OpenAI Introduces Parental Controls https://theonion.com/openai-introduces-parental-controls/

just sneezed and got scolded for not saying "thank you" after someone said "bless you", but also previously scolded for saying "thank you" after "bless you" because it's bad luck. autism is calvinball

Vivienne (7.68), my daughter, sat me down because she HAD to show me what she learned yesterday at school. Quintessential childhood milestone unlocked 😂

Profound implications for news literacy and the ability to separate facts from fiction.

Not autistic, but I feel this. For years I only understood my dyscalculia as a series of deficits. It wasn't until recently that I knew that my borderline hyperlexia and strategic planning skills were strongly correlated with dyscalculia.

Is there a mutual aid fund that I can contribute to for workers affected by government shutdowns?

One of the very big reason autism diagnoses became more common in the last few decades is that doctors finally realized that women can be autistic. Imagine that, literally doubling the population of people who could be diagnosed, increased number of diagnoses. Who would have even thought.

Being a person with autism has not been easy but the reason it hasn't been easy- is because non-autistic people are not taught how to interact with autistic people. Autistic people are expected to socially mask & neurotypicals generally don't have even a base idea of how autistic people communicate.

I will pay extra to remove the AI features from this edtech.

“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”

That would solve so many problems.

They catch a lot of jokes, but let's be honest: Fax machines still serve a useful purpose for privacy in sharing medical and legal information and don't deserve to be lumped in with useless junk tech like ChatGPT.

We moved from Roswell to Sandy Springs a few years ago and my dad could not comprehend that being CLOSER to Atlanta was more desirable and therefore more expensive. My house is worth double his, with less square footage and less acreage. But I have MARTA access and can walk to the grocery store.

I am absurdly emotional about this.

Men did not evolve to SIT IN A CUBICLE ALL DAY in CLIMATE-CONTROLLED SAFETY. We evolved to do something MUCH WORSE AND MORE DANGEROUS in EVERY WAY and our ancestors would have KILLED to SWITCH PLACES WITH US

"Perhaps if you let me finish giving directions, your questions about the assignment will be answered."

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Someone on Threads was going on about how schools don’t teach useful skills like how to email, so I figured I could share this graphic again.

Many such cases.

I know just enough about this topic to be dangerous.

My brother was shocked when I told him to toss his old textbooks into the recycling bin. But they were twenty years old and not useful to anyone. I found some old textbooks/ encyclopedias at work that I put in my collage bin.

I have started using Wikipedia to keep up with ongoing events, especially those that attract a ton of bullshit. Go find the wiki article about whatever you’re following and you’ll get a decent summary along with links to reliable source.

AI is suddenly EVERYWHERE in edtech. Everything is touting their AI features. You can tell it’s been hastily tacked on because the UI is now very cluttered and annoying to use. I’m not totally opposed to thoughtful use of AI, but it doesn’t always seem well thought out.

Oh no! I got SEL mixed up with STEM again! Did the egg drop challenge with autistic high school kids mentoring autistic elementary kids today. Kids had a blast!

The first time I ever heard those numbers was when a parent was complaining about their child's class placement. I usually tell people that "high functioning" really means "pretty good at faking not autism".

I often compare autism to that episode of TNG with the aliens that communicate via metaphor. The aliens are the allistics and the autistic Enterprise crew is frantically trying to figure out what they really mean before Picard gets eaten by a space tiger.

YOU need things explained to you a certain way. YOU need your feelings managed. YOU need people to make eye contact with you when they talk, or you feel uncomfortable. YOU need people to read subtext so you don't have to say the quiet part. Those are YOUR needs and I try to meet them every day.

If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.

The outcry over Jimmy Kimmel is largely because he's a famous white dude who is on TV every day. Even your least plugged in person has heard of him and maybe seen a clip from his show occasionally. It hits in a way that firing journalists or banning books does not.

What's aligning my verticles?!!! WHOOP WHOOP!! #edusky

The idea that autistic people are the scientists and mathematicians feeds into the idea of autistic people as machines, and only of value if they have 'use' to society @drmbothapsych.bsky.social

How do I know the counseling team has embraced STEAM as a vehicle for SEL? One of them just came and told me about all the yogurt cups she's been saving all week for an egg drop on Friday.

Hey friends. I'm not in a Sinclair/ Nexstar market, but I'm happy to participate in any boycott of national brands. Just let me know what I need to stop using and which station I'm calling out.

For sure. It isn’t lost on me that Tylenol is one of the only drugs to save us from the pain of carrying a child, which is super biblical. Talk about eternal punishment!

I think they don't because whenever they imagine autistic people they think of a child that is non verbal and do not think of adults that can speak for themselves. I mean RFK doesn't think they exist at all but lots of other people, it just doesn't occur to them to even think about if they exist

Peanut farms in Georgia use computerized harvest machines. I had a ton of misconceptions about farm work until I did a virtual field trip with my GA Studies class a few years ago.

“Mrs. Liang! I’m doooooone!” *rocks chair back on two legs and chews on my marker*

When media and policy push narratives that portray autism as a burden or a danger, Black autistic people pay a high price. We already live at the intersection of racism & ableism. These narratives increase violence, misdiagnosis, and invisibility.

Does Tylenol cause childhood autism? We asked an elderly man dressed as Uncle Sam who drove 2100 miles to attend the Charlie Kirk memorial stadium event.

About to crush and snort up a line of Tylenol to prove my allegiance to Antifa. Witness me!

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

Antifa Enterprise is just like Antifa, but it has 24/7 customer support and there’s an option to self-host. And you get access to their data export APIs

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Do a quick search for hyperbaric chambers and autism. The deaths are harrowing.

I’m sorry I didn’t turn in my lesson plans this week. I thought I was getting Raptured. But since it looks like neither of us are the Elect, I’ll go ahead and write something down for you. #edusky

I’m running for lieutenant governor, but I have a problem. Nobody knows wtf a lieutenant governor is.

A funny thing about RFK announcing he is pinning autism on Tylenol, is that this immediately pissed off a whole lot of anti-vaxxers who had their own pet theories for abusing kids. Many of whom are probably sending him death threats right now. Do you think between now and then he'll hedge on it?

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.