Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Did you know it used to be illegal for a company to buy back its own stock? It was understood to be stock price manipulation. (Because it is.)

Reagan's "deregulation" changed the rules in 1982.

Like everything else, companies now pay politicians to keep it the way it is.

#deregulation #reagan #corruption

🎨 today we're doing literature collection for a meeting with my boss to try to get covid protections in the office. if you have articles or especially studies on long covid or on testing false negatives, i would *love* to hear from you

It sometimes feels like some of the "just use native browser features instead of frameworks" people are not so much arguing against frameworks, as they are arguing for browsers to be the only blessed framework going forward...

Sure, it's undesirable to load massive JS bundles for basic functionality on websites, you'll find no disagreement there - I've been complaining about this for years too.

But arguing for all high-level framework-esque functionality to be handled by the browser and web specs...

Have you thought about what happens to the process of incremental technological improvement when the 'universal runtime' (ie. the browser) starts focusing on providing high-level abstractions instead of improving low-level mechanisms, and so the set of viable design strategies is essentially frozen in time?

If you live in the EU or are an EU citizen, have you voted in the citizens' initiative for a wealth tax? If you get less than 1000 € per day in capital gains, you'll profit from its implementation.

It is at 238,815 / 1,000,000 signatures, running until October 9th. Additionally a threshold needs to be exceeded in at least seven of the EU nations, see the image for how that's going.

campaign: https://www.tax-the-rich.eu
petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/

Long shot. Bij de verhuizing van mijn dementerende moeder naar het zorgcentrum heb ik per abuis een koelkastmagneet met stoomtrein weggegooid. Ze bleek er enorm aan gehecht. Jaren geleden had ze ‘m van haar overleden zus gekregen, die ‘m bij het Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht had gekocht. Ik heb contact met ze opgenomen, maar helaas verkopen ze ‘m niet meer. Is er misschien iemand die deze heeft (of iemand kent) en ‘m aan mij zou willen verkopen? Boost is lievvv 😊 #dtv #trein #treinen #stoomtrein

@rivm En “Mensen die om individuele redenen een vaccinatie willen […] kunnen deze ook halen in de najaarsronde.” (Zie https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/coronavirus-vaccinatie/aanpak-coronavaccinatie/ )

Wees nou toch eens eerlijk: iedereen die wil mag een booster halen!

"make leftist theory shorter!"

Like, I get that we need to make our ideas more accessible but I don't think oversimplifying is a good idea either. That's how we get "tax the rich" and "leftists" who are pro-cop. I don't have a solution but I think there's a balance to be maintained between all Capital by Marx all the time and pithy Instagram infographic. We need an intermediary

for the people wondering why you need to help federate brazilian instances: X is gonna be banned for us, it's only a question of time now that Elon just fired all brazilian side employees tbh

so yeah #fediverse it's gonna have another mass migration again, here or on bluesky, we don't know honestly

one instructive thing that the "AI" boom has made clear is that FOMO about being left behind by technology is an incredibly powerful way to make people drop all pretense of political or power analysis under the impression that surely if the tech giants are spending billions on a pile of shit there must be a pony underneath.

train peoples! suppose I wanted to visualize the network of rail connections in Europe — what's the best way of getting the timetable data? there's Hafas, but I probably shouldn't spam their endpoints, as I'd get quickly rate-limited.

is GTFS tenable? do I need to find a feed from each operator manually, or are there sensible collections available? there's gotta be something aggregated at least for the long-distance trains, right? r-right??

I know that it's really hard for most people to wear a mask when other people don't. And I know it's really easy for most people to pretend that covid is just a normal virus and not a big deal.

But the most effective way for ME to be safe isn't actually for me to mask. It's for YOU to mask.

Please, please mask if you can. It's really not too late to start again. In fact, there's a huge surge right which makes it easy to explain why you're doing it.