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Reading “The Ethnography of Infrastructure”

The first in a periodic series called "Reading," today's text covers a seminal academic article you might like, but find long and dense. I break down Susan Leigh Star's 1999 article, "The Ethnography of Infrastructure" and explain why it matters.

EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws - Slashdot

System76 isn't the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an "informal" look at other discussions in various Linux communities. Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing list an optional D-Bus interface (org.freedesktop....

SUSE Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment

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Canada's One-Man Air Force – and His Calculated Crusade Against Airlines

For passenger rights activist Gabor Lukacs, fighting Air Canada, WestJet and the others is a big mathematical problem and an even bigger matter of principle

How Live Nation allegedly terrorized the concert industry

Live Nation allegedly threatened to skip venues that switched from Ticketmaster.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell

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The rich are just as subject to folly to any of us. Their wealth allow a them to inflict it on everyone

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> Gates simply opposes open science and compulsory licenses on scientific patents, even when that kills millions of people (as it did in South Africa).

He opposes open science for vaccine patents. He enforces open science for the rest of us, to the extent to no longer allowing Gates Foundation grant funds to be used to cover open access article processing charges, instead preferring Gates-funded authors to post preprints on their in-house preprint server
https://openaccess.gatesfoundation.org/

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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@nyhan @pluralistic my take on that is that he conveniently enforces open science when it's in the interest of capital, and fights it tooth and claw when it doesn't.

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@pluralistic today’s write-up mentions billionaire Peter Singer, but a quick search showed a *Paul* Singer (and not Peter), if true, then I’m pleased to have helped ☺️ (your ardent reader, admirer to the point of an addict 😅).
P.S. Met Cindy Cohn at SCALE23x Friday, and equally inspired (EFF alums are the best).

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@[email protected] replied · yesterday

@k3shav Fixed! Thank you!

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This collage also portrays perfectly the subject matter, Good One Doctorow!

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@[email protected] replied · yesterday

@oscarfalcon Thank you, Oscar! I love making these collages.

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@[email protected] replied · yesterday

Yours are fun, I like them.

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@oscarfalcon Thank you!

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Reading “The Ethnography of Infrastructure”

The first in a periodic series called "Reading," today's text covers a seminal academic article you might like, but find long and dense. I break down Susan Leigh Star's 1999 article, "The Ethnography of Infrastructure" and explain why it matters.

EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws - Slashdot

System76 isn't the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an "informal" look at other discussions in various Linux communities. Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing list an optional D-Bus interface (org.freedesktop....

SUSE Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment

Free EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework compliance assessment. Get your SEAL rating and actionable recommendations in 10 minutes. No signup required.

Canada's One-Man Air Force – and His Calculated Crusade Against Airlines

For passenger rights activist Gabor Lukacs, fighting Air Canada, WestJet and the others is a big mathematical problem and an even bigger matter of principle

How Live Nation allegedly terrorized the concert industry

Live Nation allegedly threatened to skip venues that switched from Ticketmaster.

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Wayback Machine

Librarians Against DRM | ReadersBillofRights.info

More rules released for State Capitol visitors

The free-wheeling days inside the Capitol appear to be over. Following weeks of eardrum-shattering noise, acres of protest signage and tons of bedding and empty pizza boxes, order will be

American Library Association tackles new challenges in the e-environment | District Dispatch

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The Smoking Gun

Motion Denied Because You're An Idiot

MARCH 6--In what is surely a first for the federal judiciary, a Texas bankruptcy judge has quoted from the Adam Sandler film canon in a recent opinion. Dismissing a motion due to "incomprehensibility,

https://craphound.com/youshutupetech2006.txt

Resonance FM Podcasts

Midnight Sex Talk – Bisexuality

Originally aired June 19th 2005. “We had a packed Midnight Sex Talk on Sunday, so packed that I didn’t get a chance to go off on one about some of my past experiences. Probably just as …

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https://memex.craphound.com

The Monster: the fraud and depraved indifference that caused the subprime meltdown

ShowUsYourLongDrop.co.nz

40-Million-Year-Old Sex Act Captured in Amber : Discovery News

Just as a pair of mites began to mate, a blob of tree resin fell upon them, preserving the moment for eternity.

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The FBI vs. Apple Debate Just Got Less White

Racial justice activists, including Black Lives Matter, are warning of potential civil rights abuses should the FBI succeed in its case against Apple.

Only One in 4 Americans Remembers Last Year's Epic Jeep Hack

Blame their ridiculously short attention span on "recall fatigue."

Signal v. Noise

Is group chat making you sweat?

Is this you? Are you making other feel like this? Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. In 2006 we launched Campfire, the first modern SAAS group ch…

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Pluralistic: Gandersauce (08 Mar 2025)

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