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The web has become a dominant epistemic environment, influencing people's beliefs at a global scale. However, online epistemic environments are increasingly polluted, impairing societies' ability to coordinate effectively in the face of global crises. We argue that centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution, and that healthier environments require redesigning how we collectively govern attention. Inspired by decentralization and open source software movements, we propose Open Source Attention, a socio-technical framework for "freeing" human attention from control by platforms, through a decentralized eco-system for creating, storing and querying stigmergic markers; the digital traces of human attention.
"Springer Nature says it continued to make significant investments in technology [..] In 2024, technology-related investments totalled €177 million."
That investment is so significant, they could double it and still maintain a profit margin of more than 18%
What a joke.
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/springer-profits-up-to-e512-million/
Funding cuts are jeopardizing the open knowledge infrastructure we need for everything from climate research to global health preparedness.
We need to act NOW to protect these vital resources. Sign the statement and join the movement to support open infrastructure: https://investinopen.org/blog/statement-of-support-for-a-global-research-ecosystem/
We have a new online discussion coming up next week Thursday (Feb 13) at 5pm (CET) with Kathryn Nave (https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/kate-nave).
We'll be talking about her book "A Drive to Survive - the Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551328/a-drive-to-survive) and, in particular, why life is all about sensemaking and self-manufacture, not inference.
All welcome! Register here: https://univienna.zoom.us/meeting/register/MNY8_FOGTxOOfiz05WuV8A .
This looks like an interesting NSF funding opportunity for #FAIR research infrastructure:
https://new.nsf.gov/events/fairos-program-solicitation-nsf-25-533-webinar/2025-02-07
Imagine a world where land & home is collectively stewarded by cooperative-based communities. 🌎
We've come together to practice demonstrating and sharing a model of harmonious co-stewardship.🤝
Our aim is to practice and evolve co-living systems in order to create a nourishing, regenerative community space for our cooperative members and broader community.
We’re excited to share these tools with you. Stay tuned 💫
An excerpt from the intro to the Pirate Care book, focusing on the criminalization of solidarity and the militant figure of the pirate carer:
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/651619/pirate-care-against-the-criminalization-of-solidarity
Proud to have contributed to:
How Can #DataCooperatives Help Build a Fair #DataEconomy?
#Report
https://www.projectliberty.io/news/how-can-data-cooperatives-help-build-a-fair-data-economy/
#Article
https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/4/3/62
#Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTT0tCix43E
Looking ahead to impactful dialogues in #WashingtonDC this April!
#DataTrusts #DataCommons #DataCooperatives
@geography @economics @politicalscience @politicaltheory @anthropology @sociology
We are proud to announce the release of “How Can Data Cooperatives Help Build a Fair Data Economy? Preliminary Observations and Considerations for Practical Data Governance Solutions,” an initial report in collaboration with the Decentralization Research Center. This report sets the stage for exploring and evaluating the potential for cooperatives to address market shortcomings, empower […]
@UlrikeHahn I'd be happy to find time to discuss this more, we've been interviewing researchers about their tools for information navigation on social media.
Meanwhile feel free to try the new version of our app that features some sentiment analysis of social media posts - https://app.sense-nets.xyz/
And you might also be interested in https://www.graze.social/ which is a really nice custom feed generator for Bluesky, it has some basic AI capabilities as well
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Invest in Open Infrastructure
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