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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 00:39:25 JST Miakoda

   I was testing if Wordbook was installed and working.
   This isn't what I expected for a definition.
   The #ActuallyAutistic people I'm familiar with seem to treat people as people just fine.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 00:43:03 JST Miakoda

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     • 𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤

     @andytiedye Nope. But I need to find out what this program is using as a source.

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     𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤 (andytiedye@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 00:43:04 JST 𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤

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     If their definition of autism is so far off would you trust them for anything else?

     @hellomiakoda

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 00:48:16 JST Miakoda

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     • 𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤

     @andytiedye Open English WordNet Database
     Is where it apprently downloads it's definitions from.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 00:58:01 JST Miakoda

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     • Aaron

     @hosford42 Souuds like all these objects are as shocked as I am. lol

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     Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 00:58:02 JST Aaron

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     @hellomiakoda What the actual fuck?

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     Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 01:21:56 JST Aaron

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     @hellomiakoda I keep trying to put words together to express just how fucked up and wrong and absurd this definition is, but words are failing me. Did someone use an LLM? Did they just look at the word roots and decide they didn't need to actually read *anything at all* about it?

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     Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 01:21:56 JST Aaron

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     @hellomiakoda Bits of it are the exact opposite of reality. Bits of it are exaggerated like they are intended to make us sound bad. And bits of it are utterly nonsensical like a fucking gonzo film.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 01:21:56 JST Miakoda

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     • Aaron

     @hosford42 I looked up words I'd expect shitty definitions from if I asked a right winger. That pattern doesn't match.

     So far, it seems it's just us getting shafted in WordNet.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 01:30:00 JST Miakoda

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     @burnitdown @hosford42

     Dictionary.com is nicer than WordNet

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     A Flock of Beagles (burnitdown@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 01:30:01 JST A Flock of Beagles

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     • Aaron

     @hosford42 @hellomiakoda

     have you seen what's written in dictionaries? they are often wrong and often contain violently oppressive lies. my grandparents had several copies of old Collins' dictionaries full of racist epithets. even the bloody Scrabble dictionary has been pretty racist in its history.

     one entire edition of Merriam-Webster had to be recalled because all of the definitions were wrong.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 01:32:30 JST Miakoda

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     • Aaron

     @hosford42 It'd be a nice program if it's sources were accurate.
     I know nothing about WordNet.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 02:16:16 JST Miakoda

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     • Aaron

     @hosford42 It usrs the Open English WordNet.
     I have no idea where that gets defiitions from.

     https://github.com/mufeedali/Wordbook?tab=readme-ov-file

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 08:54:32 JST Miakoda

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     • Silver Huang

     @silverhuang It does sound like someone got rejected (or merely percieved a rejection) by an autist.

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     Silver Huang (silverhuang@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 08:54:33 JST Silver Huang

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     @hellomiakoda 😱🤦🏻♀️ That sounds less "dictionary definition" and more "vengeful take"... whoever wrote this not only needed a better education, perhaps therapy too.