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Kevin Sanders
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tante"Decades of collective work proving that “open source” is not less but at least as secure as commercial offerings now slowly going down the drain. Because a bunch of men – and it is always all men – just don’t want to be responsible for their actions. Which is fine if you are 5. But after 18 it gets old really fucking fast."
(Original title: Diffusion of Responsibility)
Diffusion of Responsibility
One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone should have checked things”. “AI” companies want to sell machines to solve every issue but give no […]
A long-standing hypothesis that I've no interest in testing is that the reification of institutions, such as libraries, correlates with the the vocational awe within said institutions.
TutaLet's remind everyone what a safe internet actually means. 🌐🌍
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Open Book PublishersHow do we fight the problems that beset contemporary science?
Listen to author Krist Vaesen explain in this short introduction to his new book, 'Neomania': https://youtu.be/UmJtzU2GmBA?si=X6Ug5fiubQhXUgsT
Read the book online: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0507
If there's one lesson societies in the Global Minority seem unwilling to learn, surely it is that their desire for a government never delivers. (You can take it down every layer of the institutions that stem from that, too.) And yet they are adamant that option x, y, or z can deliver.
VerfassungsblogIst die „Open-Access-Revolution“ gescheitert? Nach über 20 Jahren scheinen profitorientierte Verlage fester im Sattel zu sitzen denn je. Aber die Geschichte zeigt: Noch ist nicht alles verloren.
Wieso wir dabei auf Amateure setzen sollten und was Sputnik 1 mit der Zeitschriftenkrise zu tun hat, beschreibt EVIN DALKILIC.
Thanks to those that ordered discs on Friday!
@evinale It is a theme across what my thesis will (hopefully) be. But I must do conference paper on it just to hammer it out more explicitly. It is a problem that is overlooked across institutions, government(s), to funders, to universities etc.
Tim Wu talking about his new book, 'The Age of Extraction', which sounds interesting. I'm sure I'll disagree with substantive parts of it, but I may have to grab a copy.