Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 100
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jun-2021 08:46:11 EDT 
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jun-2021 07:20:04 EDT
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♲ @blenster@twitter.com: A lot of folks are just learning about Tulsa on the 100 year anniversary of the destruction of "Black Wall St."
It wasn't just Tulsa.
It wasn't just the south.
It wasn't just a century ago.
The more you learn the angrier you will be; these unanswered injustices are too many.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 31-May-2021 14:10:04 EDT
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♲ @josephfcox@twitter.com: New: here is our definitive investigation into how crime app Citizen is dangerously trying to monetize vigilantism. Documents, Slack chats, product maps, 8 sources
"I didn’t anticipate the ways they would circumvent the police and go that much further."
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 31-May-2021 13:33:17 EDT
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I don’t buy this, cryptocurrencies have always been about circumventing government control and yet haven’t been seriously considered for regulation until pretty recently, including in China. Like it or not, most financial regulations are there to prevent ordinary people to get fleeced. So it isn’t surprising that cryptocurrencies have become the tool of choice to fleece people on a large scale. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 31-May-2021 12:58:53 EDT
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So far every attempt at finding a "cure" that I know of has been focused on making autistic children behave like neurotypical ones through coercion. There is no wisdom collected from promising or looking for a "cure". Only when we leave the lexical field of medical "disease" we can start finding ways to coexist through making the world accessible for all people including neuroatypical people.
I agree with you about quickly resorting to labeling, even wrongly, but doesn't it justify dropping overly broad labels like "Asperger"? You mention lack of communication, why can't we just use specific symptomatic labels? -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 31-May-2021 12:52:05 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
I do not wish to make you interact more with me, so I'll be brief for the other people who might be interested: autism (like homosexuality) isn't a disease, so there is no cure. Therefore trying to find a cure to something that isn't a disease will be at best fruitless, at worst harmful. The latter already exist in the form of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) that has shown absolutely no benefits for autistic people while using torture-like technique (food deprivation, pain, emotional blackmail) to extract contrived results.
The only "cure" for autism is for the rest of the world to become more accepting and accessible in general (exactly like for homosexuality again), but it has nothing to do with autistic people themselves. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 31-May-2021 12:18:32 EDT
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Scammers use cryptocurrencies because it is worth it to do so. A ban would be difficult to enforce completely but it would make them less worth it. For the US, a simple way would be to make commercial exchanges in US dollars like Coinbase illegal. With fewer opportunities for ransomware targets to buy cryptocurrencies and for scammers to retrieve their ill-gotten gains in fiat, it would put a damp on the practice. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 31-May-2021 08:23:55 EDT
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I do not agree with that. However, cryptocurrencies were created specifically in a zero-trust environment to circumvent financial regulations. Now, granted, this isn't the main use their creators had for them, but by now the positive uses have been far outweighed by negative ones and as a result cryptocurrencies should be considered an interesting but failed experiment.
I'm old enough to remember malware existed for its own sake, not to make money out of ruining public or semi-public infrastructure. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 31-May-2021 08:13:53 EDT
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As far as I understand autism is a multi-dimensional spectrum (I'm probably on) and there is no cure nor good reasons to find one, so what is the purpose to single out autistic people as "Asperger"? -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 31-May-2021 08:11:43 EDT
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Thanks, I didn't know about the ICD-10, and I have further questions:
- Why would the ICD-10 be more trustworthy than the DSM-5?
- Why does this particular "feature set" need to be recognized specifically? -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-May-2021 22:15:05 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
If you needed another reason to despise cryptocurrencies, not just Proof-Of-Work ones for obvious environmental reasons, they also enable ransomware in a critical would-not-be-worth-it-otherwise way. ♲ @smdiehl@twitter.com: Let's talk about why cryptocurrency is the single factor that created the ransomware plague that is ravaging our healthcare system and public infrastructure. (1/) 🧵
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-May-2021 12:35:08 EDT
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♲ @ToriGlass@twitter.com: “cops prevent crime”
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 28-May-2021 21:40:19 EDT
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Why do you still cling to the "Asperger" name when even an arguably conservative reference (homosexuality was only removed from mental disorders in 1987, after I was born) doesn't anymore? -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 28-May-2021 19:09:20 EDT
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Please check the source video on the original Twitter post: twitter.com/ava/status/1398318… -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 28-May-2021 17:45:03 EDT
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♲ @ava@twitter.com: WATCH: I just learned of a prison ship in the South Bronx where 600 people are being held in terrifying conditions. @TakeBackTheBX is organizing protests. My friend @laurapoitras is investigating with #seanvegezzi and asked me to share this intercepted audio. #ShutDownVCBC
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 28-May-2021 16:02:10 EDT
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I'm sorry, I saw her post with big image, large text and bitmojis first so she wins. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 28-May-2021 12:28:08 EDT
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♲ @HolSmale@twitter.com: Why I don’t have “Asperger’s Syndrome”, and Elon Musk doesn’t either - with alternative text for the visually impaired. 🥰
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 28-May-2021 11:01:53 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
Is the world designed to depress us?
Excerpt from Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig. via @⭐ֆʊʐɨɛ⭐💋 ɨռȶʝ ⭐ǟʀᥴɦιȶᥱᥴȶ⭐💋 for the image and @Spacemagick for finding the source title.
https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/142435881660b0ff4e0b530078105202
The text rings simple and true, but a little too simplistic for my own taste. It is easier said than done, and I believe it has to do with the fact that this drive for more or better isn't entirely artificially engineered. The success of consumerism directly derives from this drive, but did it invent it? I'm not so sure. During my self-isolation I decided on because of the pandemic, I've felt a string restlessness that had little to do with marketing and advertisement. I satisfied it with second-hand LEGO because it kept me busy during a time I couldn't do a lot of stuff I usually do.
Even beyond that, humans have diminishing returns on experiences. We don't get the same thrill re-reading the same book, watching the same movie, looking at the same artwork. We fundamentally enjoy novelty and it fuels the drive that consumerism exploits through FOMO marketing.
So, to be calm is a revolutionary act, not just against the world, but against oneself as well. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 28-May-2021 11:00:06 EDT
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♲ @doctorow@twitter.com: Crissey was voicing a fundamental truth:
Irrespective of how much profit a company makes, the investors' earnings go up when the workers' earnings go down.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 28-May-2021 08:14:39 EDT
Hypolite Petovan
Indeed, it wasn't ignorance, it was plain racism. Gotcha.
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