Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who wrote 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South.

NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03865-y

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American pharmacies are handing private information about their customers over to the police without even a warrant. Contempt for privacy -- with potential "criminal" consequences in anti-abortion states -- has never been more blatant, or dangerous.

As usual, Congress can't be bothered to give a damn.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998869/cvs-kroger-and-rite-aid-will-hand-over-your-medical-data-to-the-police-without-a-warrant

Tune in this Thursday and Friday, Dec 14 & 15 to Unsettling Genealogies 2, a two-evening online symposium hosted by Michigan State University | a second annual Leslie Chair's Meeting on American Indian literature, art, and social justice. #SelfIndigenization #Pretendianism Zoom Registration:
https://bit.ly/3tRDgWV

Powley, Rights Recognition, and the Rise of “Métis Denialism”: A Response to First Nations’ Calls for Accountability #Metis #Indigenous rights
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2023/12/07/metis-response-to-first-nations-calls-for-accountability/

"Comprehension"

Good that Google lost, but kinduv a shame that Epic had to be the one's winning.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/12/google-loses-on-every-count-in-antitrust-suit-by-epic-games.html

We are still looking for help with organizing our community events: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contributing/issues/31

If you want to support our goals (making development of Free/Libre Software with libre tools easier), and do not want to contribute on a technical level, your help with events is very appreciated.

NewsMatch.inn.org is a wonderful idea -- matching donations to non-profit news organizations -- that is massively hampered by a dreadful user interface. Among other drawbacks:

-- It doesn't remember your previous donations, so you're starting from scratch on each one.

-- If you support more than a few, the process is tedious and repetitive.

-- Related: You can't make a batch (i.e. to more than one org at a time) gift.

-- You can search on only one category at a time.

There's the saying "You can be a good example, or you can be a cautionary tale," and this is not the story of a good example

https://www.themarysue.com/cait-corrain-goodreads-controversy-explained/

As the brilliant Matt Levine shows, the ownership structure of "Open"AI is an absolute sham. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-11/openai-s-investors-don-t-own-it?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcwMjM0NjQyOCwiZXhwIjoxNzAyOTUxMjI4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTNUlOTlZUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjUxRjdCOUYxODk0NjBCOEE2RDU3NUM5QUQzOUUzQyJ9.h0QchEUERk-PdyYZ5ScB61foGB-75rZfLATa0h8wjog

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But I thought they had to raise prices to combat revenue loss due to inflation and wage increases. Does this mean—wait, no, but maybe corporations are lying to us?

The popular evidence that homeschooling is effective is largely premised on the research of one man. His research turns out to be garbage. One notable group asserts that homeschooling can be regressive, harmful, and enable abuse: his children. https://wapo.st/41dMz3T

"Belabor"

Indigenous advisory council for CN resigns, says railway won't accept responsibility #Reconciliation https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7055553

When the president of the UN climate summit runs an oil company, this is the unsurprising result. What a farce. #COP28

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/climate/cop-28-draft-agreement-fossil-fuel-monday/index.html

#ifstate has moved from github to @Codeberg !

The project website https://ifstate.net has been moved from github pages to #codeberg pages, too.

The migration of the repository, issues and releases worked without any problems. Only when switching to codeberg pages a few adjustments were necessary.

Unfortunately, it would appear that the .coop tld doesn't actually mean much. I've found a number of sites with .coop that were obvious scams, and reporting them to domains.coop resulted in nada. Apparently it's pretty easy to fool the admins over there.

Remember, just because it says "co-op" on the tin, doesn't mean that's what's inside.