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

The rationale given by the academic integrity office for dismissing the exonerating evidence (that it, too, "could have been produced using AI") is REALLY alarming to me. I'm very troubled about how much AI is destroying our ability to trust each other. And if students do all the right things, document their process, keep artifacts like notes and recordings, only to be told "we can't know those aren't AI", then they have literally NO way to defend themselves once accused. It's a witch hunt.

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/

Nintendo and Sony: Why is piracy absolutely rampant up in Iceland?

Icelandic console gamers: We're not even in your drop-down menus and the local retailers need to get physical copies via Sweden with full markup.

All imma say today is this: "leftists" sorely need to address their anti-Blackness and fuck yes that includes here.

And no, it's not not important because it's "identity politics". Half of you fucks don't even know what that phrase means or its black feminist origins, you just use it so that you don't have to do the work of reckoning within yourself and can guiltlessly continue your mostly-white circlejerk of self-congratulatory delusions of moral superiority.

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!

My hot take is that banning masks prohibits disabled, immunocompromised and covid-conscious people from public life.

It should be resisted as vociferously as trans bathroom bills, which are also intended to ban a category of people from public life.

We know why that's bad. We should understand mask bans the same way.

"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