its way worse than i thought wtf

The autistic Barbie doll features and accessories include:

Body: The autistic Barbie doll features elbow and wrist articulation, enabling stimming, hand flapping, and other hand gestures that some members of the autistic community use to process sensory information or express excitement. Eye Gaze: The doll is designed with an eye gaze shifted slightly to the side, which reflects how some members of the autistic community may avoid direct eye contact. Accessories: Each doll comes with a pink finger clip fidget spinner, noise-cancelling headphones and a tablet. Fidget Spinner: The doll holds a pink finger clip fidget spinner that actually spins, offering a sensory outlet that can help reduce stress and improve focus. Headphones: Pink noise-cancelling headphones rest on top of the doll’s head as a helpful and fashionable accessory that reduces sensory overload by blocking out background noise. Tablet: A pink tablet showing symbol-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication apps (AAC) on its screen serves as a tool to help with everyday communication.

Oh okay so now they normalize visually discriminating against auties bc some of us wear noise canceling headphones. Maybe their next run she can have a blue trick or treat bucket?

To this, after 25 years of self-studying psychology on and off, I would theorize that it shows the contradiction that autistic people often cant function in this environment and go the self stigmatizing and agonizing route of getting tons of diagnoses to somehow get taken off some of the burden which otherwise might lead to suicide.

Can personally relate.

Being gifted (as in having a special talent for e.g. spatial thinking, word association, memory, etc.) is real. People have different capabilities and denying such is ableist and reactionary imo. The difference imo is that bourgois society and psychology uses a binary approach which labels people as gifted or non gitfted, making them two “classes” which makes sense in an oppression perspective

Oh i do think being gifted is real, and I can see how it can be reactionary to flatten the exceptional skills talents and thinking one may have. I was definitely referring to the gifted to burnout paradox, of typing and classifying people to be exploited, and then discarding them.

One thing i feel may be helpful to say is that from my experience, autistic people will mask to pass in these conditions and often that means over self reliance, saying yes to everything, overworking, willingly being maipulated and coerced, and so on. So disabilities become disabilities in this case when the energy stress and strain to maintain that mask eventually fails. This whole process can have dramatic effects, including diminishing and reduction of gifted skills and talents. With the conditioning western societies impress upon autistic people, the idea of binary giftedness can very well manipulate gifted peoples into diminishing these traits.

Autistics are hyper-exploited in capitalist societies but I too hear very little about it’s impact in socialist and dem-soc countries, or in the global south in general. The tension of demanding our (autistics) hyper-exploitation and us being acutely aware of that could be a factor (such as through diagnoses ascribed as ‘pathological demand avoidance’ or other ‘developmental disorders’). Even apparent efforts to reframe autism in a positive light also positions us as exceptional, gifted, and thus groomable and exploitable. Whereas out of that context, epigentic behaviors as impacted by environment don’t seem to be so significant for accomodations (disability).

As a USian I feel like pulling all my “credentials” of my autistic diagnosis, so it may not be used againat me, if that’s even possible. It seems too late.

You are right, I waa being hyperbolic and leaning into some anti western sentiments i’ve heard. I should have considered examples like the Romans, as well as the Aztecs, who practiced conquering and slavery to expand their empire, also in mild climates.

agreed. having freezing winters and a climate that many fruits and vegetables can’t grow has not only inspired blandness in food, but general resentment and coveting of anything of taste and distinction. No wonder Europes history has been primarily of invasion, occupation and looting.

From 2025 I have trauma I have to manage for the rest of my life due to a tragic accident, and there was non-stop heartbreak (including lost love ones) and disappointments such as jobs, and wasting 6 months of my life just to be declined for disability. And my accident amounted to getting into sizeable debt. Not much 2026 can throw at me that will phase me, i hope. I have good outlooks every year regardless, helpful when your baseline is so low.

I’m reading this now despite my covid brain its so good

At the time i was reading Bookchin and was a staunch libertarian socialist. So maybe my moments were back further… I never got into meme sites until later, avoided online almost entirely from 2010-2014, out of circumstance (living in tents while trying go to school and such). I think my pivotal moments were based on: reading increasingly reactionaty books and finding their problems (my “put down in disgust” points were ER Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, as well as Atlas Shrugged, specifically when the copper baron has a tirade about altruism). But in general growing up, i was in–closet trans in male dominated spaces, so my own identity and femininity and increasing preference for femme spaces and friendships helped keep stopping me from taking the red pill/black pill.

