Laura Moore
@strangeclarity.bsky.social
Just another millennial with a printer. Also: reader, history lover, TV aficionado, lawyer, mom, autistic person, nonfiction book writer. I write about neurodivergence & cognition at strangeclarity.substack.com.
A Substack post about meaningless corporate jobs is going viral. Marx predicted this 200 years ago. Here's why his critique still matters: www.strangeclarity.com/p/work-is-br...
Work is broken: Marx, alienation, and the Great Pretending
How a viral post on the death of the corporate job echoes Marx’s 19th-century critique
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September 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A Substack post about meaningless corporate jobs is going viral. Marx predicted this 200 years ago. Here's why his critique still matters: www.strangeclarity.com/p/work-is-br...
“If the aim is to be liked by more and more people, whatever is unusual about a person gets flattened out.”
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“If the aim is to be liked by more and more people, whatever is unusual about a person gets flattened out.”
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
With a temp of 91 and dew point at 77, outside is a sauna with slightly better air circulation. At least some of us are thriving (the hydrangeas).
July 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
With a temp of 91 and dew point at 77, outside is a sauna with slightly better air circulation. At least some of us are thriving (the hydrangeas).
People liked my autism epidemic myth-busting, so I turned it into a Substack post complete with linked research and data. Share with your friends, family, enemies—anyone telling you autism is an epidemic or a social trend.
open.substack.com/pub/strangec...
open.substack.com/pub/strangec...
July 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
People liked my autism epidemic myth-busting, so I turned it into a Substack post complete with linked research and data. Share with your friends, family, enemies—anyone telling you autism is an epidemic or a social trend.
open.substack.com/pub/strangec...
open.substack.com/pub/strangec...
💥 New post: What Your Writing Reveals About You
AI can now detect autism from essays with ~90% accuracy — outperforming human experts. A breakthrough for screening, but also a privacy wake-up call.
What else are our words revealing?
👉 www.strangeclarity.com/p/autism-wri...
#AI #Autism #Privacy
AI can now detect autism from essays with ~90% accuracy — outperforming human experts. A breakthrough for screening, but also a privacy wake-up call.
What else are our words revealing?
👉 www.strangeclarity.com/p/autism-wri...
#AI #Autism #Privacy
What your writing reveals about you (even when you don’t know it)
Sounding the alarm over a July 2025 study on LLMs and autism detection
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July 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
💥 New post: What Your Writing Reveals About You
AI can now detect autism from essays with ~90% accuracy — outperforming human experts. A breakthrough for screening, but also a privacy wake-up call.
What else are our words revealing?
👉 www.strangeclarity.com/p/autism-wri...
#AI #Autism #Privacy
AI can now detect autism from essays with ~90% accuracy — outperforming human experts. A breakthrough for screening, but also a privacy wake-up call.
What else are our words revealing?
👉 www.strangeclarity.com/p/autism-wri...
#AI #Autism #Privacy
“My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
July 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Now THAT is a sick burn. Thankful for the small mercies… Wittgenstein will never read what I write.
July 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Now THAT is a sick burn. Thankful for the small mercies… Wittgenstein will never read what I write.
Necessity being the mother of invention: turns out potato chips dipped in plain Greek yogurt is freaking delicious.
July 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Necessity being the mother of invention: turns out potato chips dipped in plain Greek yogurt is freaking delicious.
What do Emily Dickinson, Leonardo da Vinci, and Carl Linnaeus have in common? I have a theory. Find out here: strangeclarity.substack.com/p/could-a-dr...
July 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What do Emily Dickinson, Leonardo da Vinci, and Carl Linnaeus have in common? I have a theory. Find out here: strangeclarity.substack.com/p/could-a-dr...
Hear me out: writing is a kind of fermentation.
Like cheese, sourdough starter, preserved lemon, there’s a sweet spot of maturity you can’t force. Some essential transformation takes time.
Like cheese, sourdough starter, preserved lemon, there’s a sweet spot of maturity you can’t force. Some essential transformation takes time.
July 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hear me out: writing is a kind of fermentation.
