This article made me think of a Chinese film called ‘The Wolf Warrior 2’ where the benevolent Chinese save an unnamed African country. I believe it’s one of the highest grossing Chinese films ever and might shed some light on Chinese attitudes toward Africa/Africans.
It feels like ‘Starship Troopers’ level propaganda and is completely straight faced.
The villagers constantly thank the Chinese hero for his over-the-tip acts of bravery, they celebrate when he wins local drinking contests, etc.
Making academic journals more accessible is a problem that I’ve been working on the last few years with my project, Scholastica. We provide software that allows journals to manage their entire toolchain from peer-review to publication.
As a minority, this ‘let all the ideas run free in the marketplace of ideas’ sounds fun until the ideas are about your inferiority and suggested extermination.
Over at Scholastica (https://scholasticahq.com) we've been taking on this problem for the last few years.
We allow journal editors to create, manage peer-review, and publish OA journals all in one place.
Sir Tim Gowers, the Field's Medal winner, uses our platform for his journal Discrete Analysis (http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/)
The journal Internet Mathematics recently came over to the platform after being on Taylor & Francis for years (https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/internet-mathematics-pub...).
We think journals make a lot of sense and that the problem is that journals don't control the toolchain.
I notice there's a lot of interest on HN around this subject from time to time. If you work with a journal and want to get in touch or have questions feel free to write me at rwalsh [at] scholasticahq.com
Zuck says that people are mad because people are sharing ideas that the other side doesn’t like but also defends FB’s actions in the German election: “We have been working to ensure the integrity of the German elections this weekend, from taking actions against thousands of fake accounts, to partnering with public authorities like the Federal Office for Information Security, to sharing security practices with the candidates and parties.”[1]
I’m very disappointed in Zuck’s intellectual honesty.
Is this a thing? [0] Let's face it, Zuck is too busy making money to even pretend. Even this current hamhanded "sorry we suck" posture is more of an attempt to convince the right people that he's going along with their favored narrative, than a sincere statement about anything that might or might not have happened.
I'm not sure I understand what's the contradiction between those two things -- he says that people don't like certain kinds of sharing and a large corporation with a lot of cyber security experience assists a government with security while also monitoring its own platform for abuse during the election.
I'm not sure if this constitutes politics or what on HN, but as an outside, not taking part in the election and living in another country, here is my observation on this point.
Hillary f*ed up the Bernie Sanders campaign using pretty much the same tactics, only it was not the "Russians", they just did it themselves[0].
If anyone are to be accused for a dirty campaign it is her.
Well, at least future candidates know that they no longer need to spend billions on their campaign and can just spend a few hundred thousand on targeted Facebook ads instead.
> The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar.
We are in agreement then that Clinton campaign was on a whole 'nother level.
Apologies, but going off-topic to respond. It's highly likely that when all the Russia stuff plays out, Trump's campaign will be seen to have been so full of moles as to make the Cambridge Five look like amateurs.
In terms of sheer audacity, the Russian campaign is unprecedented in ambition and success. The CIA will be unpicking this cluster-fuck for a decade at least.
After Trump is reelected he will close down the CIA. (To be clear: without my vote! He is a cretin and a horrible man and I would never vote for him. Still, I can be happy about happy events...)
That action will deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but he won't get it.
