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@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social I knew it was coming, but it still hurts to see. Yet another one of my very favorite tech tools in all the world poised on the brink of destruction because the "top dog" is too pigheaded to see the repercussions of his hypocracy and obliviousness regarding gen-AI. If Linux falls to the slop... I have no idea where I have left to go. I guess I'll look into this BSD thing I've seen folks mention that I've ignored most of my life.

Oooooh, our blackberries are getting awful close to properly pickable! Did get a few today, though. We also have a shocking number of these sorta creepy double berries... #gardening #blackberries #AlmostHarvestTime

My main thought reading through this article is that Frith misunderstands the meaning of "spectrum" and that it's perhaps intentional because she wants fewer people diagnosed. She kind of seems to be leaning toward the idea that *everyone* thinks differently, so autism isn't real for most people diagnosed that way, but she completely neglects the fact that society deems only a very limited range of that different thinking as "normal" and healthy. Even assuming that's true and that there isn't something actually *biologically* broken, it isn't practical to act on that until society changes to accommodate the variations of thought. Like, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with being hyper focused on a task that means a lot to you (as long as your biological needs are still being met). It's only a problem because the society we live in has generally decided not to learn how to integrate that way of thinking, particularly when it affects other people. 2/?

My therapist recently diagnosed me with autism in connection with my need for short term disability leave from work. I hadn't decided how I feel about that diagnosis yet, nor whether I feel it to be true for me, but this article I think has pushed me over the line and I think I want to make it totally officially official now because this lady is off her fucking rocker. 5/5 end

I recently learned that I struggle immensely with forced changes of priority at work and having to shift through many different types of tasks in a single day. Much more so than nuerotypical folks. It's probably a *major* cause of the burnout that put me on short term disability leave for the last 3 months. This way of thinking isn't something I feel is wrong in my brain at all, but rather something that can be managed by changing how I do my work and how my manager assigns it to me, but managing will depend on this little part of my society deciding to work with me on it. If my manager refuses to change how he manages me, the problem will largely remain. 3/?

Frith also keeps talking about how "unscientific" our understanding of autism is because so much of it is based purely on *observations*. What the actual fuck??? *Science is observation*!!! That is precisely how you do science! You see how things work, notice a pattern, form a hypothesis, then observe more intentionally to see whether the hypothesis proves true *through observation*. This whole article absolutely *reeks* of "society is broken, and breaking people every day, but capitalism doesn't want us to make things better for them, so here are all our excuses for why it's actually *wrong* for us to care about taking simple steps to improve society for a vast array of non-rich people". 4/?

@gairdeachas@mastodon.social Aw, what a cutie! You've matured fantastically, though 😉

@garak @yesjohn That looks so good! It'd be a great character portrait for a cyberpunk ttrpg, too.

@Petesmom@kolektiva.social @Coho@mountains.social It's currently working for me on Android, but it has been *extremely* slow at every single step of the identification process.

@gamingonlinux This falls apart immediately: what about household computers? *Plenty* of families don't even set up unique user accounts for each individual user of their computer, so how is that expected to be handled when they have a mix of age ranges on the device? And if all the "verification" is is entering a birth date upon account creation, this will be super easy to work around, but it's entirely likely this whole thing is simply an attempt to chip away at one end of the Overton window on this topic anyway and much much worse legislation is already planned.

@draNgNon@hachyderm.io @DM_Zeppelin@dice.camp I don't think most people would put banking services in the "online services" category. Sure, you may do all your banking through their online portal, perhaps the bank doesn't even have a brick and mortar location at all (Ally bank, for example), but it's still a *banking service* with online features, not an online service that provides banking features.

Mostly caught up on emails already. The rest of the morning has just been *veeeeeeery* slow updates. I wonder if this will ever complete...

@britt@mstdn.games This is really good to know about. Thank you for sharing.

That same exact argument could be used in exactly the same way about language itself, actually. It isn't the words themselves that are beautiful, but rather the way a human put them together.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems The way he uses "The creativity exists outside the code" as an argument *against* anti-LLM sentiment is hilarious.

@britt Oh, switching filaments while the thing is running? Cool!

@britt Wow! I'm intrigued about the mechanics involved in getting 6 colors out of a 4-color printer...

@KatyElphinstone Oh, thanks for this! I'm *very* intrigued that the podcast followed up Frith's interview so quickly with interviews more critical of Frith's views. I'll definitely listen to your episode and likely follow up with the rest of the podcast.

@aphyr Oh my god, those look incredible! 🤤

@GaymerGeek@mstdn.games Oooooh, I should think on that! I had a sudden hankering for Wind Waker come out of nowhere recently and I haven't ever played the HD version yet...

@bullivant@mastodon.ie If this is meant to inform readers that are unfamiliar with him, it might be helpful to explicitly state what, exactly, got him the gross indecency conviction.

@bullivant@mastodon.ie That's fair. There are certainly lots of different limitations across the fediverse.

@mattymedlyn And that folds!?! Incredible!

@moshidon How exciting!