Want to learn real quick that "leftist" does not automatically mean "good person" or "free from bigotry"?
Call them out on body shaming or misgendering monsters.
It's also a painful reminder that so much "acceptance" is just performative.
If you think I'm valid for being fat, but then insult a monster for being fat, it tells me that you never actually saw me as valid.
If you think my gender transition is valid, but then purposefully misgender an awful trans person, it tells me that you never saw my transition as valid.
Because if these things are true and valid, then being an awful person wouldn't matter!
Nobody asked for this, but I just signed up for insurance with State Farm and I already have some strong thoughts and feelings about their app design.
This is an impromptu design critique because I cannot turn this part of my brain off. This is a curse.
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If it's not satire, I can't believe we need a new term to express that a lunch *break* is a supposed to be an actual break.
I get that you had to ask. Because one does have to ask these days. But yes.
I never leave my shuttle, can’t afford to pay those fees
My overtime does overtime, I work nine days a week
And I never hit that bottle til it’s time to take a pee🎶
"Good, we got you back in the office. To thank you, we're taking away your lunch break"
😬 🙄 😜
oh god
it's a reference to "quiet quitting" where people just stop coming to work without notice. For these bosses, coming to work isn't even enough, because they're telling each other that lunch break is "quiet nourishing."
this... is not a thing I do; I do not have time.
I do not try to impose that on others though
@bbbhltz When people join my team, I tell them to go and look at productivity studies. Across different industries (I originally thought this was solely for knowledge workers, but I recently chatted to a researcher who has reproduced the same result in the construction industry), they all show roughly the same shape:
Productivity increases up to 20 hours a week.
It then plateaus up to 40.
It then starts to decrease and is typically negative by about 60.
This is the total net productivity, not the delta. If you are working 60 hour weeks, you would probably be more productive if you just stayed in bed all day.
For programmers, just think about how long it takes to fix a bug that you introduced when you were tired. Fixing mistakes (in any field) is often slow and expensive. Reducing the likelihood of making mistakes is usually much cheaper,
This is for sustained periods. People can often be productive for a 60-hour week if they are well rested, so if you have a one-off urgent deadline, it *may*be okay to work longer hours to meet it, as long as you take enough time off to recover. Averaged out (factoring in the recovery time), this tends to be less productive overall (ignoring the secondary impacts on people who have other commitments, like to see their families, and so on), so it’s generally a bad idea.
I want the most productive 20 hours of each employee each week. I don’t care when they happen (I’ve worked with some people who find they are most productive 2-4am, and that’s fine). Employees are responsible for getting enough rest to make sure that they can be productive for 20 hours each week.
I wrote our vacation policy to be explicit about the point of leave. It is not a gift from the company. It is not a reward for good behaviour. It is an obligation from the employees to the company to ensure that their brains are taken care of so that they can be productive. My contract (which is the model for new employees) has a minimum amount of leave I must take each year and a maximum time I can go without taking at least two days of leave.
The book I most recommend to new managers is PeopleWare and the most important point in that book is that, as a manager, it is not your job to make people work. Most people take pride in their work and want to do it well. Your job is to remove obstacles that stop them from being able to do good work. I don’t think it goes quite far enough because sometimes the biggest obstacle is the employee. If you’re hiring smart and motivated people, the most likely failure mode is that they work too hard and don’t notice their productivity dropping off. Sometimes you have to force them to take a week off (and you need a leave policy that supports you in doing so).
Sorry for the long rant, I haven’t had coffee yet and bad management annoys me, even when it’s depressingly accurate satire.
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You joke, but I've been berated for not doing a good enough job of communicating after losing consciousness.
Yes. Really.
It really sounds like everyone else is butt-hurt that they didn't think of having a life outside of work first. These bullshit articles and their enablers on LInkedIn are the problem.
Millennials are 'quiet vacationing' rather than asking their boss for PTO: 'There's a giant workaround culture'
Younger workers are more likely to say they get nervous when asking for time off, and they're leaving PTO on the table.Jennifer Liu (CNBC)
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!Friendica Admins I've got a persistent issue lingering from messier storage transfers that had to be done when I moved. I just wasn't able to fit the media storage on the current semi-temporary box but not everything would transfer into S3 so I was forced to just delete the media folder without being fully transferred.
Since then a lot of images (typically profile pictures or older posts) are blurry and it seems clear the server isn't trying to re-download anything lost.
I'm needing a way to sort of kick it to get it to redownload those lost images?
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![Quick Answer
According to the available information, there is no scientific consensus on how many rocks a person should eat per day. The claims about geologists recommending eating at least one small rock per day appear to be satirical in nature and not based on actual medical or nutritional advice. [1]
Consuming rocks or other non-food items on a regular basis is generally not recommended, as it can be harmful to one's health. Rocks and other inedible objects can pose a choking hazard and can potentially cause internal damage if ingested. [2][3]
Instead of eating rocks, it is advisable to maintain a balanced and nutritious diet that includes a variety of whole, unprocessed foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. Consulting a registered dietitian or healthcare professional would be the best way to determine an appropriate and healthy daily dietary intake. [4]
Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day
What happens if you eat rocks every day? - Quora
Is eating rocks bad for you? : r/NoStupidQuestions - Reddit
Australian Dietary Guidelines: Recommended daily intakes](https://foggyminds.com/photo/preview/640/3570011 "Quick Answer
According to the available information, there is no scientific consensus on how many rocks a person should eat per day. The claims about geologists recommending eating at least one small rock per day appear to be satirical in nature and not based on actual medical or nutritional advice. [1]
Consuming rocks or other non-food items on a regular basis is generally not recommended, as it can be harmful to one's health. Rocks and other inedible objects can pose a choking hazard and can potentially cause internal damage if ingested. [2][3]
Instead of eating rocks, it is advisable to maintain a balanced and nutritious diet that includes a variety of whole, unprocessed foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. Consulting a registered dietitian or healthcare professional would be the best way to determine an appropriate and healthy daily dietary intake. [4]
Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day
What happens if you eat rocks every day? - Quora
Is eating rocks bad for you? : r/NoStupidQuestions - Reddit
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It’s an attempted mining boom without a feasibility study.
LLM internet profiteers forgot the data mining part is not as free or easy as they assumed.
The recent frenzy is like a squatter at a gold mine that puts ore and waste material in together because there’s no economic way to separate things before everyone joins the gold rush.
“The good stuff is in there somewhere”
Humans have hard time differentiating between reality and parody on the internet, let's cut the AI that has less neurons than a rat some slack 😂 🐀 🤖
#GPT #AI #RobotOverlord
@mawhrin well we can still do some comparisons, but one neuron does not equate to one parameter. if you want a meaningful analogy, then you have to compare the number of parameters to the number of connections between neurons.
of course we can't really quantify cognition, so comparing things based on that is always just how one feels about that. I mean, technically, I might be the only conscious person in the universe, I have no way checking if anyone else has. 😂
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So the temporary system had some sort of failure, I'm not even 100% sure what caused it to be honest. It went down sometime yesterday and some of the virtual drives got corrupted, which caught the database and the virtual gateway device.I was able to restore the system... most of the way. Thankfully there are backups of the database, but some of them were also flawed as well, the most recent intact one was from 5/16, so 5 days were lost.
To be clear, this problem was exacerbated by the fact that there's not as much redundancy in the temporary setup (sadly it looks like it'll be a few more months before I have a place of my own and can spin up my own hardware again). But I'm going to still look at how I might get those in better shape.
As far as how long it took: I had a busy day yesterday and didn't see that the server was down until I was too exhausted to do anything about it, so it had to wait until I got off work today... each attempt at restoring the database takes around an hour, so that took *a while* to get restored.
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So the temporary system had some sort of failure, I'm not even 100% sure what caused it to be honest. It went down sometime yesterday and some of the virtual drives got corrupted, which caught the database and the virtual gateway device.
I was able to restore the system... most of the way. Thankfully there are backups of the database, but some of them were also flawed as well, the most recent intact one was from 5/16, so 5 days were lost.
To be clear, this problem was exacerbated by the fact that there's not as much redundancy in the temporary setup (sadly it looks like it'll be a few more months before I have a place of my own and can spin up my own hardware again). But I'm going to still look at how I might get those in better shape.
As far as how long it took: I had a busy day yesterday and didn't see that the server was down until I was too exhausted to do anything about it, so it had to wait until I got off work today... each attempt at restoring the database takes around an hour, so that took *a while* to get restored.
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FYI on the alt-text (not intended as criticism): that particular type of monster is generally known in English as a "Mimic" given that they 'mimic' treasure chests. And in panel two she throws a bone 'at' the mimic, not 'to' it ('to' implies she's intending for the mimic to catch it, while 'at' implies she wants to hit it with the bone).
For some reason this reminds me of "The Luggage" from Discworld... (basically a mimic that acts like a very overprotective dog, and also happens to function like a self-propelled larger-on-the-inside luggage trunk)
The Mimic is a DnD name at origin (so copyright?) but the creature exist in many fantasy games, anime, and books. That's why I prefered to avoid this name. On a personal note: I like the versions in Dragon Quest or in Secret of Mana.
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@andre Yes, I tried to avoid naming it with this name in case it was still copyrighted. better to be safe than sorry later and get all this work removed because of a complaint for copyright 😅
But so many video games, so many books used 'Mimic' that it is probably a standard bestiary/monster name by now (eg. recently in Frieren, but also this type of Treasure can be found in old Snes game like Secret of Mana). Thank you for the Wikipedia link, very cool to read more description.
cette planche voit ses personnages s’approfondir bien plus que dans certains films, comme Star Wars episode 9.
This strip has more character development than some movies, like Star Wars episode 9.
Je suis certain que Frieren serait heureuse de voir ça...
Et Fern complètement dépitée 😂
( Frieren étant un manga où l'héroïne principale se fait toujours avoir par les mimiques)
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... ugh...
https://youtu.be/DlFkfOqtgR8?si=2e-AF281n1ZGHdKg
#ADHD #neurodivegent @actuallyadhd group @adhd group
What Don't You Understand? - A Short Film about ADHD
ADHD is a very complicated thing, and it is very hard to explain, especially to those without it. This film takes you through common experiences that come wi...YouTube
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Content warning: Meme image joking about real world murders (mocking murderers)
The price of love is pain*...
What do you do when your capacity for pain is getting used up faster than your capacity for love?
(* for those unfamiliar with the saying: loving someone inevitably means pain at their loss, pain at their suffering, and general vulnerability. In my case, mostly loved ones struggling and being traumatized by various systemic injustices...)
The raw surrealness that hits you from time to time when transitioning...
I thought I was a guy... now I'm thinking of myself as a woman.
I used to look in the mirror and always feel blah, and unmemorable unattractive face... now I see a face I genuinely recognize and remember, a face that I can feel attractive wearing (even if I'm not my own type and will never really see it myself)
My hair which was always just an uninteresting mess... turns out it likes to naturally grow into a cute bob (though I'd still like to try styling it more).
Oh... and boobs, just boobs.
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I have seen a lot of people use anime gao kigurumi as a mental help and encouragement with transitioning, just because the hadatai covers imperfections up, and with shapewear, people see what they would like to have.
It is a tough road.
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Bigot logic:
79% of violent crimes committed by men = NOT ALL MEN ARE VIOLENT
0% of violent crimes committed by transgender women = ALL TRANSGENDER WOMEN ARE VIOLENT
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"Trans and queer people are responsible for child molestation," GOP house Leader Dennis Hastert said while serial molesting children.
Republican House Leader Dennis Hastert
Judge sentences 'serial child molester' Hastert to 15 months
Prosecutors got Hastert on bank fraud, but allegations of sex abuse loomed large.Aamer Madhani, and John Bacon (USA TODAY)
actually the people of thailand will tell you the transgender population there which is huge, commits a lot of violent robberies
not bigot logic
It's not actually 0%, but close enough.
Then again they never let hypocrisy get in the way of their CIS white snowflake agenda.
the 'not all men' BS that men use to justify, well, everything is a logical fallacy
we need to start teaching logic in elementary school
check out "no true scotsman" appeal to purity
Rant about AI:
Sadly there's no reasonable way to differentiate AI content from "real" content. And regardless of your opinions on AI there's no "stopping" it (it's a "cat's out of the bag" situation, you can run these things on your home computer with open source software... there's no way short of an apocalypse to stop development from here).
What we do have is a lot of fighting and little effort to work on solutions of living with this. And I think worse yet many taking the anti-AI stance, especially the loudest of them, are basically making things worse because real solutions are anathema to them (ie. anything short of an outright ban on the technology is unacceptable, which means they tend to push back against even efforts to rein in AI or talk over those who want to push those efforts).
On top of that you have the borderline predatory push of "AI Detection Tools" and "AI Poisoning". The detection tools are a question of "How many real lives are you okay with ruining to catch a handful of bad uses cases in AI because there is zero way to have any certainty on the accuracy of these tools?" while poisoning tools are a security blanket that leads to people dropping their defenses because they don't stop AI, just slightly delay it's access to your content (even the creators of those tools acknowledge that AI will quickly bypass them, at which point there's no difference in whether or not you used that tool), worse yet as AI gets further incorporated in search tools it can make it harder to get visibility and exposure over AI generated content.
What we really need to be focusing on to address the problems with AI:
- Learning how copyright works (in my experience artists tend to have a woefully bad understanding of what is or isn't covered) and making sure corporations don't lobby the government into allowing copyright on AI works (under current law they are public domain, aka. no copyright, but there's already been one case of pushing that they can copyright "arrangements" of AI works). This means if they want to actually have a copyright on art, they've got to pay a human artist
- We need to push for reporting requirements/standards. One of the most toxic elements is how much AI floods spaces and bumps out human artists, especially when they attack the prompt containing the artist's name (meaning searching for that artist can turn up more AI work than their actual work)... there needs to be a requirement that AI art be labeled. This also works with the previous point as it is similar to being able to search for something released Creative Commons.
