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Tony Vladusich@TonyVladusich@mathstodon.xyz

I'm a computational neuroscientist & software engineer. Colors, photos, brains, nature, science, software & chess, preferably all at the same time! 

Author of The Appearance of Things: How the Principle of Relativity Shapes Our Visual World

Publications: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=IrVz6ewAAAAJ&hl=en
My Book: The Appearance of Things: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCVLM6T9
Joined: 2026-09-27 18:25:15
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Reply to @Virginicus@universeodon.com
Tony Vladusich@TonyVladusich@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-25 08:55:24)
@Virginicus @johncarlosbaez 

Ha! I'm sure none of them have read about the "power structures" of organisations, academia included:

The theme that underlies all Foucault's work is the relationship between power and knowledge, and how the former is used to control and define the latter. What authorities claim as 'scientific knowledge' are really just means of social control. Foucault shows how, for instance, in the eighteenth century 'madness' was used to categorize and stigmatize not just the mentally ill but the poor, the sick, the homeless and, indeed, anyone whose expressions of individuality were unwelcome.
— Philip Stokes, Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers (2004)[188]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

Reply to @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
Tony Vladusich@TonyVladusich@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-24 17:55:29)
@johncarlosbaez 

I’m also saying “fuck you” to the self-appointed advisory board! If you’ve never worked in the tech industry you may not understand the level of deceit, propaganda and outright lies these companies will promulgate for their own ends.

Any attempt to engage in good faith is simply more trouble than it’s worth. Let them release what they have. Folks will scramble over the feast while it lasts and things will eventually stabilise again. But don’t give them what they want, which is the legitimacy of naive attempt at good faith bargaining. We’ve seen how that ends with the current wave of fascism gripping the US and elsewhere. I see the ends of these companies in terms of their attempt to undermine systems of free thought and hijack the labour market.

As scientists, they are our enemy. We, who defend free thought and labour for little else than human knowledge and betterment, stand between them and the destruction of all we value.

There endeth my poor attempt at a Churchillian rhetorical speech! 🤣

Reply to @tomkalei@mathe.social
Tony Vladusich@TonyVladusich@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-24 08:36:59)
@tomkalei @johncarlosbaez 

Hard agree. Stated bluntly: Fuck big tech and the high horse of “theorem proof” it rode in on.