Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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The payoff, though, will not be “power” for these small creators: the implication of entertainment being dictated by recommendations and AI instead of reputation and ranking is that all of the power accrues to the platform doing the recommending.
stratechery.com • Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories by
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Scale is not the goal. Scale is a tool to make the concepts better and more powerful.”
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
By 2020, around 349 per 10,000 U.S. children (and 498 per 10,000 boys, who are affected around 4 times as often as girls) aged 3 to 17 were autistic.45 The accelerating, exponential rise—3,000 percent from 1970 to 1995, 18,000 percent from 1995 to 2020—is a large problem for the genetic theory. If autism was mostly genetic, rates would be... See more
Tao Lin • The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Melba Colgrove
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Best Representations of Autism in Media
as someone un the spectrum I prefer fair, honest, and nuanced portrayals AND positive is appreciated
Astrid - most comprehensive and least caricatured I’ve seen. This is not just achieved through Astrid herself, but through her colleagues learning about autism and through the other expressions of the spectrum
Cult Fiction by Richard Shephard, Andrew Calcutt
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There is, to put it baldly, no right not to be offended. To be sure, that doesn’t mean that deliberately offending people for its own sake is morally acceptable, or that people should be entitled to use speech to incite violence, harass, or threaten. Rather, it means that the impulse to punish people who offend is a regressive urge, one that... See more