Big plans this evening, we’re going to watch that classic movie about an autistic person whose special interests are relevant to their career: Legally Blonde
This is your annual reminder that many autistic people consider groups seeking to prevent or cure autism to be eugenicist hate groups and would strongly prefer that any donations you make go to groups that seek to improve the lives of autistic people instead
watching two time travel shows, and for maybe the first time in my life, i’m rolling my eyes at the one with the elaborate time loopy puzzle box plot and really enjoying the one that’s just about the characters connecting with their younger selves, reflecting on their lives now, and trying to fix a few things without messing the present up too badly for each other
I’ve just seen it too many times now: the past causes the future, the future causes the past, yadda yadda. we get it already—there’s no beginning or end and everyone is trapped in a perpetual cycle of experiencing and re-experiencing slight variations on the same time travel shows
My plan (very ill-advised in hindsight) to binge graphic novel series so heavy that the creators had to take a break from making them has come to a screeching halt after about twenty pages
There’s already been financial trouble, abuse allegations, police harassment, loss of a parent, a run-in with occupying forces, a suicide bombing, and trauma-induced mutism
I think it’s gonna take a while to be ready for the next twenty pages
In my experience as an autistic person humans are very bad at actually answering questions, so I wouldn’t say that “human-level performance” is a very meaningful benchmark for ML-based question answering systems
@karlhigley Ah, hmm. I've had baffling conversations where people laud AI chatbots and I wonder if they've tried using them at all because they are so obviously infuriating, circular, inefficient, unhelpful. Perhaps the explanation is that I'm talking with allistics who just don't even notice when a question isn't being answered.
I recently referred to something as a “home improvement project” and C said something like “I’m thinking of them as a subset of life improvement projects. I don’t want to have a nice house just to have it. I only want it if it makes my life better.”
I hereby reject the framing of house work as “chores.” From now on, I only do “life improvement projects.”
I like this framing because getting enough sleep, taking a shower, eating breakfast—these are all life improvement projects. So is cooking a meal, but ordering in can be too depending on the day.
@lzg it feels like the kind of idea that could only come from a multiply neurodivergent household—and if it hadn’t, you’d have to retcon it so it had. she’s insightful like this, definitely a keeper.