Just recently, I got banned from Lemmy.ml because they thought I was “trolling” using an LLM. Let me clarify to any Lemmy.ml mods reading this that I’m not using an LLM for my comments. I am a human being who actually has autism which is why I type like this.
Sometimes I post so much so fast that I get a “too many requests” error before I get to post the next comment - in these cases, that’s my cue to cool down for a bit, and then post my comments from my “queue” (I leave the comments unposted until I post them) after a certain period of time.
I just submitted a message like this on the Lemmy Matrix chat (through Cinny - pretty good software) as my ban appeal- I then got a reply saying “mods DON’T hang out here - just message them from the sidebar” which I will do after posting this.
I unfortunately think we are entering an age of systems that are extremely hostile to any kind of neurodivergence, mostly because of layers and layers of bullshit automated categorization schemes based on measurable superficial differences that capture nothing deeper or essential about people.
Phrenology by another name dressed up in techbro nonsense, it is dangerous as fuck.
Ultimately they might be hostile towards all humans, not just the neurodivergent ones… In my opinion, tech is getting more and more difficult unless you 99% conform to the masses. I mean try to book a ticket, get an appointment, do paperwork or whatever needs apps these days if you’re not using standard Google or Apple products. Or non-mainstream things like evade surveillance capitalism. All of that is annoying and requires me to jump through several hoops. Also business processes and everything gets more streamlined, automated… they do most things fairly well and efficiently. Just God beware you’re in the 0.5% when things go properly wrong, and it’s almost impossible to get ahold of a human with authorization to help with these rare, specific problems.
The thing is neurodivergent people aren’t different from “neurotypical” people, they experienced heightened or muted versions of the exact same responses other people do. Anything that is hostile to neurodivergent people is hostile to everyone, and just being noticed by the neurodivergent people first
Yes, that is true.
The important thing is that it is possible to use non surveillance capitalism software and services. The trade-off will always be that it is more work. This is because companies that harvest your information to sell can afford to spend a lot of money creating products that do everything for you.
They essentially say:
The hoops thing is pretty bad too
The problem is that it’s becoming less and less of a possibility, and more and more of a hassle, since everyone else, including our dear elected governments build shit with the expectation you engage in the big tech ecosystem.
I’ve been using e/OS, which is an Android fork maintained by a Danish university, so Google stops messing with my phone. I’ve made the switch after realising that when I wanted to restart the phone (was urgent at the time) the power button has been remapped to AI.
Yet, after moving to Denmark, I realized that the government ID service specifically disallows that fork and enforces using Google Android. The Danish government trusts Google over leading Danish universities.
Living without that ID thing on my phone would be possible but would require me to do tons of personal appointments with different companies, including banking, phone contracts, internet, public transit and so on.
Large tech companies manipulating/bribing governments to require the use of their software is pretty new and certainly a danger to people who want to own their own things and have privacy.
Right now, these kinds of laws are being passed with little to now public input or knowledge. These laws seem innocuous to the average person (who uses those kinds of devices anyway) but they give these platforms way more power over your daily life. It should be discussed more, but there are always distractions.
Right now, for me, the loss is mostly in using NFC payments. There’s no digital ID requirements that would force me onto a device in Google’s attestation chain. But, I am very aware of the issue that you’re talking about.
The stupid thing is that it’s not even a law. IDK if there was even bribery involved.
It’s just if you give the average state IT employee a switch that says “flip this to be more secure”, 9 times out of 10 they will flip it.
This is just enshittification on the enterprise level.
Any time you see people talking about Digital ID, just know that the end of that entire chain of thought is the requirement to have a secure hardware device to store the IDs (usually in the form of some kind of signed keypairs).
This could be a standalone device (like a Onekey) but the big push by Apple/Google is to just let them store/manage the keys in their infrastructure and on their phones.
Like every other aspect of our technical lives, they will try to win by creating an entire solution that requires no work or effort on the part of the users (the government in this case) so that the government can get digital ID compliant without actually doing any work or research that would be required to find the best method of doing it themselves.
This has been the playbook for a few decades. It’s why teenagers don’t know how to rip MP3s or use Peer to Peer networks… that’s hard to do, it’s much easier to avoid having to learn that by just installing Spotify who take care of all of the streaming infrastructure and music sourcing for you. Now that there is a technical dependence on Spotify they can enshittify, add tiering, add ads, remove music, etc and their users no longer have the ability to leave them.
I think we should give that a phrenology-type name - maybe neuroprofology, perhaps?
Oh and thank you for editing the comment (and also rephrasing it as well)!
Either that or “cognitive behavioral phrenology”
Hah, I like that one.
Something like that