- Push for copyright responsibility in outputs rather than training data inputs. This sounds like something that is already one of the loudest arguments, but really isn't. Most arguments I hear try to go after AI tools for copyright content in their training data... but if you actually learn copyright you realize that a victory here largely means that major companies get more of an advantage because copyright only applies when content is copied (ie. when the training data is made available for smaller companies to run their own) vs when content is transformed (despite popular opinion, the vast majority of AI output does not violate copyright and qualifies as a transformative work... see again learning copyright law, plus a dash of learning how these tools actually work). Responsibility in outputs means that an AI can violate copyright (if I ask an AI tool to give me the first chapter of a copyrighted book and it does so... that is a violation and they need to genuinely be responsible for taking measures to prevent this from happening, but there should also be leeway for "forced violations", ie. when you bend over backwards to make it break copyright vs just saying "give me the first chapter of...")
- Work on learning and developing responsible usage. Again despite popular artist opinion, there genuinely is a lot of responsible use cases for all these AI technologies, from using LLMs to help debug code, summarize text, prioritize lists to voice duplicators used, with the license of the original VA, being used for dynamic speech (ie. voice assistants or actually speaking a player's name in a video game in the middle of otherwise pre-recorded output). And that's not to ignore image generators which can be used for enhancing/repairing old photos, or just used for general visual effects on your own art (ie. the filters everyone uses on instagram or the like... much of them are the exact same tech as AI Image Generators)
- And as always... fighting capitalism because the real threat of AI is the same as any other technology advancement: if CEOs can replace you with a machine, they will, and we live in a society where no employment means risk of death.
#AI #ResponsibleAI #Rant
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It's that time again... warning NSFW audio...
#NSFW
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Also, prevent those sick people from being signed off work because being too sick to work is "a lifestyle choice".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68853166
Rishi Sunak sets out plans to tackle 'sick note culture'
The PM wants to strip GPs of power to issue sick notes but Labour says he has run out of ideas.By James Gregory & Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
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Brennan just learned the word "Deltohedron"
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Are you #ActuallyAutistic? You may find this satire website incredibly funny. I know I did.
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#autism #actuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic
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This entire discussion is so weird to me because I was exactly that piss taker who would provide a technically correct answer to prove my cleverness, and I only rarely got in trouble or felt put out for being told not to do that.
Broken Aesops are my favorite because the entire point of them is humorously erroneous but logical conclusions from the same set of parameters that regular Aesops draw from.
I apologize to everyone that has suffered in my feisty wake but taunting people with a clever unexpected answer is a hoot.
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In school, I often had the feeling that an explanation by a teacher was like a paved road for neurotypical students.
For me, it was more like a river with slippery stones dropped in here and there.
And I kept wondering why the others didn't see the gaping holes in what was supposed to be a "road". How the things a teacher said didn't really "connect" to each other, requiring large leaps of faith.
Of course, neither students nor teachers were able to explain how that stone over there connects to this one right here.
Especially in math, often not only the explanations of the teacher, but also the materials were wrong.
(Shoutout to my math book insisting that "supremum" and "maximum" are the same thing.)
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Well that's a bad question if the answer given isn't considered correct, because it is 10 past 11 on a small clock. If I drew an analogue clock and the angle to the 2 wasn't exactly 60 degrees, would I be wrong? And would the hour hand have had to move 1/6 the way between the 11 and 12 for it to be correct?
I have more questions than answers for this teacher.
I think they wanted a dialface clock, not a digital.
10 past 11 is indeed 11:10
It's "half five" that is stupid, because it means "half past five" in English, but "half past four" in many continental countries (half-way to five).
German, Slavic, Nordic all have the half five bit meaning 16:30.
"Kvart over" and "kvart i" is for quarter past and quarter to in Danish. Without the prepositions, that would be rather confusing to me as well.
@alstonvicar Such a tiny ignorance is nothing to feel ashamed of.
Other air out much larger ignorances with gusto :D
Neurotypical definition of "right": It is only "right" if it matches my implicit requirements.
@Jobob @Tooden @alstonvicar @zyd @miss__Tery
This, of course, leads to how the typical neurotypical student/parent reacts:
"The teacher is always right, because they have a higher social standing."
Israel is right to do genocide because it has higher social standing.
Politicians aren't neurological, mind you - they're psychopaths.
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My teacher taught me the rules of accuracy,and humility.
If I am wrong then please illustrate conclusively and precisely what you would like me to do.
I am student and it is your duty as teacher illustrated to me by the education system.
Should you wish not to fulfill my request I will respectfully request your superior to teach you how this works as I’m sure you only wish to fulfill your duty as do I.
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I've heard so many stories of teachers being irritated, or even punishing a student, when a student offers an accurate correction to something the teacher has said.
This bad but also authoritarianism WAI.
(WAI = coder-speak for "working as intended", often followed by WONTFIX)
Yep. School as a "social filter".
"The purpose of a system is what it does."
