J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

Twenty-five years in #InfoSec.
My posts here are my own opinions. I am not speaking for any entity or employer with which I am now or have ever been affiliated.

#USian

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As a writer, I believe genAI removes the *joy* from creating art and strangles the introspection and growth it provides.
It's also one of the most environmentally devastating uses of the underlying hardware.

#IAmWoke

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We are part of the Earth, not apart from it. We rise or fall together. Nobody is going to save us from ourselves, but us.

#BlackLivesMatter #BLM
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#TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
#FreePalestine
#AntiFa

#NoIndex #NoBots #NoAI

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2026-04-19 16:40:10 UTC

@npub1rx6…pdar
Hello there. I'm thankful that you are continuing to keep what was Megalodon alive. I've tried other Mastodon client and always come back to this one.
But it crashes a couple times a week.
I get random-seeming crashes that I can't easily reproduce and the logs just look like a memory leak.
Is it worth me when opening an official bug report when I can't tell you anything about why it crashes?
I used to think it was related to previewing web pages with the built-in browser since my phone is set to use IronFox instead of Chrome or WebView. But I changed the setting to always launch in the full browser and it crashed again not long after.
I'm running it on a Google Pixel 7 Pro. I just rebooted to apply a security update this morning so I can't easily provide the OS version from last night's crash.<code>2.3.0+fork.110.moshinda-play (110) 2026-04-19T03:00:58.712Z java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 144 byte allocation with 4075008 free bytes and 3979KB until OOM, target footprint 536870912, growth limit 536870912; giving up on allocation because <1% of heap free after GC. at java.lang.StringFactory.newStringFromBytes(Native Method) at java.lang.StringLatin1.newString(StringLatin1.java:770) at java.lang.StringBuilder.toString(StringBuilder.java:478) at me.grishka.appkit.imageloader.requests.UrlImageLoaderRequest.<init>(UrlImageLoaderRequest.java:27) at me.grishka.appkit.imageloader.requests.UrlImageLoaderRequest.<init>(UrlImageLoaderRequest.java:36) at me.grishka.appkit.imageloader.requests.UrlImageLoaderRequest.<init>(UrlImageLoaderRequest.java:44) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard$SingleCategoryAdapter.lambda$new$0(CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard.java:242) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard$SingleCategoryAdapter.$r8$lambda$MVSWsH80noB7_zYH7nOGF_m6r4Q(CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard.java:0) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard$SingleCategoryAdapter$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.apply(R8$$SyntheticClass:0) at j$.util.stream.o.accept(SourceFile:195) at j$.util.a.forEachRemaining(SourceFile:720) at j$.util.stream.a.t(SourceFile:484) at j$.util.stream.a.K(SourceFile:474) at j$.util.stream.x1.b(SourceFile:913) at j$.util.stream.a.w(SourceFile:234) at j$.util.stream.f2.collect(SourceFile:578) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard$SingleCategoryAdapter.<init>(CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard.java:242) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard.onCreateView(CustomEmojiPopupKeyboard.java:119) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.PopupKeyboard.ensureView(PopupKeyboard.java:41) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.PopupKeyboard.getView(PopupKeyboard.java:47) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.displayitems.EmojiReactionsStatusDisplayItem$Holder.onBind(EmojiReactionsStatusDisplayItem.java:207) at org.joinmastodon.android.ui.displayitems.EmojiReactionsStatusDisplayItem$Holder.onBind(EmojiReactionsStatusDisplayItem.java:159) at me.grishka.appkit.utils.BindableViewHolder.bind(BindableViewHolder.java:33) at org.joinmastodon.android.fragments.BaseStatusListFragment$DisplayItemsAdapter.onBindViewHolder(BaseStatusListFragment.java:1226) at org.joinmastodon.android.fragments.BaseStatusListFragment$DisplayItemsAdapter.onBindViewHolder(BaseStatusListFragment.java:1210) at me.grishka.appkit.views.UsableRecyclerView$FooterRecyclerAdapter.onBindViewHolder(UsableRecyclerView.java:433) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:7256) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.bindViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:7339) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.tryBindViewHolderByDeadline(RecyclerView.java:6197) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.tryGetViewHolderForPositionByDeadline(RecyclerView.java:6463) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.prefetchPositionWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:287) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.flushTaskWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:344) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.flushTasksWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:360) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.prefetch(GapWorker.java:367) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.run(GapWorker.java:398) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:1095) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessageImpl(Handler.java:135) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:125) at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:269) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:367) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9333) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:566) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:929) </code>

2026-03-29 14:33:05 UTC

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I haven't had the WiFi problems you describe on my HP OMEN 15-ax252nr with an Intel i7-7700HQ (2.80 GHz) CPU and NVIDIA GP107M GeForce GTX 1050i Mobile GPU running the current Linux Mint Debian Edition.
The problem I **do** have is with that GPU. Once I install the official nVidia DKMS drivers from the regular LMDE repo, the various powerstates become unstable. Hibernate is already weird in Linux compared to Windows. I've had issues with it for as long as I've tried to use it. But with the official nVidia drivers, hibernate, sleep, and shutdown don't work correctly most of the time. The screen shuts off and the fans stop running but the lights stay on, including the keyboard lights. Opening / closing the lid doesn't do anything. I have to hold the power button down and force it to shutdown.
The longer the laptop is on, the more likely this is to happen. It's a pain in the ass. I never had these problems for the five years it ran Windows 10 but it's reliability repeatable in the couple of years it's run Linux: Linux Mint, LMDE, and Bazzite all did it.

