MCP___ @mcp_@qoto.org

Proprietary platform demonstrates by example why you shouldn't rely on proprietary platform. #twitterapi https://mastodon.social/@hauschke/109797212542001123

oggi abbiamo qualcosa di ESCLUSIVO ed esplosivo! La nostra battaglia legale con il #FOIA ha permesso di rivelare che la Svezia ha distrutto larga parte dei documenti sul caso Julian #Assange!
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2023/02/01/assange-e-laccusa-di-stupro-stoccolma-ha-distrutto-i-file/6981273/?utm_content=fattoquotidiano&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Echobox2021&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675234942-1

This is so spot on! As seen in @pluralistic blog "Tiktok's enshittification" post pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/pot…

#devhumor #geekhumor #DeleteFacebook #DeleteTwitter #DeleteTikTok #BigTechShouldNotExist

#Nature adopts two rules for the use of #LLMs like #ChatGPT.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00191-1

"First, no LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper…Any attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work & AI tools cannot take such responsibility.

Second, researchers using LLM tools should document this use in the methods or acknowledgements sections."

@tomstafford @brembs For example, a #Wiley bankruptcy would net us a juicy 6 million papers.
https://fatcat.wiki/coverage/search?q=year%3A%3E1927+year%3A%3C%3D2021+%28doi_prefix%3A10.1113+OR+doi_prefix%3A10.1111+OR+doi_prefix%3A10.1002%29

Wiley has 2500 M$ market cap and negative 1 G$ book value (?!).
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WLY?p=WLY

Causing Wiley a loss of 500 $ per paper should be enough to return all of them to the public. How to achieve that? Maybe a mass #copyright fraud lawsuits from 300k authors, ask of 150 k$ statutory damages, payout 10 k$ each?

How to fund a 45 G$ copyright lawsuit/ #classaction against Wiley?

When scholars without expertise in infrastructure reform encounter the goals of the reform movement, such as e.g., replacing academic journals,

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

they sometimes reflexively defend the status quo that served them well, e.g.:

“You ‘open’ wackaloons are forcing your revolution on us, against our academic freedom!”

I was asked to write a *one-page* cheat sheet with the evidence to counter such a reflex:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjbohSsf-qy8ZkCvQ9FRlF9k1N12oSLu8qwXoKxjD2o/edit?usp=sharing

Can you/we improve on that?
#openscience

@mcp @mcp_ @aisa_SA A liberal infrastructure in a neoliberal world: the Italian case of GARR https://www.robertocaso.it/2023/01/23/a-liberal-infrastructure-in-a-neoliberal-world-the-italian-case-of-garr/

Why should we insist on free software in education? "[B]ecause it is the only software that allows them to accomplish their essential missions: to disseminate human knowledge and to prepare students to be good members of their community." Read more: https://u.fsf.org/1dz

Faccio esercizio di immedesimazione verso un #obiettoredicoscienza ucraino che avrebbe preferito vivere, ma si ritrova a subire:

- Il regionalismo filorusso nel Donbass che destabilizza una regione

- Il nazionalismo ucraino del suo governo che reagisce col pugno di ferro gettando benzina sul fuoco

- L'imperialismo russo che sciacalla su tutto questo per buttargli le bombe in testa

- L'occidente alantico che difende tanti diritti tranne i suoi

- La polizia militare che lo sbatte in galera

L’Italia è l’unico Paese al mondo che non rende nota la lista delle armi fornite all’Ucraina, segreti di pulcinella che poi dall’Ucraina vengono svelato e arrivano in Italia 👇Trasparenza sarebbe doverosa verso il contribuente ma di sicuro mi sbaglio
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RT @UAWeapons
#Ukraine: Italy 🇮🇹 transferred PzH 2000 155mm self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine - these ex-Italian SPHs were spotted in use with the Ukrainian 43rd Artillery Brigade.

It …
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1616853037091266561

Il diritto umano alla scienza e il diritto morale di aprire le pubblicazioni scientifiche
https://www.robertocaso.it/2023/01/16/il-diritto-umano-alla-scienza-e-il-diritto-morale-di-aprire-le-pubblicazioni-scientifiche/
@aisa_SA @mcp

February 2nd in Milano webinar on the stuff I like, = sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing, sociology and ethics of quantification in relation to the use of mathematical models.

https://www.eiee.org/event/rff-cmcc-eiee-webinar/

@SFuntowicz @mcp_ @Jeroen_van_der_Sluijs

La colpa è di chi chiede pace non di chi schiuma rabbia immaginando di vincere una guerra senza fine.
La mia solidarietà alle vittime civili, il mio disprezzo per i signori della guerra contano poco. Se quei morti vogliamo rispettarli e non contarne altri: Chiediamo pace
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I fondatori di #Twitter aprono un proprio account su #Mastodon; #Medium, la loro società di #blogging apre un’istanza.

E affermano che l’#opensource sia il futuro dei #social.

La storia si trova qui: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-01-12/elon-musk-s-twitter-drives-even-its-early-employees-to-mastodon?cmpid=BBD011223_TECH&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230112&utm_campaign=tech

#facebook #instagram #socialnetwork #fediverso

Ten years ago, #AaronSwartz died by suicide following a prolonged and relentless crusade by the U.S. judiciary to prosecute him for allegedly downloading academic articles.

After his death, @freedomofpress took over maintenance of the open source whistleblower submission platform he had been developing, now called SecureDrop, hoping to get news orgs to adopt it. It's now used by dozens of news outlets worldwide.

Thank you, Aaron. ❤️ We are honored to carry on your legacy.