American Sign Language
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Nov 1, 2026
Robert SklanskyHOST
But there is, like, partial, like...
Robert SklanskyHOST
Like, I know, like, there are some people who are, like, super hard of hearing, where you basically have to talk in ASL.
Robert SklanskyHOST
Like, and then you get our dad, who's deaf and should be wearing hearing aids.
Robert SklanskyHOST
All the time.
Niklas ElmqvistGUEST
And then these are produced using discrete gestures and speech commands.
Niklas ElmqvistGUEST
So the gestures are drawn from American Sign Language because we wanted something that was more or less standardized so that you can do this.
Niklas ElmqvistGUEST
The video is also, it's four different views.
Niklas ElmqvistGUEST
I know it's a little, a lot of things going on here.
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Niklas ElmqvistGUEST
But some of the actions you're doing are so abstract, so there's no natural way humans would do that anyway.
Niklas ElmqvistGUEST
So yeah, I mean, discoverability and gestures in general is a super tricky area.
Niklas ElmqvistGUEST
The one way we tried to address it in the visualization work was to use American Sign Language.
Niklas ElmqvistGUEST
which is some attempt at grounding the actions we were doing with some real phenomenon that people may have knowledge of.
Moshe KasherGUEST
Like, I was raised around deaf people and deafness.
Moshe KasherGUEST
interpretive dance in ASL and weird naked ladies doing I See Your True Colors by Cyndi Lauper and nude ASL performance and hot tubs.
Moshe KasherGUEST
And then my father, who never gave up on us, he never gave up on the idea of us.
Moshe KasherGUEST
He could have very easily said, I'm doing my own thing, but he He became born again.
Riley WilsonHOST
point, good point.
Riley WilsonHOST
Because he hasn't mentioned ASL whatsoever in this.
Riley WilsonHOST
Yeah, he didn't
KeonHOST
mention like, oh, my sister and her, they know sign.
ChrisHOST
When you look back to where we all were in the early 2000s, and I think within our age bracket here...
ChrisHOST
We were catfishing people with ASL and chat rooms and AOL.
BinksPANELIST
You can throw me in there.
BinksPANELIST
Absolutely.
SkyeHOST
Because it's like, as the bottom, we go into subspace, but we lose our self advocacy at times in the sense that, you know, me, I go mute.
EricHOST
Yeah, you go mute and we've learned like basic ASL of like nodding your hand for yes and like making a little N. Yeah, and it didn't take us
SkyeHOST
16 years, but we've been friends for 16 years at this point.
SkyeHOST
And like, I know how to advocate for myself, but a lot of the top ego bruising coming from, well, she didn't yellow.
Nicole MaddenHOST
Okay.
Nicole MaddenHOST
PSL, DSL, or ASL.
Nicole MaddenHOST
So pumpkin spice latte, dick sucking lips, or American Sign Language.
Nicole MaddenHOST
Dick
Aileen KirkHOST
I'm going to...
Aileen KirkHOST
I guess I'm going to...
Aileen KirkHOST
Like, I don't want to omit ASL for those who need it.
Aileen KirkHOST
Sure.
Laurie AllenGUEST
You can set up a Teams call.
Laurie AllenGUEST
You can contact an ASL interpreter.
Laurie AllenGUEST
So if you're having an issue, call daddy.
Laurie AllenGUEST
Call Daddy.
Sarah AndrewsHOST
that use signed languages,
Cynthia WhitakerGUEST
whether it's American Sign Language or other foreign sign language.
Cynthia WhitakerGUEST
We have a very strong Spanish-speaking team of staff.
Cynthia WhitakerGUEST
We provide interpreting services in more than 20 languages for all types of folks.
BugHOST
You say that, but did you guys never fuck with random chat rooms? Because I loved that shit.
MossHOST
But it's so much easier in text than if you have like eight people yelling and you're like, ASL.
MossHOST
But when
BugHOST
it's all you've got.
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