reading the news about the flood here in Norway and wiki pages on the revolution in Iran converged into a bizarre dream during my nap: i'm a spy fighting the regime and the flood simultaneously, there's danger everywhere and i must save people (from either fanatic theocrats or masses of water, choose your poison), pew-pew 🦸♀️
all i wanted was to refresh my memory of what happened in Iran during that time, so i'm not... erm... so disoriented to read Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (see what i did there? 🥁🥴)
📖 According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, in fact.
The whole of our six-part adapation of @neilhimself and Terry Pratchett's wonderful 1990 fantasy Good Omens is on BBC Sounds now - and you can listen from anywhere in the world. Tell your friends, good or evil.
I have been massively enjoying this rerun of the radio series on @BBCRadio4 of the much missed #TerryPratchett + @neilhimself 's genius book #GoodOmens.
It's been wonderful to introduce a whole new generation to both Pratchett and Gaiman's work.
A big recommend if you haven't read/heard it.
(Have not seen TV series so can't compare to that)
@Ruth_Mottram@BBCRadio4@neilhimself
FWIW, the #BBC adaptation of Good Omens is probably my favourite. I have read the book & seen the TV version, but the radio adaptation wins for painting mind pictures & humour. If you are a fan of #TerryPratchett and haven't heard it, do listen. https://bbc.in/3qgSXt7
REALLY sick of hearing about how you have the experience to make value judgements about the experience of being diagnosed as a child.
I get that the diagnosis is a revelation.
And it is. I agree .
But i want to puke remembering how that "privilege" was used to justify telling kids "IF you manage to prove that you are able to emulate a person you can be awarded honorary adult status"
Otherwise you count as something between a child and an animal
Now im going to address the reason i made this thread
The phrase
"Aspie Supremacy"
First off
The concept of subtypes was CREATED to force "useful" autistic kids to compete for the privilege of being allowed to survive.
The fucked up messaging designed to make us desperate to prove we are NOT useless was built in on PURPOSE.
And that message ALSO is reinforced by ableist thinking in general.
Diagnosis or no, internalized ableism ISN'T avoidable
And here's the part which adult dx people are NOT going to like.
If there WAS a hierarchy within the autistic community based solely on being autistic.
The privileged category would be people who masked well enough to reach adulthood without being outed.
If You were diagnosed as being autistic without needing much support before autism was recognized as a SPECTRUM...
Most white people would have been labeled either high functioning or aspies
I just watched Hardware Unboxed demonstrating a last gen #Radeon completely obliterating current gen #GeForce in both raster performance and raytracing, in the $500 range. #Gaming#VideoGames
When telling big national news stories, can we deliver local digital versions to every town in the UK? What about to every ward? Read more about our latest experiment in semi-automated content generation here https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2023/salco-2023/
@emilymbender “an LLM generates output “by emulating a nervous system but without attempting to simulate it. This precludes the possibility that it is conscious.” Great read!! @linguistics#linguistics#AI#ChatGPT
... @opensuse Project turns 18 years today in 3,5 hours
also @debian turning 30 next week, was thinking of doing something in Stockholm but signed up to an @android developer meetup at Klarna instead and got busy
The sea in #Normandy looks different if you’ve chosen (a local bookstore accommodated) to read #Condé, #Glissant, and a book on regional entanglements in the #transatlantic slave trade and the slave economies. #slavery#history
Glissant, in his “discours antillais”, talks about “inquiète tranquillité”:
“The uneasy tranquillity of our existences, by so many obscure relays tied to the tremor of the world.”
This is the 3rd time I've seen someone who makes YouTube videos go mad trying to second guess "the algorithm."
YouTube provides creators with a firehose of data: How long people watch, when they stop watching, the distribution of views.
YouTube also sometimes selects videos using a secret, unknowable algorithm to be "promoted." For small and medium creators this is a huge deal and the difference between 500 views and 500,000.
For self-critical analytical minds it's a toxic combination. 1/
Once again I'm seeing a creator I like as a person, someone who cares about science get obsessed and maybe a little delusional about little blips and kinks in the watch-time graphs for his videos.
You see suddenly "the algorithm" hasn't been boosting his videos like before. He didn't change anything the views just dropped off. And so he's looking for a reason he can control for this happening.
But... it might not be anything rational. They change the algorithm all the time. 5/
My advice is to avoid depending on YouTube if you have the option. It's not a good work environment.
I hope that this guy comes out of it. I'm not kidding when I've said it's driven other people mad. Like they had to get therapy because of it... which sounds funny ... until you think about what it would really be like.
Thanks for letting me share about this. It's weighing on me today--