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Re:Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring... by tmpz22 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:21AM (#17247849)
This is a really important study that should be conducted by an organization with a strong engineering culture and as little bias as possible. Who would be better then Mozilla to do this? I really don't trust academia to do this with all of its misplaced incentives.
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Re:Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring... by forapurpose on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:37PM (#17250356)
> I really don't trust academia to do this with all of its misplaced incentives.

We've really learned to repeat the anti-'academia' meme. There is no "academia"; Mozilla is an organization; "academia" is millions of people around the world in every place and environment imaginable. It's absurd to assume all these people are the same or coordinated somehow.

Given the absurdity, one might ask: Who would be interested in discrediting everything produced by every college and university?

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Re:Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring... by Maybestring on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:00PM (#17248209)
This isn't money for studies, it's money for digital art projects.
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