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17 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
So I'm familiar with a conference on tools and neurodiversity that's going to happen this fall, and one of the organizers has reached out to me looking for an AAC-using #actuallyAutistic person to join the conference planning committee.

DM me if you'd be interested in this role!
(please boost for visibility, especially to non-speaking #ActuallyAutistic folks who rely on digital and analog tools to exist in this world -- share in facebook groups etc, if you can!).
Yes, multiply-marginalized individuals (people of color, genderqueer folks, etc) are particularly invited to apply -- we want and are actively seeking your perspectives, please come help us to see the world through your eyes.

Details of the conference are forthcoming, it's in early planning stages but is likely to take place in October. There is some thought already put into speakers and sponsorship, but the leadership realized they needed a broader perspective which is why they're reaching out.

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19 Jul
So @WilliamShatner is still shitting publicly on autistic people. In this case he’s getting confused about different forms of electric shock therapy (ECT vs GED) and putting autistic people on blast who try to help him correct his mistake.

This gets the autistic people brigaded.
Autistic People: “help us we are being shock tortured in ways that violate UN torture rules”

William Shatner: “Carrie Fisher used shock therapy and this is basically the same thing.”

Autistic People: “no, please, that’s false and harmful.”

William Shatner: “how dare you?”
“Brigading” means he retweets the autistic person offering him updated information to his hoard of followers with a caption like “this idiot thinks I made a mistake” and that poor person gets hundreds of messages and threats and has to go private.
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19 Jul
y'all get that Skynet was capitalism all along, right?

That the invisible algorithms that shape our entire society were already running at full strength before silicon became a thing?

That we're living in a vast computational graph that treats us as resources?
"Skynet is an AI, you can't have AI without computers"

You can, "AI" just means that decisions are made by an inhuman system when you get down to it.

"Sorry, I don't want to foreclose on your house but the numbers require it" etc is algorithmic whitewashing a century ago.
Sure, computers reified the extant power structures and probably consolidated a ruling class for the rest of humanity's short future, but they aren't the AI. They're just the hardware that parts of it moved to.

The AI is still capitalism.
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19 Jul
Here's a Facebook post I just made, reflecting on some time in high school. I can't post alt-text for the whole thing, but it's an image of me today holding my HS senior photo. I write about how I didn't understand how appreciated I was. Image
Got some nice comments on Facebook. I've always been loved, and I never understood or believed it.

A lot of the people that loved me, though, also spent years standing by as I got mercilessly bullied by the worst people around.

So love and acceptance got complicated, for me.
I spent a long time feeling like if I wasn't being treated badly in some way then the person must not really care about me.

How toxic is that? How many other people internalize that their value is in enduring, not in existing?
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19 Jul
The account tweeting these photos is run by an organization that routinely electrocutes kids for failing to comply with instructions.

They use voltage illegal for use on dogs, because a legal loophole doesn’t technically ban it for autistic people.
This stuff is so gross. These people have a cruel prison guard mentality and don’t tolerate any disagreement, even when they’re objectively wrong. They have all the power, why should they care?
Anyway. #StopTheShock
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18 Jul
You ever watch Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel?

There's this older guy who's running this hotel, and he's sort of a gigolo but really cares about all of these lonely old women who come stay there. Many of them leave him money when they die.
He takes on an apprentice, and does his best to teach the apprentice the value of human dignity.

The apprentice has a girlfriend. (All of this is context for one line I really loved, which will be in the next tweet.)
Apprentice tells dude "My girlfriend likes you" and dude says very matter-of-factly "That's very important, because that means she Gets It."

I loved that.
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Some good guys I have encountered, a short inventory.
Guy who comes to understand Male Privilege late in life and works to elevate marginalized others from his own position of power.
Guy who has a lot of tools and knows how to use them, and is always willing to help his friends move a heavy thing with his truck.
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