Diligent Dilettante
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Diligent Dilettante
@diligentdilettante.bsky.social
Unlicensed mathematician. Staff engineer at Bumble. Late-diagnosed autistic. Approaching the limit.
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This is the first social network where I’m joining post autism diagnosis and I’m trying to 100% unmask.

Posting everything I get a whim to post to fight the RSD

#actuallyautistic
Could you undergo ‘phenomenal death’—cease experiencing while remaining functionally identical? If yes, phenomenality was never causal. But then what’s generating your concept of it right now?

Stated differently, can you become a P-zombie? Why does it feel inconceivable? Draw me some Kripke frames
December 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Mathematicians: What drives you?
Grothendieck: Pursuing Stacks
Mathematicians: Hell yeah, fat stacks of cash and acclaim
Grothendieck: What No
December 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I saw mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth youtube.com/watch?v=KSvs...
I saw mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth
YouTube video by aabeeceed
youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Christmas dinner attendance is the colimit of a family diagram where every morphism is an obligation. We can model this in the internal logic of a cohesive/local topos. Consider a Kripke frame, our accessibility relations representing deontic modes…
December 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Be sure to leave a glass of milk and Swiss rolls out for the Judge tonight.
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“This is why I quit mathematics: too many sweats” - Alexander Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles (1986)
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
My kids go to a "rich" public school. My daughter is 7 and cannot read; she is a sweet, caring, intelligent child, but if you spend a moment with her it is clear that she has ADHD an order of magnitude more serious than what you think of when you hear "ADHD." Anybody questioning her IEP can fuck off
"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Did anything happen with Dr Mercola after his bizarre consultation with a psychic resulting in the takeover of his company? Why didn’t any of this make waves? youtu.be/QRps3VQ-0BE?...
The Mercola Tapes: The “psychic” behind the world’s richest anti-vaxxer
YouTube video by McGill Office for Science and Society
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Today I am cranky
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Running out of adderall while switching insurance companies
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We’re making chicken + gravy empanadas today. I won’t pretend to be the genius that thought of it, those honors go to my wife.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Apparently they elected an American-made pope to avoid tariffs.
May 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I think the pope will be a boy
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I keep forgetting this app exists
May 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Elon Musk: “I work 180 hours a week and have 14ish kids. Why can’t everyone else work 180 hours a week and have 14ish kids?”

The pile of 100 billion dollars in the corner of his bedroom: “I dunno man, it just doesn’t make sense…”
April 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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New hip baby name is Enzo. Enzo’s everywhere these days. Calling it.
April 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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What a shitshow of an autism awareness month. 😫
April 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Autistic life is being emotionally transparent in ways that seem to make people deeply uncomfortable.
April 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"A new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism" 😳
April 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire
April 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
One of the candidates to be pope is literally named “Pizzaballa” which is both baller AND involves pizza. There is no way anyone else should be pope.
April 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Sometimes if I’m feeling down I just think about that one van that says “Honk, Jesus, Honk! If i u saves, if u love, Jesus! Love Jesus, Jesus!” And it cheers me right up. I hope Jesus does honk, especially if he saves or he loves. And I hope Jesus loves Jesus.
April 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM