Mastodawn

@stephenturner.us there is also ZotSeek, a new and promising plug-in, to run this type of LLM-based semantic search across one’s #Zotero library locally with #Nomic‘s models.

Granting for-profit companies and particularly those with close links to the publishing mafia access to the most intimate insight into your intellectual endeavours is an #extractivist dream come true. They didn’t get you buying up all the other reference managers, they got you to hand over the keys to your study with the promise of “free” short cuts. And make no mistake, they will recommend literature from their catalogues and will use your engagement stats for pricing of subscriptions.

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/128707/new-plugin-zotseek-ai-powered-semantic-search-for-zotero-8

#enshittification #academicChatter

[New Plugin] ZotSeek: AI-Powered Semantic Search for Zotero 8

Hi everyone, I've developed ZotSeek, a plugin that adds AI-powered semantic search to Zotero 8. WHAT IT DOES

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kali Jan 19

as long as the wealthy, which is a good part of us white people, do not change their #consumerist, #extractivist, #capitalist, #collionalist ways, are not willing to live with less so others can live at all - this is the future we are going:

more & more authoritarian nations ending the world in endless war over the last bits & pieces that help them pretend that one day all of their peasants will get rich if they just support another #war. #trump just drew the blueprint for it.

#oilandgas #uspol #venezuela

DoomsdaysCW Feb 23, 2025

HT @Lazarou

Strong #solarpunk vibes here, 'weaving' a public building!

"As architects, we need to unlearn everything we have been taught. Our idea of progress is completely based on #colonialist, #extractivist practices. People talk about #sustainability, but what exactly are we sustaining?" - Architect, #AnaMariaGutiérrez

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/21/organizmo-the-colombian-architects-overturning-colonialist-sustainability-ideas
#SolarPunkSunday #Colombia #CenterForRegeneration #Weaving #PostColonialism #Decolonize #Architecture #Bamboo #TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge

Organizmo! The Colombian architects overturning colonialist ‘sustainability’ ideas

A 30-acre construction lab is helping reshape Colombia’s architecture with ancestral knowledge and direct ecological action. We head inside their smoking doughnut

The Guardian

Pierre Huyghebaert Oct 3, 2022

"The extent to which #extractivist #platforms have embraced #FreeCulture, capitalizing on voluntary #work and free labor, has become clear, as well as how the success of Free/Libre and #OpenSource #Software relied on its alignment with an #IT #industry profiting from #exploitation and speculating on growth. [...] How can we create conditions for re-use which acknowledge different kinds of contributors? What would a #decolonial and #feminist #license look like which could acknowledge entangled notions of #authorship? #CC4r opens up a space for negotiation and conversation, but is far from answering any of these questions. With CC4r, we hope to incite thoughtful and irreverent #practices that do not evade these questions but instead invite its users to inhabit them. For us, CC4r is more than a license. It is a commitment to care for the collective conditions of the many, for “these explosions, the principle and #economy of which we have not begun to grasp, and whose outbursts we cannot predict.""
#ÉlodieMugrefya #FemkeSnelting
https://march.international/collectively-setting-conditions-for-re-use/

Collectively Setting Conditions for Re-Use

How can we create conditions for re-use which acknowledge different kinds of contributors? Oriented by a feminist and intersectional understanding of authorship, Constant considers cultural expressions as always already situated within the communities with which we exist.

MARCH

Pierre Huyghebaert Jul 12, 2022

#FLOSS "Yet over time, some of the initial spark and potentiality of this inventive proposal has been normalized and the problems and omissions of #FreeCulture #licensing have become increasingly apparent. The extent to which #extractivist #platforms have embraced Free Culture, capitalizing on voluntary work and free labor, has become clear, as well as how the success of Free/Libre and #OpenSource Software relied on its alignment with an IT industry profiting from exploitation and speculating on growth." #ÉlodieMugrefya #FemkeSnelting
https://march.international/collectively-setting-conditions-for-re-use/
#licence

Collectively Setting Conditions for Re-Use

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bs2 Mar 8, 2022

'climate change is the Earth telling us that nothing is free; that

the age of (white, male) human “dominion” has ended;

that there is no such thing as a one-way relationship comprised only of taking; that all actions have reactions.'
#NaomiKlein on the #CosmologicalThreat of giving up on #Oil , #FossilFuels , and #Nukes too I suppose , all the evil #extractivist ways...
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/01/war-climate-crisis-putin-trump-oil-gas/

Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys

War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?

The Intercept

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bs2 Mar 8, 2022

A recent writing by #NaomkKlein reminded me of this remark by Amitov Ghosh.
' #Oil, in this context, is the symbol of the #extractivist mindset: not only a perceived God-given right to keep extracting #FossilFuels, but also the right to keep taking whatever they want, leave poison behind, and never look back.'
I've been re-reading parts of #ShockDoctrine to how #Putin arose from #ChicagoSchool polices, #GeorgeSoros and #HarvardAcademics lke #Sachs
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/01/war-climate-crisis-putin-trump-oil-gas/

Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys

War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?

The Intercept