Kevin Sanders

"The same article claims that the Enniskillen bomb killed six children. It didn’t; the youngest victim was 20. It claims that Bobby Sands was elected MP in 1981 with 30.4% of the vote. Given that there were only two candidates, this would have been mathematically impossible. In fact, Sands got 51.2% of the vote. In Grokipedia’s main article on Northern Ireland, it says that “on Bloody Sunday, paratroopers killed 14 civilians… initially depicted by some media as unprovoked, though evidence revealed IRA gunfire and nail bombs”. This is the opposite of the truth. Initially, there were claims by the Army that the victims were violent, but evidence disproved this. Other articles contain dangerous open-mindedness about murder. In an entry on loyalist assassin Michael Stone, it posits that “from a loyalist perspective, Stone’s Milltown raid was hailed as a bold tit-for-tat response to IRA aggression, enhancing his status as an icon of defiance and boosting morale among Protestant extremists” while “republican assessments, however, framed the attack as indiscriminate terrorism against civilians”. It claims that “mainstream reporting, while factually recounting events, occasionally reflects institutional biases favoring narratives of loyalist aggression”."

"At the heart of this technology is a black box into which questions go & out of which answers are given —but we’re not allowed to see what precisely goes on inside".

Sobering piece by @sjamcbride.bsky.social on how Musk's Grokopedia is rewriting knowledge
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opin...

Recognised trade unions, in my UK experience, have a constrained focus on the relationship between labour & remuneration. The constraints are part legalistic, but - in my opinion - TUs need to enable branches greater autonomy to locally organise on a raft of wider issues. People care about a lot.

The more I delve within the issues across and throughout the OA ~movement~, the more I find that archē is at the root of the arborescent form it occupies. Neoliberal capitalism is important in the management of this, but if we want to foster more rhizomic forms, we need to go beyond "reforms".

It me!

It has its charms, but it is a) dark b) cold c) wet.

My cold dead heart doesn't need a or b, and my skin struggles with the c, especially in reference to b.

Can we leave it in the archive so I don't have to endure it on an annual basis?

Is it jobs?

Such infrastructuring seems vital to support autonomy. It isn't about scaling-up, but rather about building capacity beyond marketised, sanctioned, and dominant approaches.

The building of open infrastructures seems key to building support and engagement for this active transformation.

(These quotes are from 'Insurrectionary Infrastructures' which @punctumbooks.bsky.social published: doi.org/10.21983/P3....

I see pockets of this in some radical approaches to publishing, but I would to know if we see this in, for example, our trade unions etc.

”shift the terrain [...] from a defensive position — reacting to elite policies and practices or merely offering dissent — to an offensive one — contesting ruling structures and offering workable alternatives. Movements need to shift from a position of resistance to one of active transformation.” (p.25)

In the paper I co-delivered this week, I quoted Shantz (2018) at two points:

”There is a pressing need to take decision-making out of government bureaucracies, parliament, and corporate suites and boardrooms, and relocate it in autonomous assemblies” p.25)

Got Munsoned.

I've been cognisant of how gnarly Berlin has been getting over the last few years. Bleak. Bleak. Bleak.

Was quite a relief at the start of the week - I found fascist graffiti in the building entrance and wondered if I was being dramatic, but one of the local antifa said no, that’s a new development in this area, and cleaned it up. Things are slowly but definitely intensifying in Berlin.

I could carry on with this for days, but mostly I would be filling in more detail on two of the root cause problems with economic statistics:
- capitalism
- and patriarchy

Problems not only because they’re morally bankrupt, but because they’re incomplete, arrogant and essentially stupid worldviews.

“The great art institutional swindle is the tacit consensus that conformity is a necessity. Marc Garrett’s Feral Class... is a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of such staid professional orthodoxy.” - Morgan Quaintance in Art Monthly

More on the book: www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561

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The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do OR: the long overdue forest fire

Many of the problems of open access have been caused by funding organisations providing APC money that goes straight to the publishing industry. It's very optimistic to expect that the same (neoliberal) funders will want to prevent researchers from publishing in for-profit journals.

This is just your average grindcore band

Definitely! We need more small nonfiction books, nonfic chapbooks, etc. I've got piles of @uminnpress.bsky.social's Forerunners series because they're short, provocative, & inexpensive. And @punctumbooks.bsky.social's Dead Letter Office imprint rocks. More of this, please!

like how fucking hard is it to give proper credit to the person who did the fucking work. apparently very difficult when you are a doctor of medicine at an ivy league university

Five years of the Feminist Futures Programme! Thank you so much to everybody @autonomy-institute.bsky.social for half a decade of hard work. Lots coming up in 2026, too.

Catch our selective retrospective here: autonomy.work/wp-content/u....

A provocation around whether there is 'an open access future for longform scholarship?' needs to acknowledge the histories and diversity of contemporary open access forms of longform scholarship.

The naming of parts trope of some styles of social sciences writing really drives me around the bend. The artifice of a "methodical" approach in presentation feels so forced that it obscures whatever is being said.

If you're going to be at #AWP26 in Baltimore, we're exhibiting, so drop by our booth in the Exhibits Hall, and grab some Book F*#got & Book Dyke tote bags, plus stickers, pins, bookmarks and more!

QUEER WORDS ARE POWER! Avant-garde #OpenAccess publishing RULZ! HUZZAH for small, independent presses.

"Take dead aim on the rich boys." Rushmore (1998) YouTube video by finnbo

~Financial sustainability~

youtu.be/m5RbdReBMLE?...

The primary business of commercial scholarly publishers was not really publishing, but rather the digital licensing of works. The post-Finch report shifted that orientation somewhat, but all built on the empire of prestige of the previous operation.

Writing for JEP is a real pleasure. Highly recommend submitting an abstract if you work on issues related to open access -->

Truly, ExHell.