@woozle @wakame @Jobob @Tooden @alstonvicar @zyd @miss__Tery
As a teacher I can say that sometimes it is the case, but not always.
Many teachers, knowing that the student is at least somewhat capable, will assume that the student is being a “smart arse”. There are plenty of students who will know exactly what the teacher meant, partly because of the fact that the test has come after a unit of work on telling the time on analogue clocks, but has chosen to interpret the question “wrongly” as a joke &/or to annoy the teacher.
However teachers “should” know their students well enough to realise, or at least allow for the possibility, that a student has misinterpreted the question by being “too” literal. Of course, wording the question accurately would avoid such issues and should always be the goal.
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I remember watching a Tony Atwood talk at a conference (on yT). He said an autistic child with a special interest may know more about it than the teacher, will point out inaccuracies and expect them to be grateful for it. Everyone in the audience laughed. And I thought:
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@wakame @Jobob @Tooden @alstonvicar @zyd @miss__Tery
well of course the teacher should be grateful, having an expert point out a mistake or bringing them up to date. You don’t want a whole class to learn something wrong, do you?
And you see - that’s my own little private NT test. They always laugh about things that aren’t funny.
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They seriously are certain that the world runs on authority.
They seriously don't think it is possible to run say, a grocery store, voluntarily. They think humans could not run say, a doctor's office cooperatively, for some neurological reason.
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my glory days 😀
I loved that role, backup, fill in, completionist, correcter ❤️
yes, I had a couple of teachers who seemed to like my „arguing“ with them and gave me good grades. Maybe they were autistic, too, and loved that a student was genuinely interested in their favourite subject?
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maybe. He had this one motivational speech, repeated a few times, because after grade seven then and here was high school, where you'd "sink or swim," unless you did the work. I didn't like the speech - and I promptly sank. 😘
I had an agreement with a maths teacher in one of my apprenticeships - as long as I kept good grades in tests I was allowed to silently learn Italian in class 😂
I think when I was a teacher I was happy to be corrected by students - but I know some of my colleagues felt very threatened by the possibility of not knowing something a student did. That made no sense to me - I always thought a teacher should model good learning.
@alstonvicar @Tooden @wakame @Jobob @zyd @miss__Tery
yes, why not look it up together 💛
Hands down the best ever maths lesson was the one where the teacher had given us an unsolvable homework because there was a typo in our book. He then said okay, let’s figure out what’s wrong here, he didn’t know either, and we all did it together. That felt fantastic!
I now realise that some of those students who knew more & were delighted to share their knowledge were probably autistic. (And there would’ve been others who kept quiet as part of their masking as I eventually learned to do. I still remember telling myself not to answer as many questions in class, or in as much detail.) But I was often delighted & felt privileged to witness the superior knowledge &/or intellect of some students. One of the privileges of teaching.
@Susan60 @alstonvicar @Tooden @wakame @Jobob @zyd @miss__Tery
yes, I think becoming a teacher is what quite a few of us will feel drawn towards. And I think we’re good ones if we find the right environment.
I’m sure you’ve made a difference in the life of many an autistic student 💛
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I hope so, & NT students too. Finding a good supportive environment is the challenge. I left the profession nearly 7 years ago, tired of a difficult system & masking, without realising I was doing so.
A new program involving teachers watching each other teach & giving feedback was part of what finished me. The feedback was meant to be encouraging, but poor training meant that some teachers were harshly critiquing their colleagues. Just knowing that that could happen (it didn’t) was stressful. (One assistant principal watched me teach & gave very affirming feedback, but she was not typical of the leadership style at that school.)
And then there were the student surveys. 14yos can be scathing (almost competetively so), & we’re much more likely to notice negative feedback than the rare positive stuff.
But I also received some lovely feedback from some students & parents over the years.
that sounds awfully stressful indeed. I’m sorry. Kind of tragic that something that’s meant to improve things can backfire so badly, making the very people leave that should really stay.
@actuallyautistic
I know that there’s a lot of good NT teachers out there, but I wonder how many of those who reached out to support particular students did so because they were autistic & more empathetic & sensitive to the needs of those students? I was sometimes scoffed at & told I “cared too much”.
That's a question I've been wondering about, as to whether they were autistic or not. I suspect they weren't but it's all guesswork for me. I just regarded them as nice people. I marvel the most at our 6th grade teacher, a Marine in ww2 that it seems managed to survive the war in the larger sense. Our parents seemed to have some idea what he had been through but we never got a hint of it.
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Some former soldiers ended up as teachers & were awfully unsuited, or found it too stressful on top of ptsd, but others seemed to be perfectly suited to the job. My French teacher was strict & humourless, but not unfair. She was a Holocaust survivor from the camps.,
I finally don't feel like I have to tolerate it. @nellie_m @alstonvicar @Tooden @wakame @Jobob @zyd @miss__Tery @dorgaldir @actuallyautistic
@Susan60
2/2 In later years some of us students ran across him out in public and he remembered our names and wanted to hear how we were doing, what our plans were ect.