2026-03-23 12:42:19 UTC

The high yesterday was 91° F but it got down to 36° last night and today's high is supposed to be 56°.
This is not the first time we've had swings like this in the last couple of years.
Just thinking about how willfully blind and / or evil anthropogenic climate change deniers are and were. They did this. On purpose. For oil. What's happening in Iran comes from the same place. Self-interested greed. We evolved as a social species. Helping each other, giving to others not what is earned but what is needed, is how we built civilizations. The people damning us to hell on earth should be culled. It's the only form of eugenics I'd fully support. With guillotines, preferably.

2026-03-15 21:00:11 UTC

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I've heard of other people becoming ChatGPT disciples because they were able to get it to spit out medical advice that led to them getting an accurate diagnosis or to getting a treatment they otherwise wouldn't have known about.
When I ask questions like "is genAI worth the exploitation, the environmental damage, the concentration of wealth, the erosion of our rights, the intentional weakening of our ability to think for ourselves" they might say, "yes, because no doctor took me seriously or listened to me. No one was interested in helping me or even acknowledging I needed help. But ChatGPT listened. ChatGPT helped."
What does that say about the world we've created around ourselves? About what our cultures and our leaders have forced us to prioritize? They created the problem and are here to sell us the cure.

2026-02-12 17:58:21 UTC

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They are attacking it for being too ghetto without using that word which was what I expected. As part of that, b are attacking the clothing and dancing as inherently sexual, which was also expected.
I'm reminded of "Nipplegate", its infamous "wardrobe malfunction", and how it immediately evaporated Janet Jackson's mainstream career while Justin Timberlake suffered no consequences because he is white and male.
It's always about white supremacy and its inherent xenophobia, nationalism, racism, puritanism, misogyny, toxic masculinity, and anti-LGBTQIAS2S. But they will *almost* always hide behind some dogwhistle.

2026-02-11 00:51:46 UTC

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It'd be cool if we could, though.
But, yeah. It takes almost seven hours to drive from Memphis, TN on the west side of the state to Gatlinburg on the east. It's 430 miles and more than 90% of it is Interstate.
The United States is big.

2026-02-05 15:39:56 UTC

The autistic urge to learn how to modulate your voice *just right* to imply you are asking a polite question and not making a demand.
#ActuallyAutistic

2026-01-31 04:51:31 UTC

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not even telling us where it is?

2026-01-25 23:54:50 UTC

[The Execution of Alex Pretti Broke Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBFnr6b5K4Y )
#USPol #AlexPretti

2026-01-25 21:36:11 UTC

I know it's stupid, but I absolutely **hate** the fact that Windows 11 created my home directory as C:\Users\jrdep and not C:\Users\jrdepriest. What even is jrdep? Why just the first five letters? It's stupid and I hate it and there's not a supported way to change it that I can find.
Oh, sure [this](https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-name-of-user-profile-folder-in-windows-11.2133/ ) looks *completely safe*. Let me get right on that.
I'm probably going to try it, though.

2026-01-20 15:20:03 UTC

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It's weird.
The United States actually kidnapping the president of a sovereign nation and his wife gets less outrage than just *talking* about invading Greenland. You can say "but Venezuela isn't in NATO" and, sure, that's true. But both are the same thing: greedy resource grabs with no consideration of consequences by a wannabe dictator who does not believe in any rules other than his whims.
The United States loves to topple democratically elected governments and normally had broad support from the superpowers that matter.
But going after white people?
That's too much.
"Stand *down*, sir! You are embarrassing the alliance."

2026-01-06 15:57:20 UTC

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I just deleted a recent Toot after reading this helpful article.

2025-12-28 17:02:40 UTC

[Winux Tries to Mimic Windows While Staying Fully Linux](https://linuxiac.com/winux-tries-to-mimic-windows-while-staying-fully-linux/ )
Has anybody tried this for relatives who can't run Windows 11 due to old ass hardware?
It seems excessive, but it would literally give them Windows 11 without running Windows 11 through a clever combination of themes and tools.
#Linux #Winux #MigrateToLinux #Windows

2025-12-12 19:47:04 UTC

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maybe I should just use liberapay instead like I do for my Fediverse instance.
Edit: I switched to Liberapay.

2025-11-26 17:09:38 UTC

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including accented characters? Lovely. Just lovely.
I miss collecting fonts.
Edit: Cyrillic‽‽‽ You are amazing.

2025-11-11 17:15:38 UTC

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once I realized that their entire political career is more about lining up high-paying consulting gigs than making a difference, so many of their seemingly ridiculous and random decisions made perfect sense.
That's the party's entire platform.
"The love of money is the root of all evil."
Our world runs on two things: greed and hatred.
It didn't have to be this way.
We are literally creating a mass extinction event for "line goes up" and "fuck you, got mine".
We are killing ourselves for it and taking everything else with us.

2025-11-11 17:02:01 UTC

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you summed it up well and it makes sense. They are certainly *living* like their *priority* is to make no real decisions and do no real work. They go out of their way time and time again to reemphasize this ideal. And all the Gerocrats show just how *successful* it's been.
It's really way past time to clean house. Mamdani showed us it *can* happen, billionaires and useless hangers on be damned.
As much as it pains me to say, I put Bernie firmly in the "do nothing" camp. He only speaks to when it's too late and almost always toes the line when it actually matters.
AOC is still young enough to do right, though. She can still do some shit.
It seems like non-white Democrat Congress members are the only ones who understand the stakes. Folks like Al Green and "The Squad". Incidentally, I was super pissed when Cori Bush got beaten by an AIPAC lackey around here a couple years ago.
There are people in there trying to do what they were elected to do, but they are a minority. Everybody else just arranging deck chairs on the Titanic with a fucking smile.

