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    I find it funny that some people on the internet are genuinely surprised that this kind of things can be effective, it’s a bit like opening the tap and being surprised at seeing water flow.

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      Yes, LibGen and SciHub are excellent examples of this approach, event if they do not curate (comprehensive access is an important asset for public in itself.). Their approach, which I find interesting, is to extend this idea to social and physical world (e.g. efforts in physical world already exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_things).

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        hm actually I take that back, the other link about Europeana shows the importance of (any but particularly, good) curation for finding new stuff, which doesn’t exist in libgen

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          uhm isn’t that kinda what libgen does for digital materials and scihub for papers? although it is far from being complete. but I’ve heard from online leftists at least that stuff like libgen and the marxist / anarchist library pages have been instrumental for knowledge sharing

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            Apparently the criminal case is based on the Guardian investigation on this from four months ago (which I completely missed btw in this hell of a news cycle). But yeah I am also amused at the levels of corruption in the highest places of governance and apparently even the ICC. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying-hacking-intimidation-israel-war-icc-exposed

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                    These news updates are shared to make gender-based violence in the Netherlands more visible.

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                              Following the release of the investigative report “Bonus Eventus Files” on September 27 by several international media outlets, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the collection and misuse of environmental journalists’ personal information to fuel slander campaigns orchestrated by the agrochemical industry.

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                                Food & Agriculture

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                                          This is more about crime and safety… but also elderly women…