Ithmus Cryptikus

Autistic Arthritic Asexual Anxious Atheistic Anarchistic Ancient Academic @[email protected] @iscriptikus.bsky.social https://www.pillowfort.social/iscriptikus https://www.deviantart.com/iscriptikus/gallery Very old. Graduated high school in 1996. Always Autistic. Always Asexual. Not always Arthritic Reading, Listening to music, Learning, Photography, Watching movies, Community, Art Appreciation, Bibliophile, Lists, Writing, The Backrooms/PoolRooms/Playrooms, YouTube long form Science videos Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Thrillers, Mysteries, Detective, Paranormal Romance, Philosophy, Psychology, Dictionaries, History, Classics, Short-stories, Poetry, Plays, Books about books/bookshops/libraries, Books about writing

[prenbyw]

Spoon in the shape of a fish. Carved from some Sycamore I found just outside Wivenhoe, Essex.

[hinako-supremacy]

op i love your fish so much i made it a png

they are now a school of fish

[apricior]

i remember when i was a child internet safety was like "if you even hint at the country you live in, you're gonna get kidnapped and murdered", and nowadays it is encouraged or even necessary to give corporations every single personal detail if you want to use anything because if they can't sell your information they cry so hard they throw up

[cozycryptidcorner]

my fem coworkers keep complaining about their musty dusty husbands heehee haha style and it’s driving me bananas. “ugh my husband hates having frozen dinners…. He wants a fully home cooked meal every night” okay so hit him with your car. Sorry, does he ever cook? Oh he sometimes chars meat until it’s unrecognizable on the grill? But wants you to do the majority of the cooking and pack him a lunch? When you both work? I have a solution but if you didn’t like the car joke you’re gonna hate this one.

[noelle-ism]

One of the most anti-current-society beliefs I hold is that, even as somebody that works in education, the current societal structure of "kids need to be in school until they're old enough to get a job", and accompanying sentiments like "you learn best as a child" are patently backwards, irrational, and stupid.

[noelle-ism]

Being a kid should be about having fun and learning about the world. Education can and should be a part of it, but the current system is objectively broken, and most educators that understand this are actively trying to fix it.

Kids should not be locked in a building and forced to learn for 6-8 hours every work day, ESPECIALLY not in our current situation where most of them have jobs afterwards.

Kids only "learn better" than adults purely because A. they have nothing else to "worry" about (like how adults have taxes, health, jobs, societal problems, et cetera), and B. because for the most part they're essentially forced to learn the stuff. While this isn't a wholly bad idea, it has perpetuated ideas like "If you don't pick up a hobby like music or art as a kid or teenager you're fucked", which is patently stupid, and it also takes away important social development from kids.

[noelle-ism]

I've said it to coworkers, but my favorite part about being adult is just how much I fucking LOVE learning now. My favorite days are when the kids get out early so us adults can have a Professional Development class! Learning is so much fun, now that I'm a fully-fledged adult, and can choose whether or not I want to actually "learn", and gauge whether I would actually benefit from this learning! One of my favorite parts of my previous job was when I had to go a city over for a week-long certification class, and it was a blast to be an adult learning about stuff!

If you give an adult that's interested the right tools and directions, learning hobbies can be the most gratifying experience ever, way more than as a kid, where you're limited by having any source of income, you're going through puberty, you have to worry about actual School, you have other shit going on, and you may not even want to learn in the first place!

[noelle-ism]

If you are a teenager, or kid, and you read this:

Spend as much time as you realistically can enjoying being a kid.

You can learn and pick up hobbies when you're out of school. If something like learning an instrument, or coding, or acting, or art, or whatever, is something you really like, then chase your bliss, but if you're being forced to do sports for example, and you have a say, don't do it! Have fun! Hang out with friends your age, hang out at home reading or playing videogames, enjoy it as much as you can! You have a long life ahead of you, and you'll (hopefully) have time to pick up new interests as you graduate, or leave school, and you have a job, and your entire week isn't spent crushed under the weight of unwanted academia.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[jenroses]

pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome. This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.

[sniperct]

tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus

[battle-for-dyke-island]

saying “children are an oppressed class” is objectively true but also no one fucking believes you. especially if you yourself are a child. which is funny because that’s like textbook oppression

[victusinveritas]

Someone on Facebook (redacted for privacy) writes this about the Canvas Shinyhunters hack:

"I know the Canvas ransomware attack is terribly inconvenient for many people, and sorry if that means you. I, however, am finding it farcically amusing.

For years and years faculty have been pushed to use Canvas. All courses get a homogenized and flattened interface and everything is presented as an easy consumer experience in a one-stop shop and it doesn’t matter if you object to any of that or don’t want to spend 50 hours dealing with an annoying tech product that doesn’t fit your pedagogy. Even communicating with students has been shunted through Canvas. And if you resist any of this, woe betide you. In fact you can’t print syllabi any more even if you wanted to—unless you pay for your own paper, ink, and printer (which I do).

Now Canvas has been taken down by ransomware, tomorrow is the last day of finals week, and YOU are supposed to scramble and solve this problem, using magic. That includes adjuncts who are not even paid a livable wage and faculty who might have hundreds of students.