2025-11-09 16:10:24 UTC

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generative AI is built on top of the theft of human labor on an unprecedented scale. The companies that trained the LLMs scraped *everything* from the Internet regardless of permission, applicable laws, copyrights, and long-time agreed upon practices. They willfully ignored established rules and etiquette and used underhanded methods when necessary indicating they knew full well it was wrong.
They stole all of it without attribution, recognition, or compensation to the original creators.
Then they used this stolen material to generate billions of dollars in valuation with no intention of *ever* crediting the original creators while also using obscene amounts of energy, often produced by the dirtiest power available, thus creating more pollution to worsen global warming. These data centers also need ridiculous amounts of water to keep cool which is taken from public sources, often literally drinking water. It takes time to build data centers and the utility infrastructure necessary to run them. But they do not have time. If they take time, they get behind, and the money train leaves them in the dust. So they do what is fast and of questionable legality.
This is all before you look at the shitty quality of what genAI actually produces. GenAI does not think and cannot "reason" no matter *what* the companies behind them might say. They do not even know what "words" or "code" are. They look at tokenized values and make statistical guesses as to what should come after.
And they are doing it all so they can fire you from your job and replace you with a regurgitation engine trained on your own work. They want you to suffer. They want you to be afraid. They want you to have no power. They do not value human creativity. They hate it, in fact.
No company *that has a choice* should embrace genAI.
No company that claims to value human knowledge and freedom should embrace genAI.
https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

2025-10-23 14:06:34 UTC

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I'm so overwhelmed by the current world and I need mindfulness to keep from doing nothing but crying and gnashing my teeth. I appreciate all of your personal guidance. In fact, if you do not mind, I would like permission to reach out to you directly with questions if I have them.

2025-10-23 13:12:41 UTC

Been reading a bit about meditation and two of the big things are "being still" and "observing but not engaging with your own thoughts".
Okay, but I'm AuDHD so that's impossible.
So, is the path to enlightenment ableist? Do I not deserve it? Would my reward be greater for the monumental internalized masking I'd have to employ? Is the self-hatred at once again not being *good enough* part of the process?
"When the student is ready the master will appear," except in my case they were like, "uh... I have to wash my hair" and then ghosted me. Metaphorically.
I be praying to every god and goddess I can name and they all look around pretending I must be talking to somebody else.
I'm so tired of this place and my perception of it.

2025-10-19 22:59:24 UTC

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because the symbolism is purposefully ambiguous, the cards generally tell you what you already know to be true but do not want to consciously admit.

2025-10-13 21:17:16 UTC

Have you heard of Bill McClintock?
He's been handcrafting mash-up songs for a decade and quickly started including mash-up music videos.
[Yes, Dazz Band, and Dio - "Whip My Lonely, Dark Heart" - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBZKHnmTJu4 )
This is a recent one I can't stop rewatching. He mentions Yes, Dazz Band, and Dio but there are a few other surprises.
He frequently mashes Soul with Metal.
[James Against the Machine - "Take the Soul Power Back"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BICYZGnNbWk )
This one combines Rage Against the Machine with James Brown. When you think about the message of their music, it makes sense and this mash-up exemplifies that.
Sometimes, he's just goofing.
[Boston Carter - "Strokin' (It's More Than a Feeling)"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-_FBRYMjlWU )
[Rick James Dio - "Holy Mary Jane"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T_A6XC_EG4A )
But even those are still so well done.
Others combine into something almost transcendent in its absurdity because *it still works*, the narrative makes perfect sense.
[Danzig and The Temptations - Mother Was a Rolling Stone](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz7RGARtAgc )
[Hall and Oates and The Supremes - "My World is Empty Without You, Maneater"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjr2EUHRuk )
He's the real deal in a time full of AI generated rip-offs.
This playlist has most if not all of his work: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf3IDmEuX6wL8FZ1l6kTeZZoHPVNwQWai
#BillMcClintock #NoAI #MashUps #YouTube

2025-10-07 19:59:20 UTC

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the United States of America was *founded* on racist violence. Everything we've ever done has been done through the lens of wealthy, white, "Christian", male superiority. Every progressive step is just a bandaid that can be ripped off.
I have no idea how to "fix" this place when 95% of people won't admit how systemically broken it is. Maybe whatever comes out the other side of this explicit fascist regime will finally have the balls to have that conversation.

2025-10-07 16:02:04 UTC

Kurzgesagt has a video about AI Slop. They did their own research and man are the results just awful.
Lots of "confidently incorrect assertions" and how the ouroboros of genAI eating its own tail will hasten the demise of the Internet.
They come down firmly in the "no thanks" column.
This is a great video.
"We would rather quit than make AI Slop" followed by "please buy our merch so we can survive the AI-pocalypse"
[AI Slop is Killing Our Channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0 )
Buy their calendar: https://shop.kgs.link/12026?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=product_shelf
#GenAI #AISlop #FuckGenAI #LLM #RegurgitationEngine

2025-10-01 01:26:26 UTC

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my team jokes about this at least once a week: "If not for the jail time..."

2025-09-25 02:24:59 UTC

https://archive.is/20250924154515/https://www.vulture.com/article/apple-pulls-the-savant-from-release-schedule.html
Bypass the paywall.
@npub12me…mn64 https://defcon.social/@fortyseven/115262257625138691

2025-09-10 14:29:30 UTC

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to be fair, transphobes *can* fuck off forever.

