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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).

Role-Aware Language Models for Secure and Contextualized Access Control in Organizations
Saeed Almheiri, Yerulan Kongrat, Adrian Santosh, Ruslan Tasmukhanov, Josemaria Vera, Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Fajri Koto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23465

Role-Aware Language Models for Secure and Contextualized Access Control in Organizations
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in enterprise settings, controlling model behavior based on user roles becomes an essential requirement. Existing safety methods typically assume uniform access and focus on preventing harmful or toxic outputs, without addressing role-specific access constraints. In this work, we investigate whether LLMs can be fine-tuned to generate responses that reflect the access privileges associated with different organizational roles. We explore t…

Enumeration of Elliptic Curves via Elliptic Gromov-Witten Invariants of Four Dimensional Projective Fano Hypersurfaces
Masao Jinzenji (Okayama University), Ken Kuwata (National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24357

Enumeration of Elliptic Curves via Elliptic Gromov-Witten Invariants of Four Dimensional Projective Fano Hypersurfaces
In this note, we propose a conjecture that clarifies the relationship between the number of degree d elliptic curves in complex four-dimensional projective Fano hypersurfaces and their degree d elliptic Gromov-Witten (GW) invariants. The elliptic GW invariants are computed using the elliptic virtual structure constants proposed in our previous works.

Rapid-cycling ReBCO dipole magnet concept for muon acceleration
Henryk Piekarz (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Simon Otten (University of Twente, CERN), Anna Kario (University of Twente, CERN), Herman ten Kate (University of Twente, CERN)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20895

Rapid-cycling ReBCO dipole magnet concept for muon acceleration
We present a concept of the rapid-cycling 1.7 T ReBCO magnet for 1 to 10 kT/s ramping range as required for muon acceleration in a future muon collider presently under study. This approach is based on the 6 kA CORC-like cable constructed with 12 superconducting ReBCO tapes of 2 mm width. Based on theoretical prediction there is a linear scaling of the ReBCO cable hysteresis loss with the crossing magnetic field possibly generating power loss independent of the magnetic field ramping speed. This…

An interpretable family of projected normal distributions and a related copula model for Bayesian analysis of hypertoroidal data
Shogo Kato, Gianluca Mastrantonio, Masayuki Ishikawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16432

An interpretable family of projected normal distributions and a related copula model for Bayesian analysis of hypertoroidal data
This paper introduces two families of probability distributions for Bayesian analysis of hypertoroidal data. The first family consists of symmetric distributions derived from the projection of multivariate normal distributions under specific parameter constraints. This family is closed under marginalization and hence any marginal distribution belongs to a lower-dimensional case of the same family. In particular the univariate marginal of the family is the unimodal case of the projected normal d…

Expected Constraints on the Intergalactic Magnetic Field using Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
T\'en\'eman Keita, Renaud Belmont, Thierry Stolarczyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16092

Expected Constraints on the Intergalactic Magnetic Field using Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
The InterGalactic Magnetic Field (IGMF), which could permeate the cosmic voids but was never detected so far, is considered a relic of the early Universe. Constraints on its strength $B$ can be derived from its influence on time-delayed very-high-energy photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the electromagnetic cascades along their path to the Earth. The present lower limit achieved on its intensity is $10^{-18}\;\mathrm{G}$. In this work, we simulate data from the Cherenkov Telescope Array Ob…

The Social Context of Human-Robot Interactions
Sydney Thompson, Kate Candon, Marynel V\'azquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13982 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The Social Context of Human-Robot Interactions
The Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community often highlights the social context of an interaction as a key consideration when designing, implementing, and evaluating robot behavior. Unfortunately, researchers use the term "social context" in varied ways. This can lead to miscommunication, making it challenging to draw connections between related work on understanding and modeling the social contexts of human-robot interactions. To address this gap, we survey the HRI literature for existing defi…

Fluid Antenna Enabled Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Under Time-Constrained Mobility
He Xu, Tuo Wu, Ye Tian, Kangda Zhi, Wei Liu, Baiyang Liu, Hing Cheung So, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Kin-Fai Tong, Chan-Byoung Chae, Kai-Kit Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10820

Fluid Antenna Enabled Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Under Time-Constrained Mobility
Fluid antenna (FA) technology has emerged as a promising approach in wireless communications due to its capability of providing increased degrees of freedom (DoFs) and exceptional design flexibility. This paper addresses the challenge of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation for aligned received signals (ARS) and non-aligned received signals (NARS) by designing two specialized uniform FA structures under time-constrained mobility. For ARS scenarios, we propose a fully movable antenna configurat…

General Learning of the Electric Response of Inorganic Materials
Bradley A. A. Martin, Alex M. Ganose, Venkat Kapil, Keith T. Butler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17870 https://

General Learning of the Electric Response of Inorganic Materials
We present MACE-Field, a field-aware $O(3)$-equivariant interatomic potential that provides a compact, derivative-consistent route to dielectric properties (such as polarisation $\mathbf P$, Born effective charges $Z^*$ and polarisability $\boldsymbolα$) and finite-field simulations across chemistry for inorganic solids. A uniform electric field is injected within each message-passing layer via a Clebsch-Gordan tensor-product which couples the field to latent spherical-tensor features, and per…

Impact of rotation on magnetic field stability and orientation in isolated neutron stars
Fabrizio Venturi Pi\~nas, Anson Ka Long Yip, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Milton Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20220

Impact of rotation on magnetic field stability and orientation in isolated neutron stars
Neutron stars are the most compact horizonless objects in the Universe, exhibiting the strongest known magnetic fields. They are potential sources of coincident gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation across the entire spectrum. However, the internal configuration of their magnetic fields and the mechanisms that stabilize them remain open questions. As a step forward in understanding the timescale for the emergence of magnetic instabilities that disrupt stellar field configurations, w…