@cilium.io Alchemist @isovalent at Cisco | CNCF Ambassador | I'm the Oops in DevOops ∞ | Family Historian 🌳 | Autism Awareness | Tweets Mine | @raphink@hachyderm.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.infohttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mu2sws3fjk24Most technical education systems measure labs completed, content published, badges issued. None of that is the goal. The goal is turning knowledge into confident, independent action, and the constraint on that flow can sit anywhere, including outside what you own. https://dev.to/raphink/the-badge-was-issued-but-the-goal-wasnt-achieved-41l327 Aug 2026 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2sws3fjk24https://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mtzbrd52gk2mTime to rethink my portfolio page! raphink.info https://raphink.info/26 Aug 2026 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzbrd52gk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mqc2o6lowc22When neurotypical people read someone's expression, it happens automatically: parallel processing, fast, effortless. Like a GPU rendering a scene. #autism #actuallyAutistc #neurodiversity 🧵10 Jul 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqc2o6lowc22https://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mqbqv6geac25It's never been more fun to learn about Cilium, Tetragon, and eBPF! The Isovalent Labs Platform has a new look, with improved learning journeys and progress tracking. Start (or continue) your Cilium learning adventure: 👇 labs.isovalent.com #cloudnative #kubernetes #networking #security10 Jul 2026 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbqv6geac25https://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mq2yhglugk24A few years ago, I realized my wife's condition had something in common with #autism and I thought I'd make a comic strip about it, to help understand both. 👉️ raphink.info/autism #actuallyautistic #neurodiversity07 Jul 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2yhglugk24https://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mptxiiyli22yAI video generation destroys color precision. Color detection → hollow eyes. Chroma key → magenta speckles everywhere. The fix: stamp the original PNG's alpha channel onto every frame. No detection, no approximation. The mask was already there. New post 👇 https://dev.to/raphink/clean-edges-using-a-png-alpha-mask-on-ai-generated-animations-ifb04 Jul 2026 21:02 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptxiiyli22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mpewnux3vc2oWould you trust a sci-fi author to program critical AI systems for humanity? No? Yet, that's what we've been doing. LLMs are autocomplete engines trained on human culture. Sci-fi authors spent decades writing how robots fail. That's the training data. That's the completion. 🧵28 Jun 2026 21:37 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpewnux3vc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mpbnj4ktf22lMost people picture autism as a line from "a little autistic" to "very autistic." That's not what the spectrum means. #Autism is not a dial, but a different way of seeing. 🔗 raphink.info/autism #actuallyautistic #neurodiversity27 Jun 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpbnj4ktf22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mp2hfzgibc2mJ'ai eu plusieurs demandes de traduction de mes posts sur l'autisme en français. J'ai donc pris mon courage à deux mains et j'ai ajouté ça sur https://blog.raphink.info/fr/series/autism-awareness/24 Jun 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2hfzgibc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mowxqp5sac2fChat threads are the wrong tool for AI image generation. 4 years of drift taught me that. So I built panelgen: declarative, idempotent image generation from a YAML spec. 🚀 brew tap raphink/tap && brew install panelgen Full story 👇 https://dev.to/raphink/four-years-chasing-a-consistent-ebee-and-what-i-built-when-i-finally-caught-one-35je #ai #generativeAI #opensource #automation23 Jun 2026 08:20 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mowxqp5sac2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mouiplqbuk2eTwo kinds of anxiety — completely different sources. 🧠 Psychological (top-down): all sensors green, but the cortex generates a loop anyway. "What if..." Cognitive strategies can help here. #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity 🧵22 Jun 2026 08:45 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mouiplqbuk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3moiyq65eok2ySo I watched Bicentennial Man yesterday evening. If it wasn't for the robot disguise, I'd be sure Robin Williams was trying to portray an #actuallyAutistic person -- and probably doing a better job at it than if it had been intentional. The whole time, I was like -- hey, that me 🤔 🧵17 Jun 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3moiyq65eok2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3moit57hllk2oAI spread doesn't just question our definition of intelligence, it challenges our definition of humanity. Now is a time to stand for dignity if we care. https://dev.to/raphink/were-at-risk-of-losing-human-dignity-to-machine-productivity-lip #AI #Ethics #Humanity #Tech #Discuss17 Jun 2026 17:20 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3moit57hllk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mof73nqm2c2tToday is both my birthday and Neurodiversity Pride Day (which I just discovered has always been on my birthday). I'm not much of a pride day person in general, BUT if any of my posts on autism have been useful to you, sharing one would be a lovely gift. The series is at https://dev.to/raphink/series/4057016 Jun 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mof73nqm2c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3modtwsfkas2pOn Mastodon, I use the @autistics@fedigroups.social group to share my posts on autism awareness. Is there an equivalent group/starter pack on BlueSky? https://hachyderm.io/deck/@autistics@fedigroups.social15 Jun 2026 17:51 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3modtwsfkas2phttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mod2dpj6yc24Everyone is talking about hallucination. That's the wrong diagnosis. Hallucination isn't a bug — it's the mechanism. Turn it off and you don't have a more reliable model, you have a lookup table. The real problem: non-determinism misallocated. https://dev.to/raphink/ai-doesnt-hallucinate-your-architecture-does-32pe15 Jun 2026 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mod2dpj6yc24https://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mo3xcax5fc22Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object The DSM defines autism by what clinicians can observe. But describing the shadow isn't the same as defining the object. Maybe we need to redefine it? https://dev.to/raphink/defining-autism-the-shadow-and-the-object-3ca7 #autism #autismawareness #neurodiversity #actuallyautistic12 Jun 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo3xcax5fc22https://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mnyth3hfm22m#GenAI is an amplification machine. Good ideas in → sharper. Bad ideas in → worse, more confidently. Nothing in → statistical word soup. The gate was never the tool. It was always the ideas. #AI #Writing #LLM https://dev.to/raphink/gen-ai-is-an-amplification-machine-d5411 Jun 2026 08:43 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnyth3hfm22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mnrz4hawzs2nWhat would it look like, in a world full of autistic people, to study and try to understand how allistic (non-autistic) people function? Attempting to explore this (in a cheeky way) in this new article: https://dev.to/raphink/return-to-the-planet-of-the-autistics-447g #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity08 Jun 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrz4hawzs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mn662qwt5k22Confession: I manually add em dashes to my texts31 May 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn662qwt5k22https://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mn3c7wex322qWhy has autism persisted across all human populations, across cultures, and most likely across centuries? A hypothesis: not individual advantage, but group survival. https://dev.to/raphink/why-autism-hasnt-disappeared-a-hypothesis-1b6g #autism #autismAwareness #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity30 May 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn3c7wex322qhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mmymnm4tuk2oMy last post on #autism introduced a diagram intending to conceptualize Milton's double empathy problem at the core. Does that speak to you?29 May 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmymnm4tuk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mmymghdhos2oHear me out: MidJourney UI with GPT-image-2 model...29 May 2026 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmymghdhos2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mmxxoxum5s2qTwo survival systems, two empathy modes What if autistic and neurotypical empathies were two different systems, driven by two different survival instincts? #autism #autismawareness #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity https://dev.to/raphink/two-survival-systems-two-empathy-modes-5nl29 May 2026 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmxxoxum5s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mmt3mohzg22bSociety tells us rest is laying down and doing nothing. That's not what it looks like for everyone. In fact, it can be quite the opposite for some. #autism #actuallyAutistc #neurodiversity https://dev.to/raphink/rest-is-not-what-you-think-1mbc27 May 2026 08:28 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmt3mohzg22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mmp3qcct2s2uLa maison où j'ai grandi est à vendre. Jardin avec mare et tritons, une trentaine d'espèces d'oiseaux, forêt à 5 min à pied, RER B à 10 min en bus, Paris-Saclay à 15 min en voiture. Si vous connaissez quelqu'un qui cherche dans ce secteur... 🌿 => maison-bures.fr https://maison-bures.fr25 May 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmp3qcct2s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mmnvadr5pc2zAutistic people who talk at length about their interests are often read as self-centered. I think the mechanism is almost the opposite... #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity https://dev.to/raphink/sharing-is-caring-1bif25 May 2026 06:50 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmnvadr5pc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mmgr5iycis2x#Neurodiversity and the two layers of cognition What if the way you think and the output you produce are two completely separate things — and the gap between them has a cost? A post about internal process, expected output, and what autism adds to the picture. #autism https://dev.to/raphink/neurodiversity-and-the-two-layers-of-cognition-42dp22 May 2026 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmgr5iycis2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/raphink.info/post/3mkmlom2f4k2oFourteenth (and last) post in the #autism Awareness series: https://dev.to/raphink/you-cant-know-what-you-dont-know-37ap Take care of yourselves! #autismawareness #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity29 Apr 2026 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:3sysq73or2mw2enu5iwatzol/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmlom2f4k2o