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Monotropism: single attention and associated cognition in autism

I hearing a lot about AuDHD these days.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:20 AM on June 1, 2024

I get a lot of “no, because I compensate like hell” mixed in with that.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:35 AM on June 1, 2024

Why is there an AI Hype?

The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI

We are so fucked.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:06 PM on May 29, 2024

The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:00 AM on June 1, 2024

Trump Verdict Thread

Seperate that man from his cellphone for 24hrs and he’ll go into a coma.

Not that I am against this.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:51 PM on May 30, 2024

He gave a speech at the Libertarian Party national convention last weekend -- the MAGAts who engineered a hostile takeover of the LP in 2022 invited him -- and when the actual Libertarians started booing him, he shot back that the LP can keep getting their 3% if they don't want to win.

He couldn’t even win them over by promising them leniency on sex crimes.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:01 PM on May 30, 2024

Thing is, with this guy most of the time they don’t need to be competent. Why bother when usually everything just gets handed to you?

Of course when that Durant happen it’s extremly hilarious for everybody else.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:42 AM on May 31, 2024

Well there’s some weirdly unfounded optimism about the Republican Party from someone who is a member of the “Freedom Caucus”.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:22 AM on May 31, 2024

Honestly it feels like the commentators were trying to spin up controversy out of something straightforward in order to make it a horse race, as we are familiar with from every other aspect of Trump media coverage. So a media thing, not a law thing. Also helps them legitimize it if Trump gets a free pass literally no other person would get.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:57 AM on May 31, 2024

I respect putting Trump in jail because fucker has asked for it and seeing things happen to him that would happen to other people is very, very funny.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:01 AM on May 31, 2024

Johnson urges Supreme Court to "step in" on Trump verdict

It really bothering with the whole illusion of impartiality thing they kind of sort of go for.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:35 AM on May 31, 2024

If you put him in house arrest he’s just going to ignore it and then you’re back to deciding if you do real arrest or not.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:36 AM on May 31, 2024

Seems a stretch TBH.

Mainly I don’t think it’s good as it’s late 2010s resistance lib nonsense.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:06 PM on May 31, 2024

Greenland - I would have expected 0% so that’s something.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:46 PM on May 31, 2024

Kind of… I feel like personally guilty may be different than guilty via a shell org. Gets to be pulled into court and photoed coming out of it making that face for a start.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:20 PM on May 31, 2024

At the whim of 'brain one'

As someone who frequently and often shits on LLMs and their enthusiasts from a great height… not particularly seeing anything wrong with this.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:24 PM on May 31, 2024

Yes, they wood build a satellite out of that material

Alien 3 (monks version) was a prophecy!
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:25 AM on May 31, 2024

A dying empire led by bad people.

Yup.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:02 AM on May 29, 2024

Pretty much everyone is in fear of losing their jobs right now and even people with solid jobs are having trouble making ends meet. Housing is ruinously expensive and many are just getting straight up priced out of it. All the things that make the line go up make these things worse. It’s real bad.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:42 AM on May 29, 2024

The other democratic message is pretty much "vote affirmatively for us and our hellfire missiles because otherwise Trump will put you in a camp", and that frankly doesn't resonate with anyone I actually know, especially young people.

It’s basically voter suppression and gloating rather than an attempt at persuading people to vote at this point.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:50 AM on May 29, 2024

I’d say Putin, China, Saudi, etc. do enter into it,

I’d say that’s entering into wishful thinking.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:51 AM on May 29, 2024

All the “good” economic news is like “AI is going to revolutionize the economy and put you out of a job!”
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:59 AM on May 29, 2024

I am both dreading and expecting a full TERF pivot from them, to match other pseudo-liberal institutions.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:10 PM on May 29, 2024

Young people don't really vote in local elections either, correct?

Honestly if I was trying to persuade someone to vote that’s where I would encourage them to vote, presidential votes being terrifyingly irrelevant in pretty much everywhere that isn’t a swing state.

Also you get to vote for progressive people (probably democrats) and policies, even if they will almost always be crushed by better funded right wing opponents… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:02 PM on May 29, 2024

The thing about crime is it’s mostly a vibes thing. Any attempt to materially change things in the world rather than appeal to the vibes is a complete waste of time. And the vibes are mostly based on knee jerk lizard brain shit that republicans utterly control, so Dems campaigning against Repubs on crime toughness are just going to get crushed like the losers they are. Same with immigration, which is just racism.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:14 PM on May 29, 2024

The most bleak and defeatist view of all.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:02 PM on May 29, 2024

It will be once Trump II takes over, because we'll never have an actual election again.

