@Sibshops@Wikisteff@Andres@pikesley I am "on the autism spectrum" (that is, I'm autistic) and I can confidently say I would not score a point against Serena. I also find the typical male ego ludicrous and obnoxious, despite being male myself.
Now I'm wondering, why did autism get dragged into this?
@hosford42 Yep, my son is barely on the autistic spectrum.
It wouldn't be out of character for him to say "I don't know" or "I don't think so." if I ask him if he would be able to get a point against a tennis pro.
@Sibshops That's a common misconception. The spectrum isn't a fade from full-blown non-autistic to full-blown autistic. It's more like a color wheel, with twenty different hues of autism, none of which is closer than any other to being "normal". I look and act neurotypical to most people, until they get to know me better, so people tend to call me "high-functioning" or otherwise water down my autism, but I'm every bit as autistic as any other autistic person. What most people see as more or less autistic is actually more or less able to pretend to be normal.
@neilhimself I need to get my comics organized and in doing so I'll be getting my life together. I'm living in unorganized chaos. I need to go to IKEA. Send help.
I wonder if the whole #AI thing will finally convince artists that modern #copyright regime was never meant to protect them.
It was meant to protect the middlemen. The Amazons, the Spotifies, the Sonys, the Disneys. The film studios, the publishing houses.
Now the middlemen figured out they own basically all of art, and that they can just train a computer on that, to replace artists with a piece of software.
And then stop paying artists even the pittance they were being paid so far.
@rysiek If you consider Audiobook Narrators to be artists and audiobooks to be art (I do, honestly, on both counts), then here is a link to my catalogue of high heat audiobooks:
@AdaraAstin I absolutely do consider audiobooks art and audiobook narrators artists. Many books get a completely new shine, new depth, in an audiobook version!
Does anyone have any links for reverse engineering Spotify DRM? I didn't necessarily need it for myself, have plenty of music, and it would be a pretty inefficient means of piracy vs. BitTorrent or like yt-dlp, but I'm curious how it works.
It always seems to me like the analog gap is particularly gaping with audio, and I wonder how far down to the metal it's protected.
What does it mean in terms of ethics when a song is not on Spotify and is not considered a song (is just a generic video) through YouTube Music? It seems to happen a lot to video game OSTs, especially Touhou music.
How stressful is to be a yoga teacher? Engineers, doctors, school teachers are known to have a lot of pressure in their jobs, I wonder if the same happens for yoga teachers and similar jobs?
Good morning everyone, we noticed that feddit.de has been unreachable since last night (server error). But how come I from Mastodon or Lemmy.ml can find some messages published this morning? Maybe the problem is only with the web server? While can you still connect via the app?
Can anyone give me an explanation?
The front-end is pretty much broken since a few months and there seems to be no admin with either the knowledge, the permissions, or the time to fix it. Federation seems to work, though. As well as the API for apps, but all, most, a lot of feddit.de communities moved to feddit.org with same name.
i'm yet another #ActuallyAutistic#trans lady on Mastodon! i'm an aspiring writer, musician, and digital swer, but not in that order. i rarely know what i'm doing and i think (hope) that's where i get my charm. i mostly just post about the #books, #crochet, #JigsawPuzzles, and hopefully some cute pics.
i'm also in my witch era right now, so i might offer some free (and likely very inaccurate) #astrology / #tarot readings when the mood strikes 💜
@pathfinder@actuallyautistic I've definitely seen people get confused by it, but I've been around the autistic internet long enough to remember how the hashtag got started 😅. thank you for checking that i knew though 😊
#British#diplomacy in a narrow sense first existed from the 18th century onwards, after the #ActOfTheUnion in 1707.
During the 17th century British diplomatic activities expanded and British #emdiplomats were considered to conduct ad hoc diplomatic negotiations at foreign #courts, although lacking clearly defined professional boundaries and assignments or institutional structures. At the same time, British #emdiplomacy commenced building networks of resident #amabassadors and agents who among other tasks gathered information, shaped amicable relations to their hosts and represented and protected British commercial interests. (5/6)
18th century #British#emdiplomacy faced self-made hurdles. The personnel for example were British upper classes who could meet the requirements for ceremonial knowledge, but were not trained in international relations or the duties of #emdiplomats in particular. Thus, while European #diplomacy became increasingly professionalised, British diplomacy remained stuck in an increasingly outmoded understanding of ceremonial and social capital. (6/6)
#booksuggestions anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like #StarTrek for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.
Not necessarily looking for Sci-Fi but not excluding it either. Maybe something historical or steampunky would be cool. 😅
@picklejr@books@books@bookstodon I really like #TheOrville for that. I think they went really far but beware that even if it starts as a comedy, it gets really serious and deep towards the end