Flutterby™! (short)

Autistic peer-to- peer information transfer is highly effective Catherine J Crompton , Danielle Ropar, and Sue Fletcher-Watson. From the "Lay abstract":

We told one person in each group a story and asked them to share it with another person, and for that person to share it again and so on, until everyone in the group had heard the story. We then looked at how many details of the story had been shared at each stage. We found that autistic people share information with other autistic people as well as non-autistic people do with other non-autistic people. However, when there are mixed groups of autistic and non-autistic people, much less information is shared. Participants were also asked how they felt they had got on with the other person in the interaction. The people in the mixed groups also experienced lower rapport with the person they were sharing the story with.</blocqkuote>

https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320919286

Via Cohen is a Ghost ‪@skullmandible.bsky.social‬ in the context of talking about how much work it is to learn how to navigate social connections and situations with non-autistic people, and accommodate "normal".

World Without Exploitation has released a short PSA on YouTube featuring survivors of Epstein's child rape ring.

MeFi user Smedly, Butlerian jihadi notes:

This gets me a little too heated to express my entire sentiments reasonably, but the TL;DR is that we can absolutely see from just those emails that have been released that the broad outlines of this situation were always widely known among the establishment and their courtiers in the upper levels of media.

There is a canard that gets trotted out when people are critical of the media, which is that their decisions are driven by traffic -- what will drive clicks is given more attention. This story, if nothing else, categorically demolishes that defense. Media coverage is structured to create a narrative that serves the interests of the privileged classes, full stop. If they had wanted to make this a massive scandal driving huge surges in traffic, they absolutely could have. And again, the broad outlines of the scandal were demonstrably well known.

It is instructive to contrast how this would be covered if it were attractive white teenage girls being trafficked and exploited by people of color, organized into gangs or otherwise.

At some point there should be pitchforks and guillotines for the people who covered this up, and that's the limit of what I will say here.

Also Via and Via.

Non Sonoma County folks, what interpretation do you take from the headline "St. Vincent holds off Analy in 1st-round NCS playoff battle"

Package delivery has taken a toll on New York City, comptroller says. He’s urging action in response.

Last-mile delivery services in New York City are tied to increased crashes, traffic and workplace injuries, as well as more air pollution in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, according to a report City Comptroller Brad Lander released Monday.

In linking to Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime, Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite@indieweb.social noted:

But, like, AI has dramatically increased crime. I don't know how the amount of crime it could reduce would adequately offset how much criming is going on. 😂

mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social

Sometimes I like to remember that in 2013 Larry Page said that over 300 million people were using Google+ (my friends, 300 million people were _clearly_not_ using Google+) and when that whole clownshow was over we all learned that 'using' meant 'what does that button do?' and the average duration of a Google+ session was exactly as long as it took people to see what that button did and then either find the back button or close the tab.

I am trying to find blindspots in my AI assessment and get past my cynicism. Say in a few years OpenAI implodes, the bubble pops, hardware prices come down to where we all end up with something capable of running Ollama on our desktop.

Will the religious fervor of the AI prophets still be strong?

darcyolsson

whenever I confess to people that i feel like I am just roleplaying as a normal person they're always like noooo you don't strike me as someone who's roleplaying as a normal person at all!!! :) and every time internally im like well yes that's because I am excellent at it

Via this screencap

jwzsheet, a spreadsheet for your web pages, with an entirely self-contained calculation engine in both PHP and JavaScript, no eval calls, for safety.

And some mornings I sit through 4 minutes of "Snack Jack" ad from Thai TV... And I didn't even know that the product placement wasn't a stand-in until the punchline.

https://youtu.be/ZFg6S6-cj8w

Something tells me this housing development was laid out by a JFK conspiracy theorist...

Turkey vultures are sitting on top of the local church

The dining room table is going to have a round recess, and we're gonna put Charlene's dad's O gauge train in it. I could build it as segmented, but I got a bunch of 1/8" masonite, and have some veneers, so I'm gonna laminate it. This is the form to wrap it around...

Every time I successfully walk past a drinking establishment I celebrate a little at my accomplishment in once again passing the bar.

We have a month of Netflix right now because we wanted to watch The Greatest Night In Pop, the documentary about the making of We Are The World, which we've watched twice. Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen's sessions never get old, and both times through I've laughed at Stevie Wonder showing Bob Dylan how to do his lines.

Discovery on Netflix sucks, but we'd seen something about The Only Girl in the Orchestra, a short documentary about Orin O'Brien, the first woman hired to perform with the New York Philharmonic, back in 1966, so went to search for that, and right next to that in the search results was It's Only Life After All, a documentary about the Indigo Girls.

The Orin O'Brien film was a wonderful little piece, O'Brien came from a show biz family, and picked up the double bass to be a supporting character rather than a star, and the whole film had a nice soundtrack and was a great little wander through her life as she interacted with students and dealt with moving out of her apartment and the issues of retirement and winding down her life.

We had started watching a few other Netflix music documentaries, ABBA: Against The Odds, and Springsteen on Broadway, both of which we abandoned a little bit in. So when we started the two hours with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, I didn't necessarily expect that we'd make it all the way through. Especially since this was definitely not a concert film.

But it was two hours spent taking me back to the late '80s and '90s, to Little Five Points in Atlanta, hanging out with two people who believe a better culture is possible, and Charlene and I were both wrapt.

And hell yeah I'm gonna take Closer to Fine to the next first Friday "bring something to share" gathering at Randy's house...

Went in to SF yesterday for the Emacs meetup, and it was so refreshing to hang out for a few hours with people who want to make computing useful, who want to solve actual problems and build tools for organization. A wonderful counter to the constant refrain of "how can we cram an LLM into this?"