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Many thanks to @aleesteele for the engaging #Internet #infrastructure Walk today! 🙏 From telegrams to satellite internet, or from the London BT Tower "official secret" to the intentionality needed to make a call using public phones, learned much about how #tech infrastructure abstracts away the politics of how we connect. ☎️
Also wonderful seeing @da5nsy! ❤️
👍 Thumbs way up, highly recommended! Si
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✊ Next, the Resisting #BigTech Empires event:
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resisting-big-tech-empires/
Many insightful speakers discussing the parallels between today's tech feudal lords and the history of #imperialism and #colonialism.
Many insightful speakers including @pluralistic in conversation with Sofia Scasserra.
#enshittification
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🔥 Top post: What if: (1) "Special Enshittification" - The original, specifi · 19 likes + reposts
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RE: https://akademienl.social/@ResearchEquals/116657832651587314
❤️ Love seeing @ResearchEquals practicing #opensource and #openresearch by innovating on existing infrastructure and connecting to the #fediverse!
🤞 Really hope @nlnet will …
RE: https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/115335031537065785
Love this satirical piece, thanks @Unixbigot!
Any more good examples of *corporate-speak* #microfiction anyone?
💩 #enshittification as formulated by @pluralistic feels as profound for thinking about our digital lives as the Special and General Theories of Relativity were for physics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity
With that in m…
✊ Next, the Resisting #BigTech Empires event:
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resisting-big-tech-empires/
Many insightful speakers discussing the parallels between today's tech feudal lords and the history of #imperialism and #colo…
📍 Besides thought-provoking stories, IMHO there is much about the walk that could be transplanted to a different location. E.g. What (hi)stories could be said about a phone booth in, say, Jakarta instead of London? OTOH, some infra is glob…
Many thanks to @aleesteele for the engaging #Internet #infrastructure Walk today! 🙏 From telegrams to satellite internet, or from the London BT Tower "official secret" to the intentionality needed to make a call using public phones, learne…
For those who care about digital #privacy policy and practice, here's a new tech briefing on how digital fingerprinting works on the web and how's it's done in deceptive ways:
https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/02/20/new-technical-brief…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MetaArXiv/116098607342372256
Yet another example of how so-called "#AI" entrenches existing problems in academic research.
#metaScience #metaresearch #academia #academicChatter #NoAI #maihT3k
After we decide what should be in each section we'll need volunteers to write a section of the guide. If you'd like to write a section (we're hoping ECRs will do this) or offer to peer review the guide, please add your name to the form her…
First step will be to review the existing guide. There's a document here https://shorturl.at/LZlBH where you can make suggestions of changes, things that we might like to add to the guide etc. Any and all comments are very welcome :)
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📢 Following the new Guide to Reproducible Code (see: https://floss.social/@nacly/115888248399982301), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide published by the British Ecological Society. This is the current version:
htt…
✊ Next, the Resisting #BigTech Empires event:
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resisting-big-tech-empires/
Many insightful speakers discussing the parallels between today's tech feudal lords and the history of #imperialism and #colo…
📍 Besides thought-provoking stories, IMHO there is much about the walk that could be transplanted to a different location. E.g. What (hi)stories could be said about a phone booth in, say, Jakarta instead of London? OTOH, some infra is glob…
Many thanks to @aleesteele for the engaging #Internet #infrastructure Walk today! 🙏 From telegrams to satellite internet, or from the London BT Tower "official secret" to the intentionality needed to make a call using public phones, learne…
For those who care about digital #privacy policy and practice, here's a new tech briefing on how digital fingerprinting works on the web and how's it's done in deceptive ways:
https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/02/20/new-technical-brief…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MetaArXiv/116098607342372256
Yet another example of how so-called "#AI" entrenches existing problems in academic research.
#metaScience #metaresearch #academia #academicChatter #NoAI #maihT3k
After we decide what should be in each section we'll need volunteers to write a section of the guide. If you'd like to write a section (we're hoping ECRs will do this) or offer to peer review the guide, please add your name to the form her…
First step will be to review the existing guide. There's a document here https://shorturl.at/LZlBH where you can make suggestions of changes, things that we might like to add to the guide etc. Any and all comments are very welcome :)
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📢 Following the new Guide to Reproducible Code (see: https://floss.social/@nacly/115888248399982301), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide published by the British Ecological Society. This is the current version:
htt…
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