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aaronesilvers

@aaronesilvers@jawns.club

Producer. People Developer. Public Servant. Good dude.

Cubanx. Autistic. Dad. He/Him/Jawn/Youse

Love languages: disc golf, live music, smoked meats, coffee, weed and rye. Writes, sings, drops bars and beats, plays bass + keytar.

Generally kicks ass. Clutch Quizzo team member.

Chicago-based, Forever Philly

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Binder, to random
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R.E.M.’s Stand is the past tense of Eminem’s Stan.

aaronesilvers,
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@Binder a sequel that came out first my god

aaronesilvers, to random
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Hehehehehe

video/mp4

eamon, to random
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Why does this Dell Thunderbolt dock have a fan in it? The PSU is a giant external brick. What sort of computation is it even doing?

Can it... can it run Doom?

aaronesilvers,
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@eamon @Binder i read a few ars technica articles about the tech -- the fans keep the chips cool, on the cable itself, that power/process stuff at thunderbolt speeds and it apparently improves speed radically by keeping those chips cool

ashleyspencer, (edited ) to actuallyautistic
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For AuDHD:

Which terms do you prefer to use?

Do you use ‘have’ or ‘I am’ to describe your autism and ADHD?

Personally, I’m the first one and use ‘I am’ to describe both.

Just curious to see how common each one is. 🙂

@actuallyautistic
@audhd

aaronesilvers,
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@ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic @audhd

I am forming an information architecture that models in text and conversations how to explain how all these things related to neurodivergence are related in a way that at least encapsulates the general complexity.

Autism, “on the spectrum”, “neurospicy" (my favorite) are almost interchangeable with NTs. ADHD might be any number of sensory issues... there's an attention thing, there's a "can't stop thinking/doing" thing that manifest similarly to observe

aaronesilvers,
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@ashleyspencer @actuallyautistic @audhd …and, maybe, to some general degree, we can describe at least some of the sensory disconnects that manifest as AuDHD with existing researched/defined conditions:

  • Alexithymia is a condition that describes what’s going on with 1-in-10 people who have challenges with their awareness of, ability to identify and describe feelings.
  • Interoception challenges, which are related to gaps in ability to identify and describe one’s physical/body senses.
aaronesilvers, to random
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Gonna use my

  • arms
  • legs
  • style
  • sassy
  • fingers
  • imagination

Binder, to random
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It is by albums from The Kleptones that thoughts acquire speed.

aaronesilvers,
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@Binder PICKITUP PICKITUP PICKITUP

aaronesilvers, to random
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24 hours have passed without a new drop... is the K-Dot/BBLDrizzy beef settled?

Mjack, to random
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I'm now asking the 'verse to say something to me to take the sting away from Monday morning at work

aaronesilvers,
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@Mjack they say money can't buy happiness, but it takes only a moderate amount of money to buy a jetski, and you never see anyone unhappy on a jetski.

aaronesilvers, to actuallyautistic
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TFW alone time flexes and compresses between feeling like eternity until there's not enough of it. @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

lamorito, to random Spanish
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El nivel de detalle es chef kiss

aaronesilvers,
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@lamorito @Binder 10/10 no notes. Best joke of the week

pathfinder, to Autism
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@actuallyautistic

Autistic brains be stupid. Well, obviously not stupid, they just seem to work, or not work, in mysterious ways.

The main one that has always got me, about mine, is that I have no memory for sound, absolutely none. I can't remember a song, or a sound. I can't remember what my parents sounded like and none of my memories carry, for want of a better word, a soundtrack. I can remember what I was thinking and what others were saying, but not hearing them say it, nor any other sound. I also don't dream in sound, at least as far as I know. All my dreams are silent.

And yet, and it's a big yet. I have an excellent memory for voices and sounds. Like many autistics I have near perfect pitch, at least when I'm hearing others sing, or music playing. Just don't ask me to reproduce it, because I can't. If I meet someone I haven't met for a while, then I will almost certainly not recognise their face, or remember their name, but there is a very good chance that I will recognise them from their voice. I am also very good at detecting accents. Even the slightest hint of one in, say, an actor pretending to be an american, will get me searching Wikipedian to see if I am right about their actual nationality.

So, if I can tell the sound of a Honda CBR engine two blocks away, or a voice, or an accent buried deep, I must have the memories to compare against. And yet... nope.

So, as I said, autistic brains be stupid.


aaronesilvers,
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@alexpsmith @pathfinder @actuallyautistic i don't know that I can call what I have an eidetic memory, but of the things I can recall, music and lyrics are among the few things I can recall with striking clarity.

