Notices by Lux 🦊 :flag_nonbinary: ΘΔ (sharplimefox@eldritch.cafe)

@rail_ i still can't believe there's a OuiGo branded BB 22200 locomotive and set of coaches :neocat_googly_shocked: these things were manufactured in the 70s/80s

we should romanticize the theft of intellectual property more than we already do

i am sorry i am once again forced through an online class that's teaching me how much being a phd student is like being an entrepreneur and i should really extract value out of my research and-

blows up a startup company's hq

"this is how you should protect the intellectual property that can be extracted from your research before transferring it to an economic actor" bullshit, utter bullshit, i will leak every single bit of code i write, i will slap the GPLv3 on it to make it radioactive to patent lawyers, i will leak my own papers to scihub. fight me.

i aspire to be the nightmare of corporate research; i will devalue the economy of your lab, i will purposely sabotage its value. research should be free. the taxpayer is literally paying us, they're literally paying me and the goddamn hardware i am writing this on. my shitty Linux fork should be printed and available in every single town hall, and so should be your shitty unoptimized ML algorithm.

i went into public research because the culture and incentive of tech companies, especially those you're pushed into as a young engineering graduate, is nauseating, and frontally clashes with my personal values. in retrospect it was naive to think i could escape most of that culture by going into research (especially considering my main supervisor's attitude), but seeing the active sabotage by our neolib government of research to turn it into a patent-producing startup factory makes my blood boil even more;

there's nowhere safe from the capitalist brain; you must burn a startup company if you aspire to have any tangible impact in this world

also yes everything i make is technically under copyright for my employer (my university)
do you think that is going to stop me

(note to self for later, print article L611-7 of the intellectual property code and eat it)

if anyone in the administration of my university is reading this: hi, please do something about the heating in our building, it's embarrassingly disparate from one office to the other. thank you.

occasional fun time of this cringe-ass "enhancing the value of your research" class: scary-looking face pictograms in the slides

(media hidden for eye contact)

i'm sorry, GNU imp, but what the fuck