Derek Sweetman

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

This is so true

A poster on a wall among bookshelves. It's in glorious color with pink peonies along the bottom. The text reads 'Unattended children will be given an enthusiastic explanation of intersectional feminism.'

My daughter is on a junket to New York with her online peeps. She sent me this poster from the Ripped Bodice:

www.trumpactiontracker.info

Incredible

from vaccines, to conversion camp, to fucking Tylenol apparently, their entire ethos is a constant struggle to find a cure for not loving their kids as they are

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

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Neurodiversity isn’t a trend, a diagnosis, or a club.

It’s the reality that human brains are naturally varied, in how we are, sense, process, connect, learn & regulate.

The question isn’t if or why neurodiversity exists. It’s whether systems, politics, schools & workplaces are willing to catch up.

Making Numbers in Web Content Accessible - TPGi — a Vispero company Numbers are a key part of web content. It makes sense, then, that when we use numbers, they must be accessible.

Some people have disabilities that are directly based on the way they understand and interpret numbers. In this post, Ricky Onsman explains some of these disabilities, who is affects and how, and what web creators can do about it.

www.tpgi.com/making-numbe...

Respect Our Existance

Or

Expect Our Resistance

#ROEER (RAWR MFER)

Recognized the woman in the photo instantly. She once had to hear her mother talk on camera abt driving them both off of George Washington Bridge. That talk—abt taking yr child’s life& yours—was in a video made by autism org that worked to demonize autistic ppl. Ghorayshi is a straight line from it

A poster announcing a teach-in in washington DC. Sunday, October 26th - Sunup to Sundown Washington, DC - The National Mall “AMERICA’S FRONT YARD” FEATURING KELLIE CARTER JACKSON, NICOLE HEMMER, DEREK MUSGROVE, NATE DIMEO, TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM, AMANDA SEALES, JODY AVIRGAN, JAMES FALLOWS, MARTHA JONES, MARCIA CHATELAIN, PAUL BUTLER, NATHAN CONNOLLY, AND MORE

Announcing a good ol’ fashioned Teach-In in Washington, DC on Sunday, October 26th.

We’ll convene for a series of lectures, stories, and conversations to celebrate and stand up for the work of history and museums.

Shoutout to @natedimeo.bsky.social for bringing this idea to us.

See you in DC!

The experiences of autistic people with intersecting marginalized identities—especially Black autistic adults—"remain underexplored in research, contributing to a limited understanding of stigma’s impact across diverse communities." @desirjones.bsky.social et al:

www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10....

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

Autism is: fine, common, normal
The problem is a world where only some brains are valuable/able to succeed.
If we are concerned about Autism as a "problem," there are real tangible things we could be doing to make the world better for everyone instead of pretending we can prevent neurodiversity.

I truly do not care what causes autism unless learning that information can be used to support already existing autistic people live easier and more fulfilling lives

the pentagon pizza report is indicating the dominos and papa johns locations near the pentagon are seeing a surge in traffic, suggesting an imminent military operation

because we live in this kind of world.

Opinion | Autism Has Never Been One Thing We’ve come too far to go back to a time when autism was defined solely in terms of deficits and mothers were made to feel guilty.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The Trump administration’s autism project “is built on the premise that an autism diagnosis is a terrible tragedy and that scientists and doctors have failed,” Roy Grinker, a cultural anthropologist and the father of an autistic child, says. “But science has not failed.”

See also: autistics

My students seem to think so

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this.

I don’t view it as a Me problem.

THIS. Every time I have needed to find obscure info for my books, like about antique typewriters or elevators, an autistic person with a Youtube channel or a website that looks like its from 2002 saved the day.

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

These autistic people, these autistic- lemme tell ya. They got the biggest collections. The most beautiful collections. Pogs. Transformers. The Transformers they have now. Truly. But they told me-they told me not to say this. We can use them as computers, did you know that? Mentats, they call em

People should really stop being afraid of autism and give it a try. It's pretty great!

A copy of the revised version of Gord Hill's Antifa Comic Book. The cover is a drawing of masked people behind a "Smash fascism" banner with a fist breaking apart a swastika. They are carrying the flag for Antifascist Action.

Wait this came in the mail today and it's already illegal?