Göktuğ Kayaalp @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org

@alcinnz This 🤦‍♂️

"6. Intermediators take most of what's spent on adtech
7. Adtech gives fake news a business model
8. Adtech incentivises hate speech and tribalism
9. Adtech relies on misdirection
10. Compared to advertising, adtech is ugly
11. Adtech has caused the largest boycott in human history

GDPR will pop the adtech bubble: https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/

2/2

"1. Advertising isn't personal, and doesn't have to be
2. Advertising makes brands
3. Advertising carries an economic signal
4. Advertising sponsers media, and those paid by media

"1. Adtech is built to undermine the brand value of the media it uses
2. Adtech wants to be personal
3. Adtech spies on people and violates their privacy
4. Adtech is full of fraud and a vector for malware
5. Adtech incentivizes publications to prioritize "content generation" over jounralism

1/2

Just got back a decision from a journal. After two years and multiple revisions we got a reject. The last revisions they requested were minor, and honestly I was just expecting to see proofs next. Instead, they found a new reviewer to replace the previous one, because they couldn't find them anymore, and we got completely new criticism that turned the paper from post-minor revisions to reject.

Long-distance travel is almost impossible, so we watch documentaries about far-away places and cook their strange foods to let our senses imagine what it would be like to visit them.
"This versatile dish, called 'pizza' is a popular staple on distant Earth..."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

La #précarisation de la recherche en France, dont l' #astronomie, continue avec la #LPPR (loi de programmation pluriannuelle de la recherche).

L'Observatoire de Paris : « L'accent mis sur l'augmentation massive du budget de l'ANR ne résoudra en rien le problème structurel d'un manque de personnel permanent de recherche ou d'appui à la recherche ou l'insuffisance chronique des crédits de base des laboratoires. »

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nrhpqvv26jw1ycv/LPPR%20motion_OP.pdf?dl=1

#précariat - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9cariat

So do i read this right and #Gab is leaving the #Fediverse and creating some sort of their own silo-isolated to just them protocol? #isolategab

From Gab's CTO:

https://gab.com/shadowknight412/posts/104239914006396691

Ok, ho bisogno di aiuto. Mi sono incagliata in una tristezza così totalizzante che non so cosa fare. Devo lavorare e non riesco. Ho necessità assoluta di reagire. Avete uno stratagemma quando vi sentite così? Cosa posso fare? Ne ho davvero bisogno.

I guess it bears repeating. Bluntly this time.

If you're going to send a follow request, please do something with your Mastodon/Pleroma/Whatever profile. No activity on your instance account looks fishy. 🐟 I'm just going to cancel it outright if that's the case.

I know I'm not the only one on the Fediverse that feels this way.

#psa

RT @frod_san@twitter.com

Definitely worth trying.

In Spain we've been paying 25M€/year just to read papers from Elsevier. That's ~ same amount spent on national postdoctoral program (Juan de la Cierva). Looks like too much
https://www.eldiario.es/cienciacritica/replanteando-modelo-publicacion-informacion-cientifica_132_1726046.html https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1281581488484515842

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/frod_san/status/1281587463237046272

Let me put it this way: if you are not a startup (i.e., you don't have venture capital and you’re not looking to scale exponentially and have a billion-dollar exit) and yet you call yourself a startup, you are actively helping the startup that will offer your services for free until it kills your sustainable small tech business.

So maybe don’t call yourself a startup.

Startup is a Silicon Valley brand. It does not mean a new, small tech business.