Most of our votes won’t matter one tiny bit in deciding that.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:17 PM on May 29, 2024

Honestly I think if you want queer rights in every state the last thing you want is the Democratic Party thinking they can just ignore us without consequence, because they absolutely will.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:33 PM on May 29, 2024

Ain’t nobody here in charge of that.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:42 PM on May 29, 2024

the ultra rich have already decided they want fascism, they’re not going to be swayed further towards that.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:44 PM on May 29, 2024

Yeah I think you can assume we’ve heard about that.

So… You going to actually do anything or are zingers like that about it?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:37 PM on May 29, 2024

"All of these things are happening now, and Biden isn't doing a goddamn thing about any of them, but at least under Trump maybe the goddamn liberals would care and be in the streets with us."

Everyone saw what happened with the border and Gaza is going to be exactly like that.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:41 PM on May 29, 2024

Did you just both-sides both-siding? Power move.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:48 PM on May 29, 2024

Strongly suspect the liberal centrists types doing the screaming about votes don’t actually vote all that much more than the people they scream at, probably less.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:59 PM on May 29, 2024

As in: not backed by data. Is there inflation? Yes. Is it outpaced by wage growth? Also yes.

One of these is equally distributed. One of them is not.

One of them has me paying into a bunch of GoFundMes so people can eat, the other is mostly the downtown business association jacking off at the idea of giving cops a new tank to crush homeless people with.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:43 PM on May 29, 2024

even though Trump won in 2016 having lost the general tally by millions of votes, all those millions of votes even in blue states mattered.

Cannot underscore heavily enough how much the popular vote is not a thing that matters and not a thing you should give a shit about.

It should be, it isn’t.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:45 PM on May 29, 2024

Biden sending a powerful message by not personally signing the GBU-39 glide bomb used in the refugee camp massacre.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:49 PM on May 29, 2024

I can assure everyone the child murdering is unpopular.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:12 PM on May 29, 2024

Turns out the kids aren’t being cynical ENOUGH.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:43 AM on May 30, 2024

(Which makes this Isaac Chotiner interview with Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg even more remarkable.)

Giving me a little hope as though it’s a pitiful thing to see in a battle between FiveThirtyEight and a Democratic insider over who can be the most wrong FiveThirtyEight is always going to carry it.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:58 AM on May 31, 2024

Certainly an area where I would advise Johnny Vote-scold absolutely not to bother trying their schtick as they’ll just look like an idiot or make things worse.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:10 AM on May 31, 2024

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

What Makes Immersive Experiences We Love Work
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:44 AM on May 31, 2024

Basically the fetish equivalent of proclaiming “I love vanilla lattes”

Last time I saw Jerry Seinfeld he was stomping all over everyone else with deeply unfunny bits on Everybody’s In LA so I guess him being an ungainly giraffe is appropriate. Though I’m regretting this metaphor as he needs to get in the trash and giraffes are nice.

got adamantium?

Fastball special is a bit beyond the lifting.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:41 AM on May 31, 2024

Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC

US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:14 AM on May 31, 2024

naked intimidation with plausible deniability attached to it

The civilian oversight! It does nothing!
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:25 PM on May 30, 2024

Defund the police.

People will argue against that, but… what else is there? There is literally no other thing that can be done to control them other than to stop feeding them.

The money can be spent better elsewhere and you don’t lose anything because there isn’t a police force anywhere actually doing the parts of their job that might actually be useful (ie all the shit you see on TV that they pretend to do).

You’d get less traffic stops, that’s it.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:34 PM on May 30, 2024

That’s where selective application comes in.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:53 PM on May 30, 2024

MEOWdulator

For those on a budget this thing is cute and sounds about the same.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:09 AM on May 30, 2024

Native American restaurants across the U.S.

Oh hey, Off the Rez at the Burke in Seattle - can heartily recommend both. Come for the delicious food, get a selfie in front of the 65 million year old lizard skull.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:03 AM on May 30, 2024

Microsoft WordPad: 1995-2024

Fun fact: first thing to export it was Word on Mac.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:24 PM on May 29, 2024