Google, no. Izzy is real and also showing off a cute bump.

Things I wish I could say to a manager without getting in trouble, autism edition:

Asking a question and having an attitude are not the same thing.

#actuallyautistic

Things I wish I could say to a manager without getting in trouble, autism edition:

I can't read your mind. Please be explicit in what you want from me so I can give you what you want instead of you getting mad at me for not delivering the thing you didn't say you wanted.

#actuallyautistic

I shared some advice with neurospicy peers that they said helped them. So here it is.

Even if you are tired or bored, the energy it takes to complete it will be less than the energy of carrying it unfinished and feeling stressed about it. You deserve the relief and pride in completing the task.

❤️

Greta Thunberg and other human rights defenders have been kidnapped by Israel on international waters. The aid they were delivering to Gaza that includes baby formula & medical supplies has been stolen. The ship Madleen was attacked with drones & will be forced to port at Ashdod Port. #3E #FreeGaza

Since Israel broke the ceasefire, it has declared 70% of Gaza as no-go zones, forcibly displaced Palestinians amid attacks and blocking of all humanitarian aid aje.io/99p3gc

A recruiter working with DOGE is actively staffing a project to deploy these bots across the federal government, claiming they could easily do the work of 70,000 public employees. Because nothing says “effective government” like trusting your issues to AI.

An aid ship heading to Gaza has sent out a distress signal after crew members say it was hit in a drone attack and has caught fire. There are 30 aid workers on board the Freedom Flotilla ship, which was attempting to break Israel’s 2-month aid blockade.

Don't forget, your chats with AI tools are likely getting extracted and used to train their tools, and you using these chatbots more is beneficial to these companies.

open.substack.com/pub/centerfo...

Labeling human generated content seems like an effective way to fight model deterioration that comes from feeding AI models AI generated content.

Goal seems positive, but also a means to scrape human made data in the future.

www.fastcompany.com/91321495/ado...

I really love this shirt. Purchased from the amazing GodAintPetty.com store.

Working in corporate America made me realize there are limits to my own empathy and understanding of managers and executives.

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

I’m reading Careless People and one of the things that struck me (and that makes total depressing sense) was the description of leadership pointing out that terrorism is good for the company because when governments are worried about safety they don’t care about privacy.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

My old and thick Staffordshire terrier loves being carried and is insistent that I use her carrier to take her up and down stairs now. So at least a couple times a day, I literally strap this girl in while her tail wags enthusiastically to carry her down a flight of stairs like a piece of luggage.

In recent years user experience feels like a mask we wear so that we can pretend we care about our users instead of just wanting to maximize profit and increase shareholder value. Before I used to convince myself we cared about both, now it just feels like a mask.