2025-09-07 02:23:20 UTC

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I've been writing short stories for more than 40 years. My manager is a drummer and has been a musician on the side for many years. We are the only two people I know at work who are visibly anti-genAI even as I'm working with products and tools that incorporate it.
Creators are the ones who understand what it truly takes to be *good* at something.
I'm not a great writer, but I have my own voice and style that I have built word by word, thought by thought. A genAI reduces four decades of reading, learning, experimenting, dreaming, trying and failing to a statistical model. It reduces my life to an equation to be solved. It reduces all of our lives, our talents to the lowest common denominator, to a product not a process.
If anyone can generate art that is "good enough" what use is there for real artists? That's the goal. Eliminate creativity in the population so we can be better controlled. If we can no longer imagine it, it's no longer possible.
The environmental and personal cost for genAI will never be worth what comes out the other side. I've been painstakingly teaching myself jq and JSONPath for months. I have access to a private ChatGPT instance at work and it can spit out passable statements for both. They aren't necessarily correct but they could get me started *if I let them*. I cannot in good conscience use it. I just can't. I'd rather go read the original Stackoverflow posts it's badly summarizing.
I like it here on the Fediverse in my little corner where I don't have to hear shills and automatons telling me how useless my ability to think for myself truly is.

2025-09-07 00:53:10 UTC

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I'm sorry. Some people do not "get it". They are pulled in by novelty without considering any other aspect. I hope you can have an honest conversation with them—one that does not include them gaslighting you about your feelings, one that does not include them feeling "attacked" or that this is "coming out of nowhere".
When you *create* something, it is sacred. To have it fed into a machine without your current so it regurgitate a flawed copy is prophane. It **is** a big deal. You spent time, mental energy, *joy* in the act of creation. You put thought into it.
Prompt engineering an imperfect clone does not honor the act of human creativity; it belittles it, tries to reduce it to an algorithm, a formula. It is a capitalist vision of what it means to create. It does not "level the playing field" so much as gives the entire field to the tech bros who want to own our very souls.
It is a big deal and I'm sorry your friend didn't see that.
#FuckGenAI

2025-09-04 00:09:21 UTC

[Democrats need to stop collaborating and mount a full-on resistance to Trump](https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5481939-democrats-strategic-non-cooperation/ )
> As Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) put it, “every time that we go along with these appropriations bills, we’re putting a bipartisan veneer of endorsement on an illegal process that’s ultimately part of his campaign to destroy our democracy.”
Oh, word?
About damned time.
Now they just have to *do* it, just stop complying in advance and make them *work* for it.
#USPol #Resist #Resistance #StrategicNonCompliance

2025-09-03 01:45:26 UTC

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I'm certain that 99.999999% of all our religions are wrong and there is currently no way to determine if *any* of them are correct.
If someone wants to follow a set of rules, that's their prerogative, but it's highly unlikely that anybody "up there" cares.
If a Creator *does* exist, it is probably incomprehensible and has no idea we even exist. We are so small and so brief that our *everything* is less than a rounding error compared to all of existence. Do you know how many atoms are in a specific speck of dust in the back of your garage under an old tire? Do you even think about the ants in your yard, the gnats on your back porch, the worms in the ground? What would a creator need with us?
If there is a god, maybe we *don't* want it to notice us.

2025-09-03 01:33:01 UTC

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that's why I prefer being agnostic. There is no evidence of gods or goddesses, but there could be.

2025-08-27 14:50:03 UTC

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my next device will be @npub1kwa…e0nj ready. I'd run it on my Pixel 7 Pro but it's carrier locked.
Google is removing the thing that distinguished them from Apple iPhone. Why would anyone choose Android going forward (other than price)?

2025-08-21 16:34:51 UTC

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47 and his whole Project 2025 are Antichrist. 100% diametrically opposed to what I was taught as a kid and teenager. This slow, steady revelation and embracing of evil by what counts as mainstream Christianity is a primary reason I left and became more of an agnostic pagan.
No omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god who loves us would allow what this world has become. We are ruining our paradise, the only world we have. Our nations run on inequality, lies, theft, slavery, selfishness, and hatred. The people are either complicit or silenced and punished, ruled by fear either way.
Nobody will save us.
Antichrist. Anti-human. Anti-life.
I pray to the great mystery because that is all that remains.

2025-08-15 01:32:01 UTC

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The fact that "you are the bank" is the blursing of cryptocurrency.
Just ask [James Howell](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_buried_in_Newport_landfill ).

2025-08-13 14:30:07 UTC

"You don't seem autistic. Autistic people are supposed to be withdrawn and difficult to talk with. You are great at carrying on a conversation!"<li>(Concise) Thank you.</li><li>(Honest) I appreciate that, but it didn't come to me naturally. I've spent many years studying how people communicate and taught myself certain strategies to better fit in. It takes work and mental effort every time. </li><li>>(Humor) That's because "carrying on a conversation" is my special interest!</li><li>(TMI) I've played lots of CRPGs and treat every conversation like a dialogue tree where I'm trying to run through all the options. My goal is to "win" by scoring conversation points for things like "witty insight", "saying something that kicks off a larger discussion", "summarizing what someone else said in a way that makes more sense to the larger audience", or "successfully filling dead space with useful comments".</li><li>(Sarcasm) If you really feel that way, congrats on your autism diagnosis.</li><li>(Anger) Fuck you, buddy. Go read a Wikipedia article before opening your mouth and spouting ableist talking points like a smug "Autism Speaks" mom.</li><li>Glare silently.</li>
@ActuallyAutustic #ActuallyAutistic

2025-08-02 18:24:34 UTC

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what about the push to go with nuclear? I know standing up *new* reactors takes time, but what if more companies do like Microsoft and invest in upgrading *existing* plants.

