When autistic people struggle to understand others, it's seen as our deficit. When others struggle to understand us, that's seen as our deficit too.
But... communication goes both ways!
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(Slide credit to Chris Bonnello, at AutisticNotWeird)
I’m fed up with all of these radical leftists and their extreme policy positions, like “Healthcare” and “People with more money than they could ever spend should pay a little bit of taxes sometimes” and “Maybe the planet could be a little less on fire.”
One Middle Chinese word 茶 split into two world-circulations.
Overland + Indian Ocean kept the Mandarin chá:
Russian чай, Hindi चाय, Persian چای, Arabic شاي, Turkish çay, Swahili chai.
Sea routes via Dutch Hokkien traders took the Min Nan tê:
English tea, French thé, German Tee, Dutch thee, Spanish té, Italian tè.
The one exception: Portuguese went by sea from Macao yet kept chá. The traders you worked with mattered more than the ocean you crossed.
You don't actually want LLMs; you want public libraries & librarians.
You only think you want LLMs because you haven't been to the library recently enough or talked to a librarian.
Most demonic possessions start when the victim clicked a link in a phishing email.
Y'all'd'n't've come here unless you had a problem with my contractions.
YIFO (yesterday I figured out, it's kinda like TIL) that the styling for titles with or is, in English:
Title : or, other title
in French:
Title, or other title.
I think. Like from a couple of instances.
- My wife was bitten when she got too close to our neighbour's evergreen shrub with berry-like cones.
- Juniper?
- No, it was their dog.
Get AI agents the fuck off Fedi!
They're an existential threat to small instances, and they're a primary contributor to moderator burnout.
Now that it’s getting cold out can we close the Overton window?
Maybe he's born with it
Maybe it's Maybelline
I'm impressed with Google's speed run into making their search engine completely worthless.
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117549658748012729
Open Source maintainers should also get one homicide free and a couple of bank robberies.
They‘ll still be beneficial to society.💁🏻♂️
Quietly waiting for more companies to discover that "AI-free environment" is the magic phrase that will attract the smartest, most dedicated experts in the world to come work for you. We don't often get magic phrases with zero downsides but we've got one right now and you can just, you know, use it
Fair-trade cocaine, or the scope of your utilitarianism • Buttondown
https://buttondown.com/hypernoetic/archive/fair-trade-cocaine-or-the-scope-of-your/
I wish we could name and shame the "reviewer" who sent in a shitty slop review of my PhD's journal article. 1.5 pages of generic waffle, (after 1 plausible sentence of "this paper does X"). You can slop your own brain to sludge, go ahead, but wasting the efforts of my precious smart young PhDs? You should lose your own doctorate. You're DDoSing academia. #academicchatter #slop
"Universities have accepted the overtures from this industry in a FOMO-driven frenzy without consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether generative AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact of AI on the students who have been entrusted to their care. "
Drimmer, S. and Nygren, C.J. (2025) ‘Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education’, Public Books, 16 December. https://www.publicbooks.org/four-frictions-or-how-to-resist-ai-in-education/