Social media platforms wield immense control over user data, raising critical questions regarding their contractual and statutory obligations to honor user rights for data deletion. Discord, a widely utilized communication platform, exemplifies contemporary challenges where ToS, Privacy policies, and actual practices diverge. This article examines the legal basis for challenging Discord’s refusal or delay in servicing account deletion requests, highlighting deceptive delay tactics and the strategic exploitation of data retention windows.
A moment’s respite
0:59:22m Daily journal, spoken word lived experience and thoughts of an autistic elder.
Step 5: The purpose of the practice (the commitments)
0:57:32m – Spoken word journal of an autistic elder, explaining the roots and purposes of their annual ‘renewal of commitments’.
The Gatekeeping of Knowledge: How Paywalls Corrupt the Promise of Academia
The academic research ecosystem stands at a crossroads: it holds humanity’s most powerful tool for innovation, education, and societal advancement, yet it regularly chooses profit-driven gatekeeping through paywalls over open access. This entrenched system undermines the foundational mission of science and scholarship—serving the public good. This article outlines the top ten egregious outcomes of this system, exposes their ethical and practical costs, and chastises academia for enabling a corruption that betrays its very reason for existence.
A formal rebuke on an ill-considered choice to allow Helen Puttick into print…
Get thee to the classroom, Helen Puttick, and oh, no wandering, eh? Let’s see if you are any better at updating YOUR ignorance, shall we?
Distributed Core Processing and Pattern Management: An Autistic Naturalist’s Theory of Locus and Mechanism
This paper presents a novel hypothesis for the locus and mechanism of what is traditionally termed “working memory,” reframed as “distributed core processing.” The genesis and development of this model arise not from conventional laboratory inquiry, but from sustained naturalistic observation and intensive, self-directed thought experiments over a lifetime. The author, an autistic individual, proposes that enhanced pattern management and acute environmental data processing—hallmarks of autistic cognition—confer insight into distributed brain network behaviors. The paper outlines the theory, its foundations, and the scientific literature now converging to validate these intuitions. It concludes with a critique of rhetorical aversion to neurodivergent difference, arguing such aversion diminishes global innovation capacity.
Step 4: My Ignorance
1:00:00m – Spoken audio journal; autistic lived experience, thoughts around the annual ‘renewal of commitments’, and of course, life, the universe, and everything (42).
Step 3: My Learnings
59:55m – Step 3: My Learnings
Spoken audio, journaling; as part of annual ‘renewal of commitments’, a look at ‘things I’ve learned’ in this life, lately or otherwise.
#LivedExperience #AutisticElder #LateDX
Step 2: My Flaws
1:00:00m, spoken audio; a reflection on the concept of ‘flaw’ given various contexts that populate my reality. Philosophical flipping and twisting to this end, et al.
Longitudinal Safety: An intentional gap? (policy)
The integration of longitudinal genetic and epigenetic studies into routine pharmaceutical safety evaluation is a critical and glaring knowledge gap that demands urgent attention within drug development and post-marketing surveillance pipelines. Despite the rapid advancement in genetic, epigenetic, and neuro- sciences enabling unprecedented molecular insight, current safety assessments largely overlook the cumulative and nuanced molecular impacts of chronic drug exposure, thereby potentially perpetuating unforeseen risks to patient safety and public health. This lack of progressive integration underscores profound ethical and scientific shortcomings that risk undermining both patient trust and optimal therapeutic outcomes.