This has been studied a lot. It turns out, science is sometimes correct: buttons are better than touchscreens when safety matters.

AI hype, Victorian Style.

News over here is asking whether mental health problems are overdiagnosed and people need to learn to cope with normal life stress. BBC reports that (my emphasis) "19-34 year olds [...] seem to be less resilient SINCE COVID". Do I even need to spell out my opinion?

Maybe the real adventure was the friends we made along the way.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

2006 JRPG predicting that at some point, things will go bad and we'll have masked fascist pigs with tanks in the streets.

Reposting for every teacher and especially university lecturer out there who uses powerpoint slides with images or diagrams. It took me a while to get this interplay to an acceptable level in my own teaching, and I could really see the difference that it makes.

Anyone remember this from 2004? ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html Game devs at AAA studios are treated horribly. Always have been.

I wish the neurotypical people who describe themselves as progressive and make social justice their whole identity, would make a bit more effort here. Disability justice is also justice.

We somehow got to the point where the republican party are the only ones not noticing how much the people want to not be ruled by a monarchy.

There's a quote that regimes fall when the people move from "I hate that guy" to realizing that everyone else hates him too. About the fall of the USSR I think?

My sense is that a lot of game design underrates 'make the player feel a feeling' and perhaps loses sight of ways to do it. People like Skyrim, for all its flaws, because that are moments, gazing out at the desolate vastness, or fighting a dragon, that you feel a feeling.

One of the best quotes I've heard in a while. There's also about a semester's worth of seminars on gender in there. But no-one is talking about dismissing these transitioners from the armed forces of course.

When the assignment says "four parts" and they won't let you put the rest of your infodump in an appendix. (Also y'all should read @bretdevereaux.bsky.social )

camouflage!

Scientific paper on what a diagnosis of Autism / ADHD / both can mean to the individual and why it is important; lots of quotes like "When informed of the results, she expresses a sense of tremendous relief at finally having an explanation. " www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Enough already with the "we need to train our students for the future, let's pivot to AI" already. This BS seems to be infecting more and more of academia.

Teeny Tiny Turtle!

Oh. I just learned that many Autistic children have difficulty with imagination or pretend play and that just hit me like a ton of bricks.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

I'd start with confronting the ideas of what men are *not* supposed to do, such as showing any emotion except anger, being kind or caring in a way that could be mocked as feminine, having close male friends even if everyone involved is straight and there's nothing erotic involved.

I have keyboard agraphia - handwriting, while slower than before, still works without me needing backspace about once per word or two. Physical brain damage + autism, not fun. Not a superpower. Wouldn't mind a cure for the first one, maybe it'll heal over time.

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

There are many sensory problems an autistic person can have relating to clothing and it is part of any reasonable adjustments and disability support plans to explore that, especially in schools with a uniform. ...

Comment of the week (month?) goes to whoever replied to a video of The Battle Cry of Freedom: "This video has been on youtube for longer than the Confederacy existed." The Union Forever! Down with the traitors!

Happy No Kings Day, America!

Life is hard. Please enjoy this bunny and find strength to carry on.

From ACX: in the 1952 Texas Governor election, D beat R by 73% to 25% (rounded). Despite both parties nominating THE SAME PERSON as their candidate.

Guys I found the cause of autism! It's not vaccines after all. I searched for "autism" on duckduckgo and the first ad was for buying autism on amazon. They're selling it to our kids online!

Never judge a book by its cover, unless it's an AI generated cover, in which case I'm immovably Judgy McJudgerson of Judgeville

Autistic behaviour of the day: why turn the lights on when you could use a torch instead?

Cats + Trains

Exactly. The diagnosis criteria need interpretation by a specialist - some words are technical terms, and some parts presume the evaluator has a good understanding of typical childhood development stages already. But the diagnosis criteria are not a classified secret.

Can confirm 😞

I hope with all my heart there is no Second American Civil War. But if there is, this would be the kind of thing that builds up to the new Fort Sumter incident.

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Another way of dealing with stormtroopers when you'd lose in a fistfight.

QOTD: If vaccines caused autism, America would have way, way more trains

I'm having a feeling. I do not like it.

If I had a pound for every time I've heard some form of "lectures bad", including from supposed pedagogy experts, I could comfortably live on an academic's salary. Bad lectures are bad, and there's plenty of them going around. I always loved the good ones though. [part 1]

My current grudge with any large UK institution: "we're aware of the supreme court ruling, we're not ready to say what it means for us. We're not going to give you a simple answer whether you can use our toilets or not." [1/2]

A transcendent being with extensive powers and the highest manifestation of wisdom. Sat next to Buddha.

Confounder: in both the humanities and in STEM, there are higher- and lower-reputation colleges. Law, with a state or similar licencing requirement, probably sets a minimum bar for graduate quality. CS definitely does not.

5. Your code still works a year later 🙂 I'd also split things another way: A. You/your code works in programs of up to 1k LoC, B. same for 10k-100k, C. same for 1M+ LoC. The last one is really really hard, expecially if you can't modularize the whole thing into <10k LoC components.

I don't think a maths ugrad is expected to produce a novel insight in most unis? Except perhaps the world top 10 or so? Understanding and working properly with innovations of the 20th century (if not 19th) is more than hard enough.

I'd say STEM degrees come in various levels of rigor, especially in places with lower reputation but high need of student fees. There are places where it's easy to get a CS degree, but not so much to get a programmer job afterwards. I have a feeling pure math has less of that problem?

Indeed, if you claim that it's white supremacy to say there's a Right or Wrong way to use language - this fails HARD when you're learning a foreign language. "Le France" is a mistake whatever your politics.

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