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mike

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years.

By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs.

I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and also for open peer-review though I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support #LFC.

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autism101 , to actuallyautistic
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An example of how businesses can be supportive to the autistic community is this sign out in front of the toy store “My Small World” located in Bath, England. 💛

Different does not mean less.

@actuallyautistic

image: @DanielUHarrisUK

mike ,
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@autism101 @actuallyautistic Wouldn't it be great if shops and restaurants could turn down music for ALL their customers?

18+ moritz_negwer , to academicchatter
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Holy cow, this is bad - check out the nonsensical figures in this review: completely generated in Midjourney (!!), not even re-labeling the gibberish text labels (!!!).

This was published by Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, where the editorial office should have caught this and nuked it from orbit. Wow.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full

@academicchatter

mike ,
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@manisha @moritz_negwer @academicchatter Someone (I don't remember who) said recently that the only resource we'll be able to trust in a couple of years is a dump taken from Wikipedia in 2022.

ajsadauskas , (edited ) to technology
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

@technology

mike ,
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@jeroen @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology @fanf @brewsterkahle And THAT Is why commercial companies want to destroy archive.org

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