Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 81

@gemlog I agree with the sentiment, but I don't necessarily want that outcome. Those publishers employ a lot of clever people. They could perhaps be transformed from gatekeepers and copyright trolls, into companies that offer something genuinely useful to scholarly publishing, and accept Walmart-level profit margins instead of 10 times that.

"Neo-liberalism" and "Surveillance capitalism" are to "capitalism" as ActivityPub is to the web. A particular set of extensions that builds on the original in specific ways. "Crony capitalism" and "corporatism" are sometimes used the way @revkellyn describes, but they can also be used in communicating ideas that are "anti-capitalist" (by our definition) to people who use the term "capitalism" to mean a totally different thing.
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/what-s-a-capitalism-anyway
@paulfree14 @josef

I would love to see the emergence of "pirate" journals, who #PeerReview and publish secret research, provided by whistleblowers working for corporations. All that research that companies don't publishing because it's not flattering to their products or their image, as #DrBenGoldacre talks about.
https://www.badscience.net/2013/06/2950/

@adfeno ok, thanks for the tip. What makes #Metalink different from existing protocols like #BitTorrent or #IPFS?
https://www.metalinker.org/
@conservancy

@jalcine like these?
https://framagit.org/zot/zap/tree/dev/spec
@clacke

@LWFlouisa #CoActivate is still running. The dev plans I'm aware of are to refactor and modernize the codebase, so it's easier to extend. When that happens, adding features like federation or GIT support will be much easier. Anyone familiar with #Python, especially #Plone and its frameworks, who is keen to help, please feel free to get in touch.

@cj love the concept. Could federated spec development be done using code forges federated using #ForgeFed? Don't let that #ShowerThought discourage you though, let a million flowers bloom ...
@kaniini

@lj_writes I wonder if that was the same doco I saw. Wasn't one of the flat earthers a pilot? In this scenario, I'd let them choose at least one of the flight crew. Also, I'd make sure the flight was in the northern hemisphere summer, when there's sod all ice in the Arctic and more in the Antarctic, and charter another flight over the Arctic for half of them at exactly the same time.

@mvgorcum good for you!

@jalcine is there a host I could set up a trial account of? I'm not currently in the position to self-host, although this is something I intend to address as soon as my book is finished (if not before).

I would love to see academics take a class action against the corporate journal publishers, demanding to be paid for all the work they've done writing and peer reviewing papers, editing journals, and so on. Those publishers are running a for-profit business. The workers who create all the value they make that profit from deserve at least minimum wage for their work. Instead they often get *charged* for working instead of paid!

@puffinus_puffinus thanks!

@cwebber to the degree that any of your plans for #Spritely involve allowing search and discovery of information, in more ethical ways than the datafarms, maybe you could get some of the funding from the EU Next Generation Internet project?

@alexis I've written about this here, in an attempt to encourage more compassionate and intellectual humble approaches to dissent and disagreement:
https://libcom.org/forums/feedback-content/universal-friendship-radical-goal-09012019

Anyone have a proposal for more ethical, #FreeCode/ #OpenSource approaches to search and discovery on the net? The EU Next Generation Internet project might fund it to the tune of 5000 to 50,000 Euros. Application deadline is April 1, 2019:
https://nlnet.nl/discovery/
#funding

To 'favourite' something is such a blunt instrument. I want to be able to mark posts as 'to reply', bookmark them to read/ watch/ listen what they link to, indicate agreement/ support (without necessarily wanting to boost), and various other things, and have a separate list for each type in the client UI.

@mmin one argument for privacy, in the context of democratic deliberation, is that we don't do all our important thinking by ourselves. Conversations are exercises in cluster processing of ideas and evidence, where we form new thoughts in realtime in the process of articulating them to others, in response to what they've presented. Denying people private spaces where they can speak freely, forming new ideas, cuts off parts of their own cognitive processes. #ThoughtCrime
@ricardojmendez

@bhaugen widespread post-apartheid violence against white South Africans by non-whites, while understandable to some degree given the history of apartheid, is definitely race-based bigotry. Arguing about whether or not it's fair to call it "racism" or "reverse racism" is semantic quibbling, that trivializes and minimizes the experiences of people subject to horrendous episodes of unprovoked violence.

@bhaugen people spend so much time talking past each other in the "racism" conversation. We really need two clearly defined terms here. One for structural racism, such as the way the policing system in colonized countries discriminates at every level in favour of the members of the colonizing ethnicity, and one for race-based bigotry and violence, which can and does flow both ways.