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I've been wanting to write something lengthy about "AI" for a while, discussing the arguments for and against and arriving at a reasonable position, but I find myself completely unable to get past the most glaring point, which is that we are facing _catastrophic ecosphere collapse_ because of […]

Very interesting article! "This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism described by dependency theory." […]

What's better than open research information resource? Multiple open research information resources that can be combined together! I'm happy to participate in ORION, an effort to coordinate amongst those making ORI resources available in the cloud, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We […]

Eerste versie van De auto, de geit en de wiskunde naar Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds gestuurd 🥳 Ik had nooit van co-auteur willen wisselen, zo geweldig om dit met @janbeuving te doen! https://www.nieuwezijds.nl/boek/de-auto-de-geit-en-de-wiskunde/

new blog: "Open Infrastructures #2: the SURF Fediverse" https://doi.org/10.59350/1ja9h-jem83 https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/02/08/open-infrastructures.html "But SURF operates a second fediverse server, one using the PeerTube software, also […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

It's interesting to me how the software industry seems to be shifting from a Build AI Into Everything, to Build Everything With AI: https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/ Maybe it's that I'm the same age as the author, but this part really rings true: > The […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PsyArXiv/116052876896088882 Nice short (*very* short - like one page-short 😬) summary of theory-crisis related observations in psychology. Super useful if you're e.g. designing a course - chock-full of references to articles to cover 🤩

I wrote about the most ambitious form of AI-assisted software development I've seen yet - Strong DM's "Software Factory" approach, where two of the guiding principles are "Code must not be written by humans" and "Code must not be reviewed by humans" […]

Vandaag 10 jaar geleden, in #2016, correspondeerde ik met een schrijfster over de zin 'kun je je voorstellen?' https://neerlandistiek.nl/2016/02/kun-je-je-voorstellen/

🆕 pandoc 3.9 🎉🚀 • Official support for wasm (WebAssembly), allowing to run pandoc in the browser, • *alerts* extension in the pandoc Markdown flavor, • support for defaults files using JSON instead of YAML, • extension of `${.}` vars in the `defaults` field, making it easier to base defaults […]

🔥 There's still some time to join the crowdfunding for @Bonfire and contribute to building a better world! 🤩 https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community (if you don't know about Bonfire yet: it's an awesome project building a network that's community-governed, open, built for […]

Ik kom later vandaag met een heel zuur verhaal over AI. Maar mogelijk ook goed om te weten, AI is onvoorstelbaar indrukwekkende technologie die nooit meer weggaat, hoe erg we het ook vinden: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/an-ai-premortem/

An interview/case study with @kfitz about @hello ! In it, she talks about some of the absolute key issues for open infrastructure, such as scholar governance, sustainability, and total openness as an unnegotiable principle. Building the Commons: How Knowledge Commons is navigating challenges […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@dozigden/115989170603682661 This is so cool!!! Even with the letters that each chapter starts with! 🤩 (For those who haven't seen the book: the 26 chapters start with words that start with the letters of the alphabet)

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@LimeSurvey/115978157649376293 And in addition to the @CryptPad discount of today, there's also a new LimeSurvey🍋‍🟩 version in the making! 💫✨ Great news for open science, digital sovereignty, and ethical research infrastructure! 🤩

RE: https://social.xwiki.com/@CryptPad/115972979917971775 Today you get 50% off at CryptPad! 🥳 If you ever thought in the past year or so that it might be good to become less dependent of ditch US Big Tech, this is the time! 🤩 Nice move to simultaneously get a safe place for your documents […]

RE: https://social.xwiki.com/@CryptPad/115974026999954657 Excellent reason to finally subscribe 🙂 I've been postponing it for a while (is does always cost some time etc), but this clearly shows the importance of guaranteeing structural funding (like for Fediverse software development and […]

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]

Think you can relate to billionaires? In total, it would take you over 769 years to reach billionaire status, making $25k/week. #NoMoreBillionaires #TaxBillionaires #USpol