Like cheese, sourdough starter, preserved lemon, there’s a sweet spot of maturity you can’t force. Some essential transformation takes time.
Like cheese, sourdough starter, preserved lemon, there’s a sweet spot of maturity you can’t force. Some essential transformation takes time.
Brilliant
the funny thing about "autism is caused by vaccines" is that the causal relationship actually goes in the other direction ("autism causes vaccines") given how many ASD people probably work in medical sector
June 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Brilliant
Executive dysfunction is a well-established aspect of autism.
I had always thought of it as an ADHD thing, but it's not just.
So then.. why isn’t executive dysfunction in the DSM for autism?
People look there to see what autism is. But they’re getting only a narrow slice.
#asd #autism
I had always thought of it as an ADHD thing, but it's not just.
So then.. why isn’t executive dysfunction in the DSM for autism?
People look there to see what autism is. But they’re getting only a narrow slice.
#asd #autism
June 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Not usually a podcast person, but I’ve been listening to Good Hang, Poehler’s new podcast during research breaks.
It is the perfect palate cleanser. An ideal study break. Light but not vapid. Feel good but not saccharine. If that sounds like something you might need in your life, try it out.
It is the perfect palate cleanser. An ideal study break. Light but not vapid. Feel good but not saccharine. If that sounds like something you might need in your life, try it out.
June 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Not usually a podcast person, but I’ve been listening to Good Hang, Poehler’s new podcast during research breaks.
It is the perfect palate cleanser. An ideal study break. Light but not vapid. Feel good but not saccharine. If that sounds like something you might need in your life, try it out.
It is the perfect palate cleanser. An ideal study break. Light but not vapid. Feel good but not saccharine. If that sounds like something you might need in your life, try it out.
I just read an absolutely ghastly takedown essay of Margaret Atwood on Substack. It would definitely warrant the Joan Didion “oh, wow” treatment but fortunately for Atwood I think she’ll remain unaware of this one.
#booksky #damndaniel
#booksky #damndaniel
June 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I just read an absolutely ghastly takedown essay of Margaret Atwood on Substack. It would definitely warrant the Joan Didion “oh, wow” treatment but fortunately for Atwood I think she’ll remain unaware of this one.
#booksky #damndaniel
#booksky #damndaniel
“Like Elizabeth Inchbald, Mrs. Piozzi was a dutiful keeper of journals. But hers were of a different kind. A few months after her eightieth birthday, she added a new entry. In it, she listed every one of her ‘enemies outlived.’”
Daaaaang. From Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney.
#booksky
Daaaaang. From Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney.
#booksky
June 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Like Elizabeth Inchbald, Mrs. Piozzi was a dutiful keeper of journals. But hers were of a different kind. A few months after her eightieth birthday, she added a new entry. In it, she listed every one of her ‘enemies outlived.’”
Daaaaang. From Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney.
#booksky
Daaaaang. From Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney.
#booksky
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney is the best nonfiction reading experience I’ve had since Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein.
Two verrrry different books but they both expertly tackle substance and critique through a highly personal lens.
#booksky #nonfiction
Two verrrry different books but they both expertly tackle substance and critique through a highly personal lens.
#booksky #nonfiction
June 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney is the best nonfiction reading experience I’ve had since Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein.
Two verrrry different books but they both expertly tackle substance and critique through a highly personal lens.
#booksky #nonfiction
Two verrrry different books but they both expertly tackle substance and critique through a highly personal lens.
#booksky #nonfiction
Lit nerds and language lovers, I’ve got a question for you. What’s the best modern equivalent of common in the way older British lit uses it?
I’m reading Frost in May by Antonia White (loving it – subtly humorous and charming), and I hit this line:
I’m reading Frost in May by Antonia White (loving it – subtly humorous and charming), and I hit this line:
May 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Lit nerds and language lovers, I’ve got a question for you. What’s the best modern equivalent of common in the way older British lit uses it?
