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ever since I started being a scientist I have been continually gobsmacked at how we are suckers for literally every scam, and the effect of all those scams defines the daily practice of science from front to back. I don't think I'll ever stop being mystified at how people can decide that being mandated to straight transfer like a 5th of every grant to the worst companies in the world is just not relevant to them.

"it's not my job, I just do the science, and every part of how I do the science is kneecapped by my decision that it isn't my job"

I have heard the arguments about precarity and unevenness of expertise and so on and so forth, but almost all of that is itself a symptom of our failure to take responsibility for the political-economic circumstances of our work

we didn't think it was important to be active in our unions to resist neoliberalizing universities. great now you get paid just enough to choose between eating and rent.

we didn't think it was important to rebuild healthy communication systems. billions of dollars later, we funded the surveillance conglomerates that power ICE, own the process by which our work is evaluated and how we maintain our jobs, and make all of our publicly funded research either unavailable to 99.9999% of the world or else subject to a pay-for-prestige APC model designed to reward playing along with a healthy dose of Matthew effects.

and now the infrastructure to support the Nelson Memo's mandate for #OpenData is not our problem. I can't wait to give Amazon total control over scientific data and a brand new shiny revenue stream that never goes down

anyway since capital is like increasingly operationalized as stuff like logistics, intellectual property, attention, and surveillance, i think it would be cool if we started including stuff like communications mediums, databases, and informational organizational systems in "the means of production" when ppl talk about seizing them.

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any RSS reader recommendation? I haven't used them in years and I'm not sure what good client is out there now.

January 1st, 1970 is where the government stores all the secret things that never happened

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

Oh, awesome. It's possible to issue commands to Amazon Alexa by using frequency ranges just outside human hearing

"Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan (NUIT): Exploiting Your Speaker to Attack Your Microphone"

CVE-2023-33248

(PDF) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-261-xia-qi.pdf

Apparently this page existed and I didn't know about it. The courses tab looks particularly helpful for any young professionals like me 😅
https://academictorrents.com/

having ADHD is great if you hate the idea of finishing 100% of a task but love the idea of finishing 2% of 50 tasks

As "smart interfaces" become more common, regression to the mean will be a serious problem.

For example, Google's swipe keyboard has trouble with rare words. I use a lot of technical terms. It seems like the swipe gesture model has no problem understanding what I mean, but then the language model kicks in and says, "'evolutionary'? Pfft, no way. They obviously meant 'employment'."

It's annoying having to fight with autocorrect, but I'm more concerned about the large scale effects. Will AI subtly nudge all of our communication and art to the average, making our culture more homogenous and bland?

Minnesota enacts right-to-repair law that covers more devices than any other state

Just one state demanding free repair manuals could benefit all fixers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/minnesota-enacts-right-to-repair-law-that-covers-more-devices-than-any-other-state/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

So not only does the new Outlook preview only support Outlook & Gmail accounts (lol) but it also shows ads huh