An Impromptu AI News Dump
A wild few days in the world of fake smarts, so here’s a convenient compendium
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The Scholarship Economy
Tech has disrupted the “epistemic architecture” of our scholarly economy
Friday Song: “Renegade”
Written with apparent ease and capturing Styx’s trademark flourishes, it rocks
This Week’s Texted Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
Podcast: Leave arXiv Alone
Those exploiting our infrastructure can return to minding their own business
Come See What’s Next for Us
Let us tell you about it at the Charleston Conference in November
The BMJ: An Anti-vax Enabler?
An editor with an anti-vax grift is a Senior Editor, and they support medRxiv
Scientistic Authoritarianism
The rollout of AI and LLMs in science is mostly about centralized power
Song: “Church & State”
A family civics lesson and a musical sketch combine into a great protest song
This Week’s Texted Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch