"How disruptive would it be if GitHub started deleting repositories, or Google Scholar started hiding certain papers in response to U.S. government demands?"

thetransmitter.org/policy/scie…

Most people with some interest have seen precisely this coming for more than a decade. @neuralreckoning is among them. It's great that outlets like @thetransmitter are now also recognizing this problem and are helping to amplify these voices.

#openscience #infrastructure

Science must step away from nationally managed infrastructure

Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations…

^{Dan Goodman (The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives)}

Anyway, a throwback for anyone wanting a little more.

These guys have been sending bomb threats to the Japanese government impersonating as KuronekoServer developers before the attack went big. #spam#infrastructure#fediblockmeta#cybersec#cybersecurity#infosec#spam#infrastructure#fediblockmeta#cybersec#cybersecurity#infosec

The #Tory model for #socialcare:

1. defund local councils, while retaining their social care responsibilities;

2. Budget cuts make #infrastructure increasingly harder to maintain (or replace);

3. 'Encourage' councils to use private provision to make up gap between need & public provision for care;

4. 'allow' market rates to be set by providers & open sector to #investment to spur 'innovation' in provision;

5. watch taxpayers money flow to the rich (not the needy)
theguardian.com/society/2023/o…

Biggest private children’s homes in England made £300m profit last year

Fee income for 20 largest operators – many private equity-owned – soars as councils struggle to meet costs

^{Michael Savage (The Guardian)}

Why we think every scholarly organization, but in particular scholarly societies, should not just migrate to #Mastodon, but host their own instances - and what that has to do with the journals many scholarly societies use to generate revenue:

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi…

#fediverse #openscience #openaccess #infrastructure

“Data shows for the first time that the peak demand for electricity this summer will exceed the amount we can generate from on-demand, dispatchable power, so we will be relying on #renewables to keep the lights on.”

But rather than fix the grid, #Republicans spent their time in the #Texas legislature trying to block renewable #energy:
texasobserver.org/88th-session…

#environment #infrastructure #ClimateChange #TXlege #politics #news #USpol #OilAndGas

The Awful 88th Session of the Texas Lege

Losers during the 88th session of the legislature included taxpayers, teachers, trans youths, and anyone who uses electricity.

^{Texas Observer Staff (The Texas Observer)}

Extratonal Infrastructure #2 with Eric Kinny, Tisa Neža Herlec & Friso van Wijck

Date Saturday, 4 February 2023
Door 20:00h CET
Start 20:30h CET
Entrance 5 euro
Location Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)

It is with some pleasure that we're able to announce that the quest for extra tendencies will continue all throughout 2023. Every month extratonal infrastructure will invite advanced artists to approach the concept of extratonality from unexpected angles between the walls of Varia. Our first event of the year takes place on the 4th of February, where visitors will come face to face with performances by Eric Kinny, Tisa Neža Herlec and Friso van Wijck. This time the program will focus on the interaction between film, music and performance. A trip around the world, for which you only have to travel to the Gouwstraat!

varia.zone/en/extratonal2.html

#rotterdam #varia #extratonality #infrastructure

CW-ing to try and increase reach of replied to toot and put this in my local timeline.

Link here: mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109720682…

#decentralized #internet #infrastructure #problems

Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)

“The #fediverse is like #email.” Yes. Now read this and understand it: “I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore.

^{Aral’s Mastodon}