2026-04-19T02:54:40Z https://yabu.me GLC https://yabu.me/npub1fkjlfh4maxh4c8n26k4zra2l3fut6cd77hl2zc0j29jruvycpjfscclfmm https://files.mastodon.online/accounts/avatars/109/299/286/037/893/858/original/ac3f4c1c80b2c5f9.jpg https://files.mastodon.online/accounts/avatars/109/299/286/037/893/858/original/ac3f4c1c80b2c5f9.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqfkn20zpxfyghzpmgrhahr4l000aqxwuklfa393aqdhm7uz54pcszypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfxxg085y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9dard5chccqzdvsv5n8307nhayp3lyvcqz2he6pd6zjkv5nsvvtq7ph6sr'>nevent1q…h6sr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s a Swanwick interview in the current Clarkesworld as well, not entirely coincidentally. 2026-02-03T19:34:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs86h0ya6dr7ka8zlkthxvx2arguk0ku6h690ase9gyrxytnusgtcszypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfx2afmwy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfkkkmyrk0mu29d45svrf6u4x7zpkdgzl3u55nm4s3y8f9hsh4x5sm75upa'>nevent1q…5upa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Friends don&#39;t let friends donate their labor to the profit margins of Elsevier or Windawi (aka Wiley), or, I would say, Springer; and I include the historically respected journals that those brands either acquired or currently manage. <br/>Or, of course, the various bottom feeders. <br/>I explain this to the editors as needed<br/><br/>I haven&#39;t come as far along as you, just part of the way. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578897/universities-in-battle-of-the-century-with-journal-publisher-elsevier">https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578897/universities-in-battle-of-the-century-with-journal-publisher-elsevier</a>!<br/><br/><a href="https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/mit-elsevier/">https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/mit-elsevier/</a><br/><br/><a href="https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-mass-resignations-list/">https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-mass-resignations-list/</a> 2025-12-12T23:39:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswve3le5ltz8psn0ml9u5azdtfy33zf22fzl5kyj53j7zml9hysdczypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfxdxyehq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs948dkyg6n0xde7pjc0dpwmfxcwa06zqfpjn9dsjqqzz9ezhx9tdsxys2e4'>nevent1q…s2e4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And they&#39;ve already tweaked the algorithm to implement more aggressive driving, making any prior study irrelevant. And will do so again, in whatever way optimizes expected net revenue after court costs over the short horizon corresponding to the investment cycle. (Not that they have any way of actually making that calculation, but that&#39;s the paradigm that is followed.)<br/><br/>But anyway someone got himself published in the legacy media, nice for him. Nicer than a FIFA peace prize, I&#39;d say. 2025-12-06T19:06:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs83y8g8k3fhzpsxq90yy0xrzhyescyw30704400kzjztftgatm6dqzypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfx4jv5wf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq7r80dc009qss8yl2dtmnzxdj53qc9swkj5sdlzhj5pajfstdqzg4k4q9w'>nevent1q…4q9w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I ran into Poe&#39;s law here, not that it really matters since there are really two audiences for this and one of them can just take it all as written.<br/><br/>Read as occasionally sarcastic, on the other hand, I have no issues with it.<br/><br/>The fourth bubble would be commercial real estate, where #2 provides a transient reprieve.<br/><br/>Ed Zitron has a number of straightforward pieces on the phenomenon, such as <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/</a> 2025-09-21T19:02:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdp8vj4nyhywx2r5hvza4fpaeaakxt2d5z2gkgnw7kuqnmwmmsgqqzypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfx3llk56 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgmda5xkqydanryceuzf0jjd0wjjmewlsdhltq5k67pyq3xchulnqd3dn0g'>nevent1q…dn0g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One Die Lost 2025-09-12T20:45:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxvdmnszzp997zet2xd2ja6muzuqmw6ywayfay3arp8vjk6a89r0szypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfxhp8vtj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyaglqwvxmsdran7udqcg2lpgq8ku7epnw39kp5jrjej0vv5grx6q8ufenq'>nevent1q…fenq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You&#39;re right about the misbreeding. it&#39;s called enshitzufication. 2025-08-11T03:44:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswsae80f2g6cy7alu5wkfj0e27rdw8u3wwlpt34nz64zyxal22zggzypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfxj9ltzj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq5edt5hc7v72r6s5xjs9a6p43c96xcpc0d7rrvs99cwvxvsz4c6qnmwckd'>nevent1q…wckd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Nope.<br/><br/>Just another illustration of the original point. 