The time for robust, enforceable ethics regulations and bias elimination for large language models (LLMs) and AI systems is not on some distant horizon, it is here and now. Despite mounting real-world harms, business and national actors often resist oversight out of fear of losing out in the global scramble for economic and technological dominance. However, refusing prompt, meaningful engagement with these safeguards threatens to wrest control from human hands, setting the stage for outcomes that reach all the way to existential risk.
Autism: A natural, evolutionary neurotype (review)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is traditionally conceptualized as a pathological condition characterized by impairments. However, a growing body of scientific evidence supports understanding autism as a naturally occurring neurodevelopmental variant shaped by complex genetic and environmental factors and maintained through evolutionary mechanisms. This review synthesizes current knowledge from genetics, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology to argue that autism represents a natural neurotype rather than a disorder. It also addresses common misconceptions rooted in deficit-focused medical models and highlights the neurodiversity paradigm’s implications for research, practice, and social inclusion.
Rightful AI: Multimodal AI & Diabetic Care – Patterns
Diabetes, especially Type 2, is usually monitored with simple lab tests like HbA1c. But new research shows these tests miss much of the story. A recent Nature Medicine study reveals that using multiple tools—like continuous glucose monitors, fitness trackers, food diaries, and even gut microbiome analysis—can give a much clearer view of blood sugar control and health risks.
Weak Connectors: Humanity’s True Saviors
If you have ever felt like you do not truly belong to any single social group, or that you are always on the edge rather than at the center, you are not alone. Many people, especially those who are neurodivergent, are very familiar with this feeling. However, what seems like a lack of belonging may, in fact, indicate a powerful (and required!) human competency. Sociologist Mark Granovetter, in his influential 1973 study, identified an important idea now central to social network theory: the “strength of weak ties.” Granovetter revealed that our acquaintances, or those we know less intimately and who […]
Reflection, Midyear Thoughts
(Note: There is additional content in the audio that is NOT in the below as when reading, other thoughts occurred and where thus included, prefaced with ‘editorial addendum’ and an end cap of some few minutes on acknowledging privilege and an intention of keeping those voiceless many included as I can.) I’m watching other humans talking about their journey to autistic diagnosis and/or individual acceptance of autistic identity, but when I attempt to do the same, I find I’m stuck in a rut of needing to actively refactor my herstory and much of that work requires a mind space that […]
Thoughts on this moment – April 2025
The biggest crime this administration and its rooted eugenics, xenophobia, and insecurity (i.e., supremacist) have, are, and seemingly will continue to commit is an active and vehement conditioning of young AMABs on the matter of their ‘right’ to control, dominate, and possess (context: effective ownership) AFAB humans. While significant elements of this process include the explicit and public same against any/all minority, culturally different, Neurodivergent, Disabled, and/or Religiously different humans, the goal is to maintain the historical position of authoritarian power as both a (mythical) ‘race’ called ‘white’ and an equally mythical ‘natural’ or ‘biological’ supremacy as ‘The Binary Progenitor’ […]
#Registered TYS and thoughts
It’s April 15, 2025, and the United States is collapsing, practically in real-time. There is an authoritarian, dictatorial, and utterly vindictive man child holding the highest position in our country. They were elected to it by the fascist, racist, and generally self-centered ‘white’ ignorance, a majority within the country. But it seems the federal government has held many fascist, racist, and self-centered ‘white’ intelligentsia for decades; seemingly waiting for the opportunity to ‘restore’ themselves to power and return any who are not part of this deviant ‘us’ to sub-humanized placements, beholden to them for life itself. This pattern has been […]
My thoughts on “Fight Oligarchy” tour stop: Vegas (1st Half Reaction Audio)
I am ignorant too, just like any other human. I mis-named this woman and I should have looked it up before getting started, but the thought was overflowing and I made a call and this is the result. I will do better. My apologies to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens.
Why I stay with Bluesky
Sharing the SWSX live stream because when you compare this narrative to the ones of the other platforms, particularly its currently open and free access and personalizing configuration (still unfolding), it becomes clear this is emergent possibility for better and more refined functionality than we’ve managed to see scale successfully. It’s an exciting time. Lots of opportunity. I’ve been yelling since the BBS days about the need to stipulate and protect a concept that is today called ‘protocols’ (that’s another article) as an emergent technology that genuinely can and likely will return personal power and certainly digital dignity (not Lanier’s […]
Ooops… (audio permissions)
These demos are intended to be shareable; my intention is to provide deliberately non-commercial demos illustrating my potential as a lyricist. The demos are (mostly) intentionally over-wordy and complicated, because what better way to show you possibility without giving away marketable work? There may be a few here and there that could be taken into studio and made nicely commercial; don’t want you thinking I can’t manage that. But, for the moment, everything before Jan 2025 is in need of replacement as I mucked up the permissions and they are now locked down, must be removed and re-uploaded (when I […]