Calculators Beat LLMs at Math Skeptics keep revealing how limited AI and LLM systems are at even some simple tasks
Song: “The Emptiness Machine” Back from a seven-year hiatus, Linkin Park has a new lineup and popular new music
Death and Taxes and OA An MDPI employee dies in Romania, and a public access proposal downplays and hides costs to taxpayers
The Litigious Author In an attention economy, authorship stakes shift to reputation and away from validation
OA Goes Full Commercial Springer Nature's IPO sails forth, demonstrating how far commercial capture of OA has come
Friday Song: “Bring Me to Life” A 2003 classic put theatricality back into rock music after a decade of flannel
Another Sign of OA Failure? PLOS wants more grants to get out of the bind it finds itself in — OA isn't working
Boy, Did We Get Digital Wrong By not paying attention to our role from the beginning, and buying the techno-determinism of the 1990s, we have problems to fix
Covid-19 Opportunism Two studies suggest Covid-19 publishing was opportunistic, with journalists catching themselves first
Song: “Straight Into Darkness” A re-release of a classic album posthumously fulfills an artist's wish, and brings fresh music to life