A long shot, maybe, but not without merit. A lawsuit against six academic publishers alleging that the defendants:
a) refuse to compensate scientists for their manuscripts and review
b) refuse to compete by implementing Ingelfinger Rule
c) prohibit authors from sharing their work
lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac…
It may be worth considering filing an Amicus Brief with the numerous EU Commission market analyses that confirm the monopoly status of these publishers.
Defense witness for George Floyd murderer appears in pro-Trump ad
The retired police officer makes misleading statements about Kamala Harris’s reaction to the violence after Floyd’s death.
"Preserve America PAC", a pro-Trump group, appears to specialize in first-person accounts by people allegedly wronged by Vice President Kamala Harris.
We previously looked at an ad featuring a woman whose son was killed by an undocumented immigrant in Texas
— when Harris was district attorney for San Francisco.
The new ad features a former police officer who ⭐️says he was injured in the riots that erupted after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd.
⭐️A similar ad, which features a police officer identified only as “Paul,” attacks her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for his handling of the situation.
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1. You'll need to activate this Nextcloud app:
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Outstanding work, this is a very welcome change.
Followed the tutorial and now see Push Support as Subscribed for CalDAV entries. Should the Push Support info also show for CardDAV? So far not seeing that info in CardDAV.
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Anyone any thoughts as to why Yuval Noah Harari is getting such a kicking from reviewers for Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI?
Is it really so different from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, or even Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind?
Sure, his work leans on making sweeping generalisations and bold pronouncements, often on subjects of which he has little knowledge or expertise
But hasn’t that same ‘infotainment’ style earned him praise and awards as a global public intellectual for almost a decade now? So why the backlash?
#books #bookreview #ai #artificialintelligence #yuvalnoahharari #infotainment #sapiens #publicintellectual
a wild guess but I wonder if it's something to do with the hype and then disillusionment with genAI ... in 2024 people are now much more sensitive about being fed text which is seemingly correct and well-written but is not in fact true(!)
e.g. Are people reading more critically now because of genAI tools and the crap they can put out?
@rmounce Well, that's certainly a very 'glass half full' reading of AI and the associated hype: that's it's encouraging people to read more critically because of all the misinformation and disinformation it is putting out.
But that would only lead us to another question, surely: why is it AI that has finally resulted in people reading even books published by celebrated and best-selling public intellectuals more critically like this? Why didn't other media lead to this: not least platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and X? After all, they put out a lot of 'crap' too? And they have also been responsible for a certain amount of dislillusionment - remember when the internet was going to make society far more democratic?
So why AI and not social media? And before that perhaps even television, film, radio, print... ?
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Thierry Breton, the powerful European Commissioner in charge of the internal market, abruptly resigned as European Commissioner, dealing a new blow to Ursula von der Leyen's efforts to build her next team.
#Karikatur heute im Südkurier
[Edit] Passend dazu heute der @derpostillon: der-postillon.com/2024/09/hoch…
#Hochwasser #Migration #Klimawandel #Prioritäten #Realitätsverlust
General view taken by drone of a flooded area by Nysa Klodzka river in Nysa, #Poland. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
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It's always interesting to revisit quotes from books that one has read.
#books #reading @bookstodon #PeterDoherty #HansVonSponeck #TomVitale #MichaelSchulman
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Die Polizei konnte recht schnell eingreifen, weil sie die rechte Gruppe offenbar begleitet hatte und sich direkt hinter dem Bus befand. In einem ergänzenden Polizei-Statement ist weiterhin lediglich die Rede von einer "körperlichen Auseinandersetzung":
👉 presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/5…
Die Linke Gifhorn kritisiert das Vorgehen der Polizei: „Es kann nicht sein, dass die Polizei eine Gruppe Nazis begleitet und es dennoch zu einem schweren gewalttätigen Übergriff kommt.“
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Defense witness for #GeorgeFloyd’s #murderer appears in pro-#Trump ad
The retired police officer makes *misleading statements* [#lies] about #KamalaHarris’s reaction to the violence after Floyd’s death.
Preserve America #PAC, a pro-Trump group, appears to specialize in first-person accounts by people *allegedly wronged* by [lying about] Vice President Kamala Harris.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#HarrisWalz2024
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
WaPo couldn’t find a specific stmnt by #Harris on the violence in #Minneapolis, or even the #protests, but she did have 1 tweet #ScottCreighton mischaracterized, that “She raised millions to help bail rioters out of jail.”
This cannot be verified [IOW, a #lie].
Then-Sen Harris tweeted on June 2, 2020, wks before Biden selected her as his running mate: “If you’re able to, chip in now to the MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.”
Until #GeorgeFloyd’s murder, the Minnesota Freedom Fund (#MFF) was a relatively small vehicle for assisting people who needed cash for bail. The MFF’s 2018 tax filing shows it raised only about $100,000 that year. Weeks after Floyd’s death, it raised ~$35 million.
#KamalaHarris herself never personally bailed out anyone or had any interaction w/the fund, the fund’s interim director told the Sacramento Bee in 2021.
#PoliceViolence #racism #WhiteSupremacy
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#HarrisWalz2024
Rescuers work amidst flooding following the impact of Typhoon Yagi in Chiang Rai province, #Thailand, September 11. via Tubjaotak Task Force, Pha Muang Force
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What is everyone's opinion on this kind of puzzles?
#gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #gaming #indiedev #zelda #zeldalike #pixelart #godot #godotengine #madewithgodot
Hendrik Weimer
in reply to Björn Brembs • • •I don't know. Many nonprofit scientific societies are also affected by this suit through their membership in STM: stm-assoc.org/membership-2/our…
If anything, putting more financial pressure on publishers by having to pay reviewers is going to push the balance even further towards for-profit companies. I also think simultaneous submission allowing authors to cherry-pick where they encounter the softest review is a terrible idea.
#publishers #openaccess #academicchatter
Björn Brembs
in reply to Hendrik Weimer • • •@hweimer
Yes, those concerns were also among my first ones. See,. e.g.:
bjoern.brembs.net/2023/02/how-…
It all depends on the mitigations they would be asking for. I see any weakening of the monopoly position of the journals (corporate or societal) as positive in principle, as it would bring more force to procurement rules, see, e.g.:
bjoern.brembs.net/2022/03/why-…
By leveraging procurement rules in this way may bean important step to finally replace all journals:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi…