MCP___ @mcp_@qoto.org

"t’s time to stop focusing merely on making #BigTech safer…
…rather than trying to make the intrinsically harmful environment of #monopoly platforms better, we should make our first area of focus evacuating the tech #platforms —that is, a managed retreat to smaller forums run by and for their communities, made possible through #interoperability."
@pluralistic
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/01/1081939/big-questions-problem-solving-bill-gates-jennifer-doudna-lina-khan/

Ora a #Napoli: cerimonia di assegnazione della cittadinanza onoraria a Julian #Assange,da parte del sindaco Gaetano Manfredi la ritira per lui la moglie, #StellaAssange perché lui è carcerato dall'11/4/2019 nella prigione più dura del #RegnoUnito e non è più libero dal 7/12/2010

"Software that controls your body should always respect your freedom. This article is a recap of scandals of medical devices, like hearing aids, insulin pumps, bionic eyes, and pacemakers, and what we can learn from them. It's astonishing: you wouldn't expect these devices to be run by software in such a way that they can leave you completely helpless." Read the article: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/software-that-supports-your-body-should-always-respect-your-freedom #FreeSoftware #Bionics #Hearing #Pacemakers #DigitalSovereignty

L'#ANVUR aderisce a #COARA, che promuove una riforma radicale della #valutazione_della_ricerca ma ne ha disatteso sistematicamente gli impegni. Perché non può o perché non vuole? E come deve reagire COARA? Facendo finta di nulla in modo che nessuno la prenda più sul serio? La notizia in italiano contiene un link a una versione inglese più lunga e per addetti ai lavori :https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/anvur-e-coara-una-relazione-complicata/

4. you may think that the attitude of those people who live in democracy as if they were in an authoritarian regime is wrong and excessive (I did), but they are right that our constitutional rights are seriously collapsing

"A continuation of #DEAL in general, but especially a DEAL with Elsevier, is therefore neither in the interest of science, the scientific institutions, the scientists, nor the public that finances them. It is only in the interests of Elsevier and those DEAL employees, who will be offered lucrative positions at the publishers after the contract is signed."

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/09/no-evilsevier-deal

#openaccess #openscience

Grazie a Radio3Mondo che rompe il silenzio dell'informazione italiana sul regolamento chatcontrol

@privacypride

Al min 11'10" parla Giacomo Zandonini, autore (con con Apostolis Fotiadis e Luděk Stavinoha) dell'inchiesta bomba di BalkanInsight che svela la pericolosa attività di lobbying sulla Commissione Europea e l'Europarlamento, tutta a svantaggio dei diritti dei cittadini.

#stopchatcontrol
Fermiamo #chatcontrol

GOOD NEWS: The Brazilian supreme court just ruled in FAVOUR of Indigenous lands rights - protecting their ancestral homes from destructive mining, drilling and industrial farming.

This is HISTORIC

Full story https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/62457/marco-temporal-indigenous-people-rights-brazil/

So #DORA has almost 24k signatures now:

https://mastodon.world/@DORAssessment/111088194624414428

Only 3k of those are from institutions. Globally, the number of academic institutions is close to 90k:

https://higheredstrategy.com/higher-education-institutions-worldwide/

DORA is now 10 years old:

https://sfdora.org/dora-10th-anniversary-events/

At the current rate of about 300 institutional signatories per year, it will take another 140 years until 50% of all institutions have signed DORA.

This is the speed of #openscience

Visto l'interesse per l'articolo di @the_cheis Copiate maledetti, ho pensato di pubblicare su Friendica la traduzione dell'intero testo: https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-1464-fc2f-d2d7-cd8183254610 ho aggiunto anche i link a due estratti dal bel libro di Florent Latrive, Sul buon uso della #pirateria #Internet #conoscenza #copyright @informapirata @lealternative @maupao @alephoto85 @goofy @filippodb @dataKnightmare @mcp_ @FlaviaMarzano @paolo

Ripubblico con visibilità pubblica, post originale qui: https://mastodon.uno/@Madmonkey/110989204365871563

Molti "big player" dopo un rapido passaggio su #Mastodon sono fuggiti di nuovo su #Xwitter, perché lì c'è la-gente-che-conta™, continuando di fatto a dare ossigeno a quella merda lì.

Complimenti

#MastodonUno #M1 #Twitter #X #antisemitism #antisemitismo #racism #razzismo

« Nous avons fait examiner le nouvel accord de service de Microsoft qui entrera en vigueur le 30 septembre par quatre avocats, trois experts en confidentialité et deux militants. Et devinez quoi ? Aucun de nos experts n’est parvenu à déterminer si Microsoft prévoyait d’utiliser vos données personnelles pour entraîner ses modèles d’IA. Cela inclut vos échanges audio, vidéo et écrits ainsi que vos pièces jointes dans 130 produits comme Office, Skype, Teams et Xbox » 1/2

Worried about book bannings and attacks on libraries and schools? please consider

It's not safe for democracy, or cultural posterity, to leave an "on/off switch" for library books in the hands of corporate publishers

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-lawsuit-libraries-books/