Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

What bothers me about Frog and Toad is that the birds are clearly allistic (not autistic), and the lessons that Frog and Toad learn are often about how to meet allistic expectations

After the birds learn what Frog and Toad are doing with the cookies, they say (repeatedly) things like "I love cookies"

Do they ask for the cookies? No. Do they explain how they can help Frog and Toad with the cookies? Not in a direct way, only through implications.

Eventually, Frog says, "I know what we can do!" — and finally realizes that they can give the cookies to the birds

This is the double empathy problem for autistic people: realizing how allistic people communicate about their needs and offers, and conforming to that.

It's not even clear about how to interpret allistic signals and navigating allistic communication/interpretations. It's just showing that autistic people have to figure it out ourselves.

This is wrong. The solution to the double empathy problem is not to learn how allistic people communicate or how to interpret allistic communication, but for both autistic and allistic people to learn how each other communicate and to meet in the middle.

#FrogAndToad

I'll say it again for the people at the back.

Universal Basic Income is not welfare. UBI is de-risking living.

That matters to poor people

But that also matters to rich people. You want to leave your rich husband, but he'll sue you into the ground? UBI has your back until your lawyers come through.

You're a rich white guy at Big Corp who wants to leave to pursue a business idea. UBI has your back for that period of uncertain cashflow.

UBI is a powerful solution to two issues in the economy: the ridiculous inequality of wealth, and the cartels which dominate most areas of the economy and new entrants face too much risk.

Researchers describe how to tell if ChatGPT is confabulating

Finding out whether the AI is uncertain about facts or phrasing is the key.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/researchers-describe-how-to-tell-if-chatgpt-is-confabulating/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The thing that a lot of cis people don't get about cis men playing trans women in media, is that it's not just offensive because they're stealing the role from a trans woman or that they are destroying "real representation", the worse part about it and the most transmisogynistic part about it is that by having a cis man play a trans woman, they are literally saying that trans women are just men impersonating women, aka men in dresses. A cis woman playing a trans woman would still be stealing the role from a trans woman, but it would be infinite times less offensive and less transmisogynistic then a cis man playing one, because it would still be a woman playing a woman. Also I'd love to see more trans women playing cis women.

My gender

The evidence fails to support the claim that homework is academically beneficial for students in any meaningful sense, as I showed in this chapter from my book The Homework Myth: www.alfiekohn.org/homework-improve-learning/.

Many HW defenders quickly pivot to claiming that it promotes self-discipline, responsibility, time management & study skills, etc. Yet over the last 20 years I've been unable to find a single study that supports this folk wisdom about HW's supposed nonacademic advantages.

And now Google's "AI" is feeding back into itself.

State of the art anti-cheat techniques: Roblox detects if you have the string "x86dbg" in a window title (or window?), so kids are changing their display names and discord server names to x86dbg to get people kicked from Roblox.

If you do a search for this, links to big discussions on Roblox forums return "Sorry that page is private", so I guess that's their solution to the problem?