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Peter Gassner
@peter@mastodon.gassner.io
mastodon 4.7.3Interaction Designer with a passion for functional programming and data visualisation. Either highly enthusiastic or overly critical; always political. Works at ETH Zürich.
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“Researchers measured autistic people against neurotypical expectations and called every difference a deficit. They tested empathy by measuring in-group preference and missed commitment to universal fairness. They measured creativity by counting the number of ideas and missed originality. They saw moral consistency and called it rigidity. They saw deep engagement and called it rigidity. They saw sensory richness and called it disorder.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202601/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-autistic-people
I‘m not laughing at the delusions of our billionaire overlords anymore, these fuckers need to go.
“Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place.”
https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/
Kein Durchblick beim Thema Energie? Ruedi Widmer erklärt es uns.
This is a really interesting paper on how stress reduces prefrontal cortex performance. My therapist is always like “if you’re stuck, first remove all stress” and now I can see why.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2907136/pdf/nihms197465.pdf
There was a super intense rainbow afterwards 😍
Ugh, DHH referencing Kathy Sierra hits hard. He‘s part of and driver of a toxic culture that makes the online existence of brilliant minds like Kathy‘s impossible. It has been many years and I‘m still angry about what was done to her and I miss reading her 😢🐴❤️
I got pretty wet taking this video, but I just couldn't stop watching the rain paint this wall.
Washed over.
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@ScottishGreens This idea was rejected by 65% of Swiss voters in 2013 and I‘m still bitter about it … So, go Scotland!
https://swissvotes.ch/vote/575.00?term=1%20zu%2012#search
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@jrdepriest Good to hear! I feel like it's a message that needs to get out there, so I shared it among my offline circles as well.
But about being naïve and foolish: no! That’s just the result of years of being talked down to, isn’t it?
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PS. Das ist übrigens aus dem Sonntags-Newsletter der @republik_magazin@republik.social
PPS. Die Republik gibts aktuell günstig und mit drei tollen Versprechen, wenn man Mitglied wird: https://www.republik.ch/kampagne/2000-mitglieder-3-versprechen
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Oh dear, I started digging into Westphal’s older blog posts: he’s an anti-masker and a bit of an anti-vaxxer. Doesn’t say anything about the technical basis of his posts, of course, but about his thinking in general 🤷
Walney looks fun!
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@crimann@mastodon.social A belated happy birthday! I read your long list now and I love every single item in it, it's a great collection! 😍
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@UndeadMinotaur I would like to say «despise being despised by» to take a step back out of the vicious circle 🙃
What is pwASD? I can’t readily find it and I don’t now what the «pw» prefix is meant to say.
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@Susan60 You describe pretty much what we’ve been through. Once we discovered PDA things got so much easier for us to contextualise and properly accommodate our kid. We had to discover this on our own, because it is not enough that all the symptoms match 100% – if it is not accepted widely enough, no one wants to be the person to admit that it could be that and that things like ABA are actively hurtful 🤷
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@martinvermeer @jrdepriest It didn't occur to me to dig deeper, but that’s a great idea! The Canary Code, right? It looks interesting, I should read it too :)
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@db@typo.social My sympathies! It’s bad, but it’s also „interesting“ with a designer lens 😜
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@theohonohan@graphics.social Did not know it, but can see how it fits the theme :) I appreciate their eye for the little things.
Engineering, but with computers! This I find fascinating, I hope it’s not just because it’s from a domain I understand so little about that I wouldn’t see the glaring holes 😅
Reminds me of Wolfram Alpha: build a proper model and reap the benefits.
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@theohonohan@graphics.social I glanced over his 2021 extended paper and it looks very interesting! But oh, it’ll take me a while to work through, it’s dense and made up of so many pointers to more ideas. 😆
But I did read the Being and Becoming section just now, which makes sense! It’s not super practical, but I liked his illustration of undo, where he replays the log until the point he wanted to undo to.
I played with Westphal’s ideas in code today and like what I’m seeing.
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Haha, and the motorbike that just passed by sounded like Chewbacca. Dang, my brain.
(There goes Secret Heart again.)
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@Susan60 Thanks. When I first explained it to her on a high level, she was relieved and found it extremely helpful – understandably! It’s just a good thing to understand what is happening and that it is not your fault …
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@falcennial It feels similar to when we think back to how patients were treated 100 years or less ago: looking back it really wasn't helping and feels cruel from today’s perspective. Hard to tell the extent of this cruelty: I would hope it’s a bit less crass, but who am I to tell …
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@fusselwurm@berlin.social Ja, aber das ist mir zu real – ich brauch den Beamten-Charme um die Dystopie einordnen zu können 😎 @karpi@chaos.social
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@Stegemann@troet.cafe Nice, das ist doch mal eine erfreuliche Lieferung! Der Krieg wird ja besonders von den Lobbies geführt, natürlich mit Worten statt Waffen, aber die Auswirkungen sind dann doch auch verheerend. Gut, dass du bald deine Energie vom besten Fusionskraftwerk beziehst, das wir haben :)
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@superpixel@mastodon.social Some songs are not only timeless, they need to be endless! 🥰
But now that you mention it, I never really listen to •remixes•, I guess I just don’t understand those 😅 But I love cover hunting as an excuse to listen to a song many times over.
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world I just enjoy getting a glimpse into what Randall’s thinking about, be it funny, weird, abstract, abstruse, spacey, or whatever 🙃
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@UndeadMinotaur Ah, got it. So «pw» is a bit like the «being disabled» vs. «living •with• disability» – you live with it, you are not defined by it.
PDA has an even worse abbreviation than ASD: •pathological• demand avoidance. So some suggest to say pervasive drive for autonomy instead. Yeah, I guess there are quite many abbreviations that should be rethought …
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@jitterted@sfba.social Thanks for clarifying! Yes indeed, I need to get down to coding to get the loose ends tied together :)
Mein Kollege hat diese tolle Website gemacht als kleines Projekt um die Klimakrise zu verarbeiten. Eine super Sache!
«Wir rasen auf unsern Treibsätzen über den Planeten und denken: Es wäre schön, immer weiter zu rasen, weil rasen ist Bewegung und Bewegung mögen wir. Aber mit den verrotteten Pflanzen von Jahrmillionen verbrennen wir auch unsere Zukunft. Wir müssen wenden. Besser früher als später.»
https://www.wenden.ch/was-bisher-geschah
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@rizzi@gloria.social Works great! One thing I immediately missed was that it would search my recipes in Mela. Kind of a unified search box. Or a button that would take a search in my own recipes to foodle. I‘m just too forgetful/lazy/under time pressure to search in too many places :)
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@theohonohan@graphics.social Well, calling it transgressive very quickly leads to asking: «What is beauty?» And that‘ll take a while to unravel. Which I find in itself beautiful! 😅
I think for me and the Eames‘s clip one aspect is the joy of shared curiosity about this very question …
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@jitterted@sfba.social Thanks for the pointers! I never got my foot into the ES door before, so I only observed from a distance, but this weekend I got hooked and am on my way to learning more :) I now had a look at those slides and they are useful, will definitely watch your talks!
ES makes a lot of sense to me, but questions like «Where will I hit limitations in production?» «Can I work around them?» or «What if we refactor to different events?» are what I need to explore more.