Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Just FYI: this is part of the damage being done by extractive AI companies. Their scraper bots routinely DDOS us, and they multiply to take up as much bandwidth as is available. We are having to put a huge percentage of our developers’ time into just keeping the site alive rather than building its future. They are actively destroying everything worthwhile about the internet. @npub1tms5...w47k

hcommons.social

Knowledge Commons (@hello@hcommons.social)

We’re currently experiencing a widespread outage affecting access to Knowledge Commons, including KCWorks and all user sites. Our team is activel...

This is powerful, and powerfully depressing. Alondra Nelson has been such an important force for open science and knowledge creation and sharing. I am only glad that she has the prominence to be this public:

TIME

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling.

The White House

Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Pu...

Just had a young person come door to door, signing folks up for the state branch of a national organization that I support. They wanted to sign me up, and resisted when I asked for a URL so I could do so myself. They said they’d start the process and then send a link to my phone to finish. Okay, don’t love it, but okay. They asked for my name, and then my date of birth. And no. Just no. I am not giving that to anyone coming door to door, no matter how sympathetic their cause. They did not want to take no for an answer, and we finally had to get rude to make them stop. Orgs, I beg you: don’t train your organizers this way. Your cause matters, but my privacy matters too.

A thought experiment: if you suddenly had access to the resources required and had a burning desire to create a community-owned and -governed cloud computing/hosting service/alternative to AWS, what would you be sure to consider, include, provide, support?

Ooooh, congrats to my friends and colleagues at @npub1sh5e...0lqh on the launch of their VERY spiffy new web design! https://ach.org

Time for a new #introduction post, as much of my last one has changed! I’m Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. I’m founder and Director Emerita* of #MeshResearch, a lab building open-source interoperable tools for new forms of scholarly communication. I'm also director of Knowledge Commons, a scholarly network serving knowledge creators from across the disciplines and around the world. https://hcommons.org My research interests circulate around transforming #universities into more #open, more #generous spaces for cultural and intellectual work. My newest book, LEADING GENEROUSLY: TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMATION, coming out in October 2024 from Hopkins Press, explores the notion that #collective leadership infrastructures might be one key to that transformation.

Leading Generously

From the author of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University comes a compelling guide to the art of collaborative leadership.I...

*Not a real title.