Ear Buds

I know it's a niche subject, but I'm a person who has lived at the intersection of technology and deafness all of my life.

I'm quite interested in where the technology is going re: ear buds. As they evolve & become more powerful and capable, I'm hoping the barrier to entry gets lower. Prescription hearing aids have been prohibitively expensive - these will allow more options for more people.

Speaking for myself, I need a LOT of power for my hearing loss - so I'm still using BTE units for now.

There's a whole 'nother cultural side to this re: the Deaf Community, but that's a topic for another day.

ASMR

ASMR is mildly triggering to me - as it seems to be centred on sounds that are just underneath my hearing threshold.

Speaking as a hearing impaired person, I find ASMR to be annoying, akin to a hearing test if that makes sense? It initiates an instinct in me to 'listen harder', and I do enough of that in my lifetime as it is.

Choice

It could be a world of plenty. But for stupid, selfish reasons, we just don't do that.

This is a choice.

Identify

Ever since I realized I could be autistic/on the spectrum, I've been reconciling with my memories. It seems that my brain likes to churn through past events and highlighting cringe behaviour on my part, arguments with friends, misunderstandings with strangers, the whole lot.

I attempt to console myself, by recalling that I didn't have any of this information available to me at the time; If I had, I may have been able to regulate my emotions or reactions better - but being hearing impaired was a separate thing to deal with at the same time. I used to label myself "hard of hearing" as if that was effective at explaining anything. Now, I identify as "Autistic", because I realize my brain has been responsible for everything.

ChatGPT is Bullshit

 

I haven't used ChatGPT, not even once. When I first heard about this thing being an "LLM" - which is basically wholesale, bot-driven strip mining of the WWW for information.

With apparently no regard for sanitizing the input, no method of fact-checking, you've essentially condensed a lot of garbage into a smaller space.

Why should I trust any of the answers it outputs?

#ChatGPTIsBullshit 

Assholes

I have a theory.

There's a bunch of us in the world who want to see things done correctly - "the right way"; then there are those who just want things their way and fuck everybody else who argues with that.

The people who want things their way are always angry at the people who want things done the right way.

That is why people think you're an asshole, because you want things done correctly.