Notices by MeredithW (meredithw@wandering.shop)

@Teri_Kanefield @chrisod How wonderful to have written a book that is assigned reading for schools!

@Teri_Kanefield @chrisod So cool about the photo!

I just checked and our local library system has the book, even as an ebook, so I now have it on my kindle next in the queue.

You have to keep your priorities straight.
#Caturday

#disability #accessibility #ASL

#plural #squid #TGIF

@mmasnick Is there any chance that people will be able to connect between Bluesky's federation and Mastodon/fediverse?

Librarians rule!

@Teri_Kanefield @cdlhamma The quote I read said "Consider this statement a gag order forbidding all parties from posting emailing or speaking publicly about any of my staff."

@LauraLangdon @isagalaev

* I think ADHx is a disorder if it feels like one to you, isn't if it doesn't. I know people who don't feel like it is, and I'm cool with that for them. I just don't want them insisting I should deny my own lived experience where it does cause impairment in my life.

* I definitely think it should be renamed for a host of reasons (including what I said earlier; it's a deficit in attention REGULATION, not attention itself).

@marix It's much more frequent and severe for people w/ADHD or other EF problems. Most NTs have difficulty relating to it and truly understanding it. IME, if someone relates to this as a frequent life problem, there's a good chance they aren't really NT, whether or not they have an official diagnosis.

@utzer It's an executive function issue. EF dysfunctions are a core symptom of ADHD but not exclusive to it.

I've had this happen for things that I normally wouldn't even find difficult - at times I'm completely unable to identify what triggered it for a specific task.
#ADHD #neurodiversity #ExecutiveFunction

For all of us with invisible disabilities.
#disability

The hazards of TV

An MIT student asked AI to make her headshot more ‘professional.’ It gave her lighter skin and blue eyes.
“I was like, ‘Wow, does this thing think I should become white to become more professional?’” said Wang, who is Asian American.

@Wolven have you seen this?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/19/business/an-mit-student-asked-ai-make-her-headshot-more-professional-it-gave-her-lighter-skin-blue-eyes/

@StillIRise1963 I'm old enough to remember the election of 1968 where people saying they refused to vote for "the lesser of two evils" helped Richard Nixon become president. People are willfully blind to the fact that if they pull that crap, we (and they) end up with the *worse* of two evils, often much worse.