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@monkeyislandbot_en/115964591922189319 I feel seen

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115961628164402729 Wow - this is *not* satire, is it?!? I had to read the whole article, but it's either exceptionally well done satire, or exceptionally badly done governance 😶

Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you mind want to scale back. "The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform […]

Bitlocker is a Microsoft product that encrypts your laptop hard drive etc. Apparently, Microsoft exfiltrates a recovery key for your Bitlocker encryption and stores it in their cloud, they give it out to law enforcement at request. And of course, they give it out to whoever compromises their […]

In the house: @Datagraver !

[crowdsource advice-seeking on latex/markdown] I started writing this book project using zettlr in markdown, because that seemed like the best way to incorporate many citations from a wild variety of journals/books/articles. But I am now having serious problems trying to integrate files. Latex […]

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/115917423579084292 This seems to fit right in the "hushme" category: https://gethushme.com/

@NilsArlinghaus hi 🙂

A damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive. In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3 […]

AWS lanceert vandaag hun "Europese cloud", en @Marloezovic van @nrc_nl vraagt goed door: "Ik hoopte op een ja/nee-antwoord op de vraag of jullie zekerheid kunnen geven?" "„Ik ben niet de beste om die vraag te beantwoorden. Daar moeten we op terugkomen.” De vraag bleef ook in de uren na het […]

Results from tracking 30,991 images across 1,456 instances from the mastodon.social federated timeline. Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 32 images (1.5x the average).

GDPR in a nutshell. https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/115887342621053928

My bff just gave me the most amazing present. She painted a bit of my electronic music studio and made it into a magnet! This has to be one of my all-time favorite gifts.

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@matherion/115853697615390124 Oh, and - it would be awesome if you could boost the below post! I see some people liking/starring/favoriting it, which is nice, but in this case it would be nice if many people see this 🙂 (as maybe not everybody knows, on Mastodon […]

Dear #qualitativeresearch people! 🎙️ We need your help - more specifically, your exported projects 🙂 We're working on a way to liberate qualitative projects from Closed, proprietary software such as NVivo, Atlas, MaxQDA, Dedoose, etc. This project will allow converting projects exported to the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Dutch_Reproducibility_Network/115848680734416573 In two weeks, we'll kick off this new year with a cool workshop where we combine #Reproducibility and #OpenScience with #behaviorchange#openscience🤩 Come join us in Leiden!

This article by @anildash squarely hits in the feels, names and articulates what's happening in the tech industry, and points towards pragmatic things we can do. Notably — and I cannot sufficiently underscore how crucial this is — Anil spells out that power by its very definition is […]

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

Having a go at Dry January? 🚫🍺 Here are some excellent tips (and then I also mean from a behavior change perspective) 🤩 I sometimes order beers at a webshop for nonalcoholic beers: https://en.ondernulpuntvijf.com - they have very nice alcoholfree craft beers 🤩 They now also posted some tips […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115827546013355386 This article would actually be good to include in PhD training programs 🙂

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PsyArXiv/115786667259704456 Good to know for anybody planning to secure more personal time in 2026 💡

I know a few people on here as well as myself will FEEL this cartoon.

There's now a directory of "open source" (they're not) apps using the new O'Sassy License promoted by…well dontcha know it, DHH. Yeah, that guy. 🤨 Look, I have *never* shied away from offering my complaints with the state of #opensource, and I think OSS communities need the room to explore […]

Remember: If you have #Acrobat Reader installed on your work computer, periodically check it to ensure that its #AI features are switched _off_, because the software will switch it on even after you have previously switched it off. Unless your bosses are […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

When the study confirms intuition: "We find that the number of papers cited at least as well as those appearing in high-impact factor journals vastly exceeds the number of papers published in such venues." https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003532 Decades […]

RE: https://social.coop/@da5nsy/115713927175379214 Thank you @da5nsy - now also switching to @ente - one app at a time 🤩