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TL;DR: spending money to find the cause of autism is a eugenics project, and those resources could have been spent improving accommodations for Autistic people instead.
To preface this, I'm not Autistic but I'm neurodivergent with some overlap.
We need to be absolutely clear right now: the main purpose is *all* research into the causes of autism is eugenics: a cause is sought because non-autistic people want to *eliminate* autistic people via some kind of "cure." It should be obvious, but a "cured autistic person" who did not get a say in the decision to administer that "cure" has been subjected to non-consensual medical intervention at an extremely unethical level. Many autistic people have been exceptionally clear that they don't want to be "cured," including some people with "severe autism" such as people who are nonverbal.
When we think things like "but autism makes life so hard for some people," we're saying that the difficulties in their life are a result of their neurotype, rather than blaming the society that punished & devalues the behaviors that result from that neurotype at every turn. To the extent that an individual autistic person wants to modify their neurotype and/or otherwise use aids to modify themselves to reduce difficulties in their life, they should be free to pursue that. But we should always ask the question: "what if we changed their social or physical environment instead, so that they didn't have to change themselves?" The point is that difficulties are always the product of person x environment, and many of the difficulties we attribute to autism should instead be attributed to anti-autistic social & physical spaces, and resources spent trying to "find the cause of autism" would be *much* better spent trying to develop & promote better accommodations for autism. Or at least, that's the case if you care about the quality of life of autistic people and/or recognize their enormous contributions to society (e.g., Wikipedia could not exist in anything near its current form without autistic input). If instead you think of Autistic people as gross burdens that you'd rather be rid of, then it makes sense to investigate the causes of autism so that you can eventually find a "cure."
All of that to say: the best response to lies about the causes of autism is to ask "What is the end goal of identifying the cause?" instead of saying "That's not true, here's better info about the causes."
#autism #trump
P.S. yes, I do think about the plight of parents of autistic kids, particularly those that have huge struggles fitting into the expectations of our society. They've been put in a position where society constantly bullies and devalues their kid, and makes it mostly impossible for their kid to exist without constant parental support, which is a lot of work and which is unfair when your peers get the school system to do a massive amount of childcare. But in that situation, your kid is in an even worse position than you as the direct victim of all of that, and you have a choice: are you going to be their ally against the unfair world, or are you going to blame them and try to get them to confirm enough that you can let the school system take care of them, despite the immense pain that that will provoke? Please don't come crying for sympathy if you choose the later option (and yes, helping them be able to independently navigate society is a good thing for them, but there's a difference between helping them as their ally, at their pace, and trying to force them to conform to reduce the burden society has placed on you).

Saw this in a Sam’s Club in suburban Atlanta: Bijan Robinson who is a star running back for the Atlanta Falcon’s is prominently featured on the box of this 75” TCL flat screen TV.
PLEASE respond with your location and the name of the retailer, and the picture on the box if you live in a different area.
PLEASE boost for reach.
I’m very curious if this is a national deal for TCL or if they have many local deals with local stars featured. If this TV is sold internationally who…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.optics. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.optics/new
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Renjie Li, Ceyao Zhang, Sixuan Mao, Xiyuan Zhou, Feng Yin, Sergios Theodoridis, Zhaoyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12145
- Room-temperature valley-selective emission in Si-MoSe2 heterostructures enabled by high-quality-f...
Feng Pan, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09806 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/113152185040115763
- 1T'-MoTe$_2$ as an integrated saturable absorber for photonic machine learning
Maria Carolina Volpato, Henrique G. Rosa, Tom Reep, Pierre-Louis de Assis, Newton Cesario Frateschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16140 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/114901571498004090
- NeOTF: Guidestar-free neural representation for broadband dynamic imaging through scattering
Yunong Sun, Fei Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22328 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/114947052118796753
- Structured Random Models for Phase Retrieval with Optical Diffusers
Zhiyuan Hu, Fakhriyya Mammadova, Juli\'an Tachella, Michael Unser, Jonathan Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14490 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115388901264416806
- Memory Effects in Time-Modulated Radiative Heat Transfer
Riccardo Messina, Philippe Ben-Abdallah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19378 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115422659227231796
- Mie-tronics supermodes and symmetry breaking in nonlocal metasurfaces
Thanh Xuan Hoang, Ayan Nussupbekov, Jie Ji, Daniel Leykam, Jaime Gomez Rivas, Yuri Kivshar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03560 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115502066008543828
- Integrated soliton microcombs beyond the turnkey limit
Wang, Xu, Wang, Zhu, Luo, Luo, Wang, Ni, Yang, Gong, Xiao, Li, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06909 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115530791701071777
- Ising accelerator with a reconfigurable interferometric photonic processor
Rausell-Campo, Al Kayed, P\'erez-L\'ppez, Aadhi, Shastri, Francoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13284 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115570439939074488
- Superradiance in dense atomic samples
I. M. de Ara\'ujo, H. Sanchez, L. F. Alves da Silva, M. H. Y. Moussa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20242 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114425762810828336
- Fluctuation-induced Hall-like lateral forces in a chiral-gain environment
Daigo Oue, M\'ario G. Silveirinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14754 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot/114896308178114535
- Tensor-network approach to quantum optical state evolution beyond the Fock basis
Nikolay Kapridov, Egor Tiunov, Dmitry Chermoshentsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15295 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115581390666689204
- OmniLens : Blind Lens Aberration Correction via Large LensLib Pre-Training and Latent PSF Repres...
Jiang, Qian, Gao, Sun, Yang, Yi, Li, Yang, Van Gool, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17126 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115603729319581340
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Advanced stereoscopy applied to CTAO
Hana Ali Messaoud, Tom Fran\c{c}ois, Thomas Vuillaume
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21366 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2136…

Advanced stereoscopy applied to CTAO
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is an international observatory currently under construction, which will consist of two sites (one in the Northern Hemisphere and one in the Southern Hemisphere). It will eventually be the largest and most sensitive ground-based gamma-ray observatory. In the meantime, a small subarray composed of four Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) at the Northern site will begin collecting data in the coming year. In preparation, we present a stereoscopic event r…