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Maria Chiara Pievatolo

@mcpbsk.bsky.social

Open science, Kant scholarship and emancipation from digital minority. Also: https://qoto.org/@mcp_ @mcp@poliversity.it Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3089-6218

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Maria Chiara Pievatolo@mcpbsk.bsky.social · last yr.

Prima di affrontare la ricorrente domanda "A che serve l'#università?" dovremmo chiedere, con Keynes "A che serve l'economia?" e riflettere, invece che mugugnare soltanto, sul perché quella di oggi ci carica di #bullshitJobs (Graeber) zenodo.org/records/1505...

Di professori e di sgherri: scienza (aperta) e amministrazione universitaria

The question "What are universities for?" is the subject of a recurring debate for at least two reasons:         (1) because the interest in utility cannot prevail over the search for truth without de...

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Yanis Varoufakis@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 2y ago

First, German police arrest Iris Hefetz, our Israeli-Jewish comrade, for opposing genocide in Berlin. Now, Ilan Pappe ( @pappe54), the renowned Israeli-Jewish historian, is detained in Detroit by the FBI for questioning over his campaigning against Israel's genocide. Dark times!

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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2y ago

As folks discuss the pundering of the open internet/sharing economy by the data-hungry LLM trainers, it seems like a good time to remind ourselves to find something other than "the tragedy of the commons" as a metaphor. On the racist, terrible origins of that phrase:

The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the commons

Something I've been meaning to say about The Tragedy of the Commons: we’ve let a flawed metaphor by a racist ecologist define environmental thinking for a half century.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 2y ago

Hey Tucson! Join EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social and @uarizona.bsky.social geographers Colter Thomas & Dugan Meyer for today’s opening of the “Infrastructures of Control” exhibition featuring photos of surveillance tech at the U.S.-Mexico border, followed by an EFF Speakeasy/Meetup.

"Infrastructures of Control": Q&A with the Geographers Behind University of Arizona's Border Surveillance Photo Exhibition | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Guided by EFF's map of Customs...

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Maria Chiara Pievatolo@mcpbsk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why do scientific authors need a #republication right? Why is it that commercial scientific publishing no longer has anything to do with making things public? Thoughts on a paradox. poliversity.it/@mcp/1122479... and zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/...

To publish or to republish, that is the question: is the right of republication just palliative care?

Why do so many European countries grant scientific authors who receive public funding a right of republication (or secondary publication) that allows them to make their work freely available to the pu...

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Pirati.io@pirati.bsky.social · 3y ago

A new report by digital campaigners, Open Rights Group, has found that the data of people who are referred to the Prevent programme is being widely shared, and that data is being retained for years even when referrals are marked ‘no further action’. Thousands of Prevent referrals are made (1/2)