Permission to Opt Out
You don’t need to ask, and non-participation is radical
Yesterday morning, after reading Kent’s “AI as Information Asbestos” post, I listened to the most recent episode of Pivot, where Scott Galloway pitched the concept of citizens participating in financial boycotts:
You don’t need permission to opt out. . . . capitalism [is] built entirely on participation. The most radical act in capitalism isn’t protest. It’s non-participation.
Sometimes the most effective strategy is to just . . . not.
There are no governing bodies in STM publishing or academia or governments or funders that have the authority or, frankly, the incentives, to make decisions that would change the trajectory the industry is on.
There are no grown-ups to call in to knock heads and sort out the obnoxious behavior that has been the irresponsible publication of way too many papers for profit instead of science or scholarship.
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