I"m recharged from taking a break from my life due to an injury a couple months ago, but time to lock in and be the best comrade i can be!

Welcome! i wouldnt call myself a witch since i dont belong to a coven or school, but i consider myself a “hedge witch” who has learned from the environment and its various beings and phenomena. My title is partly metaphor to describe my self learning and ecological affinities, but i def vibe with witchy stuff

I thought liberals wanted freedom of choice, diversity, and decentralized decision making?

Not bad, will have a white christmas with snow in forecast (altho its been warm here too and it may just rain insread)

I took a pet sitting gig, mostly alone in the woods at an anarchist-esque community space with a dog and cat in a cabin without electricity or water for 9 days.

I kind of prefer this, my mental health is way better than it usually is this time of year. I dont do christmas well.

Its astroturfed— fake grass.

Jungles are complete, holistic ecosystems of abundance, which provide food and sustenance for every living being that contributes to it?

“Behold a Human” 🐔 haha

Diogenes takes aside,

would this be art? Is this artistry? Has deepseek become an artist? Why so? Why not?

would this be art? art is a creative expression intentionally articulated in form. The process can be intentional or not, defining the form determines the art.

So by that definition, art is determined by an artist.

has deepseek become an artist in the sense that it may define processes it creates, co-creates or incidentally finds, yes. in the sense that it may not know what art is unless prompted to do so, no. The prompter is the artist. If it has full automony on deciding its own prompts for art, then by the definition i use, we have to ask whether these prompts are articulated expression induced to produce form. so, maybe? If an LLM can articulate and express.

why so or why not is expression articulated? can an LLM express, or is it recursive and memetic? Does it articulate? Can it express? In the manner of putting forth words, action and meaning, yes, it can express. Can it express feeling? If programmed to, in memetic form (derivative of what appears to be feeling and emotion, or programmed to convey qualities that indicate emotion). This means LLM can convey expression as words and intent, but not as feelings and emotion.

Since LLMs cannot express emotionality, they cannot invoke emotion in art. Does an artist need emotion to create? Not necessarily. But a human is an emotional being, they necessarily invoke emotion, even incidentally, into their art.

Therefore, I draw a distinction of AI artists being emotionally unable to express art, and non-AI artists (including non-humans, such as a crow, dog or horse) as emotionally able to express. This can be simplified to emotional art and non-emotional art. Regardless, it’s not art until it’s intentionally determined as art by an artist. Which both humans and LLMs can do. And, a non-emotional art piece can still convey emotion in any viewer capable of emotion. So there is emotional legitimacy in non-emotional art.

Literally buying out every media firm to turn into a panopticon. The bitter irony is that the reactionary unconsciousness of the US-liberal base is inclined and encouraged to spy on each other through a private surveillance arms race. From Ring cameras, smart devices and Amazon Neighborhood, in absence of justice, in dystopic despair, we see more and more mistrust and paranoia.

Oh gosh what a contentious discussion. I used to be anti AI and am still reluctant about it. But for reasons i admit that are not practical. And when it comes to practability… art has always been both practical, and ideal. The first cave paintings are of practical use, they serve as guideposts and acts of communication. However, their depiction— of humans playing, dancing with animals— are ideal. They set intentions to reverence, even though the practical reality of humans and animals is predator and prey. They give a moment of awe and imagining to other possibilities. Worship is implored, and through this culture an interconnection cosmology forms… humans arent just predator, they are receiever/giver. This translates to practical understanding of cycles and relationships both important and integral to hunter-gatherers.

At a more personal level, I recently had a partial finger amputation. I’m a musician of 30 years. You can imagine my grief. I felt ruined, that my art could never be seen again. Yet now i have even more drive as an artist. I use electronic instruments and incidental sounds which perform themselves. I do the orchestration, composition and conducting. I, having an ideal objective, am letting go of my decades of training as mandatory for that practical expression.

Maybe I can never play music the way i could ever again. But I am still an artist and still I express. Whether its ability or accessibility aids, an artist articulates the material as expression in form. A brush stroke or stable diffusion are tools, just as a violin or algorithmic synth program are tools, to express their ideals in practical, material ways.

horrified, but not surprised. Palantir developed their surveillance tech for the IDF, and is now being used in the USA.