Rethinking the cost of knowledge with Open Science Hardware - Open Science Hardware Foundation
Three articles that analyse the value and impact of open science hardware, and some final reflections.
#OpenScience #OpenHardware
https://opensciencehardware.org/2026/10/rethinking-the-cost-of-knowledge-with-open-science-hardware/
Read more at: https://oshn.eu/open-science-hardware-foundation
The CBC calls the result as Albertans vote (overwhelmingly) to remain in Canada.
Currently 76% to 23%
From a Parisian very close to me: be wary of falling for the 'rioters & looters' slant on the protests in France. The most consumed press & tv in France is owned by a far right billionaire. Much of the Anglo press is feeding off a take designed to push an anti-immigrant, racist politic. Yes there is looting by some & can hurt small businesses, but what is not shown is the extreme brutality of the police, encircling peacefully protesting kids, teargassing & beating them as they beg for a way out.
The plenary of the IPCC was suspended on Friday, with no agreement on the timeline for publication of the reports nor on the budget for 2027.
As scientists, and authors engaged in writing these reports, our message is simple: we are working and we will keep working to provide the best scientific evidence we can to inform decisions on one of the defining global challenges of our time, climate change. An open letter signed by more than IPCC authors (and more signatures coming): https://zenodo.org/records/23463829
Researchers Expose Spectre Vulnerability in Commercial RISC-V Chips
Learn how researchers exposed Spectre vulnerability in commercial RISC-V chips and find out how to protect your processors from these attacks...
Read more at: https://oshn.eu/risc-v
NLnet; Restack Eligibility information
I did not realise tht Restack funding also supports hardware projects, not just the software stack.
https://nlnet.nl/restack/eligibility/
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Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk.
Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism.
This is so great! The University Health Network of Toronto built housing for 51 high-risk homeless people, and their emergency room visits dropped in half. The group is now increasing the rooms to 300. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-dunn-house-9.7365728
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Sally Rooney’s books pulled from UK over Palestine Action support https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/17/sally-rooneys-books-pulled-from-uk-over-palestine-action-support-2?traffic_source=rss
Women protest in New Delhi against police brutality
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/17/women-protest-in-new-delhi-against-police-brutality?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia News @asia-news-AlJazeera
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117456133222761604
Another example of people wanting a lower cost of living, and the politicians fightening them about it.
You'll be unsurprised Amazon is using an AI-related tool to assess its distribution sites for signs of nascent union activity...
Of course, Amazon denies the tool (Atlas) is being used to head-off unionisation efforts at specific warehouses, but then again they would say that, wouldn't they?
Their problem is the information has arisen during 'discovery' during a Court battle between Amazon & Canadian union; and as such, the source is the firm itself.
#unions #Amazon
https://www.opendemocracy.net/amazon-ai-surveillance-monitor-union-activity-uk-warehouses-birmingham-coventry-atlas-sutton-coldfield/?ref=weekly-newsletter
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Human-feline affiliative physiological synchronization describes the measurable correlation between the neuroendocrine states of domestic cats (Felis catus) and their human owners, wherein daily physical proximity directly correlates with elevated oxytocin concentrations, reduced cortisol levels, and improved psychological mood states in humans.
#Ethology #BehavioralEndocrinology #Anthrozoology #ComparativePsychology #Neurobiology #Biotelemetry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/10/bs10162601.html
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If you've not heard of Isabella Weber, you might want to read this profile, as she is looking like becoming the next political economist (my designation, not hers) to join the slowly growing group of analysts arguing we need to rethink the global economic settlement in various ways.... she joins Kate Raworth, Marianne Mazzacuto and others who are setting out a new approach to our global political economy.
#economics #politics #inequality
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/16/isabella-weber-anti-fascist-economics
“The status quo for the majority is entirely unbearable,”
while extreme inequality and corporate concentration has reached levels
“simply incompatible with democracy” worldwide.
This is exacerbated by a climate crisis that “generates massive windfall profits” for big business
as the “ecological foundations of our lives disintegrate”.
All the while the far right is making hay.
This analysis echoes much mainstream liberal and left-leaning thinking.
But Isabella Weber is concerned that her peers in the economic establishment act as if they are oblivious.
“What’s common sense to most people is not to economists,” she says,
and as such our economic system has “promised but not delivered”.
She reels off disturbing statistics that highlight the growing disparities between haves and have nots.
“As economists, we should do better.
People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake.”
Weber is calling on fellow economists to
“abandon ideology”
and develop a
“big tent economic policy” that can counter an ascendant far right.
Their gains, she argues, are not the result of a particularly compelling offer,
but a direct consequence of traditional political parties refusing to acknowledge the endemic hardship facing their constituents,
and the absence of a coherent economic vision from progressives, liberals and the centre right.
“Currently, only the extreme right is willing to say yes,
something is broken,
and a different present and future is possible,” Weber says.
“We can’t leave an alternative to this dystopia to them.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/16/isabella-weber-anti-fascist-economics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other