2025-07-16 15:10:01 UTC

The RTO mandate at work doesn't affect me directly because I live so far from any office and they aren't going to pay to move me. However, it *does* impact many if not most of the people I work with. It's obliterating morale.
It's a signal that the executives are completely out of touch with the needs of the people and a symptom of a larger disconnect between what really works and what makes the line go up. For a long time, we all thought this company was better than that. For a long time, *they were*.
Good employees, people with stellar reviews, have been told that if they refuse to return to office they will be fired. They have been told they have to have doctor's notes and HR approval if they need to work from home because they are sick.
We are being treated like children.
I know some people are jumping ship as soon as they can.
As such, I need to get my resumé ready and start doing what I can. I'm not going to get stuck doing the work of three people again. I'm already doing the work of two and RTO has made it difficult to hire the people who would take some of that from me.
I have not had to polish my resume in over 20 years. I need help. What are some good resources? How do you even look for a job nowadays? I certainly don't think LinkedIn is the resource it was two decades ago.
I've worked in IT since 1997, and in IT Security since 2000.
Also, I am a transgender neurodivergent (autism, ADHD, and CPSTD) bisexual woman taking care of a disabled neurodivergent (ADHD) cisgender woman. I miss a lot of work to take my wife to doctor's appointments. That is not going to change. I also want to work somewhere that is accepting of LGBTQIA2S people. I'd prefer to work as close to 100% remotely as possible. So my requirements for a job are high.
Bonus points if I can find a job that will move me to another state that is less red than the one I live in. I understand that would definitely require me to come into an office. At this point, it might be worth it to get out of Missouri.
With that said, I still don't know how to begin.
I'm open to advice or links to websites that could help.
Thank you very much.
#GetFediHired #FediHired #ActuallyAutistic #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIA2S

2025-07-12 21:49:31 UTC

[AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand](https://electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gaslight-me-if-i-write-by-hand/ )
This is an excellent essay by [Deb Werrlein](https://electricliterature.com/el-author/deb-werrlein/ ).
There are so many excellent thoughts spread throughout about *writing* not just as a **result** but as a **process** and how the **process** is what makes it writing as opposed to reading or editing.
It talks about how writing is a process of *discovery* because you never know where your thoughts will take you or where the story will lead.
This is an essay about the work and the joy that goes into actually *writing*.
> The physical act of writing serves as the distraction that lets the ideas flow. But also, and perhaps more importantly, writing forces the writer to think very slowly, only allowing the brain to move through an idea at the speed at which each individual word can be written. Perhaps that elongation of thinking gives the brain the time it needs to have new realizations. So much discovery happens as a piece of writing evolves that, like many writers, I often set out to write with the purpose of finding answers and prompting evolutions. In this way, writing itself functions as a generative act, a process of discovery and learning that far exceeds the simple recording and communicating of already formed ideas.
> Composing on the computer happens delightfully fast, but I wonder: if writing is a process of discovery and learning, then what discoveries did I lose by speeding up the process? What connections haven’t I made? Is there a level of richness or complexity I haven’t achieved because I’ve spent less time engaged in that magic writerly state of mind and therefore, less time exposed to the possibility of revelation? I can’t escape the thought that if slowness is key to writing, and writing is a way of thinking, perhaps each tech-driven acceleration of the process has chipped away at my depth of thought.
> Writing is hard, so I see why some might be tempted to let a machine do the initial composing. The blank page represents the most difficult phase of writing because this is when the writer must engage with their topic most fully. In the absence of time or energy, AI might sound like a great solution—just as past innovations felt like godsends. But AI brings changes far more dramatic than those of the typewriter. If I let an LLM compose my first draft, only to edit and shape it and supposedly make it my own afterward—as I’ve heard some writers suggest—then I would have skipped over that initial composition process, that period of intense intellectual engagement through which we enrich our ideas. I would sacrifice the element of discovery, learning, and creation in favor of the LLM’s regurgitation. If the future offers a world filled with AI-produced prose, who knows how much we will collectively lose to writing created without all those unique incidents of epiphany and realization.
And the final paragraph has a wonderful revelation.
> And I wonder if perhaps we’ve gotten confused, thinking we should always use the extra time technology affords to do more things faster rather than using it to do fewer things slower.
#Writing #WritersOfMastodon #Writers #DebWerrlein #JoyOfWriting

2025-06-23 16:44:50 UTC

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Now I miss ZoneAlarm.
I wish I knew where my ridiculous BlackIce screenshot was but that was so long ago.

2025-06-17 01:15:18 UTC

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My mom has a copy of the novel I wrote in high school / college. It's terrible. Nobody else will read it. But it made her proud.
I think my problem is a lack of self-worth from the PTSD my mom's abusive second husband gave me from ages 10 through 22.
I didn't think I *deserve* my own writing. It has to be for someone *else* or it isn't worth doing. *I'm* not worth it.
That gives me something to talk to my therapist about.
I do write about the monster, the outcast finding its way home or, more often, *almost* finding its way home.
Waterborne are my stand-ins, descendants of nymphs, merfolk, and elementals too alien to be human and too human to return to the sea, never fitting in or finding a home, except, occasionally, in their dreams.

2025-06-16 23:27:32 UTC

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I love writing. I love the thinking that goes into it and how the story unfolds as I'm writing it. I love the idea of creating tiny windows into a fictional character's life.
I love the cosmology and philosophy that underpins what I write and how it has evolved over time.
I love the act of writing itself, the ceremony behind it.
But who is it for? When I die, it will all die with me, having served no one but me.
Is that enough?
"Do it for yourself. Write for yourself."
Do I even deserve it?
Depression and PTSD tell me I do not.
"I have better things to do than waste time on garbage that helps nobody but me.
"Help someone who matters."
But I can't write for them.

