MCP___ @mcp_@social.cleverlibre.org

"Riduzione della biodiversità tecnica significa anche omologazione delle piattaforme e conseguente appiattimento delle capacità di interazione delle persone, legate a un certo modo di fare le cose che viene rapidamente promosso a modalità irrinunciabile", quella che io chiamo pigrizia mentale
Pedagogia hacker - Il Tascabile
https://www.iltascabile.com/societa/pedagogia-hacker/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/27/a-wolf-killed-the-eu-presidents-precious-pony-then-the-fight-to-catch-the-predator-began

"After being hunted to near extinction, wolves have returned to Europe. But when one killed Ursula von der Leyen’s family pony, it ignited a high-stakes battle. Are the animals’ days numbered?"

Not a story I expected to see, and it again makes it sound as if the European Commission has too much power.

Call for #OpenPeerReview: https://commentbfp.sp.unipi.it/maria-chiara-pievatolo-the-scale-and-the-sword-statal-science-and-research-evaluation/
We talk a lot about how research is evaluated. But we do not always ask who is entitled to evaluate research and what is the legitimacy (even from the perspective of #openscience) of a system in which evaluation is in the hands of bureaucrats, or government-appointed researchers acting with bureaucratic power. The origin of the question is Italian, but its scope is global.
To contribute see the gray box at the bottom of https://commentbfp.sp.unipi.it

Heh, I missed this petition to ban advertising in public spaces in #Brussels. It is now being discussed by the regional parliament. Will be monitoring it.
https://democratie.brussels/initiatives/i-168

#banadvertising

"So, then, why is Penguin Random House trying to kill the Internet Archive?"

Mike Masnick @mmasnick points out the publishing giant's inconsistencies in believing in the importance of "equitable access to books" while suing a library, in Techdirt. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/18/internet-archive-files-opening-brief-in-its-appeal-of-book-publishers-win/

In this issue of the Bulletin, you'll read and learn about: What #JShelter is, how it protects your online privacy, and how you can help improve it. FSF system administrator Michael McMahon shares details about the browser extension, including how users can become helpful contributors. https://u.fsf.org/41t #FSFBulletin #FreeSoftware #Privacy #Browsers #Firefox #Abrowser #Icecat #Mozilla

Non è genocidio? Sicuramente un crimine.
Ed Eliminare la memoria...?.

I civili palestinesi condannati alla morte per fame...

Non c’è Natale in Palestina: «Siamo tutti sotto attacco»
Guterres: «Mai tanta fame come a Gaza». Cadaveri decomposti in strada... Palestinesi brutalizzati da vivi e da morti. Uccisi altri due giornalisti: sono 100 dal 7 ottobre.

Distrutti gli archivi civili vecchi di un secolo.

E l'Onu accusa: civili giustiziati davanti alle loro famiglie

https://ilmanifesto.it/guterres-mai-tanta-fame-come-a-gaza-cadaveri-decomposti-in-strada

@smaurizi a #Pisa l'8 gennaio 2024 pomeriggio, su #Snowden. Renderò pubblico l'URL riservato della teleconferenza quando l'aula sarà piena, o se il covid renderà pericoloso fare una conferenza in presenza.

Brave step! @sorbonne_univ_ unsubscribes from the Web of Science.

‘By resolutely abandoning the use of proprietary bibliometric products, it is opening the way for open, free and participative tools.’

https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorbonne-university-unsubscribes-web-science

"To further boost online engagement, scientists may also be incentivized to review pre-prints. Recent reports suggest that scientists are more motivated to review if they are credited for it, especially if these efforts are recognized by their employers; monetary compensation ranked only sixth"
#Preprint #scientificpublication #PeerReview

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embr.202358127

Is centralized and governmental #evaluation of research compatible with the principles of #openscience? We do not think so. That is why we nominated Emanuele Conte for the #COARA Steering Board https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/aisa-nominates-emanuele-conte-for-coara-steering-board/

"t’s time to stop focusing merely on making #BigTech safer…
…rather than trying to make the intrinsically harmful environment of #monopoly platforms better, we should make our first area of focus evacuating the tech #platforms —that is, a managed retreat to smaller forums run by and for their communities, made possible through #interoperability."
@pluralistic
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/01/1081939/big-questions-problem-solving-bill-gates-jennifer-doudna-lina-khan/

Paola Galimberti: CoalitionS fa una proposta radicale per emancipare la #scienza dai #monopoli dell'editoria commerciale: "gli autori sono responsabili della disseminazione delle proprie scoperte" https://www.roars.it/towards-responsible-publishing-cercasi-nuovo-modello-di-pubblicazione/ #openscience

Ora a #Napoli: cerimonia di assegnazione della cittadinanza onoraria a Julian #Assange,da parte del sindaco Gaetano Manfredi la ritira per lui la moglie, #StellaAssange perché lui è carcerato dall'11/4/2019 nella prigione più dura del #RegnoUnito e non è più libero dal 7/12/2010

"Software that controls your body should always respect your freedom. This article is a recap of scandals of medical devices, like hearing aids, insulin pumps, bionic eyes, and pacemakers, and what we can learn from them. It's astonishing: you wouldn't expect these devices to be run by software in such a way that they can leave you completely helpless." Read the article: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/software-that-supports-your-body-should-always-respect-your-freedom #FreeSoftware #Bionics #Hearing #Pacemakers #DigitalSovereignty

L'#ANVUR aderisce a #COARA, che promuove una riforma radicale della #valutazione_della_ricerca ma ne ha disatteso sistematicamente gli impegni. Perché non può o perché non vuole? E come deve reagire COARA? Facendo finta di nulla in modo che nessuno la prenda più sul serio? La notizia in italiano contiene un link a una versione inglese più lunga e per addetti ai lavori :https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/anvur-e-coara-una-relazione-complicata/

Un commento non richiesto sul bando per la valutazione di stato VQR 2020-2024
L'ANVUR rende disponibile, qui, una bozza del bando per il prossimo esercizio di valutazione della ricerca, burocraticamente noto come VQR 2020-2024. È un documento coerente nel metodo e nel merito.
Nel metodo, lo scopo della pubblicazione della bozza è la "consultazione con la comunità scientifica
https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/un-commento-non-richiesto-sul-bando-per-la-valutazione-di-stato-vqr-2020-2024/
#Notizie

4. you may think that the attitude of those people who live in democracy as if they were in an authoritarian regime is wrong and excessive (I did), but they are right that our constitutional rights are seriously collapsing