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@catonano yeah the need to critically rethink the academic establishment is indeed a huge topic of discussion. and not only in terms of challenging neoliberal values but also challenging the very colonial framework of Western universities

@catonano yeah that's more and more possible with open source code that does not require much computational power to be run, that's not always the case ofc but it's definitely doable. the source code should be always released with every academic paper, if code is part of it, imo, open source should be the only option for academia

@feonixrift warping the for-profit use of clickbait and deploying it for good purpose, like sharing interesting content! can be quite interesting if not abused imo ;)

"On quitting"
by Francesca Coin

from The labour of academia, Ephemera Journal vol.17, n.3

http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/quitting

Ephemera Journal vol.18, number 1 on intersectionality

http://www.ephemerajournal.org/
[pdf] http://www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/issue/18-1ephemera-mar18.pdf

the original paper:
"It Takes Two Neurons To Ride a Bicycle"
Matthew Cook

[pdf] http://paradise.caltech.edu/cook/papers/TwoNeurons.pdf

from Matthew Cook, "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle"

"This shows 800 runs of a bicycle being pushed to the right. For each run, the path of the front wheel on the ground is shown until the bicycle has fallen over. The unstable oscillatory nature is due to the subcritical speed of the bicycle, which loses further speed with each oscillation"

http://thediagram.com/18_1/instability.html

@paulfree14 I think it's time that we agree to disagree on this @Benjamin

@Benjamin the values will have nothing to do with this choice, that's clear to me by following the project goals... as for alternative ways, it 'could' have been done differently, as everything, but someone had to do the actual labor and they went for the tool they judged as best for this specific occasion, and honestly I can only appreciate it @bob @paulfree14 @stephen

@paulfree14 @bob having not been there I find it hard to assume that we have the right to judge on the effectiveness whatsoever
@stephen

@bob @paulfree14 sure, hard to debate, but this was not a choice for a project, it was a temporary platform to discuss about the project, that's a different context @stephen

@paulfree14 in my understanding efforts were made to bridge to alternative channels, but anyway, being against proprietary silos makes sense, but they still provide a massive amount of the current internet infrastructure, and refusing to reach out to people because of it a priori, before even beginning the discussion of how to build alternatives for everybody, cuts out the legs of any counter-efforts imo, it's seems elitist, at best @stephen

@paulfree14 I had quite the opposite impression tbqh, the whole point is giving voice to underrepresented needs, and everybody could participate. I followed the discussion in discord but couldn't make it to the meeting tho, and therefore I cannot give a truly informed opinion... where you part of it? @stephen

@paulfree14 I see what you mean, there's no doubt that structural oppression should be questioned, but sticking to the term I was just observing how it's practically being used.. and, at least in a tech context, the disruption efforts, even when genuinely sparkled from good intentions, too often prove to backfire terribly when there's lack of a diverse and rich community culture (this diversity and inclusiveness is basically what the fork is about tbh, in my understanding) @stephen

@stephen @paulfree14 just a caveat on the term 'disruption': it has recently become quite a negative one in my personal experience, in the context of technology at least, if intended in a positive sense, as a way to bring up challenging a status quo detrimental to marginalized communities, perhaps a different word would be better. I'm thinking of Silicon Valley startup clichés here, to give an example, where disruption usually means tech-bros assholery..

when your rational mind vehemently tells you to do something and yet you can't bring yourself to do it

@hay I agree, indeed. Customizations/opt-outs would be the only way to make it more digestible to me, but as you say won't probably happen. I hope that forks of mastodon (or pleroma even) with a strong community drive will succeed. I've seen some very interesting efforts in that direction.