In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.

While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.

Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.

This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.

If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.

📢 The geocompx project has a new (and fully reproducible) logo!

geocompx is a community-driven initiative for reproducible geocomputation across languages, building open resources for spatial data analysis, modeling, and visualization in R, Python, Julia, and beyond, all rooted in open-source principles.

https://geocompx.org/

#geocompx #FOSS4G #GIS #OpenScience

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mmohr/116575116943212101

Well done @edzer, @mmohr et al.!

"OpenEO: A GDAL for EO Analytics" was @edzer's initial title for an idea published on https://r-spatial.org/2016/11/29/openeo.html

The idea is now a standard. The OGC has officially published the openEO API specification as a new OGC Community Standard. The openEO Processes are published as an OGC Community Practice.

The full news article: https://www.ogc.org/announcement/openeo-api-ogc-community-standard/

We are pleased to announce that Mikael Jagan @jaganmn has joined the R Core Team.

He has been an active contributor to the R project for several years, reporting bugs and proposing bug fixes and enhancements. Further, he has been co-authoring/maintaining the important Matrix package and more recently lme4 and glmmTMB.

Previously working in Ben Bolker's group at McMaster, he is starting a new job as Research Software Engineer with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Sharing from Bluesky:

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by Biohub and Wellcome Trust, with support from the Kavli Foundation and @researchsoft

https://os4science.org/news/open-source-for-science-fund-launch/

From imaging the universe to modeling life at the molecular scale, science is built on open source software maintained by scientific communities.

That infrastructure is systemically underfunded and not yet designed for AI-native use.

Our inaugural call, "Open Source for the Life Sciences," is seeking proposals from software maintainers whose work supports data-intensive research and AI-driven discovery in the life sciences.

Two tracks: up to $250K for domain-specific tools, up to $1M for foundational libraries.

If you build the tools science runs on, we want to hear from you. https://os4science.org