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@online{biddleLexisNexisProvideGiant2021,
title = {{{LexisNexis}} to {{Provide Giant Database}} of {{Personal Information}} to {{ICE}}},
author = {Biddle, Sam},
date = {2021-04-02T14:00:22+00:00},
url = {https://theintercept.com/2021/04/02/ice-database-surveillance-lexisnexis/},
urldate = {2021-09-24},
langid = {american},
organization = {{The Intercept}}
}

@online{CapitalDeadMcKenzie,
title = {Capital {{Is Dead}} by {{McKenzie Wark}}: 9781788735339 | {{PenguinRandomHouse}}.Com: {{Books}}},
shorttitle = {Capital {{Is Dead}} by {{McKenzie Wark}}},
url = {https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610411/capital-is-dead-by-mckenzie-wark/},
urldate = {2022-02-10},
abstract = {It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism - what if it's something worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through...},
langid = {american},
organization = {{PenguinRandomhouse.com}}
}

@article{deferCommentEditeursScientifiques2022,
title = {Comment les éditeurs scientifiques surveillent les chercheurs},
author = {Defer, Aurelien},
date = {2022-01-17},
journaltitle = {Le Monde.fr},
url = {https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2022/01/17/comment-les-editeurs-scientifiques-surveillent-les-chercheurs_6109840_1650684.html},
urldate = {2022-02-10},
abstract = {Ces dernières années, les grands éditeurs de publications scientifiques ont investi massivement dans la collecte de données. Les chercheurs craignent que la recherche s’enfonce dans une course à la performance.},
entrysubtype = {newspaper},
langid = {french}
}

@article{Dresher2008,
title = {The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology},
author = {Dresher, B Elan},
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file = {/Users/jonny/Dropbox/papers/zotero/D/DresherB/dresher_2008_the_contrastive_hierarchy_in_phonology.pdf}
}

@online{franceschi-bicchieraiAcademicJournalClaims2022,
title = {Academic {{Journal Claims}} It {{Fingerprints PDFs}} for ‘{{Ransomware}},’ {{Not Surveillance}}},
author = {Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo},
date = {2022-01-31T14:34:51},
url = {https://www.vice.com/en/article/4aw48g/academic-journal-claims-it-fingerprints-pdfs-for-ransomware-not-surveillance},
urldate = {2022-02-10},
abstract = {Elsevier embeds a unique code in every academic journal article users download. Security researchers fear this could be used to identify people who share PDFs.},
langid = {english},
organization = {{Vice}},
keywords = {Academia,CYBER,Elsevier,Fingerprinting,Science,SURVEILLANCE,Worldnews}
}

@article{holtTemporallyNonadjacentNonlinguistic2005,
title = {Temporally Nonadjacent Nonlinguistic Sounds Affect Speech Categorization},
author = {Holt, Lori L.},
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}

@online{OpenAccessScholarship,
title = {Open {{Access Scholarship Policy}} | {{The University}} of {{Oregon Senate}}},
url = {https://senate.uoregon.edu/senate-motions/us2021-18-open-access-scholarship-policy},
urldate = {2022-02-10}
}

