Two for Tuesday
Clearing the docket with two brief entries
Kent Anderson
Is This a Problem or a Grift?
A new way to identify "bad" papers seems to argue against its need to exist
Song: “Misery Business”
A song about bullies in high school gets briefly bullied online
eLife Is Put on a Ventilator
eLife indexing is paused at Clarivate — for good reasons
OA and a Trained Imagination
Open Access Week is having a "sad" because advocates had inadequately trained imaginations from the start
Plan S: It’s Not Going Great
A new report has its own limitations, but even with those, Plan S doesn't seem to be working
Friday Song: “Let It Rock”
Chuck Berry is the fount of rock, as this week's song reminds us
Child Labor, Scrip, and Tech
The age of digital shamelessness might be coming to an end as people realize its problems
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