So I watched Bicentennial Man yesterday evening. If it wasn't for the robot disguise, I'd be sure Robin Williams was trying to portray an #actuallyAutistic person -- and probably doing a better job at it than if it had been intentional. The whole time, I was like -- hey, that me 🤔 🧵

AI spread doesn't just question our definition of intelligence, it challenges our definition of humanity. Now is a time to stand for dignity if we care. dev.to/raphink/were... #AI #Ethics #Humanity #Tech #Discuss

Today is both my birthday and Neurodiversity Pride Day (which I just discovered has always been on my birthday). I'm not much of a pride day person in general, BUT if any of my posts on autism have been useful to you, sharing one would be a lovely gift. The series is at dev.to/raphink/seri...

On Mastodon, I use the @[email protected] group to share my posts on autism awareness. Is there an equivalent group/starter pack on BlueSky?

Everyone is talking about hallucination. That's the wrong diagnosis. Hallucination isn't a bug — it's the mechanism. Turn it off and you don't have a more reliable model, you have a lookup table. The real problem: non-determinism misallocated. dev.to/raphink/ai-d...

Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object The DSM defines autism by what clinicians can observe. But describing the shadow isn't the same as defining the object. Maybe we need to redefine it? dev.to/raphink/defi... #autism #autismawareness #neurodiversity #actuallyautistic

#GenAI is an amplification machine. Good ideas in → sharper. Bad ideas in → worse, more confidently. Nothing in → statistical word soup. The gate was never the tool. It was always the ideas. #AI #Writing #LLM dev.to/raphink/gen-...

What would it look like, in a world full of autistic people, to study and try to understand how allistic (non-autistic) people function? Attempting to explore this (in a cheeky way) in this new article: dev.to/raphink/retu... #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity

Confession: I manually add em dashes to my texts

Why has autism persisted across all human populations, across cultures, and most likely across centuries? A hypothesis: not individual advantage, but group survival. dev.to/raphink/why-... #autism #autismAwareness #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity

My last post on #autism introduced a diagram intending to conceptualize Milton's double empathy problem at the core. Does that speak to you?

Hear me out: MidJourney UI with GPT-image-2 model...

Two survival systems, two empathy modes What if autistic and neurotypical empathies were two different systems, driven by two different survival instincts? #autism #autismawareness #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/two-...

Society tells us rest is laying down and doing nothing. That's not what it looks like for everyone. In fact, it can be quite the opposite for some. #autism #actuallyAutistc #neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/rest...

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Autistic people who talk at length about their interests are often read as self-centered. I think the mechanism is almost the opposite... #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/shar...

#Neurodiversity and the two layers of cognition What if the way you think and the output you produce are two completely separate things — and the gap between them has a cost? A post about internal process, expected output, and what autism adds to the picture. #autism dev.to/raphink/neur...

Fourteenth (and last) post in the #autism Awareness series: dev.to/raphink/you-... Take care of yourselves! #autismawareness #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity

Post 13 in my #autism awareness series, on "I don't know": dev.to/raphink/i-do... #autismawareness #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity

Post 12 in my #autism Awareness Series, on autism working as a catalyst for other conditions: dev.to/raphink/auti... #autismAwareness #neurodiversity #actuallyAutistic

Testing GCP Cloud Functions Locally with Docker Compose and Summon dev.to/raphink/test... #security #devops #development #serverless

Post 11 of my #autism awareness series is on maintaining friendships: dev.to/raphink/main... #neurodiversity #autismAwareness #actuallyAutistic

Google Wave was 16 years ago and we're still fighting with email and doodle links 😥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1qz...

Post 10 in my #autism awareness series, on autism and the "genius" effect. dev.to/raphink/auti... #autismAwareness #neurodiversity #actuallyAutistic

Building MCP Servers for Genealogy: AI-Powered Historical Research dev.to/raphink/buil... #genealogy #familyhistory #ai #opensource

I built an MCP server for meta-search in online Newspapers archives, and in a matter of one hour, Claude found 5 major documents I had never found before and documented them in Notion 🤯 #genealogy #ai

Post 9 in my #autism Awareness series: dev.to/raphink/when... #autismAwareness #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity

Post 8 in my #Autism Awareness Series: dev.to/raphink/task... on tasks that don't make sense #autismAwareness #neurodiversity #actuallyAutistic

Post seven in the Autism Awareness series: dev.to/raphink/the-...

My sixth post in the Autism Awareness Series dev.to/raphink/when...

Making autism my special interest this month => meta autism!

Three years ago, I created a channel called hashtag #autism on my company's Slack. I wasn't sure what to expect. On the first day, about 20 people joined, roughly one in six of the company at the time. Four personal testimonies came in within hours. Dozens more wanted to understand better. 🧵

The constant background hum This is the fourth post in a series for autism awareness month. Previous posts covered the neurological vs. psychological distinction and what "spectrum" actually means (see link in the comments). This week: what runs in the background, all the time. 🧵

In the last few weeks, I've started using Notion MCP with Claude for lots of things, including genealogy research. Louis Rau was my 3rd great-uncle. He worked with Thomas Edison in the 1880s. I wanted to find out what the records actually said. 🧵

What "autistic spectrum" actually means Last week, I wrote about the difference between a psychological trait and a neurological one. This week I want to address something that makes that distinction harder to see: a widespread misconception about what "spectrum" means in the context of autism. 🧵

Quirk or wiring? Yesterday, I posted a comic strip about navigating social situations as an autistic person. I want to spend this month going deeper, with regular posts on experiencing autism. A good place to start is the difference between a psychological trait and a neurological one. 🧵

As you may know, today is autism awareness day. I'd like to share one: a little comic strip I made in July last year, in an attempt to capture of one many invisible quirks in the daily life of an autistic person. If that strip speaks to you, let me know, as I'm thinking of making more.

DevOps Solves Silos — and then Recreates Them... Yesterday at Cloud Native Days France, there was a keynote roundtable that really resonated with me. Several speakers emphasized something critical but often forgotten: human collaboration matters more than tools. 🧵

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the attempt to “make America great again” ultimately revealed that U.S. dominance was never a sign of inherent greatness, but the product of temporary geopolitical circumstances, and that the country failed to uphold even the values it claimed to uniquely embody: 🧵

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

AI security isn’t just prompt filters and guardrails. If the workload isn’t sandboxed, it isn’t secure. Layers still matter. Blog: isovalent.com/blog/post/se...

The eBee Quest is live! 🐝✨ Complete the most Cilium & Tetragon labs before year’s end and win prizes. Perfect time to start if you’ve never tried a lab 👇 isovalent.com/blog/post/a-...

“CERN has a long history of pushing boundaries; we were doing big data before big data was a thing.” Enrica Porcari, first CIO at CERN. Cloud native infrastructure is key to CERN’s operation as they contribute to and co-create the next generation of scientific computing. #KCDRomandie

Working in CAD hardware, @jess.dev realized she wanted the config-as-code from software (so she built it!) Of course, this means interesting new outages to learn from. One of their values at Zoo is “new mistakes only”.😹 #KCDRomandie

Trust in open source communities: figuring out where humans connect (not just companies and tools.) Whom do we trust? Trust requires context and judgement.💯 @sarahnovotny.com #KCDRomandie

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Let's go prepare KCD Suisse Romande!

I'm bringing new stickers to KCD Suisse Romande (in addition to my usual Isovalent badges of course!) They'll be at our booth!

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