the virgin dataviz blog -> data science -> adtech pipeline vs. the chad dataviz blog -> what the hell am i doing -> trying to abolish software pipeline
standing under the bleachers after every R bloggers post being like "hey kid if ya wanna be cool you'll smoke this direct action against the surveillance industry"
stamping your button in the database perf assembly line and one day looking up like "my god! what am i doing!" ripping off your smock and running off into the forests of piracy never to be seen again
at the very least we should face it and admit when you see a software doing an impressive thing it is almost always really bad news for humanity.
tests pass! algorithmic trading velocity just increased by a degree that measurably impacts the climate survivability of earth!
whatever the movie cliché is, if i were scoring it i think the scene of quitting writing code for extraction would probably sound like this
btw since i'm linking to a yt video, inject this into every yt page using something like greasemonkey and it is much better trust me
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uncle phil "campus for privatization of the commons" and "arena of pricing a generation of students out of public education through housing auxiliary loan obligations"
journalists pull the 990 for the UO foundation during the years the track and field stadium was build and compare the disregarded entities section to the public statements of cost challenge 2022
so I'm in the process and writing a guide for deplatforming myself from everyday surveillance, stuff like notes, calendars, file backup, etc. does anyone have any requests or recommendations? !/
so far thinking about a two-part of rented hosting for public things and sbc with some external drives for private stuff, would love to see how low we can get the barriers to entry by being able to extend it out to multiple levels of documentation via wiki format !/
I also am not an infosec person and am aware of the possibility of OS-level leaks in android and iOS that would render it moot, I'm thinking more from a minimizing surface & practicing alternatives perspective. !/
the logic of capital is just 🤌 in this 1989 paper about manufacturing pharmaceuticals in space and needing to invent new pharmaceuticals to cure the diseases caused by manufacturing pharmaceuticals in space !/ doi.org/10.1177/002580…
[wall street guy voice] space factories? ya gadda problem. space insurance. ya can't get it. the satellites keep exploding. costs a fortune.
then ya got space law. doesn't exist yet. so then Johnson and Johnson hires some space pirates. bing boom they rob the space factory. nothin you can do about it, law of the sea baby.
very curious what the legal case against scraping a database like this and rehosting it for free would be since at least in the US you can't copyright facts.
I assume it would be related to the database technology and curation process, so maybe for the thought experiment assume you launder the data enough that it's unrecognizable and is just a really big database of chemical data
or say you do an AI laundering and just say all the results are probabilistically generated by the magic overfit black box
been freakin screaming about this approach and it is time to build it!!!!!
I'm a big broken record on this but making this easily deployable and *peer to peer* is what will make a system like this truly transformative and resilient to capture
RELX just trying to normalize AI peer review, nothing to see here, AI peer review is more fair. not about making self-fulfilling scientometrics built into hiring and granting decisions to control the process of science. not at all. elsevier.com/connect/resear…
it's the metrics and it's the infrastructure y'all, publications are mostly a byproduct of the industry -- get ready for the next (now) shit where every part of your work gets evaluated by some hostile algorithm checking compliance with their profit-extraction machine
literally the same company that has 3.25PB of personal data built from a database of 1.4bn identities on 4.5bn devices. the business model is all the same, that's surveillance capital baby.