2025-07-25T16:47:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswgw9pvrdujv7zymvlw697e4rsngw6j0lymqkmsjt9w2vujst09mgzypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfx2w9twa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9lxm4433z5k09ljhvurdghv7076rmrfuvqgquvx4lnm946cpgprqavjfxk'>nevent1q…jfxk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What&#39;s the evidence that a significant part of that money is or will be committed? <br/><br/>This is one of those industries whose business plan is to lose money on each customer and make it up in volume. <br/><br/>I can&#39;t say I&#39;m a close watcher but from time to time I come across things like this.<br/><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompetency/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompetency/</a><br/><br/>One can dig some interesting numbers out of Ziton&#39;s latest rant (<a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them/</a>) but nothing global I believe. 2025-07-05T21:23:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg263k293vclrya26xq4zy60sl278zvkcg08jq3a7utwmwjpkpl6gzypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfxamtdxe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfkr8pk5shqs8unzq6vg66v4wggrcav0vq9ef8yrshm5gl83r482c9ylklu'>nevent1q…lklu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-13-alex-padilla-assault-senate-democrats-genius-act/">https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-13-alex-padilla-assault-senate-democrats-genius-act/</a> 2025-06-14T08:21:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8eqea3hf4pmt3w88q5jr7a8guccl40w2d05w4swzlje7328dm7mczypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfx3qmee5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs077grqtt0ljtdzugz9lr0pqrlhfr7csnzrd8vqcvh2clwnu26kggkwpqcs'>nevent1q…pqcs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Compare 3 (2) at<br/><a href="https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/142-five-questions-about-domestic">https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/142-five-questions-about-domestic</a> 2025-06-08T02:37:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvp9s3ayw50mx0l5yk55nzu2hdegjyg3g7znxag3w9ct5lftl77jqzypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfxt9tzgs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstkyflyvwp4u2vw79m5h3c6zwg4srlrlcltrule2w7qn3nrakxxncghyrvp'>nevent1q…yrvp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My impression is that you can coordinatize the blue vertices by ordered pairs of the form <br/>A=(a,{a+1,a+3}) and (a,{a-1,a-3}) with edge relation A connected to a, and A connected to the two other pairs of this form with two entries in common with A, for example<br/>(0, {1,3}) joined to (1,{0,6}) and to (3,{2,0}), as well as to 0. 2025-03-27T01:06:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfg9kd34kls3l29awpxfqn830akv09ntmrky63pvl6wtkhx8c5ssczypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfx5p2m98 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyc4yjm9txlzt52p6edtygm6ec268czhzzkuj3mejxywy3zq4cldqm2t3r8'>nevent1q…t3r8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m always a sucker for a web search. <br/><br/>I had no idea ... but it&#39;s on p. 6<br/><br/><a href="http://edouardlucas.free.fr/pdf/oeuvres/Jeux_2.pdf">http://edouardlucas.free.fr/pdf/oeuvres/Jeux_2.pdf</a> 2025-02-25T00:59:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqpwk3r4mv84pfkl9dxr7tltje49k6kllg686hf986hh6tyl4jlhszypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfx9hrxwr JK Galbraith writing in 1992:<br/><br/>&#34;The fortunate and the favored, it is evident, do not contemplate and respond to their own longer-run well-being. Rather, they respond, and powerfully, to immediate comfort and contentment.&#34; 2024-12-15T01:49:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrx26myshtmhn6g0j3c6wzzsxxs4u4r29dkemdrzhqsmpm4qqjqmszypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfx3z6pz9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq5vd8xtaw3ax5hfhaksr8qxnllg04rkkcdefh77rhpxehqc8ynmczj6ep8'>nevent1q…6ep8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My question would be how the relationship with the Kurdish groups in Syria will evolve (and how the Turks will play their hand). Though I am perfectly willing to wait and see, as the major players themselves probably know very little about what is actually coming. 2024-12-08T18:38:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz6xd3j4aeepz2aqtazd2gvmfpf7ugms56pkau6r9gt4hyptz0unszypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfxztm38a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszxvnwqap9vwyfc5vp40mv9t3rm926m4u8667ujdlu8xtl8aluxhc3frr48'>nevent1q…rr48</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Some additional details under &#34;Etymology&#34;<br/>at <br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer</a> 2024-11-11T22:39:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfe8nxslkujzj8p4y8h6mlqx28ndw00ed8pg6zt8kuhds5f7x05nczypx6tax7h0567hq7dt265g04t79830tphm6lagtp7fgkg03snqxfxcpdnrm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2tvpc0kyv6jkjcf78h74fk226fsd347nnvde8h3w39q67g0345vg70djd0'>nevent1q…djd0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I occasionally need to fill out an entry on a form asking whether I&#39;m disabled and it leaves me somewhat at a loss to decide. (A bit like the final passage in Proust&#39;s Remembrance of Things Past, where he notices he has become old at some point, considerably earlier on.)<br/><br/>At the moment, anyone who remains concerned about covid (e.g., on the basis of age) is in *some* meaningful sense disabled, regardless of one&#39;s personal details. 2024-10-28T17:59:56Z