Notices by josh susser (joshsusser@autistics.life)

@thomasfuchs nah, they'll send children since they need less food, water, and air

I am pleased to announce that I remembered my mug of coffee was in the microwave before it got cold again.

@thomasfuchs look stuff up before trying to discuss it in public. read strangers' profiles before engaging with them. read the other replies before responding. basically, look before you leap.

every now and then the sheer absurdity of this moment in history just takes my breath away

This video is titled "You are being misled about renewable energy technology," but as one comment said it could be called "Technology Connections talks about solar then goes nuclear".

TLDR: An hour infodump on the mathematical inevitability of solar power followed by a 30 minute crie de coeur of Hbomberguy-spitting-facts levels of incandescent rage against the fascism machine.

I've watched TC's videos for a couple years and he's always spot-on, but this video is a whole new level of amazing. Instant classic, well worth the watch, will change your life.

Don't get fooled by the fake ending at one hour – stick around for the good part. He made it with a fake ending so you could use the video to open conversations with people who really need a wake-up call, and explains that fully in the video.

https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM
#TechnologyConnections #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #AbolishICE

it's always a bit demoralizing to see someone i tend to take seriously taking LLM coding seriously. when investigating a new technology, it's totally normal to spend most of your time justifying using it at all, right?

Dunning-Kruger ruins everything

Stop giving known liars the benefit of the doubt.

It's really frustrating that bad people can make good art. I think it's OK to like art made by a bad person, because we're not really in control of what we like or don't like. But that doesn't mean it's OK to buy their stuff or elevate them or give them a pass, at least while they're still alive.

I need an alternative to gmail. What's a good option for hosting email that supports custom domains? Paid service is preferred to ad supported. Easy import from gmail would be nice.

@mattly Ah yes, the old chestnut that routines and habits are not actually the same thing. A routine is the usual way you do something, but a habit is something you usually do. I think there's a lot of consternation caused by folks thinking they can create a habit merely by establishing a routine. It does help a lot to have a good routine, but you need an extra spark to make it a reliable habit.

@inthehands Yes, this whole thread. Basically how I've thought about this for years. There's no such thing as a neurotypical person. Statistically speaking, pretty much everyone is #neurodivergent.

I do think the next question to ask is, what characterizes the neurotype we think of as neurotypical? I do think there is a most-common neurotype that dominates modern society, even if it's not the average of human cognition or the baseline from which other neurotypes diverge. Something about being able to intuit emotional subtext from nonverbal affect, along with an obsession with social status and inability to focus without social support.

@thomasfuchs I saw a youtube philosophy guy explaining how Elon couldn't be held liable for one of his robocars killing someone because the car used AI so it was responsible for its own actions. Utter madness.

A short tale from way back when I worked at Apple: My team had a lot of lunchtime meetings and they usually got pizza to feed us lunch while we worked. There were two of us on the team who were vegetarian, so they'd order six or eight pizzas for the team and all of them would have meat except for the one meatless pizza they had for just the two of us. But everyone likes vegetarian pizza, so people would get in line, take what looked good which included the veggie pizza, and by the time I got to the veggie pizza it would be gone and I'd have no lunch (and the other vegetarian had the same problem, of course). They tried to get the non-vegetarian people to stop eating the veggie pizza, then tried to hide it so only we veggies could get it, but nothing worked. So I suggested they order four kinds of vegetarian pizzas and a couple pizzas with meat, and that worked out great and there was much rejoicing.

This is a post about gatekeeping disability accommodations.

@thomasfuchs If you can't do a thing ethically, you should not do that thing, no matter if it benefits you. That is the entire point of ethics. Why is this so hard for people?

The best part of the visit was when I left and I didn't want to share an elevator with an unmasked guy so I told him he could go ahead of me, and why. He couldn't leave it at that though, and had to tell me masking wasn't a rule anymore so I should just not worry about it or say anything. I had to wait for two more elevators after that, and finally found someone who would let me go first and didn't mind waiting. When I got outside the unmasked guy from the first sentence was waiting for me so he could tell me that people like me make him crazy and then threaten to beat me up, after saying he was afraid I'd hit him with my cane. I just told him not to talk to me and waited while he wore himself out yelling at me, then got in his car and drove off. What kind of person threatens to beat up a frail, old man who walks with a cane? What a joyless life of utter depravity he must lead. I'd like to think he was so hot from getting himself worked up over nothing that he ran a traffic light and got a ticket and then got arrested for an outstanding domestic violence warrant.

once again I am the only person wearing a mask at the dentist office. another day where the world seems to want me to die of a preventable illness.

All these horrible people starting to try to separate from MAGA but want to leapfrog over the part where they are held accountable for all the terrible things they did and get right to the escaping consequences for their actions part. That's all it is. I've seen very few have a change of heart where they stopped being White Nationalists or Christofascists, recanted their bigotry, and turned former conspirators in for crimes against our nation. Or even apologized to people they harmed, let alone trying to make up for it.

It doesn't help to attack people as they start their journey to enlightenment, but it's also not wise to let them off the hook just because they had a moment of clarity. Sure, give them a chance to prove themselves a changed person, but don't trust them until you see that proof.

@thomasfuchs I'm old enough to remember when politicians would resign over mere accusations. Now you have to drag them into court and get a conviction and send them to prison to get them out of office. I miss shame being a moderating force.

@mattly I think you mean the Red Vic. I probably saw it at the Castro theater, but I'm not sure.