If a nonautistic person experienced the same intensity as an autistic person does when their needs aren't met, they would likely have the exact same, or very similar reaction as autistic people.

And if everyone else knew what the autistic brain did, there would be no confusion regarding the reaction.

It would be perfectly clear and understandable.

This is not pathological behavior.

If you trust her *and all her friends* [1] to talk to an adult if anything that makes their creep radar go off at all, in the slightest, including: anyone trying to chat with them out of the blue, anyone trying to solicit pictures of them, anyone trying to get them to turn on their webcam,

anyone offering them Robux for literally anything at all including alleged "free giveaways", anyone trying to get them to move to another platform, anyone trying to get them to play a specific game, anyone who wants to send them a gift (physical objects or digital goods/credit),

Or for going all out Aussie obscure: Siam Sunset, Welcome to Woop Woop, or You Can't Stop the Murders.

But no Aus film collection is complete without The Castle.

(Though the best depiction of real country Oz I have ever seen is Road to Nhill. Alas not a musical).

13/ There's no obligation on the part of Facebook or Google to feed antisemitism or Nazism to consumers or to afford Nazi propaganda published by The Noticer the same status as news agencies.

If yr working in a relevant field -- academia, law, media, politics -- inquiries could (& should) be made.

Agree. Though his dad's campaign against Sir John Monash, while Monash was involved in one of the first successful combined arms maneuvers of WWI is also quite reprehensible too. Keatings removal of limits of ownership of media companies was, in retrospect, not so great.

Pine gap is the problem in Aus with 5 eyes. Have noticed a marked up-tick in pol talk abt the dismissal atm. (Gough Whitlam was dismissed in dodgy circumstances in '70s the day before a speech on US at Pine Gap). Pretty solid pissed off vibe in aus atm about that, which is ... interesting.

and as silly as it is to have to be told “try not to overlook when the world doesn’t hurt,” yes, i had to be told to try not to overlook when the world doesn’t hurt and he did it in such a way that i still say it verbatim.

if this isn’t nice, what is?

i think it’s lovely.

Even if you think, like I do, that AI has a lot of cool potential uses, that’s a very understandable reason why a lot of people get angry whenever it’s brought up right now.

I implore you, as someone who works in a massively demonized and misunderstood tech area myself (drones): YOU have to be making that sales pitch right now to the skeptical about why your tech isn’t evil. You can’t just grumble at people for not being as technical as you, appealing as that is

We can’t fact-check our way out of this crisis. Disordered discourse isn’t just about false claims - it reshapes power, identity, and how people engage with reality itself. There’s no single fix, but one crucial pillar of the response is education.

In Finland, media education has been part of schools since the 1950s and is woven into the curriculum. Students learn about propaganda, misleading statistics, and even create their own media messages to understand how narratives shape perception.

Or Lynne Postlethwaite offering words of wisdom.