Jenny Bristol

@jennybristol
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Writer. Nerd. Autistic. Gen-X. Parent. Partner. Am @jennywbristol on Twitter. She/her.
StatusCurrently finding my way around the federated universe. Excited for the possibilities.
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If you, like me, are #autistic, then you might be immune to the effects of false or otherwise insidious advertising techniques

According to the article, #neurotypical people are more likely to get distracted by marketing techniques, while us autistics focus on the practical side of a product, rendering those techniques pointless.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-fallible-mind/201708/why-advertising-falls-flat-in-individuals-autism

#AutismResearch #Autism #News #Psychology #Neurospicy #Neurodiverse

Why Advertising Falls Flat in Individuals With Autism

Individuals with autism may be impervious to misleading marketing.

Psychology Today
If you're in the U.S.: Please help save Medicaid. The ACLU's petition is very fast and easy and the message gets to the right people (I've gotten confirmation emails from the offices already). https://aclu.org/savemedicaid
Congress: Save Medicaid Now

Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

The Seattle Times has no fucks left to give.

“As one of the country’s very few family-owned and -operated metro newspapers left, The Seattle Times is also apparently one of the few whose editorial board is willing to endorse presidential candidates.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/hell-yes-the-seattle-times-edit-board-endorses-harris-for-president/

Hell, yes! The Seattle Times edit board endorses Harris for president | Frank Blethen and Kate Riley

The Seattle Times editorial board feels a responsibility to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

The Seattle Times

It truly sucks that so much AMAZING shit is possible because of technology and often still is being developed but all the headlines are

CEO: "We have built a $10 billion dollar box that you can talk to"

Reporter: "Wow and it only tells the truth?"

CEO: "You can talk to it"

Reporter: "Okay, but it understands what you mean?"

CEO: "You can talk to it"

This image is absolutely terrifying. Be safe y'all. GTFO if you are in the path.
I keep telling all my friends in the US. You don't ask you don't get.
America is a shithole country that loves its guns more than its children.

Lol Neil Gaiman says

"ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences."

This is one of the better ones I have seen.

We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

"...I am so tired of people telling us at the center of these dehumanizing rants that we need to respect everyone’s opinion,” she said. “No. We don’t, and we don’t have to tolerate it, either.

“You are not allowed to go out of your way and belittle, degrade and depict groups that don’t look like you as subhuman. That’s not an opinion. That is hate. Plain and simple.”

--Trenni Casey

https://pagesix.com/2024/05/17/entertainment/harrison-butker-obliterated-by-sports-anchor-after-homemaker-speech/

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Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker obliterated by sports anchor after 'homemaker' speech: 'Smallest man who ever lived'

“There is a big difference between opinion and dehumanizing hateful speech,” Trenni Casey said in a nearly 4-minute segment.

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