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stevesilberman

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Award-winning science writer, author of "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," which became a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 25 languages. My TED talk, "The Forgotten History of Autism," has been viewed nearly two million times. My next book will be "The Taste of Salt," on cystic fibrosis.

#autism #neurodiversity #cysticfibrosis #science #GratefulDead #BeatGeneration #LGBTQ+

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Robert Creeley was born on this day in 1926 and this poem could not be more timely for this historical moment. And Creeley uses his line-breaks here the way Charlie Parker used his sax, to cut.

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Bruce Hornsby is still out there, still pushing the envelope of his art in new directions. He just dropped a cool new track with the jazz fusion band Butcher Brown. https://youtu.be/34FWAlm1N_g?si=MapSUvllJKHgKN0T

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If there's any kind of person I wouldn't want spearheading AI development, it's a deeply untrustworthy person like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was whining to the press last week that he can no longer eat in restaurants without being recognized. Such problems. https://wapo.st/4avJcbw

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French President Emmanuel Macron is serious about increasing opportunities in the workforce for folks. Today I was honored to share some insights gained by talking to autistic people with Vincent Grimaldi de Puget, chair of the national Commission for the Recruitment of Atypical Talents, who got in touch after reading . It was a great conversation.

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Ouch! From IG: @thedailytism, a cheeky Instagram account by #autistic people for autistic people.

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This "prayer," written by Douglas Adams in 1991, is precisely the comfort blanket of ignorance that Trump, Fox, and the GOP offer their cult members.

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Neurodivergent alert! Johns Hopkins students invent a QUIETER leaf blower. [via @vladaknowlton.bsky.social] https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/05/14/quieter-leaf-blower/

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True fact: I forget what Bill Maher was ever good at. He's like a Kardashian to me by now.

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The only satire of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" that's as funny as it thinks it is. By the brilliant musician Jeffrey Lewis. https://youtu.be/rWZAWR7UphI?si=kWFs-R8H_bV24b6C

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Happy 120th birthday in emptiness to Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, where I was a Zen student. Here he is in the early 1960s, teaching Sunday school at Sokoji, the sole Soto Zen temple in SF at the time. [via cuke.com]

"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else." - Suzuki-roshi

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GOPers in NC advance anti-mask bill that will sentence disabled and immunocompromised people to death, while claiming it's only meant to violate their First Amendment rights. https://www.wral.com/story/nc-anti-mask-bill-could-violate-federal-law-disability-rights-and-free-speech-advocates-say/21435454/

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To San Franciscans of a certain age, the death of Strange de Jim is a sad milestone. Via quips in Herb Caen's and Leah Garchik's columns, he kept the city safe for weirdos. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/strange-de-jim-obituary-19455986.php

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I am so glad this tribute to Gary Snyder, featuring an appearance by Snyder himself (poet, essayist, pioneering American Zen student, environmental activist, "Japhy Ryder" in Kerouac's "Dharma Bums"), along with Jane Hirshfeld, Robert Hass, Peter Coyote and others was recorded. I'll be watching it this weekend. https://youtu.be/qxlD5cTc8_I?si=Xv2S67brUIzVsoXR

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Happy heavenly 47th wedding anniversary to Jan [who is on IG at @greatsalsa] and David Crosby. In an impermanent world, love allows us to touch the eternal. [photo by me in Solvang, 2019]

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That wasn't a handjob and vaping in that theater, you perverts! Boebert was PRAYING. https://www.threads.net/@bidenharrishq/post/C7DVKtXuLyc

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I just heard the most Lou Reed quote ever. Apparently, when Talking Heads stopped touring, Lou told drummer Chris Frantz, "Ya know, you gotta tour. The fans want to view the body."

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Because North Carolina Republicans can't just jog through fields of disabled and immunocompromised people wacking their heads off with scythes, they've done the next best thing: Making it illegal to wear masks in public. https://ncnewsline.com/2024/05/15/nc-senate-panel-approves-controversial-bill-that-targets-protests-bans-masks-in-public/?emci=cc56a847-5812-ef11-96f3-6045bdd9e096&emdi=e441e1a8-b212-ef11-96f3-6045bdd9e096&ceid=192714

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Huge happy birthday to James Raymond, a brilliant musician who happens to be the son of the late David Crosby, and his collaborator for many great later albums. James wrote a song called "I Won't Stay for Long" for David's album "For Free" that was an astonishing act of mind-melding with his dad at the edge of life and death. Love you, James. You're a genius. https://youtu.be/4NkhLMmcq9Y?si=ccEA94tvZBEyIMsp

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My God, this is the best poem I've read in months. "When My Daughter Tells Me I was Never Punk," by Jessica Walsh.

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Republicans have come a long way since they were the leering, cheering, twisted bigots you see in old photos of lynch mobs. Now they make Tiktok videos. https://www.threads.net/@keithedwards/post/C69f4anpddK

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Former Trump "body man" Johnny McEntee makes Tiktok video claiming he gives homeless people fake money so they'll be arrested when they try to spend it. Then claims it was a "joke." Sounds like the perfect aide for the sadistic, twisted, hollowed-out psychopath he used to work for, currently the leading GOP candidate for President. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/johnny-mcentee-tiktok-video-fake-money

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It's not just you. The Internet is boring now. Here's why. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-death-again-of-the-internet-as?r=57x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3P8H3S1Y2mfLdxtMs0pwriBB_q5uskkI43Da7v1hE1ESyxbORpdoLq7z4_aem_AfjfkGiAqi8SPjPvLnuZGZn1CWMf52byUJj_l5qrYvh17wgrnRdXYbLwdAt4evScJUg7X3UjTWao-nQN8OUqyY4A&triedRedirect=true

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Hi, Mom! This is our first Mother's Day without you, and we miss you terribly. We wish we were taking you out for our usual brunch followed by sweet phone calls. If there was one thing I could do, it would be to commiserate with you about the terrible things we both went through in your dementia. I may always be gutted that that happened to you. But THANK YOU for being such a wonderful, sweet Mom. I adored you.

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One reason everyone's so delighted by photos of the aurora is that it's a glimpse that the Universe is still alive, infinite, and beautiful outside of Donald Trump's colon, which we've all been trapped in for several years now.

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If you were waiting to buy my in-depth history of #autism and #neurodiversity, NeuroTribes, it's now really cheap at Amazon. The New York Times called it "Beautifully told, humanizing, and important." https://a.co/d/fDNysnr

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@mrcompletely Thank you so much!

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