Privacy activists are warning about the invasive nature of DeepSeek, which collects a trove of personal user information that could be handed over to the Chinese government
America is like a wolf dressed as a boy crying wolf. US businesses and gov’t have been doing everything these US gov’t funded organizations warn about.
wow. it’s been almost a year since the ICJ ruled that israel needed to stop doing genocidal things against Palestinians. 
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Oh absolutely. It’s a huge issue, especially in humanities and social sciences, where the barrier of entry makes it so that almost all published research is conducted by certain populations on themselves. Some people call it “WEIRD” populations, meaning western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (though that “weird” terminology is a bit stinky… I’m looking at the “E” and “D”). Interestingly, China has now overtaken the US in publishing the most highly cited research of any country, though I think their advances are mostly in natural sciences and engineering.
There are also issues with how we qualify good quality or *academic * research. Again, this is especially the case in social sciences and humanities where the standards have been set by colonial researchers who had the means to run expensive studies on large samples. As a result, a lot of research methodologies and ways of knowing that don’t align with the western colonial standards (e.g., qualitative research, narrative analysis) get discounted or written off entirely
Yup, I’ve got a paper that’s just about ready for submission, and if the journal accepts it for publication, we pay ~3k USD, so about $4k CAD.
Worthwhile reminder that, of the ~1000 israelis who died on October 7th, 36 (<4%) were minors. In Gaza, more than 30% of the 60,000-100,000 Palestinians killed by israel are children.
israel has killed an October 7th’s worth of Palestinians before their first birthday (916 infants). They’ve killed more than 10,000 kids 12 or younger. And they still have the nerve to play victim. Thoroughly diseased society.