Notices by josh susser (joshsusser@autistics.life)

@thomasfuchs @_the_cloud If you need something smaller, then you probably want an LED digital wristwatch. Terrible battery life, and you had to push a button to see the time.

Pardon the griping, but I've just about had it with every streaming app on the AppleTV having slightly different video player controls. I understand that every app wants to distinguish itself and thinks it has some special insight into how to make clicking PAUSE a better experience, but every one of them is wrong. Consistency is crucial.

When I'm watching a show, I don't think about what app I'm using, and I don't want to have to. I just want the controls to work the same everywhere. But what we've got is a confusing mess, and instead of letting muscle memory do the navigating, I have to use my actual reasoning facilities to figure out how to skip back 10 seconds in the app I happen to be using. And then I'm no longer immersed in the show, but struggling with the app and cursing these fucking designers who wouldn't know a human factor if it bit them in the ass.

Apple had the chance when they launched the platform to make the video controls standard and to require apps to conform. They could still do that if they wanted to, but now they'd have to pay a conversion cost. And it would still be worth it.

@thomasfuchs I also oppose capital punishment, but I've always made an exception for crimes against humanity (which I think should include environmental destruction that makes the world uninhabitable). Some people are unredeemable.

Anyone confused about why these AI companies want regulation now should read up on Regulatory Capture. It's how companies corrupt government to do their work for them and protect them from competition and allow them to rip off the public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

"sloppery slope" - the progression from trying one AI-generated thumbnail to using AI slop for everything you possibly can until there's no real content left on your channel

I got the new covid booster shot yesterday along with a flu shot, and wow do I feel like shit today. Arm hurts, tired and achey all over. Guess that means it's working!

I'm still hoping that one of these years we'll get a covid vaccine that actually prevents infection instead of just making the infection more survivable, so I can rejoin society and go places and shop in stores again. The way society decided to pretend covid was no big deal at the expense of disabled people breaks my heart every day.

@ZiggyZapf
Welcome to the club! 🤓

There's a lot of us autistic/adhd folk who come to the same conclusion independently. And conveniently there's a #neurodiversity movement that's based on those ideas. Shockingly, the wikipedia article isn't terrible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity

My own pet theory is that the NTs started to dominate society when we developed agriculture and could live in big communities, and their knack for socializing gave them an advantage. But I don't know how we can do more than speculate about that - the true story is lost to prehistory.

@thomasfuchs "you're somebody now" 🤮

LOL, the manosphere is such a cesspool of degenerate idiocy. Now they think skipping showers is good because "pheromone maxxing", while women keep trying to get men to just wash their dicks before sex.

now my brain feels weird

https://youtu.be/J6ILiEuUvM0

@mattly clever, though the last line doesn't seem to scan 🙃

@mattly Are tanning beds a good analogy? You can get a better, natural tan from laying out in some sunshine, but tanning beds give you convenience at the cost of raising your risk of cancer and looking like George Hamilton.

@thomasfuchs at least it wasn't a tattoo

I love the stories of writers discovering their neurodivergence when readers notice they wrote an autistic or ADHD character and say "good representation!" and the author goes "huh" as their whole life snaps into focus.
#ActuallyAutistic

@jonahgibberish @thomasfuchs Fuck off with your deliberate misinterpretations.

@Lunalucardrose20 our eternal no-win conundrum: low functioning means you don't get any agency, high functioning means you don't get any support

@thomasfuchs oh man I haven't seen that movie since I saw it in the theaters in 82. It was so laughably bad that by halfway through the movie the audience was all mocking and yelling like it was Rocky Horror Picture Show. Agreed there were some cool ideas in there, but the writing was just a bit much.

@thomasfuchs 5-space tab stops might do it

@thomasfuchs Yeah that's the history of knitting video that I mentioned. I watched that mess play out in real time after the initial reaction caught my attention. It was cool to see how good and informative the responses were, but somehow Hank managed to keep himself out of the controversy even though he's the ultimate buck-stops-here guy for those videos. But it was so frustrating seeing a great response to a bad video from him when there was no similar response to the autism video that wasn't just disrespecting autistic people, but recommending bogus therapy that causes real harm.

I'm not sure how to name the feeling of watching everyone freak out over #HankGreen getting caught using an LLM to make his videos. I do feel some sympathy for folks having their illusions shattered and seeing that Hank is merely human and not an all-knowing paragon of virtue. It's hard to discover your hero has feet of clay.

But I'm also glad Hank is finally getting the ass-whooping he's needed for a while. Long gone are the days when he just posted pithy tidbits of things he found interesting. Now he mostly reads a script written by someone else, so his main skill is appearing confident and informed while repeating words he doesn't actually understand. Is it any wonder he thought nothing of having an LLM write those words instead?

Hank has gotten in trouble before, most recently for a SciShow video about the history of knitting that was complete garbage, and before that for one on HRT. However there's another video that he deserved some harsh feedback for that he never got, and that's the SciShow video from April 2024 about autism in which he medicalized autism and promomted ABA as the only evidence-based therapy for autism, with almost no discussion of the downsides or controversy. That video had a writer credit for someone I never heard of, and that's when I realized Hank had effectively become a talking head who regurgitates words he doesn't comprehend. Anyway, I'm still upset over that autism video so much that I haven't watched a video with Hank Green in over two years (which is really hard, as he's everywhere on YouiTube!)

I don't want Hank to suffer, I don't even dislike him. I am kind of pleased he's being forced to eat some crow and hopeful this will result in an attitude change. And a bit selfishly, I'm hoping I'll see a lot less of him in the future. It's been an exhausting 2+ years clicking "not interested" on thousands of videos.
#ActuallyAutistic #autistic