@report{pooleySurveillancePublishing2021,
type = {article; https://web.archive.org/web/20211123130445/https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j6ung/},
title = {Surveillance {{Publishing}}},
author = {Pooley, Jefferson},
date = {2021-11-18T16:04:02},
institution = {{SocArXiv}},
doi = {10.31235/osf.io/j6ung},
url = {https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j6ung/},
urldate = {2021-11-30},
abstract = {This essay develops the idea of surveillance publishing, with special attention to the example of Elsevier. A scholarly publisher can be defined as a surveillance publisher if it derives a substantial proportion of its revenue from prediction products, fueled by data extracted from researcher behavior. The essay begins by tracing the Google search engine’s roots in bibliometrics, alongside a history of the citation analysis company that became, in 2016, Clarivate. The point is to show the co-evolution of scholarly communication and the surveillance advertising economy. The essay then refines the idea of surveillance publishing by engaging with the work of Shoshana Zuboff, Jathan Sadowski, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, and Aziz Huq. The recent history of Elsevier is traced to describe the company’s research-lifecycle data-harvesting strategy, with the aim to develop and sell prediction products to universities and other customers. The essay concludes by considering some of the potential costs of surveillance publishing, as other big commercial publishers increasingly enter the predictive-analytics mark. It is likely, I argue, that windfall subscription-and-APC profits in Elsevier’s “legacy” publishing business have financed its decade-long acquisition binge in analytics, with the implication that university customers are budgetary victims twice over. The products’ purpose, I stress, is to streamline the top-down assessment and evaluation practices that have taken hold in recent decades, in tandem with the view that the university’s main purpose is to grow regional and national economies. A final pair of concerns is that publishers’ prediction projects may camouflage and perpetuate existing biases in the system—and that scholars may internalize an analytics mindset, one already encouraged by citation counts and impact factors.},
langid = {american},
keywords = {and Technology,archived,Knowledge,Library and Information Science,scholarly communication,Scholarly Communication,scholarly publishing,Scholarly Publishing,Science,Social and Behavioral Sciences,Sociology,sociology of academic life,sociology of science,surveillance capitalism},
file = {/Users/jonny/Dropbox/papers/zotero/P/PooleyJ/pooley_2021_surveillance_publishing.pdf}
}

@article{RELXAnnualReport2020,
title = {{{RELX Annual Report}} 2020},
date = {2020},
pages = {196},
url = {https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/reports/annual-reports/2020-annual-report.pdf},
langid = {english},
keywords = {archived},
annotation = {https://web.archive.org/web/20211204083138/https://www.relx.com/\textasciitilde/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/reports/annual-reports/2020-annual-report.pdf},
file = {/Users/jonny/Zotero/storage/ZU36SWX3/2020 - RELX Annual Report 2020.pdf}
}

@article{roschFamilyResemblancesStudies1975,
title = {Family Resemblances: {{Studies}} in the Internal Structure of Categories},
shorttitle = {Family Resemblances},
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file = {/Users/jonny/Dropbox/papers/zotero/V/van RooijI/van_rooij_2021_theory_before_the_test.pdf}
}

@book{warkCapitalDeadThis2019,
title = {Capital {{Is Dead}}. {{Is This Something Worse}}? By {{McKenzie Wark}}},
shorttitle = {Capital Is {{Dead}}},
author = {Wark, McKenzie},
date = {2019-10-08},
publisher = {{Verso Books}},
url = {https://www.versobooks.com/books/3762-capital-is-dead},
urldate = {2022-02-10},
isbn = {978-1-78873-530-8}
}

@article{zuboffBigOtherSurveillance2015,
title = {Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization},
shorttitle = {Big Other},
author = {Zuboff, Shoshana},
date = {2015-03-01},
journaltitle = {Journal of Information Technology},
shortjournal = {J Inf Technol},
volume = {30},
number = {1},
pages = {75--89},
issn = {1466-4437},
doi = {10.1057/jit.2015.5},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2015.5},
urldate = {2021-12-08},
abstract = {This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’ The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the primary lens for this analysis as they are rendered in two recent articles authored by Google Chief Economist Hal Varian. Varian asserts four uses that follow from computer-mediated transactions: ‘data extraction and analysis,’ ‘new contractual forms due to better monitoring,’ ‘personalization and customization,’ and ‘continuous experiments.’ An examination of the nature and consequences of these uses sheds light on the implicit logic of surveillance capitalism and the global architecture of computer mediation upon which it depends. This architecture produces a distributed and largely uncontested new expression of power that I christen: ‘Big Other.’ It is constituted by unexpected and often illegible mechanisms of extraction, commodification, and control that effectively exile persons from their own behavior while producing new markets of behavioral prediction and modification. Surveillance capitalism challenges democratic norms and departs in key ways from the centuries-long evolution of market capitalism.},
langid = {english},
keywords = {archived},
annotation = {https://web.archive.org/web/20211208015857/http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1057/jit.2015.5},
file = {/Users/jonny/Dropbox/papers/zotero/Z/ZuboffS/zuboff_2015_big_other.pdf}
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\item Dozens of my own hardware designs including \href{https://wiki.auto-pi-lot.com/index.php/3D_CAD}{3D CAD}, \href{https://wiki.auto-pi-lot.com/index.php/2D_CAD}{2D CAD}, and a few \href{https://wiki.auto-pi-lot.com/index.php/PCBs}{circuit boards}; along with a few (at the moment incomplete) \href{https://wiki.auto-pi-lot.com/index.php/Guides}{guides} to build them
\end{itemize}

