Taru Luojola @Stoori@polyglot.city

Done (patreon but public post):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/26981786
Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

For the flag ones, feel free to ask if you want other ones.

I can do other modification if you are a patreon or for 💸 . Or you can modify them or ask somebody else to do that: the license allows it.

If someone use them please let me know, it makes me happier. ^^

It's called Pulcino Gelsomino, Jasmine the Chick.

#commission open btw
#art #chick #creativeCommons #emoji #emojos

Autistic People. So, new Research. Different social skills, not broken ones.

https://annsautism.blogspot.com/2019/05/autistic-people-so-new-research.html

"In essence, what we are demonstrating for the first time is that autistic people's social behaviour includes effective communication and effective social interaction, in direct contradiction of the diagnostic criteria for autism. We have, for the first time, uncovered empirical evidence that there is a form of social intelligence that is specific to autistic people."

In other words, different social skills, not broken ones. We have our own social signalling and can co-operate and interact effectively....with each other. Likewise, non-autistic people can generally co-operate and interact effectively...with each other. But put one of each group together, and they both tend to misunderstand one another. They don't feel rapport with one another, that sense that you just 'click' with someone and understand them.

This isn't a new theory, of course. Dr Damian Milton has been discussing Double Empathy theory for a while now. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62639/1/Double%20empathy%20problem.pdf

If you have questions or concerns about #Mobilizon, the #Facebook Groups/Events alternative destined for the fediverse, pose them in the dedicated forum.

https://framacolibri.org/c/mobilizon

The sooner the better, while it’s still early to think and plan.

I want to write a free, copyleft book about how to thrive on low income in the USA, because all the books on personal finance give advice like "don't buy a latte every day," instead of "first, get your staples at the food bank, and *then* any other food via food stamps."

I've been writing an outline, and I need more sources. What books and links can you tell me about that are like more the food stamp example? (And please retoot!)

"Our inability to understand and tell sociological stories is one of the key reasons we’re struggling with how to respond to the historic technological transition we’re currently experiencing with digital technology and machine intelligence"

Yes!

RT @andreagrimes@twitter.com

this! this! this! this is the thinkpiece on Game of Thrones that I’ve been waiting for http://bit.ly/2HyRN1H

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/1129485569656909824

Chicks.
I'm gonna release them with a cc by-sa 4.0 license after some corrections. Target is 64~ pictures.

On patreon a preview of them: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26940315

Feel free to make suggestions for other ones in this set (but I'm gonna consider the ones from people that pay me first, since I'm a venal monster).

#commission open btw.
#art #chick

What format do you prefer for reading short stories? Boosts appreciated.

Bienvenido a los X-Men

An article on an emergent labor action among Lyft/Uber drivers:

"""
After 3 years of pay cuts, these drivers say now they have to fight back, by turning off their apps at certain times, drivers are able to artificially manipulate the Uber and Lyft apps into higher fares.

“All the airplanes we know when they land. So five minutes before, we turn all our apps off all of us at the same time. All of us we turn our apps off. They surge, $10, $12, sometimes $19. Then we turn our app on. Everyone will get the surge,” one driver says.
"""

http://wjla.com/news/local/uber-and-lyft-drivers-fares-at-reagan-national

Does anyone here know Japanese or Swedish?

I am learning these two languages and I would like to send messages to someone of sentences I come up with or to have small text conversations to practice :)

I know Russian so if anyone wants to practice it with me I will be happy to help.

European Citizens’ Initiative: End the aviation fuel tax exemption in Europe.

It’s kind of a #petition?

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/008/public/#/initiative

At 1 million signatures from 7 countries the European Commission decides what to do. Anyone in the EU can sign.

#environment #climate