Bits
Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. https://nitter.net/about
All Elsevier:NeuroImage editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal https://imaging-neuroscience.org/ #openaccess #openscience
The threat isn’t rogue superintelligence. It’s bullshit at unprecedented scale, reflected back upon itself and iteratively amplified. https://mastodon.social/@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org/110071982814402962
No one even has to do much of anything to make it move. But none of us have the power to stop it, either. And at some point — back before we really knew what we were doing — we hooked those pistons up all over the place. https://archive.ph/H7QZ5
I guess we’d rather rely on proxying ourselves and our work through some third-party app than work together as a sector, and we’d rather build value for some company happy to take our free ghost-work labour than invest it in building relationality and community amongst ourselves. https://ammienoot.com/brain-fluff/a-quick-thought-about-lxd-and-chatgpt-and-how-nothing-changes/
Photos
This series explores the spaces inside some of the world’s finest musical instruments. Photographed using exotic probe lenses and specialist processing techniques, these instrumental interiors appear as vast concert halls or contemporary architecture. Each shot is comprised of dozens to hundreds of individual images, carefully blended to give the illusion of space. https://www.architectureinmusic.com/
Politics & Economics
“if we just reconnect with old ways of doing things because we’ve missed them without looking around to see who isn’t in the room, we will exclude more and more of our colleagues.” https://blog.brennaclarkegray.ca/2023/04/17/whats-the-plan/
#housing #economics Home Ownership By Age Group
What I ask is for you to do what you can to protect students. #academic #surveillance #technology companies would like nothing more but for us all to shut up. Don’t let them silence you. Don’t let anyone or anything take away your human right to freedom of expression. https://linkletter.opened.ca/stand-against-proctorios-slapp-update-30/
This judgment is grotesque. It makes a mockery of BC’s anti-SLAPP statute, to say nothing of Canadian copyright and confidentiality law.” #slapp #bcpse https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/links-arent-performances/#free-ian-linkletter
If #NASA is #Amtrak in space, then #Spacex is the #Fyre Festival with rockets, a glamorous effort led by a hype man who promises that every logistical problem will melt away if we can just get people to the destination. https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm