Really interesting thread on AI and autism. Heightened pattern recognition in many autistic people means that they often recognise what neurotypical people cannot: the artificiality of AI writing

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Peter (@peter_sc@chaos.social)

This whole idea that "AI" is a helpful tool for autistic people, because it lets you write more "professionally" or whatever, is incredibly toxic a...

I’ve been a little quiet because I’ve been working on something kind of new. I got this ‘temple style’ top years ago, and thought I’d better get a pattern out of it before I forget. I like it but it’s in really heavy cotton, so not very light. I thought I’d like the same thing but floatier but in back, so if I wore a tank top beneath it it would subtly show through. #Sewing

Next time I hear a Republican talk about patriotism or tradition or anything that even has the slightest whiff of ‘conservative’ values, I want a reporter to be there, showing them a picture of Trump tearing down half of the White House. Because that fucking dog won’t hunt a second longer. The motherfucker is LITERALLY tearing it all down. I just can’t fathom why Americans aren’t fucking rioting in the streets - ESPECIALLY the ones calling themselves ‘conservative’.

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Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)

NYT - To build his White House ballroom, President Trump will demolish the entire East Wing. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/22/us/trump-news?...

So, over on Bluesky, I got berated as a ‘centrist’ for attending the #NoKings rally in my city. If you’re so ‘far left’ that you won’t turn out to condemn the Trump regime, then, quite frankly, you’re like a basement bound incel with a bigger vocabulary.