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Do we know the value of our user-generated content?

> Big Tech firms operate multi-sided platforms in which the ‘free’ user side is largely exempt from disclosures, since the user side is often ‘monetized’ only indirectly through advertising.

O'Reilly, T., Strauss, I. and Mazzucato, M (2023). Regulating Big Tech through digital disclosures. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief No.26.

ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purp

Via @timoreilly
twitter.com/timoreilly/status/

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Charles Roper

Heard just now on the BBC Newscast podcast:

“I'll challenge you at the BBC, why don't you guys make a news app like Twitter where all your reporters just post? I would sign up for that in a minute, and I would pay $5 a month for it.”

Yes BBC, why don't you get your reporters on your existing social.bbc domain? It's right there and more badly needed than ever. Be the leaders you know you can be.

pca.st/episode/98933ce6-07a4-4

cc @BBC_News_Labs @BBCRD @BBCRadio4 @evan

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Bruce Sterling @bruces

*Mosquitoes are thousands of times more dangerous to human life than wolves or sharks

*Also, they really like climate change

politico.eu/article/who-chief-

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Brewster Kahle

Ads now in a Amazon Prime Video? is this #enshitification ?

Started watching Meercat Manor (narated soap opera with meercats), and a couple of times in 20 minutes up come ads you can not fast forward through.

:(. 💩

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Benjamin P. Taylor

The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned news.artnet.com/opinion/devon-

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Web video of Ontario session revisiting a 1998 research article, reviewer, discussant, author. Entropy less about physics, more on behavior in social environments.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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Dr Pen

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

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David Zipper

Problem 2️⃣ : Car bloat worsens climate change

Heavier cars require more energy to move, which makes them guzzle gas.

When electrified, their huge batteries are so inefficient that the biggest models generate more pollution that some gas-powered sedans.

fastcompany.com/90854942/the-b

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Reporting on research-in-progress on Sciencing and Philosophizing on Threads in tracing history of of + & + .

Web video with after meeting

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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Philosophical criticism of RfPs by (one of the luminaries of ).

> All planning begins with a problem; however, it should not be confined to the problem statement. Also, the beginning should not be a clear problem formulation, but rather should be an utterance of moral outrage. John Dewey once said that problems arise from felt needs; however, that is much too mild a statement. One very sad aspect of a great deal of planning research is that the roots of the Request-for-Proposals are cut off at the very start; no wonder the plant withers and dies as proposals, interim, and final reports are written.

Churchman, C. West. 1984. “Thought and Wisdom.” In _Rethinking the Process of Operational Research & Systems Analysis_, edited by Rolfe Tomlinson and Istvan Kiss, 67–77. Frontiers of Operational FORS. Amsterdam: Pergamon. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-0308.

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How does relate to ? Within , and continued the of to put nonrelativistic pragmatism at the core of systems thinking in an entanglement of facts and values.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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For those who think that open standards can be easily added on after code had already shipped, there's an extensive case study on Microsoft Office and OOXML. Here's a fun question: how long did it take Microsoft to meet the specification that they themselves wrote?

openinnovationlearning.com/onl

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Threads doesn't initially support ActivityPub open standard, and is not open source. Adding ActivityPub support doesn't preclude withdrawal later.

> Will Meta embrace-extend-extinguish the ActivityPub protocol?

> There are comparisons to be made between Meta adopting ActivityPub for its new social media platform and Meta adopting XMPP for its Messenger service a decade ago. There was a time when users of Facebook and users of Google Talk were able to chat with each other and with people from self-hosted XMPP servers, before each platform was locked down into the silos we know today. What would stop that from repeating? Well, even if Threads abandoned ActivityPub down the line, where we would end up is exactly where we are now. XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles, while ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/

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The I Ching (Yi Jing) based in Chinese philosophy might be a more systemic approach, in contrast to the more systematic approach based in Western rationalism, says via .

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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July 10: Sciencing and Philosophizing on Threads in

Extending a presentation from the 67th Annual Meeting of the , and @daviding are jointly exploring how may be approached differently via the philosophical history of American , and post-colonial (contextural-dyadic) thinking.

See the full abstract and presentation at wiki.st-on.org/2023-07-10

Preregister at sciencing-philosophizing.event

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Web video recording on Selected Readings (1969) edited by , with personal history of science by and .

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

Book excerpts at st1969.daviding.wiki.openlearn

Systems Thinking Ontario wiki.st-on.org/2023-06-12

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What have we learned or forgotten since (1969) Penguin reader 18 chapters, edited by ?
Join and online on June 12 6:30pm ET for reflection and discussions.

wiki.st-on.org/2023-06-12
st1969.eventbrite.ca
st1969.daviding.wiki.openlearn

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Web video on "The Sustainable Development Goals: Origins, Context, and Perspectives" with Ned from @UN @JointSDGFund in discussion with Ontario.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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> Leading Today’s Asian Heritage Month lineup for May 2023, TVO Original Big Fight in Little Chinatown premieres on TVO, TVO Today, YouTube and smart TV services on Tuesday, May 9 at 9 pm ET.

tvo.me/energized-communities-b

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Rereading the introduction to the 1969 _Systems Thinking: Selected Readings_ Penguin paperbook surfaces some choices by the editor that I hadn't previously appreciated.

ingbrief.wordpress.com/2023/05

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