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Watto is incandescently pissed off about tariffs but still doesnt regret voting for palpatine
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Iβm calling it the No-plan-demic.
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@georgetakei psychopath-demic
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Hello all. I'm Devin. I'm 26 years old. I'm blind. I'm autistic. RFK Junior has been spreading outright lies about autism in the eye of the public recently.
Now I understand my form of autism may be what some call "High functioning" which is in and of itself another whole debate to have, but primarily I'm focusing on the misinformation spread by a man of power, a man who has the ear of the president and is in the position of head of health and human services.
This man claims that it is environmental exposure that causes autism... as if suddenly at age two those with autism have a sudden sharp regression do to "Environmental factors." he's a well known antivax advocate... so you can draw your own conclusions as to what he means by, "environmental exposures."
This man claims, incorrectly, "These are kids who will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, never write a poem, never go out on a date, and many of us will apparently never use a toilet unassisted."
I'm Devin. I'm 26 years old, Blind! and autistic. I have:
payed taxes, with sighted assistance.
I (currently!* hold a contract job at the texas school for the blind as a music and technology instructor*.
I have played baseball with the help of assistive devices with other blind individuals, (look up beep baseball.)
I write music for a living as I am a professional musician, and many will agree music is a poem set to a rhythm and notes.
I currently have a long term relationship... and I live alone, with the occasional help of an attendant, and I just got up off the toilet a few minutes ago after completing my business in a non-abnormal fassion.
This isn't about who you voted for. this isn't about politics. this is a hateful attack on those of us who just happen to think differently.
Please! Boost this for me and help stop the spread of hateful mis and dis information today.
I'm risking the Ire of the president just by writing this post, and he has already said he has no qualms about potentially deporting actually american born citizens to nightmare camps in El Salvador. I don't care. this isn't about politics at all. this is about me fighting for my right to exist as a disabled person!
#PleaseBoost
Now I understand my form of autism may be what some call "High functioning" which is in and of itself another whole debate to have, but primarily I'm focusing on the misinformation spread by a man of power, a man who has the ear of the president and is in the position of head of health and human services.
This man claims that it is environmental exposure that causes autism... as if suddenly at age two those with autism have a sudden sharp regression do to "Environmental factors." he's a well known antivax advocate... so you can draw your own conclusions as to what he means by, "environmental exposures."
This man claims, incorrectly, "These are kids who will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, never write a poem, never go out on a date, and many of us will apparently never use a toilet unassisted."
I'm Devin. I'm 26 years old, Blind! and autistic. I have:
payed taxes, with sighted assistance.
I (currently!* hold a contract job at the texas school for the blind as a music and technology instructor*.
I have played baseball with the help of assistive devices with other blind individuals, (look up beep baseball.)
I write music for a living as I am a professional musician, and many will agree music is a poem set to a rhythm and notes.
I currently have a long term relationship... and I live alone, with the occasional help of an attendant, and I just got up off the toilet a few minutes ago after completing my business in a non-abnormal fassion.
This isn't about who you voted for. this isn't about politics. this is a hateful attack on those of us who just happen to think differently.
Please! Boost this for me and help stop the spread of hateful mis and dis information today.
I'm risking the Ire of the president just by writing this post, and he has already said he has no qualms about potentially deporting actually american born citizens to nightmare camps in El Salvador. I don't care. this isn't about politics at all. this is about me fighting for my right to exist as a disabled person!
#PleaseBoost
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@futurebird My Youtube algorithm makes me afraid because ancient aliens are always preying on the next corner. If I relax even for a second, here they come
What a miserable, hateful person. https://www.comicsands.com/mtg-uk-reporter-kelner?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
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I made this
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@cstross @manna@lispi314 @truh
Charlie, with all respect: one just can't get some of your books online in a legal way. E.g. your
Charlie, with all respect: one just can't get some of your books online in a legal way. E.g. your
despite what your website says, nothing on Kobo, nothing on Google Books. The e-book industry has failed you. Unless you really going to roll your own ebooks, like @pluralistic does, it's all in vain to hope that they care.
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When you see studies like this and know how many people are growing to rely on LLM tools for search and answers π¬
Scary how easily this can lead to misinformation and how it may affect the future of knowledge sharing.
From: @timnitGebru
https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114151600736644686
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@jonny We've ( @catalystcoop ) been doing a bunch of *extra* energy system data archiving work with the Public Environmental Data Partners, putting stuff up on Zenodo, and I've always joked that we should publish torrents too but... maybe we literally should? Is there a community of research users? What would deploying data releases to torrents look like technically? Some of the data we're archiving now is bigger than Zenodo allows (>50GB).
Our new FBI director. Congrats America!
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@georgetakei I genuinely feel pity for my american friends. :(
Sometimes the best thing to do is get some popcorn and hope that Elmo and Altman continue on to destroy each other. One can always hope.
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-openai-reject-elon-musk-bid/
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@timnitGebru Hear me out: The Hunger Games but the contestants are oligarchs.
Someone should estimate the ratings and run this by Trump.
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I know it sounds obvious but donβt do your #organizing on Meta or Google properties. IMO the chances that they will begin to search even your DMs for incriminating content and snitch on you at some point is pretty high.
Use end-to-end encrypted services like Signal.
In fact, switch to Signal even if you *arenβt* organizing anyway. Why give them the pleasure of hosting your content?
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@mattblaze I lived through that era, telling younger friends about it now there is a disconnect as it is abstract. At least these relics make it real for them, maybe (hopefully) making some of my current paranoia and political βtakeβ seem slightly more, well, justified.
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@VaylLarkinPoet
In the end I don't know what to do about it.
I hope that with time people will keep ending up here as walled gardens fail. A few more people showed up with the migration from X. Eventually, threads and BlueSky will fall apart because that's market model for such places. And people will move here.
Can we at least pretend like we want them to join us? That's all I ask.
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@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet very interesting, the sleepy liberal arts college analogy. I think a key point is that, with no algorithm, you have to build your community via following, to some extent followers and #hashtags, which makes for diversity without adversity, no?
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New #introduction time:
π Hey, I've been here on the Fedi for the last 7 years.
Founding member of @weareopencoop working at the intersection of #learning, #technology & #community.
Was PM of #MoodleNet, a decentralised digital commons built on #ActivityPub from 2018-2020 which has morphed into @bonfire, a federated app toolkit.
Wrote doctoral thesis on #digitalliteracies. Was on Mozilla's #OpenBadges team & led #WebLiteracy work.
Pursuing MSc in #SystemsThinking
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