Dark Orchid Purple
@darkorchidpurple.bsky.social
Autistic asexual non-binary very confused person. Purple is love, purple is life.
AI hype, Victorian Style.
Punch, 1844, satirizing Babbages (Lovelaces?) claim that the analytical engine could one day compose music.
(Also, my Lords, if you will kindly provide just one more round of funding then I may actually build the device ...)
(Also, my Lords, if you will kindly provide just one more round of funding then I may actually build the device ...)
![An article from the satirical jounal magazine Punch, 1844. "J [sic] Babbage" announces the success of his New Patent Mechanical Novel Writer.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tc525mnpby4tgvagv2g2j7ki/bafkreifnfpffyfguou4wjddtucv4p2uubyu6rpmsxiq2rrnqc5t4gbhyfu@jpeg)
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
AI hype, Victorian Style.
News over here is asking whether mental health problems are overdiagnosed and people need to learn to cope with normal life stress.
BBC reports that (my emphasis)
"19-34 year olds [...] seem to be less resilient SINCE COVID".
Do I even need to spell out my opinion?
BBC reports that (my emphasis)
"19-34 year olds [...] seem to be less resilient SINCE COVID".
Do I even need to spell out my opinion?
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
News over here is asking whether mental health problems are overdiagnosed and people need to learn to cope with normal life stress.
BBC reports that (my emphasis)
"19-34 year olds [...] seem to be less resilient SINCE COVID".
Do I even need to spell out my opinion?
BBC reports that (my emphasis)
"19-34 year olds [...] seem to be less resilient SINCE COVID".
Do I even need to spell out my opinion?
Maybe the real adventure was the friends we made along the way.
"They just want to make campfire stories with their friends" you mean a role-playing game?
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Maybe the real adventure was the friends we made along the way.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
2006 JRPG predicting that at some point, things will go bad and we'll have masked fascist pigs with tanks in the streets.
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
2006 JRPG predicting that at some point, things will go bad and we'll have masked fascist pigs with tanks in the streets.
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Reposting for every teacher and especially university lecturer out there who uses powerpoint slides with images or diagrams.
It took me a while to get this interplay to an acceptable level in my own teaching, and I could really see the difference that it makes.
It took me a while to get this interplay to an acceptable level in my own teaching, and I could really see the difference that it makes.
THIS. Anyone who's ever read a book to a baby or toddler *knows* that what makes a picture book work is the interplay between word and image. Likewise highly illustrated longer books. Either component fails without the other. You cannot separate them, both deserve flowers and recognition!
Since the Carnegie noms are out I shall have my annual moan: that highly illustrated books ONLY get awarded for art, not for the combo of art and words that creates the picture book magic. (BUT there are some brilliant and correctly chosen titles on the list so I'm not JUST moaning) #KidLitUK
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reposting for every teacher and especially university lecturer out there who uses powerpoint slides with images or diagrams.
It took me a while to get this interplay to an acceptable level in my own teaching, and I could really see the difference that it makes.
It took me a while to get this interplay to an acceptable level in my own teaching, and I could really see the difference that it makes.
Anyone remember this from 2004? ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
Game devs at AAA studios are treated horribly. Always have been.
Game devs at AAA studios are treated horribly. Always have been.
personally i think it's understandable for video games to be expensive but if they're expensive they need to be good and the people who make them need to get paid and treated well
October 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Anyone remember this from 2004? ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
Game devs at AAA studios are treated horribly. Always have been.
Game devs at AAA studios are treated horribly. Always have been.
I wish the neurotypical people who describe themselves as progressive and make social justice their whole identity, would make a bit more effort here. Disability justice is also justice.
Autistic people get a bad rap for universally lacking empathy (some of us do identify as experiencing low empathy - many do not) but the truth is most people do not, on a day to day basis, truly empathize with people who are fundamentally different from them.
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I wish the neurotypical people who describe themselves as progressive and make social justice their whole identity, would make a bit more effort here. Disability justice is also justice.
We somehow got to the point where the republican party are the only ones not noticing how much the people want to not be ruled by a monarchy.
October 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We somehow got to the point where the republican party are the only ones not noticing how much the people want to not be ruled by a monarchy.
There's a quote that regimes fall when the people move from "I hate that guy" to realizing that everyone else hates him too. About the fall of the USSR I think?
We're not there yet, but looking at how other autocratic regimes collapse, the temporal distance between 'Everyone Loves the Leader' and 'No one will admit in public they ever supported that guy' can be *very* short.
October 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There's a quote that regimes fall when the people move from "I hate that guy" to realizing that everyone else hates him too. About the fall of the USSR I think?
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My sense is that a lot of game design underrates 'make the player feel a feeling' and perhaps loses sight of ways to do it.
People like Skyrim, for all its flaws, because that are moments, gazing out at the desolate vastness, or fighting a dragon, that you feel a feeling.
People like Skyrim, for all its flaws, because that are moments, gazing out at the desolate vastness, or fighting a dragon, that you feel a feeling.
September 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
My sense is that a lot of game design underrates 'make the player feel a feeling' and perhaps loses sight of ways to do it.
People like Skyrim, for all its flaws, because that are moments, gazing out at the desolate vastness, or fighting a dragon, that you feel a feeling.
People like Skyrim, for all its flaws, because that are moments, gazing out at the desolate vastness, or fighting a dragon, that you feel a feeling.
One of the best quotes I've heard in a while. There's also about a semester's worth of seminars on gender in there.
But no-one is talking about dismissing these transitioners from the armed forces of course.
But no-one is talking about dismissing these transitioners from the armed forces of course.
"male-to-male transition" is such an amazing way to frame what Zuckerberg was doing and so many of these guys do that I am upset that I didn't think of it.
September 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
One of the best quotes I've heard in a while. There's also about a semester's worth of seminars on gender in there.
But no-one is talking about dismissing these transitioners from the armed forces of course.
But no-one is talking about dismissing these transitioners from the armed forces of course.
When the assignment says "four parts" and they won't let you put the rest of your infodump in an appendix.
(Also y'all should read @bretdevereaux.bsky.social )
(Also y'all should read @bretdevereaux.bsky.social )
September 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
When the assignment says "four parts" and they won't let you put the rest of your infodump in an appendix.
(Also y'all should read @bretdevereaux.bsky.social )
(Also y'all should read @bretdevereaux.bsky.social )
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Scientific paper on what a diagnosis of Autism / ADHD / both can mean to the individual and why it is important; lots of quotes like
"When informed of the results, she expresses a sense of tremendous relief at finally having an explanation. "
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
"When informed of the results, she expresses a sense of tremendous relief at finally having an explanation. "
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Scientific paper on what a diagnosis of Autism / ADHD / both can mean to the individual and why it is important; lots of quotes like
"When informed of the results, she expresses a sense of tremendous relief at finally having an explanation. "
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
"When informed of the results, she expresses a sense of tremendous relief at finally having an explanation. "
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
Enough already with the "we need to train our students for the future, let's pivot to AI" already. This BS seems to be infecting more and more of academia.
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Enough already with the "we need to train our students for the future, let's pivot to AI" already. This BS seems to be infecting more and more of academia.
Teeny Tiny Turtle!
September 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Teeny Tiny Turtle!
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Oh. I just learned that many Autistic children have difficulty with imagination or pretend play and that just hit me like a ton of bricks.
August 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Oh. I just learned that many Autistic children have difficulty with imagination or pretend play and that just hit me like a ton of bricks.
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every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
I'd start with confronting the ideas of what men are *not* supposed to do, such as showing any emotion except anger, being kind or caring in a way that could be mocked as feminine, having close male friends even if everyone involved is straight and there's nothing erotic involved.
I might suggest that if one actual began not with 'strength' or 'power' as the masculinity influencers do, but instead with temperance, diligence, kindness, humility, patience, charity and, yes, chastity, America's boys might get a lot further to being men and achieving the lives they want.
August 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I'd start with confronting the ideas of what men are *not* supposed to do, such as showing any emotion except anger, being kind or caring in a way that could be mocked as feminine, having close male friends even if everyone involved is straight and there's nothing erotic involved.
I have keyboard agraphia - handwriting, while slower than before, still works without me needing backspace about once per word or two.
Physical brain damage + autism, not fun. Not a superpower. Wouldn't mind a cure for the first one, maybe it'll heal over time.
Physical brain damage + autism, not fun. Not a superpower. Wouldn't mind a cure for the first one, maybe it'll heal over time.
ND Lexicon
Dysgraphia / Agraphia
These terms are not well defined but cover impairments of written expression (relative to expectation for education & age group) with Dysgraphia indicating a neurodevelopmental condition and Agraphia indicating an acquired condition (such as via stroke)
Dysgraphia / Agraphia
These terms are not well defined but cover impairments of written expression (relative to expectation for education & age group) with Dysgraphia indicating a neurodevelopmental condition and Agraphia indicating an acquired condition (such as via stroke)
August 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I have keyboard agraphia - handwriting, while slower than before, still works without me needing backspace about once per word or two.
Physical brain damage + autism, not fun. Not a superpower. Wouldn't mind a cure for the first one, maybe it'll heal over time.
Physical brain damage + autism, not fun. Not a superpower. Wouldn't mind a cure for the first one, maybe it'll heal over time.
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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
There are many sensory problems an autistic person can have relating to clothing and it is part of any reasonable adjustments and disability support plans to explore that, especially in schools with a uniform.
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In the world of 'You just can't make this up', this, from today's Times, in which we are told that Mr W - rich, famous, cannot possibly cover his bits at appropriate times because he can't wear pants. And that's because he's autistic.
I don't know where to begin unpacking how much 'no' this is.
I don't know where to begin unpacking how much 'no' this is.
July 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
There are many sensory problems an autistic person can have relating to clothing and it is part of any reasonable adjustments and disability support plans to explore that, especially in schools with a uniform.
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Comment of the week (month?) goes to whoever replied to a video of The Battle Cry of Freedom: "This video has been on youtube for longer than the Confederacy existed."
The Union Forever! Down with the traitors!
The Union Forever! Down with the traitors!
July 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Comment of the week (month?) goes to whoever replied to a video of The Battle Cry of Freedom: "This video has been on youtube for longer than the Confederacy existed."
The Union Forever! Down with the traitors!
The Union Forever! Down with the traitors!