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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social
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Is your Kindle going the way of the Dodo???
www.fastcompany.com/91523770/amazon-cutting-off-kindle-service-list-older-e-readers-impacted
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404 Media @404media.co
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Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.

www.404media.co/how-thomson-reuters-powers-ice-and-palantir/
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app
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We are on a platform with no algorithm which means that we have to post repeatedly because otherwise people who weren't scrolling during the last post didn’t see it.

also I spent years writing the book and will post about it as much as I damn well please lol
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It is Friday night. I'm drinking a Corona in my garage, typing on foldout table, thinking about scholarly publishing.
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I mean, "legit" publishers spit out like hundreds of new journals every year. What's the difference, really.
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How much do we care about intentions and methods versus outcomes and results?
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The thing about 'predatory' journals is that it attracts low quality submissions, but sometimes they attract decent articles.

How hard would it be to gin up a journal that used AI to actually screen for quality submissions, and provide apparently rigorous peer review?
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One of my bits on twitter was the idea of a performance art bit where you flooded an obviously fake/predatory journal with high quality submissions and dedicated expert reviewers, thus hijacking it into a passable journal.
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That may not be the worst outcome in the world if the reviews are obviously flawed or silly. But what if they are at least average? Or even slightly above average?
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At one time, I looked toward open peer-review as a remedy for deceptive ('predatory') publishing practices whose greatest sin (in my estimation) was the facade of rigorous review.

A.I. changes that equation since a plausible reviewer report can easily be spat out and made public...
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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social
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At the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘐 ( #JAAI ) all the articles are written by #AI tools and all the editorial decisions are made by AI tools.
jaai.pub/

Parts of the editorial philosophy read like good parody, parts like bad parody, and parts like non-parody. Your call.
jaai.pub/about

#LLMs #ScholComm
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In the same way that oil prices affect a ton of non-gas related industries, research funding also represents a lot of domestic spending we don't ordinarily think about when we think about research funding.
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social
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This is so, so well-articulated.
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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social
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What do you do with your conference poster when it's no longer a conference poster? You turn it into a shirt, of course! LF Comms person Laura steps to the other side of the camera at PLA!
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"Don't worry, we told our agents not to break the law."

Meanwhile the highest office in the land constantly seeks to change the law and how it is interpreted.
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Now wonder to yourself: are the guys building Claude as thoughtful as the nation's founders?

Then consider: agents are speed-running the constitutional interpretation debates.

And they proved very early on to do so in bad faith.
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It's cool to have constitutional fights taking place in the background as a reminder of just how splintered opinions can become about a set of written directions that the founders took great pains to make quite clear.
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Learning that the safeguards of a technology (which its creators have likened to a nuclear bomb) is being vibe-coded instills great confidence.
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social
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Claude source code leaks. I can't say I understand all the details, but someone I trust has been giving a detailed review and reaction and is gobsmacked at how truly terrible the code is.

scholar.social/ href="/profile/jonny@neuromatch.social/116324676665288630">@jonny@neuromatch.social/116324676665288630

@jo.nny.rip
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Need an undergrad to write their thesis on how the chaos of the last 15 years made the culture so ripe for gambling on anything.
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when a measure becomes a target it ceases etc etc
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social
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new column: I talked to the Iranians making the viral Iran war LEGO videos, describing their goals and 24h turnaround process. AI "slopaganda" is the new language of geopolitics:
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monkey paw-ass presidency
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2018: "Um wow, definitely didn't have THAT on my bingo card."

2026: [places disturbingly specific set of bets on Kalshi]
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science
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jonny over on masto doing god's work:

> anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

neuromatch.social/ href="/profile/jonny/116325668039992121">@jonny/116325668039992121
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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Editor: You get that big press release ready?

Photographer: Sure did boss, released it on April Fool's Day just like you asked.

Editor: what
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