"The news shows the extreme risk associated with offloading support or critical functions to an AI chatbot. Users who have had their accounts stolen say that there is no way to escalate their problem to a human. In March, Meta announced that it was pushing AI support to all accounts across […]
Five scientists passing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump regime's public health and medical research policies were ejected from an American Diabetes Association conference as NIH director Jay Bhattacharya was due to speak there […]
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/116715479378915373
This thread gives a useful overview of what Molly White's doing, and why it's important. (As she notes, the influence of cryptocurrency and AI firms on politics is greater than it might seem, since while they're spending a lot of money on […]
Just triaged my main book request queue from 415 pending requests down to 133, by taking out anonymous bulk submissions (some going to my low-priority bulk queue, some going straight to spam, depending on whether there seemed to be a plausible actual human reader/research interest, or if it […]
John Mark Ockerbloom
John Mark Ockerbloom
John Mark Ockerbloom
"The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It."
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-justice-department-erases-history--lawfare-restores-it
"Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they […]
John Mark Ockerbloom
Sad to hear that Subterranean Press will be closing: https://locusmag.com/2026/06/subterranean-press-to-close/. We've bought a number of their limited editions.
They do write that they plan to "either complete a number of ongoing series, or place them with other presses, to be continued in the […]
"Since World War II, the United States built the world’s preeminent scientific enterprise on a straightforward principle: federal dollars should fund the best science, as determined by independent experts rather than politicians. Peer review, open competition, and institutional autonomy were the […]
"The real choice facing the Wikimedia Foundation is not whether it will violate the rules of labor relations. It is whether it will reach for the lawful instruments that have been engineered, over three-quarters of a century, to make organizing fail without anyone ever crossing a line."
Jake […]
One major caveat in my #LB: Apparently Lawfare used Claude to write code to reconstruct the material. They note "given the volume of material in question, we have not hand-checked every single public statement recovered, though we have spot-checked cases and found the work to be accurate." […]
Kudos to the #MIT Graduate Student Council for adopting "a resolution expressing support for campus libraries to exit big deal journal packages and calling for changes to promotion and tenure processes to move away from journal-based metrics." […]
