Notices by Egon Willigh☮gen (egonw@mastodon.social)

🟥 Today, we were going to demonstrate against a break down of research, education, and critical thinking, wished for by the Dutch political parties VVD, NSC, BBB, and right-wing extremists PVV. It was claim Utrecht could not protect the Dutch scholars and students in this demonstration and bluntly cancelled the demonstration, less than 24 hours befoer the event.

I am devastated. 1/

#onderwijs #academia #WOInActie

@nemobis indeed. I guess "in kind" contribution do matter too, but the Internet Archive seems to be too important #openInfrastructure to allow to be crippled for days

@nemobis do you know of the relation between #internetArchive and Europe? Is there a mirror here? does Europe contribute to the sustainability in some way?

"The attack on the Archive has crippled BHL (parts are slowly coming back). I think this is time for a fundamental rethink in how BHL manages its data, its processing pipeline, and how it serves images." -- https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2024/10/internet-archive-as-single-point-of.html

#internetArchive #vandalism

@MastodonEngineering congrats!

Fwd: "Elsevier selling access to an open access article, again (2024 edition)" https://doi.org/10.59350/wnp5t-q9g18

"If you’re getting a sense of déjà vu from this blog post title it is probably because we’ve been here before e.g. in 2017, in 2016, in 2015, in 2014. These profitable ‘errors’ seem to keep occurring…"

we should have an international "switching software" day, https://switching.software/

@Mastodon congrats!