Both my parents, my grandmother on my mother's side and her mother too were teachers but looking back none of them had any nack for dealing with autism. Hearing your experiences I feel like I was lucky I didn't try to follow that path.
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Ha, pen clicking and leg jiggling. That's always gotten on my nerves when from others. But I think I only did it at home and not school. School aside, my guess is that autistic/adhd folks experiencing each other (assuming the subject of autism is foreign) is a real roll of the dice as to how it goes. I know moving forward I'm going to really try to practice being more forgiving and tolerant.
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And suddenly everything makes so much more sense
I agree with the analogue clock interpretation. When I was in school, digital clocks were fairly rare, so the issue didn't come up much -- but teachers (especially NT teachers) may not realize how much the context has changed, and what assumptions might be affected by that. (That only explains the lack of clarity in the instructions; it does not excuse marking the answer "wrong" -- because it is absolutely correct.)
@Shufei @woozle @alstonvicar @zyd @miss__Tery i have and continue to work for people who do this -- it's about the process and not the result that matters
and of course there can be only one right process to get the answer
I wonder if beliefs like this are behind a lot of the way democracy (especially in the US) has been going off the rails lately -- voters not really understanding how things work, and having only a set of rituals which they apply in various circumstances, and we end up with absolutely abysmal people in positions of power.
@Shufei @woozle @filmfreak75 @alstonvicar @zyd @miss__Tery It's doubtful that drift is borne of one overall decision -- more likely a series of diversions to the paths of least resistance.
Schools, e.g., may feel pressure to recruit by promising success in the job market (or gain business support by delivering a trained workforce), which crowds-out the goal of preparing them for intelligent citizenship. That path has huge consequences down the line.
I think they were suppose to draw the clock with hands. But the instructions are terrible as usual.
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Draw a small analog clock...
Just 1 word makes a lot of difference
With the formulation in above test, you can't say "wrong" 🤷
analog could also be "old-fashioned", round with arms etc etc
But look at your mobile, oven, microwave, smartwatch etc etc. How does it show time nowadays?
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I cried all day and all night. Luckily my parents were kind 🙂 they discussed this with some friends, then with my teacher. My teacher was very kind, talked to me on the phone and said I was right to assume what I assumed and the question needs to be clearer. Even this didn’t help me feel better. That sadness and disappointment never ceased. Looking back, this was one my first experiences with how the societally accepted mind works. And the seeds of me believing I will be always wrong whatever I do, say, decide, were being planted. Now I have a forest living inside me.
A drawer has 8 blue socks and 6 red socks. How many socks does one need to remove from the drawer to get a pair?
My answer: 2; the "correct" answer: 9.
The question did not specify that the sock draws were blind. The question did not specify that a pair consists of two socks of the same color, rather than the colloquial meaning of "pair", which is 2. The question did not address why all socks are evil foot-stranglers.
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Because if not, my socks tend to become right and left socks and then it could take more 😀
But the exercise in this case was badly phrased, therefore the teachers fault.
Would be interesting to know what type of clock was in the classroom, or do classrooms not have clocks anymore.
The the tax form asking if i own my own home ...
the bank does, but the answer is still yes. same energy
As a teacher I'd give full credit for that. The question is poorly worded.
It also means I'd get to teach them the meaning of the word "analog"
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Me: sees a small clock showing 10 minutes past 11 in the image
Me: sees the teacher assuming a problem even though the student followed the directions as stated
also me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! If you want an analog clock SAY THAT JUST SAY WHAT YOU MEAN, HOW HARD IS THAT?
I accidentally made dessert butter, once. Suitable for pancakes, waffles, baking sweets. It was supposed to be whipped cream for Thanksgiving pies, but I got distracted and the mixer kept mixing until we had dessert butter.
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This is the type of teacher that demands to have respect too.
It's always annoying when teachers and/or professors demand respect when they do nothing to earn it and/or failed into the position.
The teachers who care about their students and go out of their way to teach their students worth of respect, but respect should be earned, not given.
"What we have here is a failure to communicate."
Back when I was teaching, this would've been a correct answer, because as the author of the question, I failed to specify. If you're teaching (especially in math class), precision matters!
Asking good, meaningful, precise questions is a remarkably difficult skill.
Not kids. That's not where the 10 minutes past 11 language is used as far as I know.
It's just a weird meme.
I know this is entirely The Point just. damn.
That instruction should have been more specific. Analog would have been a nice bit of information about the desired clock. I hope some of the students argued about missing the question.
The question writer meant the answer to be an analogue clock, not a digital one.
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They're assaulting me from every angle, insisting I'm... cute... somhow... I don't know what it is they see but they're relentless. I don't know if I'll survive...
