Notices by Queen Dyspraxia (shoutcacophony@anticapitalist.party), page 4

@sifr *laughs* of course. omg XD

@sifr "AttentivU"

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3290607.3311768

catchy. it's as if they're already thinking of securing funding 🙄

@sifr this is CBT administered by a herd of hungry cats

@garbados

which wouldn't be happening to this level and degree if devs formed guilds and unions, which are there to protect collective self-interest

@garbados not only that, but devs are starting to fall prey to "but they're good ads, brent" in a huge way. the acceptance of business being part of professional life (fwiw) has given way to "management is good", effectively

it used to be that the idea of sketchy profiteers and suits was actively discouraged, if not viewed as a malevolent force opposed to the ethics of the internet

@sifr

"We have performed experiments with people studying or working by themselves, viewing online lectures as well as listening to classroom lectures. The obtained results show that our device makes a person more attentive and produces improved learning and work performance outcomes"

like i said

@sifr i'd be possibly more open to this if it didn't scream "no useful prior testing, least of all on people with diffculties focusing"

@sifr pushing someone to focus when everything else is saying "don't", what do you mean, "oh, this'll end well" /s

@cosine good question, not sure

@cosine you mean, "what if fusions fused to make a meta-fusion"?

@cosine *nods* they basically function as their own being. "whole is greater than the sum of its parts".

it's also kind of a metaphor for close friendships/relationships, and for aspects of plurality in general (in some cases)

@cosine synergy, basically

@gcupc @serenissima and landlords, and

*debt (in case that was unclear)

@handstands forgot the exact date, but yup! thanks for providing the details. :)

Before you start pinning the IMF solely on the orange nazi, consider that bankrolling the IMF is standing policy for western administrations over decades: "It has 189 member countries, but the US and its rich-country allies have a solid majority of the votes. The head of the IMF is by custom a European, and the US has enough votes to veto many major decisions by itself – although the rich countries almost never vote against each other."

The IMF is hurting countries it claims to help

The fund browbeats poor countries into accepting neoliberal measures that exacerbate inequality and economic distress

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/imf-economics-inequality-trump-ecuador

here's a archive.org link to the nuerodiversity matters post, btw

https://web.archive.org/web/20170530061633/http://neurodiversitymatters.com/teselecta/2017/04/14/i-regret-to-inform-you-that-temple-grandin-is-at-it-again/

thanks to @forAll52 for finding this <3

@o because of how completely fucked up ABA is, that's sort of a stretch -- for one thing, nobody's coercing with the threat of force into being liberals, or otherwise misleading someone into compliance. unfortunately, groupthink is still on the same kind of register, and it shows

usually what happens in liberal-land and its "moderate" variants is people burn out, which is its own kind of bad

@DellaDragoness yay!