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Ryan Boren Rocks Leave a comment July 25, 2013 1 Minute

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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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The set of social, political, cultural, and personal rules favors a particular way of thinking, feeling, behaving, and communicating as superior to others: the neurotypical form. Our parents are ashamed of our differences, and we notice it. They continually repress us when out of instinct we obey our neurology. They deny us reasonable adjustments because […]

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Forty hours of look at me/quiet hands? No more fluttering your hands in a language only you know, no more flapping your hands watching golden drops of happiness fly from your fingertips as you hum … no more angry bolts of lightening flying from your nails as you shake your hands so hard your wrists […]

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Twenty accessible pages on autistic minds that I recommend to every educator. The Guide is here! Understanding the Autistic Mind 1

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Recently, I coined the neologism ‘psychsplaining’ to try and account for the way those categorised by psych-professionals are often reduced within such relationships to that of the ‘sick role’ (Parsons 1951), with one’s own interpretations of oneself undermined by the ‘expert knowledge’ being projected upon the autistic person, who by default is positioned in a […]

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When I meet other people, ‘autistic’ or not, there is something instinctive in me that looks for where systems in them match systems in me. When I am around non-autistic people I soon know they function according to a generally alien system of functioning that makes little match with my own. I know this is […]

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