2025-06-16 20:04:52 UTC

This is a question for amateur authors out there.
How do you keep writing when nobody else cares?
If that's enough for you to understand what I'm asking, then you don't need to read anything else.
For anyone who wants to understand where I'm coming from, keep reading and it's likely to be long and most of y'all will peace out.
I've been writing creative weird fiction since high school, thirty-five years ago, largely inspired by a childhood spent watching black and white creature features and other cheesy but incredibly earnest horror, sci-fi, and fantasy films and reading Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, Steven King, and, eventually Lovecraft and Derleth.
But I was also heavily inspired by James Joyce. Reading "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" in English class was honestly life-changing. That's how I wanted to write. Joyce, along with Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", and Conrad Aiken's "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" were my goalposts.
So that's how I write, what I aspire to be.
I'm not.
I will never be.
I'm not a great writer, merely adequate.
Further, I do not have a novel in me, just short stories and the occasional poem.
Nobody cares about those today unless you are a name or have a collection to sell.
genAI scraping the web to mulch its growth means I don't even feel comfortable sharing much of my work online.
I enter contests and I do not win.
I have no "fan base" nor even peers who look forward to what I have next. Nobody asks, nobody cares.
My wife has never understood my stories but strongly encourages me to keep writing.
So. How do I keep writing when nobody cares but me, when nobody *else* cares?
I mean, I have other things to do. I have other responsibilities. I have a *real* job. I have mental health issues.
I could just stop writing forever and nobody would stop me.
I write, but not as often as I would like.
I often wonder what the point even is.
I want to share; I want to make connections. I want to find **my people**.
But I haven't.
Maybe never will.
Edit: added hashtags
#Writing #WritingAdvice #Writer #Writers #WritersOfMastodon

2025-05-23 06:19:06 UTC

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Perhaps it's all the sponsored YouTube NordVPN / SurfShark ads implying VPNs are general security tools because they bundle them with additional security software and don't clearly differentiate which parts are which.
"Virtual Private Network" is a helluva term to toss at a layperson who doesn't know OSI from CSI and thinks "Layer 7" is a bakery.

2025-04-19 15:51:32 UTC

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Help your team stay focused
Your biggest job may be deflecting the interference of executives.

2025-04-17 15:15:32 UTC

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Thinking about CVEs.
We don't need CVEs to detect or manage vulnerabilities. We have plugin IDs. We have TTPs. We have flashy vulnerabilities that get their own marketing websites. We have MITRE ATT&CK.
Our threat intel feeds give us TTPs which may include CVEs, but do not rely on them by any means.
Our threat hunting is more concerned with TTPs and MITRE ATT&CK.
When we set up officially supported orchestration between systems, they typically have the logic needed to understand each other.
The main way we use CVEs is as shorthand or a shortcut. It's super simple to determine which tools can detect a certain CVE. It's convenient to have a single database to look up details about almost any vulnerability. It also gives us a simple way to discuss the vulnerability.
It's important but not critical.
The last minute rescue is less about CVEs and more about this administration's haphazard and thoughtless treatment of... well, of everything. If CVSS and CVE, two things that are considered bedrocks of worldwide cyber security, are treated this poorly, what does that mean for the less visible projects? Just how truly fucked is our national cyber security?

2025-04-14 01:30:34 UTC

Hey, Google! Fuck you! I'm not using your fucking Gemini garbage replacement for Assistant. I will just stop using those functions before using your shitty AI. That's not hyperbole. I'm already doing it. I'm using the manual timer on the microwave instead just asking my phone to set a timer. I stopped asking it to call numbers for me and I'm typing them in like it 2002 because I can't have nice things. Fuck you and your fucking shit.
Same to you, Microsoft. Shove it under your fingernails if you like it so much.
I'm writing shit as fucking Markdown in VSCode or Obsidian to avoid your AI shit.
My new laptop came with an AI button that replaced my right-CTRL button. Fuck you for that.
I DO NOT WANT IT.

2025-04-06 20:48:47 UTC

Sometimes, "sending a message" is all you *can* do.
Sometimes, you can't even do *that*.
Sometimes, *you* are the one that needs help.
But the world will blame you for not being able to help *others*, even your allies.
"Please see me. Please see that I am hurting and afraid. Please see that I am at my limit mentally and emotionally. Please see that my heart is broken every day and I feel powerless and worthless."
Do they see that?
Do they?
Does anyone see us?
#ActuallyAutistic

2025-04-02 22:43:42 UTC

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The problem I keep seeing is so many people think "mimicking human language" equates to accuracy.
There should be no expectation of accuracy in LLM trained genAI output. The user must scrutinize every single bit of it.
The genAI will never "understand" because that's not how they work.

2025-03-03 01:00:20 UTC

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inviting my roommate's boss over to our house on a whim because she sounded cute on the phone. We've been together almost 30 years now.

2025-02-14 06:16:23 UTC

Any government that issues a list of words that can no longer be used is fascist.
That's a fact.

2025-01-27 15:37:29 UTC

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It's Open Source.
They can use it without shame. Might have to dance around with "thorough code review to make sure no spying built in" but it's money on the table.
Money always wins.

2024-12-20 13:51:43 UTC

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Aphrodite at Mardi Gras getting them beads.

2024-11-28 00:47:25 UTC

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My current prescription is progressive and it's fine for driving, walking around, or reading a physical book. It's awful for using my laptop or my Steam Deck, though.
He gave me a separate non-progressive prescription just for computer use at my last checkup. Every time I try to use my progressive lenses with my laptop and start getting dizzy and nauseated, I'm reminded that I never got another pair to go with the other prescription.
His office has never included pupillary distance on the scripts. I've always gotten it measured after I pick out frames and lenses.
I want to try FL-41 lenses because I am sensitive to bright light and flickering light. I'm not sure who has those locally.

