ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

I was going through my photos to delete ones I don’t need, and came across this. I hate to share.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics I don’t know about spoons, but I hate making calls, especially to strangers. And when talking to people I know there’s a lot of pauses. If having to leave a message I end up tongue tied.

#VintageMaleAffection

The guy who can't keep a blogging site running would like to implant a chip in your brain and is looking for volunteers: https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/

Politics Editor for @gbhnews here.
Waking up from Mastadon hibernation. Is anyone there? Political junkie or not, interested in hearing from you, and meeting some Fediverse inhabitants.

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

I don't know how or if I can report this, which means I don't know if I'll write about it "officially" but it's truly unsettling to me how little national orgs, particularly HRC but others as well, are doing in response to the slow motion roll back of all our rights and progress.

They should be making so much noise they're unavoidable. Constant op-eds placed, constant interviews, their websites re-tooled to highlight the current fights and their place in it.

Are my #ActuallyAutistic comrades able to differentiate between anxiety, depression, and dysregulation?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”

Judge weighs punishment for lawyer who didn't bother to verify ChatGPT output.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-fake-cases-made-up-by-chatgpt-judge-calls-it-unprecedented/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

last night at the river

#river #northernCalifornia

@rabia_elizabeth @actuallyautistic thank you for linking that, it was a most interesting read!

it also jives with a thought i’ve been nurturing for a while now. i suspected that i am locating ‘identity’ at a different epistemological layer than neurotypicals: where it is common to see the self as one thing in a world of things, i always erred on the side of feeling the self as the point opposite the world of things, as the stage on which the phenomena describing the world happen. and the self-as-a-part-of-the-world only happens in the phenomena on that stage. they enter stage right, so to say, and speak of things, some of which affect me. and i do like some of those described things more than others (and am super duper into some of them!), but at the end of the day, my self is more the stage on which that happens rather than the play performed on it.

hence i always struggled a bit with gender as well – not in terms of understanding it as a varied spectrum, or which parts of that spectrum i find more likeable, but in terms of not getting the importance of putting my ‘me’ on a spot on that spectrum where it reads as ‘is like this’ and ‘is not like that’ – when what i feel to be my true self exists only as itself, and all those axes of differentiation can only happen within the play, between characters, but not on the stage. i have only me. and even saying ‘ah, i must be agender’ places me too much inside the play to describe my true, inner me-ness.

Hey, Virginia! Today is the last day to register to vote or update your registration for the primary elections in June.

All 100 House of Delegates and 40 Virginia State Senate seats are up election in addition to many local-level races. Voters will pick who’ll be on the general election ballots through Virginia’s primary elections. Getting the best candidate is really important.

Every election matters and this one is no exception. #Virginia #RegisterToVote
https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation

@ScottSoCal @rabia_elizabeth @actuallyautistic

I had what I consider an enviable run. As a young engineer introducing computer techniques to a long- established industry with engineers 10 to 35 years my senior, I could pretty much function self-directed. They recognized that, gave me projects way above my pay grade. Then I had a series of jobs in tech companies, some salaried, some contract, but all focused on getting something done for a client. Goal sheets, performance reviews? Nah!

Republicans in Wisconsin are acknowledging that the state has now shifted leftward, and abortion has a lot to do with that. Many Wisconsinites now understand that Republicans don't have their best interests in mind. #RepublicanLies https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/30/gop-wisconsin-abortion-00099006

#Men #Vasectomy #DoWhatsRight #MakeALaw #EvanRachelWood

I'm not good at nature photography, but here's two little butterflies bonking on my windowsill

The family Coleman used to design the 6-Person Family Tent.

The thing about bowing to pressure from hateful groups is that it’s not like they ever say “cool, we’re satisfied, we’ll back down now.”

They become emboldened, feel justified, and just find new and broader ways to amplify the hate.

I’m looking at you, Target.

I’m autistic. Not an alien. Not a baby.

I’m a human who is worth as much as you because, I am a human.

My value isn’t dependent on what I produce or even what I do.

My value exists because I live and breathe.

And that’s the case for every other #ActuallyAutistic human too.

@actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics