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Currently: Panel Session - Not Autism. Not Yet. Characterizing the Diagnostic Experiences and Profiles of Late, Missed and Mis- Diagnosed Individuals. We know that late diagnosis has increased dramatically over the past 15 years. #INSAR2025

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

the fundamental failure of liberals to understand what guns mean. what police are. what you lose when you outsource your self defense to people who want you dead. if we die this will be what kills us.

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

One episode that has disappeared into the memory hole: When he first took office in 2020, things were going well for Biden. He had more or less united his caucus and there were several early policy victories. His approval rating was high. Good vibes. Then came the end of the Afghanistan war.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

much has been said about the NYT's framing of the growth of the government-university research complex as a story of higher ed "dependency" on government it's a silly and ahistorical way to characterize a carefully thought out national strategy, one imagined by 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism” www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

This is the type of thing that poorly run private companies are doing on a smaller scale constantly and a great example of why “we gotta run government like a business” is a grade-A dumb guy’s idea of what a smart guy thinks

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

i feel like trumpcoin, and the fact that we never talk about it, is pretty emblematic of the way the press refuses to grapple with trump. it exists in order to pay him bribes. it expressly gives you political access. it does not pretend to have a licit motive. it was a one-day scandal.

submitted 7 days ago • 59 comments

Apparently RFK is trying to walk back his bullshit comments by saying he doesn't mean autistics like me are bad and awful and need to be irradicated; no, he just wants to get rid of the "low functioning" autistics and let me just say FUCK THAT I'm not more worthy of existing than autistics who 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

submitted 49 days ago • 22 comments

There are in fact a number of legitimate use cases for LLMs. The problem is that there aren't enough of them for the business case for how much it costs to run them. As a result, They are desperately pushing people to use cases which are not appropriate to artificially inflate their revenue.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“The EU bans those synthetic food dyes” is just misinformation pushed by ignoramuses like RFK who don’t care about facts & lie to you for their own profit. None of these synthetic food dyes are banned in the EU Red 40 = E129 Yellow 5 = E102 Yellow 6 = E110 Blue 1 = E133 Blue 2 = E132 Green 3 = E143

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

submitted 10 days ago • 117 comments

We WILL get through this onslaught of negativity about autism and autistic people. But crucially and right now, let's talk about what autistic people themselves want and need to feel safe and secure. Please share. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2024/05/what... #autism #neurodiversity 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 10 days ago • 251 comments

Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.” He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.

submitted 12 days ago • 2312 comments

Friendly reminder that I'm in fact a journalist

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

I want to teach an honors course called “Every Regulation is Written in Blood” and just teach the young everything that had to be put in place to make the safe, clean American life they take for granted

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submitted 13 days ago • 273 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 14 days ago • 340 comments

There is so much about this screenshot that incenses me

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

Makary seems to be a completely incompetent leader. Where is he? Why isn’t he explaining what’s happening to the public? Is anything functional at the FDA now? Full article: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

A disheartening overview. “The refusal to accept scientific consensus is “disturbing, because then we get into very strange territory where it’s somebody’s hunch that this does or doesn’t happen, or does or doesn’t work,” said Stephen Jameson, president of the American Association of Immunologists.”

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

It's amazing that they are slapping exemptions on friendly industries, but still in a way that is inflationary and breeds uncertainty.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I did Nazi that coming.* *I’m sorry, it’s obligatory.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I've never been a Treasury secretary, so what would I know, but I reckon transparently lying about easily checked facts won't calm fears in the market, or the broader population.

submitted 23 days ago • 137 comments

"Vanilla is in vanilla ice cream and what else?" is such a perfect encapsulation of the surly self-confidence of the people who are ripping the wires out of our government and our economy.

submitted 26 days ago • 179 comments

Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 27 days ago • 424 comments

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

submitted 28 days ago • 1442 comments

There’s no “rigorous” economic argument against Trump’s tariff policy for the same reason you cannot develop a “rigorous” analysis of chess strategy against drunk four-year-olds. Nothing is sensibly formulated in a way that can be usefully analyzed. It’s just pulled out of Pete Navarro’s butt.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

submitted 32 days ago • 35 comments

The guy who campaigned on lowering prices on day one now says he hopes prices go up Congrats, America www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 33 days ago • 917 comments

Can we please remember that John Adams literally represented the Redcoats who did the Boston Massacre. Like, if you’re going to wave the goddamn flag and say that lawyers ought not to represent clients you disagree with or who are allegedly guilty, then you’re just confused about American lawyers.

submitted 34 days ago • 76 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 35 days ago • 3042 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 2087 comments

Trump is completely oblivious that 4 US troops died in Lithuania

submitted 36 days ago • 910 comments