Honestly kinda wish people would lay off on telling disabled folk that they can achieve their dreams and what not and just focus on removing all the fighting disabled folk have to do to just survive. Make survival easier (secure housing, secure income, safe and accessible healthcare) and then maybe we can do the inspirational chit chat about achieving dreams and shit like that?
(I jest of course.. the inspirational disabled people held up to show us we can achieve our dreams are held up to make abled folk feel better, not us. No shade to the disabled folk who have achieved their dreams, that's fricking awesome 🤘🏻
But when I see content created by disabled folk for disabled folk it's much more likely to be about rights and access, not the 'inspirational' stuff typical of content created by abled folk)
@3TomatoesShort What's even creepier: I just read an article on how humans who have extensive experience with #LLMs distinguish their writing from human writing. They can do so with very high accuracy, and one of the criteria they use is that these heartless programs indulge in "inspirational" BS far oftener than humans do. #LLMs overuse words like "testament", "crucial", and, yes, "inspiration". They're programmed Pollyannas. Sociopathy — artificial or naturally occurring — relies heavily on optimistic talk. And I rely on such talk as a sign that an ACTUAL heart is missing.
@dedicto
Ugh :/
@3TomatoesShort Long before I ever heard of #LLMs or knew that I was #autistic, I deeply distrusted the purveyors of "positive thinking" — and treasured this cartoon for its priceless satire on them and their motives: