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Catoblepas

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Catoblepas ,

Maybe I’m like the last person in the world to find out about this, but I had never heard of sun jackets until this year and immediately got one because I fucking hate the sensation of sunscreen on my skin. It has a UPF rating of 40, which is like SPF but for clothing, and protects everything but my face (including the back of my palms). So I only have to put sunscreen on my face, which is nice.

I’ve been wearing it outside in UV 9+ weather and haven’t got so much as a tan so far. It’s light enough to let the breeze through so I don’t feel like I’m suffocating either.

Overall 10/10, would recommend.

Catoblepas ,

There's probably 50+ UPF available, the one I have just happens to be 40+ (and I'm overly specific!) Hope you can find one that works for you 👍

Catoblepas ,

If non-autistic people are constantly misunderstanding autistic people maybe there should be some meeting in the middle instead of broadly declaring neurodivergent people to be the problem.

Catoblepas ,

It not being worth it has nothing to do with you. It’s because of how hard it can be to speak sometimes. When you’re saying “just talk to me!” you might as well be saying “just juggle on a unicycle while pedaling up a mountain!” If the person in question already knows what needs to be done or there’s no way you can help, then having a conversation with you about it just becomes one more performance they’re expected to do before being allowed to be chill in their own space.

Catoblepas ,

Their comments are making broad statements about autistic people and putting the onus of understanding solely on them, when communication is a two way street.

“Everyone” doesn’t have trouble understanding autistic people; other autistic people are more able to socialize with autistic people than neurotypical people are. Being a minority just means the people who are able to socialize well with autistic people are outnumbered by people who can’t/don’t/won’t.

Catoblepas ,

If it helps any I can try to describe what it’s like for me when I’m approaching meltdown territory and can’t speak easily:

My skin feels like it’s being electrocuted, with shocking/crawling sensations, especially in my limbs. It feels like I have to pull each thought and word out of molasses to form a coherent sentence, it’s slow and requires a lot of effort. The sound and sensation of my own voice reverberating in my head, even when I speak quietly, is so intense that I only want to use the minimum words possible. My entire body is heavily fatigued, as if I worked out very hard the day before and haven’t rested properly. That’s not even going into ‘normal’ masking stuff that also takes effort, like making sure my tone is right, using an appropriate expression, etc.

When I’m in that state the only thing that’s good for me is a dark room and a weighted blanket. After that (sometimes hours, sometimes a day or more) I’m good to talk about it… if there’s even anything to talk about! Sometimes it’s literally just “I heard too many car horns today” or something like that.

Catoblepas ,

Yeah, it’s pretty unfun! Masking (trying to act non-autistic) also makes it worse for a lot of people. Fortunately I’ve learned a lot of ways I can delay or deal with sensory overload, but sometimes it’s unavoidable.

Catoblepas , (edited )

I agree with the post with one caveat: maybe it’s because I was raised on one, but I don’t think farm smell is that bad* (on the cottagecore level, anyway). I also grew up near a lot of factory farms and that shit REEKS.

*Unless it’s pigs. There’s probably nothing that will make the smell of pig shit bearable.

Catoblepas ,

There’s more than 1 mod on 196, might want to consider waiting longer than 30 minutes for a response before deciding everyone should leave

Catoblepas ,

I wasn’t involved in the post in question, but FWIW I appreciate you taking feedback into account and putting the posts back up. Everyone’s human and is going to make sub-optimal calls sometimes, being open to fixing it is basically the best that can be asked for.

I don’t want you to resign over this or anything like that, but please do take care of yourself even if that means taking some time away. If internet modding is adding to your stress in an already stressed time, you gotta put on your own oxygen mask first before you assist others, you know?

Catoblepas ,

Having modded internet forums in the past I totally get it, especially anything queer related is going to attract just the absolute trash of the internet. It’s legitimately distressing for many people to see that shit all day even if you’re getting paid for it, but on a volunteer basis? It’s basically a miracle anywhere is modded at all, much less in a timely manner.

It sounds like there were some jackasses on that server. There’s probably someone smarter than me that’s explored the concept of forum moderation as emotional labor which is expected to be performed and devalued; but in lieu of that I’ll just say don’t discount the effort you put in. If it was so easy everyone could do it then there would never be a lack of mods or disagreement about modding (which, LMAO).

Catoblepas ,

Don’t you think it’s a little dramatic to call someone a victim of a rude oversharing comment on the internet?

Catoblepas ,

It's not appropriate to take someone's joyful conversation about their experiences and shift the focus to you and your past trauma. It's an incredibly shitty thing to do.

Correct. That's why I called it oversharing and rude.

