lizrd.bsky.social
Data integrity in human research nerd. Mountain biker. Weaver. Spinner. Probably under the supervision of at least one dog. Usually in need of another cup of tea.
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We have all let you down in a myriad of ways and I'm sorry.
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Does Big Egg imply the existence of Big Bird?
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Oh, I woke up scared, thanks.
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Easy there. Bullies know their language riles people up. Call it what it is, sit with the feeling, shout it out at us, then try to let it go. By all means organize, by all means protest, but do it from your inner well of power.
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Every time Obama opens his mouth, the far right galvanizes somehow. And then we're open to accusations of former presidents running an opposition, which isn't a good look on a democracy. The people themselves need to organize, and pressure our democratic leadership.
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I wonder if there's a timeline in which Russia, having bought the US president, manages global military de-escalation. Nah, prolly not.
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@altnoaa.bsky.social any chance you'd share this? Comments are due today.
classweb.org/tentative-su...
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The Soviet intelligence services worked so hard to piece the networks of people together and we've just done it for ours with Facebook. Combined with the amount of data that exists about us as individuals, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
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Why you? Who made you the arbiter of the resistance? Do you have specific suspicions you'd like to share with the public?
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Thanks!
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Finally.
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It is honestly weird to wake up as a normal citizen and find yourself hard core in favor of the IRS this way. I didn't feel obligated to have an opinion about the IRS before this although looking back on an adult lifetime of interactions I have no complaints and that's actually pretty remarkable.
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Hi! I suspect we're all having ebbs and flows of energy for interaction. I left my phone home yesterday when I went for a walk with Andy and it was the most relaxed I've felt in weeks.
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I like purple and blue best but I think the contrast in the one with the orange is actually better.
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The guy's a literal Nazi. It's absolutely garbage to pearl clutch about the sanctity of the people's trust in science and be seen hanging out with literal Nazis. You know what literal Nazis do when they do research on humans.
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I support your choice. I wrote it in hopes it might actually make you feel better, but please do what makes you feel best.
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So long as you know it and that's your choice, I'm in full support. When I was young, I didn't know it at all. When I was older I knew it but thought that allistic people were immune. I don't like it, but I do feel slightly better knowing it's just the human condition for everyone.
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Precisely because every person who wants to act right, no matter their flavor of brain wiring, is vulnerable to thinking "surely the other person isn't meaning an impolite thing".
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That little margin of uncertainty is what lets bad people pretend they didn't say or do anything wrong and it works on pretty much everybody, not just autistic people. You're more vulnerable because you're going to miss the unsaid context, but I hope it helps to know that it's such a useful tactic
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So it's normal for people to communicate in different styles, with different levels of directness. And then it's also a tool bad people use. The thing is, nobody else is ever going to be 100% certain they've got it right, either. Not even the most neurotypical person you can imagine.
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In some places direct communication is considered pretty rude if it doesn't take into account hierarchy.
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Consider that it may not really be rude to look for subtext or even to assume that people are communicating indirectly. In the South of the US where I'm from, the communication between women is often extremely indirect and leaves a lot unsaid, relying on shared context to fill in the blanks.
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I hate feeling rude and people with bad intentions use that against people who want to be well behaved. It's going to be a distressing few years and we may all have to do and say things that are against our training to be safe and not give others leverage.
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Or the sometimes much harder situation "did they appear to be behaving within norms but were actually being manipulative". Both of those situations are going to come up more and more and it would be better to be rude than play along.
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I do something similar. Remember that bad people use social norms against you so when you look to ask yourself "did I violate a social norm" ask yourself immediately "did the other party violate a social norm first and expect me to keep being polite"
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And when they didn't or couldn't, it looked like Angela's Ashes.
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I read their comment as more like a bully being mad that their prey has told them they aren't playing anymore. The bully, to feel good about it, has to imagine that they've somehow had a negative impact, that they've made their target have unpleasant feelings. He's imagining he won and needs that.
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Thanks, I'll start looking.
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FOIA requests need to be specific to work. Were there preliminary posters or early outputs we could find to know what to request?
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I'm praying for 1 every day.
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That's terrifying and I'm sorry. Try not to give energy to dread. This one's hard.
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Oh honey, it's okay, these people already showed Russia /all/ their cards.