I’m reading Frost in May by Antonia White (loving it – subtly humorous and charming), and I hit this line:
I’m reading Frost in May by Antonia White (loving it – subtly humorous and charming), and I hit this line:
Important clarification 👇
Autistic people do not have a strong sense of objective justice. We have a strong sense of PERCEIVED justice. We are not morally better or more likely to be correct. We are just more morally consistent.
May 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Important clarification 👇
Started my first Octavia Butler novel, KINDRED, and I’m loving it so far. A black woman living in 1976 San Fran keeps getting pulled back to 1815 slave country Maryland. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
May 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Started my first Octavia Butler novel, KINDRED, and I’m loving it so far. A black woman living in 1976 San Fran keeps getting pulled back to 1815 slave country Maryland. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
I finished reading Rachel Kushner's CREATION LAKE and I'm... underwhelmed. I had high hopes. I really enjoyed Mars Room. But Sadie was a disappointingly flat character and her arc wasn't all that believable. My overwhelming feeling from the book is vague grayness. Nothing really comes to life.
May 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I finished reading Rachel Kushner's CREATION LAKE and I'm... underwhelmed. I had high hopes. I really enjoyed Mars Room. But Sadie was a disappointingly flat character and her arc wasn't all that believable. My overwhelming feeling from the book is vague grayness. Nothing really comes to life.
Is there any word more transporting than "veranda"?
I'm reading a bio of Jean Rhys who grew up in Dominica and traveled back. It's all "sea-facing veranda" and "reading on the veranda" and "lolling on the veranda" and I realize I've never used the word veranda in my life.
Veranda veranda veranda!
I'm reading a bio of Jean Rhys who grew up in Dominica and traveled back. It's all "sea-facing veranda" and "reading on the veranda" and "lolling on the veranda" and I realize I've never used the word veranda in my life.
Veranda veranda veranda!
May 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Is there any word more transporting than "veranda"?
I'm reading a bio of Jean Rhys who grew up in Dominica and traveled back. It's all "sea-facing veranda" and "reading on the veranda" and "lolling on the veranda" and I realize I've never used the word veranda in my life.
Veranda veranda veranda!
I'm reading a bio of Jean Rhys who grew up in Dominica and traveled back. It's all "sea-facing veranda" and "reading on the veranda" and "lolling on the veranda" and I realize I've never used the word veranda in my life.
Veranda veranda veranda!
If you’re interested in autistic representation in the media… RUN don’t walk to The Rehearsal on MAX. The show is basically an autistic amusement park.
May 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If you’re interested in autistic representation in the media… RUN don’t walk to The Rehearsal on MAX. The show is basically an autistic amusement park.
There's this trend where governments and organizations are hiring sci-fi writers to tell them what the future might hold in store, and that got me thinking about a fundamental rule of storytelling: it must be rooted in real patterns of human behavior.
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strangeclarity.substack.com/p/the-root-o...
The root of storytelling is pattern
How stories reveal and rehearse what it means to be human
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May 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There's this trend where governments and organizations are hiring sci-fi writers to tell them what the future might hold in store, and that got me thinking about a fundamental rule of storytelling: it must be rooted in real patterns of human behavior.
strangeclarity.substack.com/p/the-root-o...
strangeclarity.substack.com/p/the-root-o...
Louis Armstrong, commentator on NT culture: ‘I see friends shaking hands, saying “how do you do?” They’re really saying, “I love you.”’
Autistic people: But if that's what they mean Louis, why don’t they just say that?
Autistic people: But if that's what they mean Louis, why don’t they just say that?
May 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Louis Armstrong, commentator on NT culture: ‘I see friends shaking hands, saying “how do you do?” They’re really saying, “I love you.”’
Autistic people: But if that's what they mean Louis, why don’t they just say that?
Autistic people: But if that's what they mean Louis, why don’t they just say that?
Your brain evolved in a hunter-gatherer band of 50… and then got parachuted into a fluorescent-lit office job with 6 hours of daily Zoom meetings. That’s evolutionary mismatch.
May 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Your brain evolved in a hunter-gatherer band of 50… and then got parachuted into a fluorescent-lit office job with 6 hours of daily Zoom meetings. That’s evolutionary mismatch.