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Tonight, I'm overthinking idioms.
"I trust him about as far as I can throw him."
As an #ActuallyAutistic person, this one baffled me. What does your ability to throw them have to do with their trustworthiness? After awhile, I just accepted that these things don't always make much sense, but the idea behind them is what's important.
Well tonight I'm here to propose (unseriously) that there is infact a deeper meaning!
"I trust him about as far as I can throw him," means you don't trust him. But, if taken literally, if you could throw him pretty far, then you'd trust him, right?
If you're a manipulative or controlling person, then your ability to move someone else around a given space is important to you. As someone with a background in horse training, I can tell you that the one who yields or moves out of the way is submissive to the one pushing. This may seem obvious, but it's important in small interactions, not just big, sweeping gestures. If someone looks like they might be trying to move past you, and you scooch out of their way to let them, you are submitting to them. In a reasonable society, that's called "working together" and "being polite". In a herd hierarchy, or a manipulative relationship, it's about someone taking your space, and it'll be performed multiple times just to enforce the hierarchy.
(I want to make it clear that this has nothing to do with D/s relationships and dynamics. That is a very specific niche, and has nothing to do with these ramblings.)
Back to the idiom. If you're a controlling person, and you can't control someone else's movements, because they're too stubborn, or can fend you off, or you're not strong enough, then you're not likely to want much to do with them. You can't trust them, because they're not in your control.
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That's a fascinating take on the idiom @emilie_stims
May I add that it's almost impossible to create physical distance by throwing a human being of similar stature.
For years I practiced a combat sport that involves high throws. While it's easily possible to throw an opponent several feet beyond their initial position, the nature of generating momentum for such a throw mean that the "thrower" will inevitably land themselves in close proximity of the person being thrown.
:) I like overthinking idioms.
For me, this one is about labour. Throwing someone is not a cooperative act. They might submit, but they can't really help.
So, as much as I am prepared and willing to take on the monumental expenditure of energy, this person is trustworthy.
And also, what would be the point?
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ooh that's an interesting take, I never thought of it like that. I always took it as, kind of sarcastic? Similar to a lot of "southernisms". "He couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel" isn't literal, it's meant to convey his stupidity with an imaginary scenario. It's funny how the same phrase can be understood in so many ways 😂
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A new instance and a new introduction.
I joined Mastodon in Nov. 2022. I was not of the twitter wave. This was in fact my first ever social media site I ever joined and still the only one that I'm on. It was simply a step on my autism awareness journey and a reaching out to others like me. I cannot express how much I've learnt and grown as a consequence and how much I value this place and all those I have met within it.
For the purpose of clarity and should anyone want to know. I am self-diagnosed and quite content to remain that way. I also hate the term self-diagnosed and much prefer self-realised. For this is a far more accurate and precise way of describing the process of discovery that I went through. Because no one wakes up one morning and just decides that they are autistic. It takes months, or even years in my case, to be able to convince ourselves, often against our own desires and judgement, that we are.
Diagnosis also implies that this is a medical condition and that what I am doing by self-diagnosing is essentially playing doctor, when only an official diagnosis can reveal that truth. Just like it does with most things medical. But autism, at its core, is a neurological difference not a disorder (although some of the things that can come with it most certainly are) and whilst at the moment it is diagnosable, so was being a homosexual once.
Because the harsh truth is that anything that is different from, will almost always be recognised only as a deviation from and a fault with, until it is properly understood and in my own small way, this is what I'm trying to do and to help others to do.
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My sister Chelsie is struggling emotionally with potty training her kid, so I edited a popular meme to be more relevant.
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our eldest took to using the potty relatively well (heavy emphasis on relatively). Which naturally means our second is going to be an absolute nightmare right?
That's how everything else has gone.
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Maybe I should pin a post or add it to the description or something that I'm Jewish Anti-Zionist and don't tolerate the bullshit "criticism of Israel's war crimes is antisemitism" narrative...
Yeah... I think I'm going to add that to the description, because if someone is going to defederate because they think the Israeli government is synonymous with the entire Jewish people, or think they can just conveniently ignore war crimes and colonialism because people on the other side have also done bad things...
Hell, I'll even tag myself in #fediblock if people want to take the trash out for me.
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Oh wait, already did... maybe I need to make it more prevalent?
(Edited as based on a reply it was far too easily misread. Previously said "Admin is a Jew" and it never dawned on me that someone could think it meant the admin of the zionist server rather than myself)
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i mean this is literally just saying the quiet part out loud isn't it. "blocking this server because the admin is a Jew... err, a Zionist."
amazing that they then have the gall to put a little asterisk next to racism and explain that they don't tolerate dogwhistles. apparently foghorns are okay though.
