Sci-hub creator Alexandra Elbakyan is so based that when the Indian government started pressuring her for copyright infringement (like the publishers and the FBI did with Aaron), she simply withdrew from India and stopped adding new academic papers to the library (globally).

Indian universities can not afford the extremely high cost of subscribing to journals. The entire countries scientific system is based on freely available research palers. This has been going for years. They are so fucked.

More power to Elbakyan.

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A literal self proclaimed communist living in Russia though. I am a bit worried when the interest of such people is limited mainly to open knowledge bases outside the countries where they reside. And it is a bit strange that the country known for its censorious nature doesn't find her particularly interesting for prosecution.

While I support open knowledge I am sometimes feeling like we're being used by counrries and state actors which don't do that yet operate and promote our openness as much as possible. And I think we are often so much in war mode with our own governments that we forget there's a good chance we might be operating as Useful idiots for state actors that see as as en3mienemies

That said... I don't have a better solution for this than to be mindful of the actual state of the world outside our western cultural standards, for lack of a better word

Regarding his recent claims on Rogan’s show, Mel Gibson needs to present evidence of his 3 friends’ cancer cure protocol and its results anonymously right here on Nostr, making Nostr what Reddit could have been. Publish the final report on the bitcoin blockchain maybe. Who can help him if not us?

Corrupt the incentives, corrupt the world. Fix the incentives, fix the world.

Perhaps we need an alternative evidence-gathering body (like the academy or Sci-Hub only decentralized and verifiable) which would be able to offer certification services to visionaries and theorists like Mel and Alex Jones and Joe Rogan.

A kind of evidence-based and uncensorable community notes with the ability to offer grants/bounties and logistic support for the research, composition, and publication of anonymous but evidence-supported hypotheses. Maybe AI can help streamline this.

A Wikipedia + Wikileaks.

Start with cancer but don’t forget about the aliens. What could be a better use of the scientific method + the hash function?