Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

#rb to make a #biological #essentialist mad <3

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early #studies which found a significant #sex difference were likelier to get published than #research finding no male-female #brain difference.”

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https://theconversation.com/you-dont-have-a-male-or-female-brain-the-more-brains-scientists-study-the-weaker-the-evidence-for-sex-differences-158005

https://doi.org/10.3310/hta14080

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23976-1

Why are autistic people so cool and relatable wtf

#ActuallyAutistic

A question and poll for my fellow autistics. Please boost to expand reach.

In Temple Grandin's book, Thinking In Pictures, she describes her development of her compression machine or a hug box, which she used to self administer deep compression therapy and it helped to calm her.

But I'm wondering if any autistics in the fediverse have ever tried wearing corsets, because it seems to me that some of us might find they provide therapeutic stimulation.

Have you worn a corset?

Become ungenderable

There's a phenomenon with internet arguments that I think of as "eternal crossfire" where everybody talks about what they've experienced directly as though that is the one and only thing that is happening everywhere, and any attempt to clarify that it's not the entire story is seen as an attack. And every single side involved in the argument does the same thing, making the conflict impossible to deesecalate. Bad actors love this shit. They can just set off explosives on every side and watch them destroy each other.

ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

If you're switching to Firefox this week, I collected a list of the team's favourite hidden features back when I worked there:

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/10/25/navigational-instruments/

What is your main browser (engine)?

Re-running a poll I saw on Mastodon a while ago, before various migrations. Just collecting numbers, not seeking advice or anything. Please boost for reach.

Google’s widely opposed ad platform, the “Privacy Sandbox,” launches in Chrome

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social