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Oct 29, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
find paper. click button. read paper. have paper. auto-update .bib-liographies. share annotations. talk. build knowledge together. remember this is the floor of what's possible, constantly crushed by information monopolies. wonder why it has to be so hard, how we become complicit If you use Zotero first of...
the amount of money being spent to try and cram our collective imagination into a box where we somehow actually want to be able to log in with a federated graph identity and be tracked across the web just for some peace is way more than you think.
this...
and this...
are the same as this...
thedrum.com/news/2021/03/2… With Google set to sunset t...Nick Flood, global commerci...
and this publisher effort to lobby university libraries to adopt multifactor authentication to kill sci-hub, in the process becoming identity vendors
snsi.info/faqs/ [Header says SNSI: Scholarl...[Screenshot of SNSI FAQ (li...
and this expansion into surveillance technology
f you are wondering why your university got mandatory 2FA recently, it might be wise to keep an eye on the tight business relationships between the organizations pushing for federated identities in the academic system from multiple lobbying angles including librarians and CISOs.

(director of account development, Spr|ˆnger N@ türe)
springernature.com/de/librarians/…
we need to realize the ground has completely shifted underneath the feet of the framing discourse from the last reproducibility crisis. it's still the journal system, but it's doing something different now.
presentation given to an academic security officer group by the company that sells the technology to detect paper piracy to 3|sev|er
web.archive.org/web/2021102909… [Screenshots from linked pr...Why target higher education...Strengthen your architectur...Detection On Demand marked ...
idk risky thing to call attention to but I do not want to be where science is going to be if it keeps going in this direction.

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it's that proclaimin' hour: the more I learn about the lineage of each, the more I think a blending of the open science, semweb/linked data, and piracy communities would be an extremely healthy thing for the human knowledge ecosystem. but I still don't know much much they talk rn
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"practicality" might have been the worst choice of word possible here. I meant as compared to maybe "ineffability," favoring embracing folk knowledge. In this context it means vs. idealism, academic impossibility. humbling how the meaning flips over such a small cultural divide
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