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Star Wars 6” Black Series Boba Fett & Han Solo Carbonite – Celebration Europe Version

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Pew Pew I Love You I Know

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The studies repeatedly underlined the importance of first impressions. A negative first impression held true no matter how much further exposure a person was given to reassess that first impression. But there was one scenario in which the Autistic people left a positive first impression: when people read a transcript of their words instead of […]

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Jiang wrote, “One 2014 study by German academics showed that delays on phone or conferencing systems shaped our views of people negatively: even delays of 1.2 seconds made people perceive the responder as less friendly or focused.” I have no idea how or if this translates to in-person interactions, but it has an interesting correlation: […]

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Multiplicities are an intention: We build the best collaboration, the deepest learning, when we expand the opportunities for complex vision. Source: Socol, Ira. Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools (Kindle Locations 3725-3739). Wiley. Kindle Edition. See also: Design is Tested at the Edges: Intersectionality, The Social Model of Disability, and Design […]

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Now at 32, I have been variety of people, and I don’t always know who the real me is. My mask has fused itself to me, leaving me inhibited and confused, uncertain of how to break loose, left wondering if being authentic is even possible anymore. I have no choice but to don the mask. […]

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Neurotypicality is a grounding narrative of exclusion. The neurotypical is the category to which our education systems aspire. It is the category to which our ideas of the nuclear family aspire. And, it is the category on which the concept of the citizen (and by extension participation in the nation-state and the wider global economy) […]

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WordPress + a refreshed P2 + Matrix make for some interesting indie ed-tech possibilities. https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/welcoming-automattic-to-matrix Automattic pumps $4.6M into New Vector to help grow Matrix, an open, decentralized comms ecosystem

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Besides your web browser, your music player, and your team communication app, what are your most used macOS apps? My top 5 (per Timing): Ulysses, DEVONthink 3, Reeder, Spark, YNAB

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Writing ability is crucial, and distributed work only amplifies its importance. Source: Distributed FAQ: How to Transition to Remote Work – Distributed.blog A related thought from “Timeless Learning: How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools”: Writing is too important because, though forms and structures will differ, writing is the path to power for those […]

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Assuming for the sake of argument that ABA is effective at changing people’s behavior, it either does so via changing their underlying thought structures or values (“deep change”), or it does not (“superficial change”). If ABA is “successful” by way of deep change, then ABA violates autonomy insofar as it coercively closes off certain paths […]

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Our contribution is to argue that, from a bioethical perspective, autism advocates are fully justified in their concerns—the rights of autistic children and their parents are being regularly infringed upon. Specifically, we will argue that employing ABA violates the principles of justice and nonmaleficence and, most critically, infringes on the autonomy of children and (when […]

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