Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

So, very cleverly, the fraudster has used their first fraudulent transaction to socially verify that they knew something only a bank could know - about transactions on my card.

They used that transaction - that they themselves had done - to get me to read a 3D secure code to approve the next transaction that they also wanted to do.

Neoliberal is when you’re like “we really care about progressive stuff, now turn off your tracker blocker so we can surveillance capitalism the fuck out of you, motherfucker!”

My friend from Poland is looking for a way to survive.​​

He just graduated from high school and lives in his parents’ house in the countryside, but he has no work experience or job, and he might be kicked out of the house soon.

He is aware of his autism but not diagnosed, so he cannot get disability aid. What should he do?

- If anyone knows about the social security system in Poland, please give me some advice.
- I want to give him at least hope that he can live without becoming homeless.
- Please also let me know if you have any other suggestions.

By the way, he can build websites (HTML, CSS) and draw illustrations.
#Help #Poland #BoostMe ​​

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Deep dive in de APV van Vlaardingen. Er is helemaal geen artikel 2.4.7 dat skatenboarden/skaten verbiedt 🙃

It's bizarre that so many people seem to think computer science is for men when its very foundations were built mostly by brilliant women and queers

utterly blows my mind that life can be anything other than a constant struggle for some people

like, wow lol

I have sad news to report… your posts are way to heavy… i came home to find my server rack being collapsed under its own weight…

And I'll say again that the real genius of mastodon/fedverse/activitypub is that it costs money. The implications of that are huge and I don't think get talked about enough. Like, it might not be a lot, and not personally cost you money, but it is costing your server admin money. And that changes things pretty fundamentally.

Like, unfettered growth is no longer desirable, because it's not making you money. Once you remove adtech from the conversation things change, and in fact are inverted in some ways. There is no longer the question of yeah these people are assholes but they are making me a bunch of money. They are now costing you money, and you are in the position of having to decide if you want to support asshole behavior with your own actual money

The narrative about autistic people as cold, uncaring, emotionless half-humans incapable of feeling empathy is just another hateful myth.

Says science.

I wonder when mainstream society gets the memo.

"We investigated social discounting in autism and found that autistic adults were more generous than neurotypical participants, which was driven by greater generosity to socially distant others. Crucially, we also investigated framing effects during prosocial decision-making. Autistic participants were less susceptible to whether decisions were framed as causing monetary gains, compared to preventing monetary losses, for the potential recipient. Our results support the view of ‘enhanced rationality’ in autism as participants’ prosocial decisions were less influenced by potential biasing information, such as the closeness of the recipient or how choices were framed. Therefore, the differences seen in autism, as well as posing certain challenges, can also have prosocial consequences."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13623613231190674

me irl rn

This will always be my favorite aircraft