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ableism, eugenics 

CW'ed repost of mastodon.lol/@alexispurslane/1:

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"A team of scientists in Texas used CRISPR to edit out genes associated with autism traits in mice and observed clear results: The animals stopped digging obsessively, their erratic jumping around the cages slowed to a halt and they became more calm."

This sounds like a fucking lobotmy. They're just editing out all the behaviors except placid "normal" ones.

The article also refers to autism as a "developmental disorder" that autistic people "suffer from."

newsweek.com/scientists-edit-a

why are all the secondhand Pixel 5's being sold on the other side of the country...

@pastelpunkbandit i guess uhh, be happy you can use any instance's setting panel to log in

.... but the oauth flow might be difficult

reminder that the NaN != NaN thing often cited as a funny idiosyncrasy in languages people don't like (PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby to name a few common victims) is actually mandated by the IEEE floating point spec, and for good reason

@chjara@snowdin.town but handwave engineering is so much easier!

keepng my balcony door open for better ventilation and im definitely going mad from all the traffic sounds (it's a busy street). Noice-cancelling + music is the only thing to keep it bearable

Good morning sleepy heads!

We just made the first release candidate for v0.5.0 of GoToSocial 🎆

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.5.0-rc1

Docker: superseriousbusiness/gotosocial:0.5.0-rc1

This one has a bunch of fixes and new features:

API rate limiting.

Initial version of custom emoji support 🦥

Performance improvements with domain block caching.

OpenGraph meta tags when linking to your public GtS posts.

Optional custom CSS for profiles: see here and here.

And more!

If you’re a GtS instance administrator, it would be fantastic if you could try out this release candidate, and report any bugs you see with the new stuff :)

Big thank you to all contributors! <3

What is GoToSocial?

GoToSocial is an open-source, ActivityPub compatible, federated social media server. It’s easy to install, lightweight, and perfect for small servers 🦥

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