There's a new way to complete Human Check on Gander, and it's even going to help put food on the table for Canadians who need it. TL;DR Gander now lets you complete Human Check through a $2 Interac Money Request initiated on Gander. You pay through your own online banking, and the full $2 goes
What is Gander Social? Canada’s New Homegrown Social Media Platform
Gander Social is Canada’s answer to mainstream platforms, putting control back in users' hands with a privacy-first, local-first approach.
The Gander Passport: Why a Sovereign Node Beats a Digital Bunker - Jason Butterfield
Why is Gander connected to Bluesky, and why should you care? Explore the architectural shift of the AT Protocol and how Wingspan is building a "Third Way" for Canadian data residency. This is an early adopter’s take on the infrastructure required for true digital land back and the end of vendor lock-in for the human experience.
Why Gander Social?
A lightening talk showcasing Gander Social. Why we exist and how we interoperate.
Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.
🇨🇦 How Canadians are fighting for digital independence
Gander's CEO on decentralization, crowdsourcing, and annexation fears
PagSeguro | The leading one-stop payment solution for Latam
PagSeguro allows merchants worldwide from digital goods, gaming, SaaS, e-learning, retail, and travel to boost sales in Latin America with local payments.
Global Payments API: Send & Receive Money | Wise Platform
Wise Platform offer domestic and cross-border payments tools for technology platforms, banks and fininical institutions.
Ceptr & Holochain - Currencies of Social Coherence. Holography and Distributed Hash Tables vs. Consensus Bottlenecks in Monolithic Blockchains.
“Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about science fiction and money is the different kinds of currencies that are imagined for future worlds: the poscreds of Philip K. Dick’s Ubik, a currency required for every minute transaction such that the door becomes not an item you own but, rather, a provider of services for which you must continually pay, leaving protagonist Joe Chip trapped in his own apartment until someone pays his door to open; the bars of gold-pressed latinum used by the avaricious Ferengi on Star Trek, the only thing that cannot be replicated in this post-scarcity world, useless other than as an atavistic marker of wealth; the reputation- based currency of whuffie in Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, used to replace the social role money plays in creating a hierarchy in another post-scarcity world.
retsel (@retsel@defcon.social)
Content warning: DHH's words on how the money will be used
Overview
The PagSeguro Brazil Payin API enables you to offer fast and secure local payments in Brazil using PIX, Boleto, credit cards, and e-wallets. This API is fully compliant with local regulations and is designed to support high-conversion checkout flows and secure, tokenized transactions. Use this API t...
I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab From Marketing Photos. Here's Why Your $1,400 Is Probably Gone.
A $1.7M Kickstarter built on forked academic research, undisclosed MoE architectures, split memory pools behind PCIe bottlenecks, and a company that won't tell you who they are. I did the math. The math doesn't care.
Using AI and Behavioral Finance to Cope with Limited Attention and Reduce Overdraft Fees
<p><span>We test how effective a human-algorithm interaction is at stopping users from overdrawing their bank accounts. We use a randomized field experiment and
Turns out Generative AI was a scam
Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be
Interledger Foundation (@Interledger@interledger.social)
Attached: 1 image Applications are now open for the Digital Financial Services Grant. Selected financial service providers may receive USD 350,000 over 18 months to integrate Rhyza (the evolution of Rafiki) and Open Payments, participate in interoperable payment networks, and test digital financial services with real users and partners. 🔗 Learn more and apply: https://interledger.org/grant/innovation/financial-services/ #Interledger #DFSGrant #GrantOpportunity #OpenPayments
