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Grunya Sukhareva - Wikipedia

TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not.

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transphobia is comorbid with being a fucking cunt in every other aspect of your life

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

If you think about it basically all cats are on UBI cause they used to have the job of rodent control and now they just hang out.

Sure they can still do that job when required it's just not as common anymore.

Don't tell us we can't have a universal basic income, free health care, free college, and no people living on the streets when we apparently have money for war and militarized police.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

I, for one, want a space opera where everyone listens to Cuban son. Every ship’s bridge and the center of every space station can in instant turn into a salsa dance hall.

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

I imagine my late father – a blue collar factory worker – would’ve just suggested “technocrat” tongue-in-cheek, although he still begrudgingly respected people with technical university degrees. He reserved his deepest disdain for economists.

Disclaimer: above reasoning is a result of mulling this over in the shower FWIW.

You can’t and it’s okay. It best overlaps with “engineer” IMO but that translation is bland as it doesn’t capture any of the nuance of the historic sociological context. And since that’s likely unique to Hungary and not at all present in societies that shape the English language… it gets lost.

This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.

Guaranteed income as insurance: How safety nets in India encouraged productive investment in agriculture In India, a guaranteed income programme acted as insurance rather than a substitute for credit, reducing downside risk for small farmers and increasing their willingness to borrow – unlocking large cr...

Evidence from a natural experiment in India that provided UBI to all farmers suggests that the binding constraint on investment may be uninsured risk. Rather than more credit, what farmers need is credible downside protection that makes them willing to use existing credit for productive investment.

Messenger: [throwing message into the bushes] your excellency we would very much like to not be shot

Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.

the problem with AI “journalism” is that, as I discussed in this piece, LLMs eventually come up against the constraint that they know only what is legible to the digital. vast swaths of global happenings aren’t digitally legible and will remain so. only human reporters can describe those events.

Once you notice society's base reluctance to refer to women as "geniuses" with the same frequency they do as men, no matter how talented or influential she may be, it's a thing you never really stop noticing.

He fled torture in Uganda. ICE is trying to send him back. "People like Pastor [Steven] Tendo are exactly who our asylum system is meant to protect."

Mother Jones also publishes pieces that you want to look away, but shouldn't. Like this one.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica publishes pieces that you will want to look away, but you shouldn't. Like this one.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Anyone lamenting the layoffs at Washington Post is missing the point. WaPo had its credibility burned long ago. If you want to support independent journalism, set a monthly recurring donation to Pro Publica. And Mother Jones. The Guardian is not a bad choice either. (Suggest more in replies.)

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Here's his gofundme
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

I mean, I sincerely wish that the wish nr. 3 also becomes true. It’s less universal but also absolutely worthy; just hopefully not at all out of reach :-)

I read through your wishes and you literally moved me to tears. What they describe (except nr. 3) is so straightforward, so essential, yet often overlooked or out of reach and thus so important to emphasize and make conscious of. Thank you! Many happy returns of the day!

And lastly, 🎂 wish number four: For you to reach out to someone you love and tell them that they matter to you. For you to reach out to someone whose art has touched your life, and tell them what their work means to you. For you to speak to yourself with kindness and affection.

Harry Potter's now been used as a blunt tool to murder trans people for so long that no one under 30 remembers Rowling as a writer who is a bigot, but as a bigot who used to be a famous writer.

Someone talking about it sounds like someone organically getting very excited about Jared Leto.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

This is giving me flashbacks to refugee support in Greece -- everybody was imagining themselves out on the beaches helping people off the boats, but a jillion other things needed to be done too! Like how are you going to give ppl dry clothes if no one has sorted all the clothes first.

I wish I could've published it in a time when this is the only thing vying for our attention, but here it is now.

…and then I set out to write about these fractals, and since I didn't have a personal website for some years now I somehow ended up building myself a new one too, all so I have a place to publish an article about a labor of love from three decades ago.