2024-11-27 23:50:49 UTC

What do you mean I have to have my pupilary distance to order prescription glasses online? My ophthalmologist doesn't take that measurement. I'm so tired of squinting at my laptop screen.
I have the little piece of paper with my prescription on it.
And yet.
That isn't enough.
It was never enough, was it?
I was a fool to think I could order new glasses online at all.
I was a fool.

2024-10-24 02:45:53 UTC

[Revisiting 'Splinter' 16 Years Later](https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3836362/splinter-this-practical-effects-creature-feature-has-only-gotten-better-with-age/ )
"Splinter" was much better than I expected back when I first watched it. Would you believe I only watched it because it had Paulo Castanzo in it and I was a big fan of "Royal Pains"?
Their take on the zombie was something I hadn't seen before. I don't want to give anything away if you haven't seen it, but the infection itself is painful and more body horror than the typical mindless transformation.
More necromorph than what I was used to seeing on film.
Oh! So many lovely practical effects.
#Splinter #Horror #HorrorMovies

2024-10-09 15:23:45 UTC

[Rejoice! Kevin Smith's Dogma is finally free of the Weinsteins - AV Club](https://www.avclub.com/kevin-smith-dogma-rights-update )
Soon, you may no longer have to settle for a janky YouTube rip or a $125 15 year old DVD to see Dogma.
Its cynicism mixed with hope and humor is more relevant than ever. Its take on religion and corporatism was ahead of its time.
Alan Rickman and Cris Rock as angels.
George Carlin as a Catholic Cardinal.
Buddy Christ.
What if God was a little bit ironic?
> Appearing on That Hashtag Show last week to promote his latest, The 4:30 Movie, Smith says the movie was bought “away from the guy that had it for years and whatnot.” When the new rights holders asked if he was interested in “re-releasing and touring it like you did with your movies,” Smith jumped at the opportunity. “I said, ‘100 percent, are you kidding me? Touring a movie that I know people like, and it’s sentimental and nostalgic? We’ll clean up,'” he said. “I think 2025 is when the movement is going to happen there. Back on home video, then back out in theaters, and I’ll tour it.”
#Dogma #FuckHarveyWeinstein #KevinSmith #BuddyChrist

2024-09-26 21:11:56 UTC

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Suddenly, you're the lucky winner of the Gemini Croquette Contest to Fhloston Paradise.

2024-09-22 21:43:46 UTC

Do you prefer hardback books or paperback books?
Why?
My wife and I both prefer paperback books for books we want to own forever and read over and over. They are much easier to hold.
Yes, paperback books are more difficult to keep pristine over time.
Hardback books look great on a shelf, but they are so big and heavy and not easy to hold in your hands for extended periods of time, especially if you have arthritis or carpal tunnel or other age-related ailments.
If you read books by lying them flat on a table in front of you, the spines for paperback books get damaged. For hardback books, it depends. There are designs for hardbacks that prevent spine damage.
Obviously eBooks are cool for anything you'd just like to read once or if your house is too full of books in boxes and on shelves that you have no more room.
Library books are an exception. I'd rather get a hardback of a library book because those are generally in better shape than paperbacks. If I want to go buy a copy for myself later, I will get a paperback.
Also, there are the class of readers who believe that "damage" to a book is part of the process of it being well-loved. As it is read and re-read, pages get bent, spines get split, glue comes loose. It is part of their charm.
We are not among this group. We prefer to keep our books looking as new as the day we bought them for as long as we can.
What about you?
And why?
My wife reminded me about audiobooks I don't listen to audiobooks. Too late to add them in to the poll, I guess. Comment if that's your preference!
#ReadingCommunity #Reading #Readers #Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity

2024-09-18 03:29:48 UTC

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I honestly don't know. I have theories, but they are just theories.
I'd love to see some research on it.
I had another idea though.
Write your stories the way you want to write them then work with an editor to cut out bits until it's neurotypical.
I have a tendency to overdescribe and to do a lot of telling instead of showing.
I can write something that way and have a kind editor to guide me into cutting, elaborating, or changing how it was written.
You just start building on your base. I typically re-edit a story at least twice based on feedback and re-reads with a critical eye.
> "Look at him," I said, noting his ragged breathing, pronounced limp, and complete inability to look at us. "He's almost finished."
vs.
> I studied his condition. Trouble getting enough air. Leg dragging behind him. He seems to be ignoring us even as we are loudly gaining on his position.
> "Look at him," I tell my companion. "he's almost finished.
vs.
> The depth of the tracks, the trough on the left, I wasn't surprised his leg was dragging. We could hear his gasps before we saw him, buried under muttered curses. He wasn't trying to hide and neither were we. But he just kept going, jerking step after jerking step, just pulling that useless leg behind. He didn't even turn around.
> It was obvious.
> I shake my head, almost feeling pity.
> "Look at him," I whisper to my fellow tracker, not taking eyes off our stumbling prey.
> "He's almost finished."

