Unsere Autorin war immer sportlich. Aber die Frage, wofür sie eigentlich trainiert, hat sie nie ganz verlassen. Im Gym wird der Egoismus gefüttert. https://taz.de/!6194667

🚨 The #Arctic saw its hottest June on record for the month! The region's 10 warmest Junes have all been observed since 2012, with most of this warming trend coming from over northern land areas.

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/products/

If anyone is wondering how well ‘AI’ in hiring is going:

My partner just tried putting her CV through some ATS checkers that use LLMs. Her name can be turned into a male name by deleting one letter. Doing so caused her score to jump 10 points.

Anyone using these tools for hiring is going to have some massive discrimination lawsuits in their future.

@vaurora

Ah that really makes sense. I should have thought about that myself haha.

Words of encouragement

@mattblaze @ai6yr @h2onolan
Friends may wonder why all the antennas are sticking out of your backpack though.

https://www.thesignaljammer.com/products/handheld-extreme-21-5g/

@mttaggart @trashpanda @mattblaze @ai6yr @h2onolan

its also summer in most Western countries, where folk are likely to be considering buying pressure washers and other such kit (although maybe not in England at the moment with hosepipe bans!)

I get *lots* of car-related marketing stuff but I do watch a lot of videos about motoring on YouTube and do some fleet management work (so I'm regularly buying service parts for multiple vehicles at work, and the adtech companies recognise the IP addresses and devices I use).

@badastro every time I see a formation like this I hear Andre the Giant's line from Princess Bride run through my head...

Anyone want a peanut?

It always surprises me how much the look like gravel piles, I think I just trained my self on sci fi books and movies to think they should be a big solid rock every time.

Space is cool.

I started a business and took risks, when I was 16 (well, the risks came more at 19/20 when I went out on my own with that as my career). I didn't get rich, though I am objectively wealthy / well-off in the grand scheme of the world (not even close to billions, though!).

Wie können Kooperationen zwischen #OpenAccess-Infrastrukturen, Verlagen und #Bibliotheken zu einer nachhaltigen Zukunft von #DiamondOpenAccess beitragen?

Im oa.talk Collaborating for a sustainable Diamond OA future stellen @openbookcollect, Open Journals Collective und @Thoth_metadata konkrete Kooperationsprojekte vor. Wir blicken darauf, inwiefern solche Kooperationen für bestehende DOA-Kooperationen in deutschsprachigen Ländern relevant sein könnten.

Mehr Infos: https://open-access.network/en/fortbilden/open-access-talk/oatalk-am-11-juni-2026

A thing I really like about this @eliothiggins.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @drnataliemartin.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy framework is that instead of looking only at surface information disorder they're like THE PROBLEM IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE STATE

demos.co.uk/research/ver...

Verification, Deliberation, Ac...

@copim @openbookcollect @Thoth_metadata

[...] pit presses as well as other stakeholders in open publishing against one another in the pursuit of financial profit.

Both initiatives have been set up from the get-go as non-profits to ensure that they cannot be bought out by commercial players. More importantly, our governance models have been modelled in such a way that the communities we serve have an active say in the direction of our initiatives. For example, the Open Book Collective's governance is led by its Board of Stewards, which brings together its three main constituent groups of libraries, infrastructure providers, and publishers (many of them Born OA / #DiamondOA). For Thoth, we've recently published our first self-assessment against POSI, the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures, which I'm sharing below.

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@david_chisnall my Mrs is just in the process of doing this very same bullshit!

The Emerald acquisition of Wiley is yet another stark reminder of what really counts for those large publisher conglomerates: profits above everything else.

We've all read this playbook again and again, seen this movie many times.

To be clear, this is not how publishing needs to be. In the @copim community, we've worked hard to first conceptualise and then establish different way of thinking about publishing as a truly community-led non-profit #DiamondOA ecosystem.

For #OAbook publishing, which is particularly relevant to the Humanities and Social Sciences, new non-profit infrastructures such as @openbookcollect and @Thoth_metadata have been established over the past couple of years, which are strongly dedicated to their communities' needs, and guided by the principle of Scaling Small, which prioritises open collaboration and knowledge-sharing over competitive practices that [...]

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@copim @openbookcollect @Thoth_metadata

As community-led infrastructures, we rely on the support of all of you - the libraries, infrastructure provides, and publishers that are looking for more equitable ways to make #openaccess work.

Alternatives to the big commercial publishing playbook exist - will you support them?

Further reading:

The Copim Community set of values: https://copim.pub/about/our-values/

Open Book Collective governance model: https://openbookcollective.org/nav/governance

Thoth Open Metadata and the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) https://doi.org/10.70950/sllm9969

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@tim I do think they should pay taxes on every penny. Fancy accountants plus tax laws that work best for the ultra rich cheat the country.

So. I'll say no.

@andypiper if everyone who would have voted for every other party votes for Binface, I think he stands a chance. And I mean, we are talking about people from the country who voted for Boaty McBoatface... so he might get some votes for the lolz.

#voteForBinface

Okay, this is some "reckless #computing #jank" and I loved every second of it!

It's just a shame it can't do much beyond #RGB #Blinkenlights AFAICT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMR3IXF2sWw

#RISCv #Clustering #DIY #electronics #weird

It's the 11th of the month, so watch your inbox for a new installment of "Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things", including seal finger, obviation, and the Jupiter of Jupiter: https://buttondown.com/thingslearned/archive/things-i-learned-while-looking-up-other-things-9931/

The story in a nutshell.

1. Qatar bribed Trump with a large aircraft.
2. Trump spent $400 million in taxpayer money to make it luxurious.
3. It is insecure for use as Air Force One.
4. He intends to keep it as his own when he leaves office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.p0tp.J3UTgl7i87OO&smid=url-share