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Not a Zionist, but fairly sure Zionists also acknowledge that Israel has committed lots of war crimes and atrocities.
Obviously your server your rules, but I have found no matter how strenuously you tell people otherwise, people will label you a Zionist as soon as they find your views on Israel politically inconvenient.
I just feel that the people who most need to see that don't read bios and pinned posts.
@raf 🟣 I mean I'm not taking the angle of "don't you dare call me a zionist" but rather that from my side of things modern zionism, especially in the US equates to a fervent belief that Israel is synonymous with Judaism and any criticism of Israel is antisemitic.
This kicked off especially from the fediblock post in which someone was rallying against the EndAntisemitism account for it's labeling of any criticism of Israel's military action in Gaza as antisemitic and the ensuing accusations.
While I think the fediblock post was poorly handled, I do agree with the fundamentals underneath that it's not remotely acceptable to label criticism of the Israeli government to be inherently antisemitic.
Mostly, I'm just cranky and ranting. I'm not worried about being called a Zionist at any point... only time it can maybe happen with my views is if I'm talking to someone who is advocating the immediate abrupt abolition of the country.
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As the person who operates the EndAntisemitism account, I feel what it does and how it operates was grossly mischaracterised.
I literally label every post with why I think it's antisemitism. NONE of the reasons are about the military actions taken by the IDF. I stress repeatedly that if a reader disagrees with the report, they can just ignore it.
I criticise the Israeli govt regularly both publicly and privately. But the idea that no criticism of the Israeli government can be antisemitic is absurd and nonsensical.
We used to be mufos so I feel you should have some sense of where I stand on all this bullshit. We live in a world where Ilan Pappe and Norm Finkelstein have both been called Zionists. No one is immune from being called a Zionist and harassed shortly afterwards.
@raf 🟣 Mufos?
Since you're the one running the account I do think it's lacking in detail on those particular callouts then.
To be clear, I've only blocked one person in all of this and that was only a personal block rather than a server block.
I will admit to unfollowing you but there's no spite, we're just somewhat different in values there (ie. we draw the line in different places) and it's less about who you are as a person and really just more about what shows up in my feed (ie. posts you comment on, etc where too much of what was showing up in my feed related to your activity is just on the other side of the line from me)
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To be clear, you don't have to justify unfollowing. I'm just more saying we are likely not all the different.
I only have 500 characters on that account and the label set is restricted. So there is some shorthand. When I say "Holocaust inversion" I mean comparing what some Jews are doing to the Holocaust. When I say "Nazi inversion" I mean comparing Jews to Nazis.
Some people don't think that constitutes antisemitism. Some do. I'd like to think people can talk about the atrocities in Gaza without mentioning Hitler and Auschwitz, mostly because the vast majority of people on the network do just that.
I am constantly refining and raising my standards, and I already put in way more effort into each of my reports than most Fediblocks I've seen.
You say those callouts, but Ned did not point to a single callout. And ignored all requests made of him to link directly to a single problematic one.
@raf it's occurred to me that the end antisemitism mastadon account and Ben-Gvir have never been seen together at the same time.
Seems suspicious.
@raf 🟣 Perhaps in the the description of your account make a note along the lines of "if it's a disputed topic, we err on the side of reporting so that you can make the decision yourself"
I think that clears the air alot
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Fair game: "This form field transition is dog shit"
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in reply to sam henri gold @ config • • •Moving onto the more skin-deep stuff. The app uses tab navigation:
-Overview
-Insurance
-Claims
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The selection state for a tab is just shifting from gray to red. If you grayscale the screen, it's the same shade. I'd give the selected tab a filled icon variant
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in reply to sam henri gold @ config • • •In the Overview tab, the header said "Good evening" at 4:30 PM. Whatever. I digress. I get three sections in this tab:
- Upcoming bills (useful)
- Hints & tips (useless)
- Offers & discounts (ads)
Get rid of this tab, move upcoming bills into Insurance, and make it the default.
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in reply to sam henri gold @ config • • •btw, Lickability (where I normally write these threads) did not endorse this or anything, this is literally just me kvetching about an app that has been forced into my life.
more design threads are planned for @lickability as well as here!
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in reply to sam henri gold @ config • • •Along the same lines are those banking/brokerage apps that cue up a “You’ve been logged out” push/local notification if you don’t explicitly log out yourself.
If I’m automatically logged out… that’s good! I don’t need to be told about it.
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in reply to Jeff C. 🇺🇦 • • •@jeff In Fidelity’s app years ago, if you return back from the app switcher after any amount of time, it would sign you out and you would get a non-dismissable alert “You have been signed out. Please log back in."
and you just couldn't dismiss it. you had to force quit the app.
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in reply to Mathias af Jochnick • • •@2happy1sad I figured this was interesting enough to poll opinions on separately. Link if you wanna follow along on the discussion: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/112524304555105059
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