All of which I did myself starting from zero programming experience at the start of the program. I'm quite proud of it.
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All of which I did myself starting from zero programming experience at the start of the program. I'm quite proud of it.

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What remains to be done with Autopilot before I graduate is to revise the paper to reflect the development in my thinking (and the development in the software) that has happened since the preprint was posted all these many years ago and submit it for review.
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I collaborated with a team of engineers and software developers on \href{https://www.peoplesvent.org/en/latest/}{The People's Ventilator Project}\cite{lachancePVP1PeopleVentilator2020}: an inexpensive, fully open, supply chain-resilient pressure-control ventilator. Though there were many open-source ventilator projects, ours was one of the few that was a full replacement for the kind of invasive ventilators in short supply during the pandemic. I was on the software team, and was responsible for much of its \href{https://www.peoplesvent.org/en/latest/software/software_overview.html}{architecture}, the \href{https://www.peoplesvent.org/en/latest/software/gui/index.html}{GUI}, its \href{https://www.peoplesvent.org/en/latest/software/alarm/index.html}{alarm system}, and the \href{https://github.com/CohenLabPrinceton/pvp/tree/master/_docs}{documentation}. The development ventilator was built in New Jersey, so I wasn't able to directly work on the hardware, but I advised on the hardware I/O system "\href{https://github.com/CohenLabPrinceton/pvp/blob/master/pvp/io/hal.py}{hal}," which was directly inspired by Autopilot -- the ventilator runs on a raspi. Our paper is under consideration at PLoS One, and we just submitted our first round of revisions at the end of January. PVP has been used in a few downstream projects that wouldn't be possible with proprietary medical technology, including work by some Google Brain researchers improving ventilator control systems with machine learning\cite{suoMachineLearningMechanical2022}.
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PVP impressed on me the need, and showed me how possible it could be for scientists to use their accrued intellectual capital to unbuild extractive systems that rely on artificial scarcity of "intellectual property\footnote{(fake)}" and technical knowledge to surveil and control us\footnote{(real)}. We were unable to get an emergency use authorization from the FDA for PVP because of the need for a corporate sponsor, all of whom required that we make some part of the system proprietary, but PVP was designed as a generalizable framework for different kinds of ventilation using variable components, and ensures that the absence of a public domain design is never a reason that someone is denied ventilation\footnote{the regulatory apparatus takes care of that well enough already}.
PVP impressed on me the need, and showed me how possible it could be for scientists to use their accrued intellectual capital to unbuild extractive systems that rely on artificial scarcity of "intellectual property\footnote{(fake)}" and technical knowledge to surveil and control us\footnote{(real)}\cite{warkCapitalDeadThis2019}. We were unable to get an emergency use authorization from the FDA for PVP because of the need for a corporate sponsor, all of whom required that we make some part of the system proprietary. Even so PVP was designed as a generalizable framework for different kinds of ventilation using variable components, and ensures that the absence of a public domain design is never a reason that someone is denied ventilation.
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