I've learned from a friend of a different flavor of neurodivergence in which eidetic memory is tied closely to emotion, and in this way i can connect the dots between how music is a special interest and outlet for complex feels… and how music can resonate with me in a way that sticks...

aaronesilvers,
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@alexpsmith @pathfinder @actuallyautistic I remember thinking when i was getting diagnostic testing for autism, we got to the short term memory test and i did so terribly, as i often do trying to remember stuff...

but i also remember thinking if she would've sang the things she was testing me on i'd probably have nailed it

JeremyMallin, to actuallyautistic
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Do neurotypical people not have to mask at all? Are they just themselves? How does that work?

@actuallyautistic

aaronesilvers,
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@JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic They mask intentions. We (I know I’m generalizing) have to intuit contexts because neurotypical often mask their intentions. It’s maddening

drahardja, to apple
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Man, not again. sells seriously under-specced devices to maintain their “starting from…” price and then upselling people to actually-usable models. Remember those 16 GB flash iPhones they kept selling (2010–2016! I checked!), even though that meant people didn’t even have enough space to update their OS? 8 GB RAM is that, once more, but for runtime memory.

I think the 256 GB flash, 8 GB RAM minimum-spec Mac is a low-resource trap for anyone who wants to use a computer for more than light web browsing (and I mean light—web pages are resource hogs these days) or a messaging client. They are certainly not suitable for anyone wanting to locally store or edit media.

For 2024, I think 512 GB flash and 16 GB RAM should be minimum for MacBook Air, while 1 TB and 32 GB RAM should be minimum for MacBook Pro.

“Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM”

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/apple-8gb-ram-mac/

aaronesilvers,
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@drahardja was in a budget pinch last fall and bought a 15” M2 MBA with 8GB RAM, 512GB flash... it's "fine" but i'm already budgeting for something beefier, at least for music production work.

I love the battery life but i get memory errors and occasional lag when too many things are open. That never used to happen with me and Macs but now it happens pretty regularly and i hate it

Binder, to random
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An invasive barracuda

aaronesilvers,
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@Binder cousin of The Informa

nyquildotorg, to random
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Hoggs Bison

aaronesilvers,
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@nyquildotorg Hoggs Bossin’

aaronesilvers, to random
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Today's post, I highlight some of changes I'm managing in terms of personal and community-focused projects and plans I've been working on.

https://51fifteen.co/b/FZC

aaronesilvers, to random
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uh... i feel like 7-Eleven is signing itself up for war crimes: https://consequence.net/2024/03/7-eleven-hot-dog-flavored-sparkling-water/

aaronesilvers,
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@SoupGod228 My friend Jim from sandwichtribunal.com reminded me of this related gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopX2vGNLgA

aaronesilvers, to actuallyautistic
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Ok @actuallyautistic cousins, I am breaking free enough of mental and emotional fascia to start getting real with the blogging.

Feels good to be on this side of it rn but what a ride the last four years, let alone four months. https://jawns.club/@aaronesilvers/112163746449806858

aaronesilvers, to random
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I’m watching and it’s fine I guess but it is hard to follow

hosford42, to actuallyautistic
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Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:

  • Comfortable with ambiguity
  • Strong people skills
  • Good culture fit
  • Multitasking
  • A fast-paced dynamic environment
  • Bachelor's degree or better

I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.


@actuallyautistic
@neurodivergence

aaronesilvers,
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@andrewhinton @hosford42 @polotek @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence i strongly recommend Pema Chödron's "Comfort with Uncertainty”

It was a really helpful meditation on how not to melt down when the ambiguity/uncertainty feels too much. Rather, Chodron encourages developing a certain approach to empathy that builds the strength for resilence against the feelings that spiral

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Quick Q, do y’all leave your bike helmets where you lock up your bikes? I usually just take it@with me but I would have biked to the show tonight if i wasn’t worried about if they’d let it in the venue

aaronesilvers,
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@alexcurtin i always lock up the helmet with the bike, it's awkward to carry it around everywhere

aaronesilvers, to random
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So, Friday was supposed to be move-in day on an apartment i signed a lease for weeks ago.

Except the lease wasn't real. I was taken in by a Craigslist scam. Too much to go into but when i file the full police report i'll share the link to describe the particulars. For me, it was a huge nut-punch after the month i've had. But... i went right back to the priorities/filters i had for my search before and found a great spot, ready to move-in, and i am moving in today

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