cake and margaritas

Sherlock Holmes is a perfectly normal autistic guy with a roommate who is deeply perplexed by him.

Sherlock Holmes demonstrates a remarkably sophisticated understanding of stimulant usage in neurodivergent individuals

I love that Grace says he and Rocky "haven't run into anything where our cultures clash" while they're actively navigating two pretty major points of difference. From Grace's perspective, being watched in your sleep is sort of unnerving; for Rocky it's imperative. From Rocky's perspective, eating is taboo and private; for Grace it's a casual, social activity. When Grace says they haven't run into any culture clashes, he's just woken up to Rocky watching him and now he's eating breakfast. It's obviously not true that they have no conflicts in their social norms! It's just that they instinctively accommodate each other with curiosity and empathy, finding ways to bend on the things that matter to each other and explain when something is really important to themselves. Grace has spent his life holding other people at arm's length, and then in Rocky he meets someone who makes him want to do the work, and that work becomes so natural he doesn't even realise he's doing it.

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.

gracerocky can be the bestest friends in the whole universe who love each other in the most platonic sense possible and they can also be romantic partners who love each other soso bad that they want to climb into the others skin and stay there forever. but thats not all. they can fuck nasty in a platonic or non-platonic manner that changes everything or not very much at all, their relationship can break every known societal rule that both planets enforce and defy definition, their relationship can contain sex or no sex and romance or no romance, whats important is that theyre each others entire world. And the joy i get being able to slip seamlessly in and out of these different interpretations is like no other