Zuckerberg is clearly preparing for a Trump Presidency:
“New Trump Book Threatens To Jail Zuckerberg, Putting Zuck’s Groveling Letter In New Light” - Techdirt
A glorious start to spring
When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles - Lithub
https://lithub.com/bigoted-bookselling-when-the-nazis-opened-a-propaganda-bookstore-in-los-angeles/
Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke - The Verge
“The lost Library of Alexandria could have fit onto the microSD card in my Nintendo Switch, and yet the cutting edge of technology is a handheld telephone that spews lies as a fun little bonus feature.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9
Over the last five years the average open access article processing charge has gone up by 26% to AUD $4,945.
via @Andbaker@aus.social
#research #openaccess
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/mejor-negocio-mundo-editoriales-cientificas-disparan-precios-multiplican-facturacion_1_11532874.html https://aus.social/@Andbaker
“We don’t think about the collateral damage of sanctions the same way we think about the collateral damage of war…But we should.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/us-sanction-countries-work/
A sewage crisis in San Diego County reveals the unpolluted truth about the U.S.-Mexico border https://benhr.xyz/2024/08/17/a-sewage-crisis.html
On the huge achievement that malaria vaccines represent https://benhr.xyz/2024/08/09/on-the-huge.html
Return to office directives should be predicated on everyone having an office of their own. Forcing staff to hotdesk out of a backpack using lockers that are emptied every day, without even a desk of their own, isn’t an “office”.
"Ariana Ramsey won an Olympic bronze medal with the U.S. women’s rugby team here last week. A few days later, something almost as exciting happened: She got a pap smear. For free"
Gigwork is a lie https://benhr.xyz/2024/08/08/gigwork-is-a.html
From respected science journalism to LLM-generated click farming, an interesting analysis https://benhr.xyz/2024/08/08/from-respected-science.html
"Mr. Murdoch has called his effort to change the trust Project Harmony because he hoped that it might head off a looming family struggle when he dies… But it has had the opposite effect."
"Already 67 higher education institutions are undertaking redundancy and restructuring programmes. This number is expected to rise as softening demand from international students and high debt servicing costs risks put the sector under even more pressure.
Phillipson has said the government will not step in to prevent insolvencies and refused to commit to raising tuition fees for domestic students, which have, in effect, been frozen for more than a decade, despite pressure from the sector lobby group Universities UK."
UK universities regulator plans for looming insolvencies - Financial Times
"“A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were Russians only after the flight took off, the Kremlin said on Friday.""
"…phones are connectivity tools rather than attention-consuming blackholes, and people actually talk to each other." https://benhr.xyz/2024/07/27/phones-are-connectivity.html
"“We are talking about thousands and thousands of kilometers of infrastructure between Europe and the United States and Asia. This is a network that is extremely hard to surveil, to monitor and to protect. This is infrastructure that is highly vulnerable to sabotage.”"
A subsea cable went missing. Was Russia to blame? - Bloomberg
“SimCity Isn’t a Model of Reality. It’s a Libertarian Toy Land - Beneath its playful exterior, the beloved game that inspired a generation of real-world urban designers betrays a partisan view of social planning."