Calling it victimizing someone is just overreach, especially without significantly more context. Comparing being annoyed at something someone said online that was thoughtless and rude to being a victim of someone is trivializing IMO.

Catoblepas ,

I might be misremembering here since it’s been a while since I’ve seen this image make the rounds, but I thought the original artist made this specifically about online interactions (which, now that I’m rereading the image itself, isn’t immediately clear).

Catoblepas ,

Hidden Fortress by Akira Kurosawa. It’s still enjoyable today IMO, and you can really see how some of the characters are a direct line to Star Wars characters.

Catoblepas ,

Did we memory hole the whole ‘known CSAM in training data’ thing that happened a while back? When you’re vacuuming up the internet you’re going to wind up with the nasty stuff, too. Even if it’s not a pixel by pixel match of the photo it was trained on, there’s a non-zero chance that what it’s generating is based off actual CSAM. Which is really just laundering CSAM.

Catoblepas ,

Fair but depressing, it seems like it barely registered in the news cycle.

Catoblepas ,

What % do you think was used to generate the CSAM, though? Like, if 1% of the images were cups it’s probably drawing on some of that to generate images of cups.

And yes, you could technically do this with no CSAM training material, but we don’t know if that’s what the AI is doing because the image sources used to train it were mass scraped from the internet. They’re using massive amounts of data without filtering it and are unable to say with certainty whether or not there is CSAM in the training material.

Catoblepas ,

Bro, just a few more disabled people sacrificed to the machine and I swear we’ll get it right! Move fast, break things! Technology always good!

Everyone like a week and a half ago pitching a fit over me saying that this is an unethical way to treat disabled people can go fuck themselves, lol.

Catoblepas ,

You have no idea what the long term effects of the rejection are going to be, and neither does the corporation doing this to human beings after killing a bunch of monkeys and still failing.

Catoblepas ,

Would you say that the building made that art? Even that analogy is imperfect, because the building didn’t have to have the work of thousands of other buildings poured into it to create the crack, it just happened.

Catoblepas ,

Reverse image search gave me Mark Kern, a gamergate chud.

I ruleate to the cat on a spiritual level (lemmy.ml)

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Catoblepas ,

Same for my cat. She starts to get upset and cry if you don’t give her cuddles fast enough after she’s done eating! Sometimes after dinner she decides she needs to cuddle me and my husband, and will walk back and forth between us while crying until one of us gives in (doesn’t take much honestly) and joins the other for double cuddle time.

Catoblepas ,

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/b7ccc1d2-41bb-40fa-9f59-f598028efe92.jpeg

Catoblepas ,

99% sure it being associated with Veggie Tales is a photoshop, it just amused me when I found it

Catoblepas ,

Yes, I know, that’s why it amused me. I just don’t think Veggie Tales ever did anything with the quote

When ‘Lol, No’ Is Not Enough: Lawyer Explains Why Bogus Takedown Over ‘Fuck The LAPD’ Shirt Should Result In Paying Legal Fees (www.techdirt.com)

You may recall last month’s hilarious story of lawyer Mike Dunforth’s response to a vexatious angry demand letter from IMG, representing the LAPD Foundation, claiming that a t-shirt with the following “Fuck the LAPD” logo violated its IP rights:

Catoblepas ,

Is there anything more satisfying than watching cops get legally spanked? If you know an answer to this don't tell me, I'm having a good time.

Catoblepas ,

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/8d45f233-3161-4525-9bf6-18d9464605a2.jpeg

Catoblepas ,

If you stir the milk while you add in the lemon juice slowly it will be less likely to have curdled chunks in it 👍

Catoblepas ,

I’m not using “AI” in web searches no matter how much any VC bro’s golden parachute depends on it, sorry. Refusing to partake or even using tools to filter out LLM trash are perfectly fine ways to adapt to search engines leaning on AI hype to try to convince you that their inability to combat SEO spam is good, actually.

Catoblepas ,

Especially if the extent of it is that it lets you move a mouse. How does that offer any improvement over eye tracking adaptive tech?

Catoblepas ,

Is it because you are unfamiliar with adaptive tech? Eye tracking devices allowing quadriplegic people to interact with computers by looking at them and blinking have been around since at least the mid 00s. Like a decade ago the “mind reading” external tech got cheap enough for simplified toys to be made with it. Implanting it directly into the body is a lot of risk for very little benefit.

Catoblepas ,

A quadriplegic being able to control a cursor on a screen with the implant for 100 days seems like a legit first attempt.

Why, when we already have non-surgical solutions that allow the same thing but don’t come with the risk of killing you?

differently abled

Please dude I promise you this is near universally hated by disabled people 😭

Catoblepas ,

Is it worth risking dying to be able to move a mouse slightly faster than you can move your eyes and blink? If your answer to that is yes that’s your body, but I think it’s important to contextualize that the options here aren’t brain implant or nothing.

Catoblepas ,

If you think it’s cool I would hope you think it’s even cooler than you can do this without surgery and that there are literal cheap ass toys you can buy to play with yourself?

Catoblepas ,

They’re usually marketed as “mind control” toys and are operated with a headset that sends a signal to hidden fans that control whatever object it is you’re supposed to be manipulating. Mattel came out with one called Mindflex that’s pretty complicated looking and has a matching price tag, there are some cheaper Star Wars branded ones too. Not sure what brand I tried as it was over a decade ago, but it was a two player game where you tried to move the ball towards the other player along a track.

Catoblepas ,

I feel like I’m going nuts, is eye controlled adaptive tech really that obscure? We’re not talking about maybe letting people walk again or giving them otherwise unattainable control over a computer, we’re talking about a different mouse input. The risks should be proportional to the gains.

Catoblepas ,

Cool, when you can upload your thoughts somewhere we’ll be having a different conversation about its risks and uses. But what’s happening right now is that they did brain surgery on a man to let him move a computer mouse.

Catoblepas ,

I don’t accept that disabled people must be sacrificed at the altar of Progress, and I think the entire process for how they recruit patients and explain the capabilities and risks of the implant deserves extreme scrutiny. There’s a reason doctors have to get hours of education in ethics to be considered competent, it’s a lot more complicated than “just do whatever if it can technically work for a bit.”

Catoblepas ,

It feels ridiculous that I even need to say this, but you don’t do it because the risk:benefit ratio is lopsided as hell.

Risks: die from sepsis, have your body reject the implant, the parent company goes out of business and your implant no longer functions (this has happened with several startups), etc

Benefit: move mouse and click faster

Catoblepas ,

Move mouse and click faster is a big deal when it's the only way you can interact with the world.

I feel like I’m doing nothing but repeating this: the only way to do that is not with an implant! It’s not implant or nothing!

And it's just a mouse right now, but what about robotic hands? A thought-controlled wheelchair? A tiny bit of agency? Technology is iterative and built on failure, and you want to tell the people trapped in non-functional bodies that it will never get any better?

Right now it is not those things, and I’m going to need you to step way the fuck back since your starting premise is that I’m not physically disabled and have no loved ones that are or could benefit from safe, effective adaptive technology. Maybe if it was your cousin or sister you’d have a little more concern about just tossing them into a meat grinder because some tech bro thinks “go fast, break things” is a policy that can and should be translated to human health.

I do not and will not accept disabled people being sacrificed in the name of progress. They can’t even do this shit in fucking monkeys, bro. Come on.

Catoblepas ,

There is no such thing as an implant or surgery with no risk of sepsis or rejection. The risk may be low in young, healthy patients (ie, not people who are quadriplegic because that leads to many other health concerns with surgeries), but it’s never zero.

If you’re cool with risking that, okay, that’s your body. Personally I want to live.

Catoblepas ,

I’m glad someone did.

Catoblepas ,

If you live near a regional transportation hub it probably won’t make a difference on your delivery times. We dropped prime when our “1 day” deliveries kept turning in 3 day deliveries and never saw a difference.

And honestly a lot of the stuff I used to get on there isn’t even cheaper on Amazon anymore. Half the time if I check the manufacturer website they’re having a sale or have no shipping costs or cover returns longer, something like that. YMMV, you know your situation and needs better than me.

Catoblepas ,

I’ve been going back to eBay more recently as well! If anything I feel more confident that what I get on eBay is going to actually match the listing, since AFAIK they don’t do the same insane “jumble all items with the same ID code together in a bin and hope all the sellers were honest about it being real” system Amazon uses.

Catoblepas ,

You gotta admit tho, La La Land being announced as the winner of the Oscar for best picture for like 10 seconds before the announcer corrected himself and said Moonlight won was absolutely the funniest shit.

Catoblepas ,

My spouse works in the industry, so I definitely get that it would be upsetting to think your work won but then didn’t. At the same time everyone there also kind of knows these awards aren’t and can’t be objective judges of quality, and mostly function as resume padding/bragging rights. Even being nominated gives you a leg up, so it’s not as if they have nothing to show for it. Side note: I think people also underestimate how many people working on projects think the project is hot trash, but that might be personal bias in the kind of people my spouse and I hang out with, lol.

For clarity I’m mostly remembering the chuds at the time who were being homophobic/racist about Moonlight getting nominated and then winning, those are the people who it cracked me up to see flip out.

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