Friends, at a time when science is under attack and people are economically hurting, the scientific community should work to make access easier not harder. @npub19mhs...v9e6, Association for Computing Machinery, is doing the complete opposite by introducing paywalls that didn't exist. Features that were previously free and open to the public are now "Premium Access" features. If you are opposed to this measure, join me in signing this petition asking the ACM to stop. https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restore-fully-free-and-open-access

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Distributed AI Research Community

Meron Estefanos (@Meron@dair-community.social)

Eritrean asylum seekers in ICE detention are threatening suicide rather than face forced return. That alone should stop every deportation immediate...

Below is an excerpt from what I wrote before. Just think about where these monsters are sending these poor young people to. "Eritrea boasts the longest detained journalist in the world, and with over 360 detention facilities (many underground) in a country of 45 kmi², the regime has disappeared all dissidents (even imprisoning them in shipping containers in temperatures that induce one’s skin to be stuck to the walls), with no due process or trial. View quoted note →