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

Please enjoy this logo for the Scalzi Family Foundation, my family's charitable foundation, which was created for us by artist Natalie Metzger. I think it's delightful.

“We just refuse to submit to that."

Florida’s legislature has signed a slew of anti-LGBTQ bills, but some local organizations are doubling down on celebrating Pride Month.

During Pride and every other month — people have a right to express themselves. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/florida-pride-concerns-anti-lgbtq-legislation-1.6859498

The whole AI thing will end when competing algorithms mansplain each other to death.

Nobody is trying to turn your kids gay or trans. We’re just trying to make sure they don’t turn out like you.

Sharing this email I received from March For Our Lives. So exciting!

It’s finally happening! 🎉🎊🥳

Four years of class, cram sessions, and waaaay too many skipped school days to join us in the fight for gun safety, David is officially graduating college as part of Harvard’s Class of 2023!! 🎓

In 2018, David was just another teenager in Parkland, Florida. Then, the unthinkable happened at his high school. He helped shine a light on that horrifying day and joined his classmates in sparking a global movement to end gun violence. Five years later, and a college degree wiser, he’s still with us in the fight and the movement is as strong as ever.

We couldn't be more thankful for his fierce advocacy for gun safety all while juggling the responsibilities of being a college student.

We want to wish David a happy graduation and let him know how proud we are of his accomplishments.

🖋️Sign our graduation card to congratulate David and send him a warm message

https://secure.everyaction.com/GR7dY5ZwUUiGoCOdQRe7RA2?ms=fl_em_20230531gradcard&emci=46aa96b5-fffb-ed11-907c-00224832eb73&emdi=74d7de54-cfff-ed11-907c-00224832eb73&ceid=2044973

Thanks for joining in. We’ll compile everyone's signatures and messages so we can send David a special congratulations.

In solidarity,

March For Our Lives

I'm preparing a public talk & just popped my #Mastodon handle on the first slide.

It's a good look & I hope to see more of these logos at conferences & events.

CONCERNING: Some progressives are voting for a US default (shouldn't be used for pol purposes). Jayapal, AOC & Khanna: voting NO. Dems say they expect they will need to help provide numbers & are whipping key Reps by exchanging certain favors for their support: Japayal: internal whip count of the CPC’s 100 members found that “a majority” oppose the bill🚨, adding that “it could be“ enough for the group to actively whip against it. House Dems fracture on debt ceiling vote-: https://www.axios.com/2023/05/31/house-democrats-debt-ceiling-bill

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