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OpenAI, Aaron Swartz, suicide 

When billionaires ask to do illegal copying of all known works it gets taken seriously.

When a kid simply downloads scientific articles too fast they (lawyers) hound him until he commits suicide.

@craigmaloney as a [user] i wish to [feel fulfilled and supported by my software, and just sit with it open while wanting for nothing]

No more piecemeal half-measures that only enrich Elsevier anyway

Abolish copyright on academic publications

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I don't want better funding or whatever for Open Access :OpenAccess:

I want copyright on academic material abolished by law

Just legalize Scihub :scihub: for fuck's sake

This is at least 8cm of ice which is necessary because that’s a field underneath. If you look closely you can see the grass waving in the moving water underneath while you skate.

medical software 

Unrelated to my previous toot, just learned that the vendor of my hospital's patient portal went bankrupt late last year (different vendor)

racism, medical 

Love (do not love) running into racist shit in medical software...

Fuck you too, Epic Systems Corporation

PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“

Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.

These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.

Please spread this knowledge.

Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.

Wait, AGDQ got rid of its masking policy? Maybe they should switch charities to some long covid research foundation then, since they think it's okay to have their attendees speedrun Long Covid% category

Lmao I just looked up their covid "policy" and besides recommending but not mandating masks it also talks about handwashing. Because of course it fucking does. Gotta keep up that hygiene theater and pretend that fomite transmission, not a single case of which has been conclusively proven in 4 years of pandemic, is a significant factor in spreading a literal airborne virus

All of this during the worst covid surge since the emergence of omicron, with a new variant that is as different from omicron as omicron was from the initial ancestral version of covid, and which is more severe and immune evasive

So disappointing 😒

Dit arbeidsconflict gaat in de eerste plaats over onze leefomstandigheden. Ten tweede gaat het ook over goed openbaar vervoer, waar we de tijd hebben om te wachten tot oudere mensen zitten of om de rolstoelgebruiker de bus in te helpen. doorbraak.eu/wat-hebben-we-aan

re: Matrix governance shit, rant 

@MTRNord I am not expecting them to 'backchannel'. I am expecting them to *prioritize* it. To be proactive about the thing that is literally meant to save their broken and falling-apart processes.

I *deliberately* made it an MSC *because* I didn't want to backchannel this.

This is the actual problem here: social.pixie.town/@joepie91/11

re: Matrix governance shit, rant 

@MTRNord I have also left out the several years of private conversations with Travis and Matthew where I gave them practically paint-by-numbers solutions to get out of the hole they'd dug themselves into, which were then promptly ignored.

re: Matrix governance shit, rant 

@ryan That is exactly what it is, apparently, and that is exactly what it resulted in.

re: Matrix governance shit, rant 

To summarize this whole thing: if you're in a crisis, I lend you a helping hand to get you out, and your response boils down to "you didn't file the correct form"... then I don't think you actually want to solve the crisis.

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Sure sucks how capitalism ruins everything it touches, huh?

re: Matrix governance shit, rant 

@183231bcb I mean, I know where the problem lies, and afaik none of them are subject to replacement in the governing board elections

@determinerik Is er eigenlijk ook iets van een Matrix-server o.i.d.? (Hoeft niet per se van BIJ1 te zijn, het gaat me meer om de mensen)

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