That ABA had its origins as a conversion therapy for boys who were deemed pathologically "effeminate," and it wasn't until homosexuality was removed from the DSM in the 70s that O. Ivar Lovaas, who is on record as saying Autistic children are not fully human, turned his Skinnerian torture on us.
The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage
You should hammer all these reps who voted yes on the KIDS Act.
Additionally, keep contacting your other reps as well
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Liberals: we will do literally anything and run literally anyone to entice swing voters Leftists: we're swing voters, we'll swing your way if you run someone we like Liberals: fuck off, we want the REAL swing voters: belligerent racists who hate us
the Boring Company is maybe the purest example of the Elon Bullshit
his other companies are all wildly overvalued but they do make actual money, the Boring Company would have collapsed many years ago if his name wasn’t attached
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
Vibe-coding failures in life, end up thinking more like the chatbots they use in their workflow.
Which is not at all, because chatbots don't and can't think.
They end up forgetting that words refer to things in physical reality, that physical reality exists.
The people who made that promo, had very literally forgotten that "folding laundry" is a thing that happens in physical reality, and is not just words.
That those words refer to something in physical reality.
Just like the chatbots they spend all day sexually harassing and begging CSAM from.
bsky.app/profile/pook...
There was a recent display of this shit, when in a promo they casually, unknowingly, said that the chatbot would be able to "fold your laundry."
Not just tell you what to wear and call you a special boy, but *physically lay out your clothes for tomorrow* just like mommy.
Their chatbot doesn't, and inherently can't, know what words mean, that a physical reality exists outside words, etc.
It only outputs the statistically most likely next words. It doesn't know what words are, other than as things variously likely to be near other things.
This has been known for generations.
What's interesting is that the vibe-coding dipshits relying on LLM's to regurgitate stackoverflow code, are exhibiting an inner platform effect.
Their development environment very literally does not understand, and never can, that physical reality exists.
Ajinomoto Foods N.A. is recalling additional 33 million pounds of frozen ready-to-eat and not-ready-to-eat chicken and pork fried rice, ramen, and shumai dumpling products.
Dates for TJ's chicken fried rice, vegetable fried rice, Japanese-style fried rice, and chicken shu mai in the link. #recall
"Hey. You uh, you gonna eat those?"
That's not even good for you! You still need to eat some carbs with diabetes so your body doesn't go out of whack
We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.
"The same article claims that the Enniskillen bomb killed six children. It didn’t; the youngest victim was 20. It claims that Bobby Sands was elected MP in 1981 with 30.4% of the vote. Given that there were only two candidates, this would have been mathematically impossible. In fact, Sands got 51.2% of the vote. In Grokipedia’s main article on Northern Ireland, it says that “on Bloody Sunday, paratroopers killed 14 civilians… initially depicted by some media as unprovoked, though evidence revealed IRA gunfire and nail bombs”. This is the opposite of the truth. Initially, there were claims by the Army that the victims were violent, but evidence disproved this. Other articles contain dangerous open-mindedness about murder. In an entry on loyalist assassin Michael Stone, it posits that “from a loyalist perspective, Stone’s Milltown raid was hailed as a bold tit-for-tat response to IRA aggression, enhancing his status as an icon of defiance and boosting morale among Protestant extremists” while “republican assessments, however, framed the attack as indiscriminate terrorism against civilians”. It claims that “mainstream reporting, while factually recounting events, occasionally reflects institutional biases favoring narratives of loyalist aggression”."
"At the heart of this technology is a black box into which questions go & out of which answers are given —but we’re not allowed to see what precisely goes on inside".
Sobering piece by @sjamcbride.bsky.social on how Musk's Grokopedia is rewriting knowledge
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Rocky Myers, a Black man from Decatur, Alabama, is still locked up for a crime he didn’t commit. His lawyer, former corporate counsel for the United Klans of America, told me if he had to do it all over again, he’d seat an all-white jury this time. Please take a moment with this story.
“Recent data shows that Black women in the state “are four times more likely to die as a result of complications related to childbirth,” she says. “And that is maddening in and of itself, because there’s no biological reason for that.””
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Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️
finally, a miku to repel biting insects
My mother asked me to spread this around online, but if you are against the israeli/american aggression that they are subjecting towards Lebanon, here is a gofundme set-up by the Lebanese Popular Aid Association in order to help re-coup and aid medically! Plz share!
www.gofundme.com/f/Amis-de-se...
Collage of photos of Ahmed: first photo is of him wearing a blue jacket and black outfit with his trousers rolled up. He’s standing in dirty flood water. Second photo is of his torn tent from flooding, third is of a selfie of Ahmed in his displacement camp and the fourth is another angle of the first photo
I am Ahmed, the sole provider for my family in Gaza.🇵🇸
Anyone who sees my message and donates and shares it is helping to save us from starvation and strengthening our resilience in the tents.
If you would like to stand with us, here is the link to our campaign: ⬇️🫂💸
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Liberals are so willing to move rightward and so condescending to anyone left of them, they don't even see the contradictions. It's not like the purposeful hypocrisy of Republicans, it's just thoughtless fear-driven superiority
It's wild that the same people scolding progressives "you have to learn how to play the politics and optics" when it concerns trans people or genocide are suddenly like "hell YES we want a guy to run in the general that lets Republicans say 'but it's the Democrats are the ones with Nazi tattoos!!'"
brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.
so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm
okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate
