that I for sure understand, it ain't broke... (although chromebooks are just google data harvesters through and through, I personally would run linux on it and ditch chromeos, but thats just me)

the sheer number of people I know that still use chrome despite me telling them that chrome is the reason their adblocker doesn't work as well and doesn't work at all on youtube blows my mind. They care enough to use an adblocker but then the most intrusive ads (long video ads, midrolls, etc.) they just shrug.

And thats not to mention the huge number of people that just don't block any ads. Ads are literally spyware in addition to being annoying, but apparently that's fine

But the most important is that publishers will charge for access to the same paper again and again. Sci-Net will only do that once when paper is uploaded and after that, it will remain free forever and for everyone -- even users who are not registered on the platform will be able to access it.

I'm unclear on what this means/how it's implemented but it sounds more promising than I initially thought? If this is all just another way to funnel fresh articles that are inaccessible via the old methods into scihub for all to download, fine. At least it's a proof of stake crypto and not burning tons of fossil fuels to accomplish this. I still think its gross, but maybe it could turn out to be practical. And it certainly seems less fraught with legal risk than conducting a bounty system in regular fiat currency

But otoh the fact that it isn't clear to me where the articles go isn't a great sign.

the "Buy European" comm seems to pop up a lot. Not that its anything good, just that if you browse All>Hot its there a lot

yeah the best reaction to unhinged "anti-tankie-aktion" types IMO is to just be normal and put in the work, IMO. Be willing to work in good faith with basically anyone who isn't actively sabotaging and undermining you (at least in public-facing work, obviously opsec becomes a concern at some point). The majority of regular-ass people, anarchist or otherwise, will see that you put in the work and that the committed "anti-authoritarians" are more interested in screeds against you than finding common ground or achieving anything.

I guess that's the belden method basically lol

I don't care what people say I care what people do. If they show up when they say they will, if they bring good ideas and move discussions forward rather than derail, if they put in the work, then we can work together. If they don't, we can't, regardless of tendency. I'm not going to work with an ML that only talks about half-understood theory and wont apply it to reality or feels they are above the dirty work/busy work, but same goes for anarchists or anyone else.

This is all in the context of nascent imperial core organizing of course, not like, russia 1915 or whatever.