis tiers.
Week 23 Changelog
- Published “Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 22 2026: From the Maps We Drew to the Paths You Wear, From Prescription to Desire Lines.”
- Justice & Systems: Name the Power — Rewrote from a link directory into a fuller landing. Added stakes prose to every section (the Compliance section previously had none under its accusation); threaded a power → who-gets-believed → compliance → design throughline that the closing “harm is patterned, so is resistance” line now pays off; wove ableism, neuronormativity, epistemic injustice, and administrative burden into the prose so the page works for readers, not just scanners.
- Neurodiversity and Gender course — Gave the course a front door. The new introduction opens on the parallel that holds the course together — the same impulse that tells an Autistic kid to put their hands down tells a trans kid their gender is a phase — frames the double rainbow with the co-occurrence data, names the pattern as one the pathology paradigm was never built to hold, and previews the deconstruct-gender / construct-community arc across minority stress, autigender, neuroqueer, and chosen family. Closes on “You hit so hard with all the colors that there are.”
- Bodymind Affirmation — Added a lead definition to a glossary entry that carried rich examples but never opened with one. The lead defines bodymind as the refusal of the mind/body split, frames bodymind affirmation as an invitation to meet your needs rather than suppress them, and reframes accommodation as belonging. Also applied a layout pass.
- AI, Disability Justice, and the Ethics of Making — Added an alignment entry mapping Dr. Dédé Tetsubayashi’s TEDx talk You’ve Been Coded Out: How to Make AI Work for All against the engineered-exclusion → designed-dignity spine: “coded out” as engineered exclusion named from the receiving end, the ER-triage “death sentence” as POSIWID and impact over intent, “build for one, extend to many” as curb-cut logic, and a where we go further turn on the talk’s techno-optimism and revenue-based case for inclusion. Placed after the Watters “Of Course They Booed” entry.
- AI, Disability Justice, and the Ethics of Making — Added an alignment section mapping Paul Hebert’s “AI Hiring Systems Systematically Exclude Neurodivergent Workers” (Algorithm Unmasked) against our framework. Résumé screeners, video interview analyzers, and personality assessments filter out Autistic and neurodivergent candidates before a human reads the application, and the rejection is invisible and unappealable. Extends engineered exclusion into employment; lines up with the New Jim Code, impact over intent, and the double empathy problem in code. Where it proposes more representative training data as the remedy, we hold with Srinivasan that the architecture is the problem, not the sample size.
- AI, Disability Justice, and the Ethics of Making — Added an alignment section for Audrey Watters’ At What Cost?, the education companion to her Of Course They Booed. Mapped her takedown of the false teaching/learning divide in the AFT’s “AI era” plan onto our frame (factory model as transactive dualism, captured “AI literacy,” constitutive work that shouldn’t be automated), then carried it further: she trends toward refusal, we hold harm reduction, because toolbelt theory resists coercive prohibition as much as coercive adoption.
- Stimpunks Design Method — Added an ARC and the Three Frameworks section. Crosswalks the Human Restoration Project’s ARC model — Autonomy, Relationships, Competence — onto SPACE-TIME, Cavendish Space, and our mastery formula. ARC comes out of Self-Determination Theory, the same base we already build on, so the three needs map cleanly; names the divergence where ARC lacks an environmental and systemic layer that ARLES and SPACE-TIME carry.
- Updated “Library Economy” with quotes from “What If We Ran The Economy?“
- Added selections from “Why Am I So Sensitive to Social Justice and Fairness Issues?” and “Justice Sensitivity And Autism: What Is It?” to “Justice Sensitivity.”
- Published “Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — May 2026: From framework to fabric. From survival to belonging. From the maps we drew to the paths you wear.“
- Published “Celebrating Pride Month with Lilypad Library.”
- Published “Campfire Learn Together: Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real.”
- Published “Infodumplings: Hot Metal and Cold Light.”
- Published “Learning Space — Zine Wall” — a distillation of the Learning Space page into scannable declarations; eight section headings, font-size emphasis tiers.
Week 23. We built the doors we could hold open and named the ones coded shut. The work continues.