Daniela Tafani @dt@qoto.org

Social and behavioral genomics scientists claim they are discovering "the biological architecture of learning and education processes". Our new OA article examines the formation of a data-intensive infrastructure of biological knowledge production in education https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-023-00451-3

@dt @aisa Generatori di linguaggio
https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/generatori-di-linguaggio/

Il fondo sovrano tedesco ha deciso di finanziare il progetto Activitypub Test Suite

ActivityPub Test Suite è un importante progetto che istituisce una solida suite di test per il protocollo ActivityPub , una componente fondamentale del panorama dei social network decentralizzati noto come Fediverso.

@fediverso

Tra gli obiettivi previsti:

- Sviluppare e implementare un sistema completo di test di conformità del server per il protocollo ActivityPub.
- Creare una guida all'implementazione accessibile e un tutorial per il test automatizzato delle implementazioni conformi di ActivityPub.
- Garantire che la suite di test funga da punto di riferimento fondamentale, favorendo la fiducia degli sviluppatori nella creazione di applicazioni interoperabili.

sovereigntechfund.de/tech/acti…
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@mcp @dt Videosroveglianza e intelligenza artificiale. Il Garante privacy sanziona il Comune di Trento
https://www.robertocaso.it/2024/01/26/videosorveglianza-e-intelligenza-artificiale-il-garante-privacy-sanziona-il-comune-di-trento/

"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
- Noam Chomsky #NHS

@robertocaso: "Il mio nome è ANVUR: agente (dipendente) con licenza di valutare (numericamente)" https://www.robertocaso.it/2024/01/21/il-mio-nome-e-anvur-agente-dipendente-con-licenza-di-valutare-numericamente/

Got tired of having this conversation over and over again so I just spent way too long making this:

This summer the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research Systems (ANVUR) denied scientificity and excellence (“classe A”) to Open Research Europe (ORE) for general sociology. Recently, however, ANVUR has updated its rules for classifying journals, adding an article 18 entitled ‘Transitional regulation for open peer […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/anvurs-rule-state-evaluation-and-open-peer-review-in-italy/

"La lotta di classe quando la fanno i signori è signorile. Non scandalizza né i preti né i professori che leggono l'Espresso" (L. Milani)

L'#ANVUR ha aggiornato il suo regolamento sulle riviste rendendo ammissibile anche la revisione paritaria aperta. Ma il problema è molto più la presenza del regolamento che quello che che c'è scritto dentro. Lo spiega @aisa qui;
https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/anvur-e-la-revisione-paritaria-aperta/

#CommissioneRomaCapitale just voted in favour of the honorary citizenship of the #EternalCity to #JA
thank you to the mayor,town councillors,activists who made the impossibile possible:

#VirginiaRaggi, #RiccardoCorbucci, #AntonellaMelito, #VincenzoVita, #FreeAssangeItalia 
and many many others

Call for #OpenPeerReview: https://commentbfp.sp.unipi.it/maria-chiara-pievatolo-the-scale-and-the-sword-statal-science-and-research-evaluation/
We talk a lot about how research is evaluated. But we do not always ask who is entitled to evaluate research and what is the legitimacy (even from the perspective of #openscience) of a system in which evaluation is in the hands of bureaucrats, or government-appointed researchers acting with bureaucratic power. The origin of the question is Italian, but its scope is global.
To contribute see the gray box at the bottom of https://commentbfp.sp.unipi.it

“Capitalists hate capitalism. For a corporate executive, the fact that you have to make good things, please your customers, pay your workers, and beat the competition are all bugs, not features. The best business is one in which people simply pay you money without your having to do anything or worry that someday they'll stop. UBI for the investor class, in other words.”

@pluralistic : Tech workers and gig workers need each other (13 Jan 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/

AI in education is primarily driven by venture capital investors. AIED researchers might disagree but their stuff isn't in schools. VC-backed AI is. Their aim is hypergrowth platforms with AI add-ons via Big Tech. Investors make AI in education happen https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2023.2272134

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic mal wieder zu AI:

"But AI's sales pitch is not "Buy an AI tool and increase your costs while increasing your accuracy." The pitch for AI is "buy and AI and save money by firing workers.""

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no