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2,3 Grad ✨☁️
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« Seule commune de la métropole nantaise à facturer l’abonnement des 12-18 ans à la médiathèque, Vertou a décidé, en septembre, d’offrir la gratuité aux seuls élèves ayant eu une mention très bien, au brevet ou au bac. Un choix dénoncé par deux collégiennes, élèves en 5e, à l’origine d’une pétition. »
#LoireAtlantique

https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/vertou-44120/cette-mairie-reserve-la-gratuite-de-la-bibliotheque-aux-meilleurs-eleves-deux-collegiennes-sen-indignent-6e9f775e-de77-11f1-86b6-0a2fbb1d8ed9

The reason I ask is that I'm thinking about how we determine the relative quality of different information sources and curators. And the relative value of follows (eg here on social media platforms) vs. *paid* subscriptions, as a measure of media quality.

I don't have to pay to follow a fediverse account, so I'm more likely to suck it and see. Where I have to pay to subscribe to something - especially given I'm usually broke - that's much more powerful as an implicit recommendation.

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weird, ours is working just fine...

@amd @robin@books.riley.pub oh my goodness highly recommend, I couldn't put it down. I'm now starting Sea of Tranquility and am looking forward to Station Eleven down the line!

@steeph @lechimp

I *hope* my fears are overblown.

But apparently it's starting to make inroads in central places

https://chaos.social/@frumble/117592124308434495

(via @frumble)

🏘 Non è giusto dover lasciare la città in cui sei cresciuto perché non puoi più permetterti di viverci. E non è giusto lavorare e vedere metà stipendio sparire nell'affitto.

Da Fuzhou, in Cina, Daniela Patti, copresidente di Volt Italia, porta questa battaglia fino alle Nazioni Unite.

La casa è un diritto, non un lusso: e possiamo difenderlo insieme, sostenendo la nostra Iniziativa dei cittadini europei per il diritto alla casa. 💜

✍️ Firma ora su right-to-housing.eu

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🏘 It's not right to have to leave the city you grew up in because you can no longer afford to live there. And it's not right to work and watch half your salary disappear into rent.

From Fuzhou, China, Daniela Patti, co-president of Volt Italia, brings this fight all the way to the United Nations.

Housing is a right, not a luxury. And together, we can defend that right by supporting our European Citizens' Initiative for the right to housing. 💜

✍️ Sign now at right-to-housing.eu

#DirittoAllaCasa #CrisiAbitativa #Affitti #EdiliziaSociale #UNHabitat #EuropaFederale #Volt #VoltItalia #VoltEuropa

@doktorzjivago bara lite AI. 😌 Men inte helt bekräftat än.

@itsfoss helix is great but the lack of inline regex replace and grugfar makes me switch to neovim whenever I am using it.

Dedicated to the Captain https://rynothebearded.com/2026/11/dedicated-to-the-captain/ He is still not through this keep him in your thoughts #karma

So, work asked for my opinions about AI again.

"I have lost all confidence in senior management since they started evangelising for this obvious scam."

"If any other supplier offered us stolen goods at a price lower than their cost we would not be allowed to buy from them. AI tools should be no different."

"Senior management have clearly missed their calling in timeshare sales and cult recruitment. The pressure to (a) use the tools and (b) provide some evidence, any evidence, that they improve productivity is relentless. It's not my job to destroy my profession, the economy, the climate and poor communities that have AI data centres inflicted on them in order to provide evidence that they may be of marginal utility in my work. If they were worth all the damage they inflict, the
results would be obvious."

@mastodonmigration

having fought establishment Dems who played this game in primaries to defeat more progressive candidates, I can't be happy about this.

"The outage lasted for about two days, and around the world, government agencies and businesses large and small ground to a halt. Without Office 365, Outlook and Teams, many organizations could not even convene a meeting or formulate a plan to deal with the outage.

All of this raises an important question: is Microsoft guilty of negligence, and, if so, what should be done about this? Here's my answer: yes, Microsoft is presumptively guilty of negligence, and any response to this must include antitrust breakups of the company.

Here's why I think that. Microsoft has demonstrably underinvested in its IT stability. Any IT plan that results in a global, multi-day outage is, by definition, inadequate. Whether the problem could have been solved by buying more servers, or hiring more people, or changing the management of key divisions is immaterial. Every one of these measures – every single measure that could have prevented this – costs money. By not spending that money, Microsoft definitively underinvested in its products.

But Microsoft doesn't lack for funds! Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and it has the margins to prove it. In 2025-2026, the company pissed away more than $30b in stock buybacks, a once-illegal (and still sleazy) form of stock manipulation. Over that same period, Microsoft lost nearly $200b on AI ventures that it now admits will not pay off:"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/13/outlookpocalypse/#bright-line-test

#Microsoft #Monopolies #Copyright #IP #CyberSecurity #Competition #Antitrust #AI

Random question about scholarly journals; do the number of academic libraries wanting to subscribe to a journal play a role in determining its impact factor? I don't mean getting it as part of a bundle, I mean specifically *wanting* it in their collection?

Second random question; do requests for journals from the academics at an institution play a determining role in what its library subscribes to? I mean a formal and transparent one.

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#AcademicJournals #AcademicLibraries #academia

So your probelm with the platforms is not the platforms themselves, but people? Because the mods running communities here aren’t too different from the refit communities.

As for your second point, you want karma farmers to run the communities?

@Nonilex
Good question.

Eric Trump will have the solution 😂😂

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