This is a failure of a tech platform that was forced on us, and the university administrations nationwide who expect you to move heaven and earth are the same ones who are actively undermining their own institutions’ degrees by leaping into bed with AI companies before they even get their pants all the way off. These administrations (and this includes almost all of them) are not *ignoring* the destruction of education and academic integrity by AI—they are actively participating in it by forcibly inserting AI into student life, university email systems, etc. They are literally giving students software designed for cheating and cognitive dependency for free and applauding its use. And they think you are supposed to materialize a magical solution to this Canvas mess to ensure grades are in? Like between dinner and breakfast you are supposed to recreate everything you had to put in Camvas for an entire semester in some nonexistent other platform?

We just got an email telling us to “communicate directly with your students via email or other available tools for any immediate course needs.” How? Also, we should “Consider alternate methods of submitting assignments digitally or completing assignments in person on Friday” LOL what? So, individual faculty member, grab some No-Doz from the truck stop because in the next 12 hours or so, you must materialize a way for your students to take an online exam! Hope you own a server! Oh also you will have to rewrite the exam because you wrote it in Canvas and you don’t even have the questions anymore! Or just tell the students show up on campus tomorrow for an in-person exam—I hope you brought your personal printer!—and I hope nobody else scheduled anything at the same time, with no coordination! Then sit back and listen to the students tell you they already went home to Wyoming or Guam two days ago.

This is ludicrous. It is a problem created by overpaid administrators who have never had an idea that wasn’t sold to them by a software company and who now expect you to abracadabra a solution even as they are pushing chatbot accounts onto the same students so they can learn as little as possible through the degree.

Think about it this way: thousands of US colleges and universities with millions of students are paralyzed by this Canvas takedown. That means that the presentation of course material has been homogenized at thousands of universities for millions of students, all by U administrators whose inflated salaries are rationalized by their “leadership” skills despite doggedly insisting on doing everything like everyone else does. And they think the solution to a problem of this scale is for alll the individual instructors involved—some of whom they don’t even provide offices or computers!—to literally overnight recreate 16 weeks of records, rewrite assignments, contact dozens or hundreds of students, and set up on-the-fly alternative examinations. It’s stunning, really. Their judgment about AI is just as solid."

[soup-shoes]

^^^^ yep. MBA thinking has overtaken a load of our institutions, and homogenization, lack of meaningful innovation, and flagging care for (costly, responsible) maintenance have been metastasizing all this time.

The hack isn't the root of the problem, this is a dam finally shattering after being mined for decades for cheap building materials. Now the town is flooded and the harms are much worse than if we had gotten by with the dams intact.

But America is a country that loves to sell itself the dream of upward mobility - everybody's on their way to something better, maintenance and care are stagnant and must be abandoned in pursuit of an imagined profit. So nobody wanted to hear about the hollowing out of programs, the slashing of standards, the demands that fewer employees do more with less.

Now we all get to see the consequences, and I guarantee loads of people will respond by blaming entirely the wrong people, because they refuse to see their own slothful complicity in the leadup to this.

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[snowkissedmonsters]

A doodle of my cat gets flagged as sexual content. I appeal it and months later it still awaits review. Upload your full legal name and driver's license to see posts that can't be porn because we banned that nine years ago. And while you're at it, look at this advertisement we're putting on your dash between every four posts:

[beemovieerotica]

[beemovieerotica]

[boybeetles]

uterus mysticism is weird to me, besides all the bioessentialism stuff, because like. Dude it’s just an organ. Imagine if we did this to the gallbladder or kidneys.

[boybeetles]

Divine feminine is stored in the appendix actually. appendicitis is just the Virgin Mary trying to break through to you. Never get your appendix removed its mother Mary speaking to you.

[boybeetles]

People who think I’m joking about people saying to not remove your uterus.

There’s people like this who think it’s anti-feminist and ‘anti-female’ to get an organ removed. This is a dangerous rhetoric and leads many people to death because they refuse to get organs removed even when they are literally killing them because of illnesses like cancer.

Even though later in the post she says that you shouldn’t judge people who get their uterus removed, the opening line makes it clear she sees them as lesser for making a choice that prioritizes their own health. This is very common in radical feminist/TERF spaces. Because they put so much value into being ‘real’ women, they actively shame cis women who make choices about their own body that they disagree with, painting them as anti-feminist for having reproductive autonomy.

[imagine-darksiders]

Y/n helping Death with his push ups, & a moment from Lost Light, when Y/n starts to consider her mortality and Death's immortality, and whether their time together will have meant anything to a being who can never die and whose memory is as long and full as the Universe.

[jabberding0]

Drawing table from the 1930s

[disasterscenario]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

I love a fine apparatus.

[thepoisonroom]

literally so important to have friends where you can be like "can i be insane for a second" and then you get to be insane. and they still like you afterwards

[baddywronglegs]

Are lace-makers ever struck by the realisation that all the holes were already there before they started?

[batbetbitbotbut]

Fanciest lace I've ever made, just need to fill in the edges.

[logo-comics]

Due to the craftsmanship shown in this picture, the emperor has requested that you make all of his clothes out of that exact lace.

[ufo-offical]

*flies past*

[vaporwavebomb]

[autiebiographical]

Whenever I see people talking about how autism is the next step in evolution, it's almost always said by aspie supremacists. They don't just see allistics as lesser, they see other autistics as lesser as well. If they deem you not "high functioning" enough, you're worthless. I don't think it's a coincidence that they hold onto the label of Asperger's.