how do you know he's autistic?

while you were arguing that marxism means clicking through to articles, I was studying the blade (nah jk that’s a link to the paper the article was based on). the paper’s author states that they’re autistic and they both use and personally prefer identity-first language in their positionality statement:

If Marxists are to be effective, we need to understand the world around us, so we should do some investigation.

I think we may just not agree on this part, comrade – it’s my belief that understanding the likely reasons behind the choice of headline is part of understanding the world around us, and reacting to the headline is a reaction to media bias and, to an extent, the general public’s thought patterns. while reading the article itself is well and good, an evaluation of the headline alone is also valuable.

scientist is publishing a good study. in a vacuum we're happy about this. it's a good development. But the headline centers the bad worldview of the editors and maybe laymen.

well yeah, the scientist is an autist, and the editor may or may not be. I'd argue the dichotomy is shown perfectly in this example, actually – autistic scientist publishes research about how autistic people have deep emotional lives, newspaper editor interprets it as "omg autistic people have emotions?!"

I want everybody to stop headline reacting.

then headlines should stop having shitty takes. the fault is not on those reacting to something shitty, it's on the person doing the shitty thing.

I am well aware that headlines are shit and written by an editor rather than the author, but I disagree that reacting to them is wrong. the headline is what the publication chose to lead with, and shows the tone they wanted people to be led into the article with. the headline is arguably more in tune with what the general populace would read and identify with than the content of the article, since its entire purpose is to grab potential readers’ attention.

I think if allistics want autistics to not react to their shit takes, they should stop publishing headlines that alienate and demonize us.

the fact that the article takes a more sympathetic tone is nice, but does not negate the fact that the headline is both offensive and just downright awful.

also kinda absurd to think we should go to the effort of finding and reading the article when it’s not linked in the OP or the linked tweet and the headline is this fucking hurtful already.

on iphone safari at least, you can just set the entire site to always to load in desktop mode to sidestep the login requirement and just get a prompt to confirm you’re 18+. you do still get an annoying “login with google” prompt but that at least has an X in the corner to make it go away.

I'm sorry but, what the actual fuck is wrong with allistics?

a fucking revelation?! shape better therapy strategies?! how about shaping a more holistic approach to understanding people and interacting socially and allowing neurodivergent people to be themselves? how about spend an hour talking to an autistic person while actually considering how they react to things rather than assuming we're emotionless computers just because we don't use the same social cueing criteria as allistics?

jesus fucking christ this headline got me riled.

looks like you can indeed repackage any PS2 game to run on any PS3 running HEN firmware, per this post.

It took me a full two rereadings to realize this article is somehow trying to cast Greta in a negative light.

I have never seen Mark Hamill looking worse than in this pic.

and that's including when he was getting weird blue milk out of an alien creature.

pink hair gays who would kill to protect their loved ones gang

did... did this man just equate a piece of crypto "art" to a living, breathing woman? and then say he would dump his wife rather than watch her be stabbed, as opposed to, idk, stopping the stabbing?

a'ight kids, where do we keep the torches and pitchforks again?

is that a motherfucking Dune reference?