Disability

I Like Being Autistic Recently, US Eugenicist in Chief and conspiracy theory trafficker RFK Jr. held an unsurprising, yet somehow still shocking, news conference in which he reduced humanity’s existence to economic utility and normative behavior. RFK has promised to find the cause of the “autism epidemic” - which doesn’t exist - by September, and has added David Geier, a hack previously fined for practicing medicine without a license, to the clown convention in D.C. RFK stated that autistic people will “never pay taxes”, “never hold a job”, “never play baseball”, “never write a poem” and “never go out on a date”. Speaking only for myself, the IRS and git would disagree with the first couple of quotes, and while I’ve never played baseball, I enjoyed being a soccer keep back in the day. And I play a mean game of Rocket League these days. Holy cow! ...

The piss molecules were inside my skin. There was a cloud of urine with a 200 foot radius emanating from the drunk passed out on the sidewalk and I was already in it. I knew this was going to happen but I rolled the dice because it wasn’t supposed to happen. It was never supposed to happen. The city was supposed to be clean and there weren’t supposed to be massive pee traps to randomly stumble into. It was the same thing at least twice a week. Critical failure. Same drunk, same part of town. How many breaths of air poisoned with his bladder mist had I taken over the months? ...

Autism and Fascism Have Crossed Paths Before—but Not How You Think “Information wants to be free”, observed Stewart Brand during a discussion with Steve Wozniak at the 1984 Hackers Conference. In hindsight, it was a simple, almost cute mantra for us. Perhaps it should’ve been obvious that it would hold doubly true for mis- and disinformation. I think we just naively assumed that everyone sought to share the truth in accordance with science and reason. We were just trying to figure the machines out, no fear. ...