2024-09-16 05:25:41 UTC

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Hey this sums it up really well.
@npub1svj…daej
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2024-09-16 04:25:09 UTC

Ranting about genAI.
When you are not skilled in a certain thing, you likely have no idea what it takes to be "good" at it.
As a layman, you scarcely even know what questions to ask. And if your interest is only passing or surface level, you won't bother with the introspection necessary to see the depth. The surface is all it will be to you.
When you watch a master, they make it look easy, therefore it must be easy for everyone.
They think, "anybody could do that".
They believe in the American Dream, that talent and perseverance are rewarded with wealth. If you are not well-known, you are not worth it.
I think this is fueling the overreliance on genAI.
Who cares if it was fed the life's work of every writer and artist who ever lived with no recognition or compensation? They should have better protected and monetized their work. The genAI is doing what people do, what any person could do. It's combining and synthesizing, it's creating derivative works. Just like a person.
Do they think any person could sit down and study millions of written words and create something new that shares the same voice, *any* voice you choose? Do they think *they* could do it "if they had time".
How much time?
Years? Decades?
If they wanted to, right?
But they just want the output and the freedom to reject it or accept it without consequence, without having "wasted" their own time.
"How did you learn to write like that?" I might be asked.
"I've been writing creatively since I could write," I'd say. "Poems, stories, letters, essays, journals, whatever I could find.
"I never stopped reading books as I grew up.
"I kept writing when nobody else cared, nobody else read what I wrote.
"Even when it wasn't very good, I kept writing.
"Especially when it wasn't very good.
"It all matters. It all teaches me something."
"Oh, I thought you went to school for it."
And I am dismissed as less than. My work, meaningless.
"I could have done that," they think. "I could have done that but I had better things to do with my time and energy."
And that dismissive thought gives them permission to use genAI. Living their lives for something "better" than sitting around actually writing all the time gives them permission because they are "better" than me. They didn't waste time like I did. I should have just been a good writer from the start. It should have been obvious I was a master from the beginning.
I wasted so much time becoming mediocre instead of finding my true talents.
They won't make that mistake.
They will craft elegant prompts for the genAI and it will create something beautiful for them. It will prove that my choices were wrong and theirs were right.
That the genAI would have nothing to regurgitate without millions of people like me, writing and writing and writing, does not matter.
We were all fools and should have known a machine would one day take our works and improve upon them.
It is a lie they tell themselves even as the AI models are already dying from eating their own shit. They are collapsing under the weight of their own spurious garbage because they cannot create. It is illusion, artifice.
A comforting fiction.
To them, it removes the artist from the equation, democratizing creation.
No longer reserved for those with skill.
It is unsustainable. It is already failing.
But it is backed by wealth, by the people who truly despise relying on humans for talent, because humans have wants, needs, desires. Opinions. A human can say "no" or ask for more money or ask for time off to spend with family. A human needs to sleep.
They will ride this steam powered platinum train all the way down, until it derails and bursts into toxic flames, and then blame us for being fooled.
GenAI, the way it is being sold to us today, is a dead end. They know. They know it's devastating to the environment. They know it devalues actual human creativity. They know it churns out lies and fabrications. They know it's being used for massive disinformation campaigns, to build phishing platforms, social networking bots, to inflate news stories, to flood publishers with worthless submissions.
But, today, it makes money.
Today, it makes a prompt engineer feel like an artist.
The people who create should be more important than their creations. The *value* is in the person who knows how to hold a pen and write or draw, in the artist who paints, the sculptor.
Without creators, we stop growing. We stop seeing ourselves in new ways.
We stagnate and become insular. We look backwards.
We lose our own humanity.

2024-09-15 05:02:54 UTC

The Google app on my Pixel 7 Pro stopped working tonight. I can't search or view the Discover feed. It just crashes over and over.
I've cleared cache, cleared data, checked for updates, removed all updates, added the updates back in, restarted my phone multiple times.
Still broken.
It's probably bad, right?
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2024-09-14 23:59:35 UTC

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Considering how popular movies that are just "rehashes" seem to be, it makes sense.
They want what reminds them of the way something else made them feel.

2024-09-14 23:52:52 UTC

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If you've read many books and watched TV or movies over the years, you can learn how to emulate what is expected. With that said, it can be difficult to avoid coming across as cliché.
There aren't any specific books or movies I could recommend. I've read hundreds of books and seen thousands of movies and TV shows. I made a point to study how "normal" people do things because, for a long time, I wanted to be like that.
The trick is learning to take the essence of various scenes and blend them together so it doesn't read like a rehash.
Often, that involves a great deal of practice and having neurotypical readers give you their opinions as you are creating it.
I also think about my neurotypical family and friends that I grew up with and try to ask "what would they do?" and play that story out. If I know them well enough or have enough experience with being present for their reactions to things, I can write about it honestly.
My wife is more ADHD than autistic (although is a little bit autistic) and I rely on her to help steer my writing and provide suggestions. She's also an excellent editor.
The other option is to just write more autistic characters and hope you find your audience.
I do a little bit of both but I have no real audience to speak of so perhaps my advice isn't that great.
I love to write and I love to write from other points of view when I can even if I cannot truly understand them.

2024-06-05 15:02:02 UTC

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They react to the "rising numbers" like a call to arms precisely because they use that information to target us for harassment and other, worse, things. I'm stealth AF IRL because I can't deal with that. I'm a poser and traitor to my own kind, but I cannot risk losing my job or house because my wife is on disability and we need the insurance and flexible scheduling I have.

2024-05-16 14:43:56 UTC

Which is worse to step on when barefoot?
#Polls

2024-04-06 20:55:25 UTC

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Benadryl is for allergies and also for sleep.
I could go back down to 50 mg of Benadryl.
I also take Zyrtec (not Zyrtec-D).

2024-04-06 20:43:11 UTC

So desperate for a good night's sleep I took 25 mg of Melatonin. I still woke up after 5 1/2 hours and was awake for an hour before falling back to sleep and doing the sleep for 45 minutes, wake up for 30 minutes dance I do every weekend.