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ive been having a super weird issue where playing videos in steam somehow crashes dwm
it just got bad enough for my graphics driver to somehow completely shit itself???

A bit personal, living in right-wing world and not managing to put your life in order
In a right-wing society, a man's life is expected to follow two main axes (women have it even worse, but I'm going to talk of the gender that I experience first hand):
1. Education − finding a job − gaining experience and promotions − managing to retire.
2. Finding a girlfriend − marriage − having children − rearing children.
Of course, there are other expectations too: buying a car and house, but they can generally be derived from these two axes.
While, technically, the individual elements aren't limited to a specific age, usually you have to deal with them early enough. I suppose many people can confirm that — those who tried to learn a new language, supplement their education, find a better job late in life. But things can get worse.
You could lose your job and discover that our specific experience isn't worth uch. You end up competing for junior positions, with people who are young, healthy and ambitious; with people who don't have all your negative experiences and who can accept a smaller living wage.
You could notice that all your friends have already started their own families, and you didn't have anything even remotely resembling a relationship for over 10 years now; that you find it harder and harder to connect with anyone.
I think that's precisely what being #MADAO is: discovering that you're already (relatively) old and you didn't put your life in order, in time. Add being neuroatypical to that. The awareness that you no longer have the momentum that made it possible for us to overcome difficulties, even if we were only moving through the path of least resistance. Now not only this path is no longer available to us, but also we're being burdened with emotional baggage that makes it almost impossible to move.
And the right-wing society doesn't include a place for people who aren't moving across the only legitimate axis.
#ActuallyAutistic

Generative AI in the Wild: Prospects, Challenges, and Strategies
Yuan Sun, Eunchae Jang, Fenglong Ma, Ting Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04101 https://…

Generative AI in the Wild: Prospects, Challenges, and Strategies
Propelled by their remarkable capabilities to generate novel and engaging content, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies are disrupting traditional workflows in many industries. While prior research has examined GenAI from a techno-centric perspective, there is still a lack of understanding about how users perceive and utilize GenAI in real-world scenarios. To bridge this gap, we conducted semi-structured interviews with (N=18) GenAI users in creative industries, investigating…

The Cost of Coming Out
Enzo Brox, Riccardo Di Francesco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03649 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03649

The Cost of Coming Out
The fear of social stigma and discrimination leads many individuals worldwide to hesitate in openly disclosing their sexual orientation. Due to the large costs of concealing identity, it is crucial to understand the extent of anti-LGB sentiments and reactions to coming out. However, disclosing one's sexual orientation is a personal choice, complicating data access and introducing endogeneity issues. This paper tackles these challenges by using an innovative data source from a popular online vid…

Shitaly 🇮🇹
had enough too.
You won’t see any of this in the M5M
https://x.com/wayotworld/status/1775276433583280355?s=61

Way of the World (@wayotworld) on X
An enormous procession of Italian men chants "where are the antifascists?" Is it time?

A week is never enough, but it was the best week ever. I’ll see you in 4 months. I am crying as I type this. Probably the most I’ve ever cried in my life.
You are my best friend. My fiancé & you mean the world to me. If anyone questions if our love is real. I’ll show them my heart & how it leaps for joy in the happy moments and cries a river wider than the Thames when I have to part from you each visit.
To one day being able to live together. To a lifetime to come. I love…

re: #ukpol #sicknote
👩‍⚕️: This patient is too sick to work, working may worsen their condition, they should be off sick.
😡: No.
👩‍⚕️: What?
😡: No. You're lying. The patient is just a bit sad. They're perfectly fine to work.
👩‍⚕️: But, all my medical expertise and training...
😡: No. You're a woke liar. Hey, Craptia.
🕴️: Yes?
😡: Is this person well enough to work?
🕴️: Ahem.
😡: Oh, sorry, of course. Here's thousands of pounds given to you so that you will deny claims. Are they fit for work.
🕴️: [Counting money, barely looks up], Oh, sure, they'll be fine. Couple of Apsrin. Call me in the morning if their head doesn't reattach.
👩‍⚕️: I don't think this is....
😡: Shut up you, fuck off to Australia. We don't need no woke medical staff here. Have a pay cut. After Brexit there's no drugs left to prescribe anyway.
👩‍⚕️: [Packs bags, goes to a country that appreciates medical expertise]

Shitaly 🇮🇹
had enough too.
You won’t see any of this in the M5M
https://x.com/wayotworld/status/1775276433583280355?s=61

Way of the World (@wayotworld) on X
An enormous procession of Italian men chants "where are the antifascists?" Is it time?

Iran / Israel / Gaza
The radio is asking people what they think Israel should do, what Netanyahu should instruct his government to do.
Here's my suggestion: Take all the money you're thinking of spending on bombs and death and pain and instead give it to Iranian secular dissidents to fund their internal campaign to overthrow the Iranian regime and support it's Iranian victims.
Worried that the regime won't allow that kind of money transfer? Fair enough, that is what Bitcoin is for.
Do it secretly if you want, or tell the world that's what you're doing.
Bombs will just make the internal dissidents rally behind their leadership whereas funding the opposition well enough could cause the regime to fall.
I am not optimistic that this is what will happen though. They'll do the escalation which causes more escalation etc.