PubMed Goes to Europe for Safe Harbor?

This bit of info caught my eye…especially given the backend changes the current administration may have made or may be making: So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: #pubmed #pmc via Bert Hubert

http://mglink.org/2025/03/03/pubmed-goes-to-europe-for-safe-harbor/

So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org/ #pubmed #pmc

Ummmm... From #wikipedia:

The #WagnerGroup (Russian: #ГруппаВагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner (ЧВК «Вагнер»), is a #Russian state-funded private military company (#PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir #Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin. The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces. Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.

"The group emerged during the war in #Donbas, where it helped Russian separatist forces in #Ukraine from 2014 to 2015. Wagner played a significant role in the later full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which it recruited Russian prison #inmates for frontline combat. By the end of 2022, its strength in Ukraine had grown from 1,000 to between 20,000 and 50,000. It was reportedly Russia's main assault force in the Battle of Bakhmut. Wagner has also supported regimes friendly with Russia, including in the civil wars in #Syria, #Libya, the #CentralAfricanRepublic, and #Mali. In Africa, it has offered regimes security in exchange for the transfer of diamond and gold mining contracts to Russian companies. Wagner operatives have been accused of #WarCrimes including #murder, #torture, #rape and #robbery of #civilians, as well as #torturing and killing accused #Deserters.

[...]

"Early in 2020, #ErikPrince, founder of the #Blackwater private military company, sought to provide military services to the Wagner Group in its operations in Libya and #Mozambique, according to The Intercept. By March 2021, Wagner PMCs were reportedly also deployed in #Zimbabwe, #Angola, #Guinea, #GuineaBissau, and possibly the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group
#ErikPrinceColonialism #PutinsArmy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy

#Ukraine: Fighters of the #Russian #neoNazi #paramilitary unit “#Rusich” have posted footage of them executing #Ukrainian #prisoners of #war. Per capita, Rusich is the largest paramilitary unit currently fighting for #Russia in east Ukraine. They’re backed by the #Kremlin and have also been seen fighting in #Africa and #Syria, previously with close links to the neo-Nazi mercenary unit #PMC #Wagner.

The XMPP permacomputing group has moved. It is now called appropriately permacomputing not lowtech.

Feel free to come by and say hi

You can also find the room to join it on the permacomputing website.

https://permacomputing.net/Community/
xmpp:permacomputing@conference.macaw.me?join

From Fenway Park this morning. #PMCWinterChallenge
#FenwayPark
#BostonRedSox
#PMC

“With nearly 70% of its teaching staff on precarious contracts, Oxford is one of the worst offenders, but this is an issue that extends across UK higher education.”

#RebeccaAbrams, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/21/academics-win-claim-against-oxford-university-over-sham-contracts

Not just the UK either. I know people who have been on similar gig contracts at NZ universities, and I've read worse stories about the US. Another product of the PMC (Professional-Managerial Class)

The article I linked in my recent posts on news bias at the BBC are yet another symptom of the Professional-Managerial Class. Which the late David Graeber excoriated in his article on the way they're wrecking academia;

https://davidgraeber.org/papers/anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class/

The idea that "management" is a particular set of skills - transferable from retail stores, to newsrooms, to airlines, to governments - is a dangerous nonsense. One that is rapidly driving human societies towards a cliff.

(1/?)

Once again, I have to say, I absolutely love Catherine Liu’s book, VIRTUE HOARDERS: THE CASE AGAINST THE PROFESSIONAL MANAGERIAL CLASS.

I am rereading it again and it makes even more sense this time. I realize that I have been a member of the PMC (on a lower rung for sure) for years and have, at times, fallen for its wiles. I think it’s fair to say this is the class that lost the 2024 election, and predictably so.
#PMC #socialism #politics #culture #liberals #virtue

The things that I work on have not changed much for December Adventure so its going to be the same things that I usually work on, but now they are going to be shared :) The projects I work on currently are around Scheme/Guile, Guix and XMPP.

An intro since its the first post and I haven't announced my project really:
I have worked for about a year on my Networks of Consent XMPP app built on top of Spritely with Gnunet as transport and with Permacomputing Principles. Majority of work on this is writing standards (XEPs) to make XMPP work on top of a different model than it currently has. (Distributed, content-addressed, object capability based, Multicast, Pull not push architecture as some examples). Last few months development has picked up by a lot so that is a big part of what I am working on now.

Last few days I finished a XEP draft of how OCapN would work on top of XMPP. You can find it here
https://codeberg.org/Applesauce/Guile_XMPP/src/branch/main/Documentation/XEPs/OCapN.md
Next steps would be writing the code so that Semantic XMPP, Framing and ERIS can be started to be added on top. Together with documenting the differences with current XMPP standards of course.

#russia #orthodoxchurch has it's own #PMC (private military company) which primary goal is to murder #Ukrainians

Any economical help you give to the church may end up to murder innocent people.

Source: https://kyivindependent.com/sbu-russian-orthodox-church-runs-private-military-company-with-kremlins-backing/

Early in the #pandemic, 50+ publishers committed to make #COVID-related articles #OpenAccess through #PubMedCentral that would not otherwise have been #OA. Many of these commitments are now expiring.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/Access-Coronavirus-related-Articles-PubMed-Central.html

"Most of the articles…will remain available in #PMC and available for bulk distribution and reuse, and all citations will remain searchable in #PubMed; however, some publishers retained the right to remove their content and have requested to do so."

h/t @MelissaHagemann

Undeniably plausible:

"Putin almost certainly ordered the Russian military command to shoot down Prigozhin’s plane. Elements of the Russian military, especially Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov, would be extremely unlikely to execute Prigozhin without Putin’s order."

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-23-2023
#FreeRussia #MafiaState #MobBossPutin #Prigozhin #WagnerGroup #PMC #Assassination #MobWar