So I don't know the company you're contacting but this should help: part of GDPR legislation is that you can contact and live email the company has and make your legally mandated demands that your data be deleted under GDPR. If they ask that you create an account to submit a request then you can claim this is unnecessary and obfuscatory to the purpose of deleting account details.

Make sure you tell them they have 30 days. Make sure you ask for all data related to your email, name, identity, phone numbers, whatever.... to be deleted. Quote the parts of GDPR legislation that are relevant to this (it's actually quite short so worth a read), and send them a link to the national authority you will report them through if they don't provide a satisfactory resolution in 30 days.

I did this for Hermes, an atrocious courier company in the UK who I hadn't used for anything for about 7 years. I got bounced around but eventually got a direct email to their data handlers. They demanded I give them a passport to prove my identity. I told them that the email I'm messaging from is more than enough for them to confirm. No response for 20 days (the timer was ticking from when I first emailed anyone at their company with the request) then they deleted my information right before the deadline and confirmed it with me.

Bastards, but if you're committed to reporting them then that seems to be good enough leverage for many crappy companies.

Aye it's ass. Even the temp mail idea is flawed because at some point you need to confirm your identity/ownership of the account.

I did a huge GDPR cleanup of various accounts I owned based on what I had and wanted gone from my password manager at the time. A mix of:

• Please fill out this pdf with all your details of all the information you want deleted. If we can't find the data base don that form then it's on you. (Unnecessary amount of work. Solution, report to national GDPR Rep for obfuscation.)
• Non-response from any active email. (Illegal for companies with operation sin the EU. Report to national GDPR rep for non0compliance.)
• Did not respond for 30 days (Illegal for companies with operation sin the EU. Report to national GDPR rep for non0compliance.)
• Asked for an extension to 60 days (Only possible in certain extreme circumstances that they need to prove to you. Report to national GDPR rep.)
• Asked for copy of passport to confirm identity. (Unnecessary if emailing from the email they have on file. Tell them this. If they don't delete/ignore report them to national GDPR rep.)
• Self-service deletion does not work and customer service will only refer you to that self-service. (Report to national GDPR rep.)

And probably more I don't remember. Maybe 30% of companies I reached out to actually just deleted it and confirmed as such within 30 days. If you're doing similar then you've got to get good at reporting people to strong arm them, especially if they just no respond after 30 days. Gotta proactively stay on top of that.

If you have Dyslexia then ChatGPT is a better spellcheck than whatever's in your writing software. I won't pretend to know all the applications of AI to help neurodiverse people to write but there are ways to use AI in writing that is very helpful to them. I wouldn't say having AI blurt out 50,000 words of nothing is particularly helpful to any writer though.

The article does not mention what interventions the parents tried. But no, just doing something is not always better than being patient - especially with kids.

You have no idea how kids work.

Always time to change, even if you only get a few years to enjoy it. I respect the dejectedness though.

Aye, GSF above has a fundamental ignorance (and I mean that in the neutral, descriptive way) of what the technology is doing. Not going to comment on Musk's ability to run a company that performs these studies well of course but it's in clinical trials and there are plenty of punitive regulations in that system to control what people do. Also not saying Musk won't try to circumvent those like a impatient bozo though. 😂

And FYI, plenty of asshole scientists, CEOs, and inventors around discovering and making things that make the world what it is today. Musk's just the one you're hearing about right now.

Don't really like the guy but the implants are for people with disabilities that stop/hinder their ability to interact with the digital world, which is certainly fun and exciting for those who want that ability. It's a shame Musk is the figurehead for many of these projects because his brand is dirt to anyone that isn't neck deep in blockchain, AGI, culture war, and general scam content.