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jik<p><strong>New Wired article about DOGE at VA</strong></p><p>Wired just released a <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">new article</a>1 by Vittoria Elliott about DOGE’s incursion into VA, in particular the disruption that muskrat Sahil Lavingia is causing within the Office of the CTO’s VA.gov team by blustering around like a bull in a china shop. It’s a good insight into how the muskrats are working at government agencies. I encourage you to read it.</p> <p>1Here’s an <a href="https://archive.ph/Runue" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">[archive link]</a>, but I encourage you to buy a Wired subscription. They’re doing amazing reporting about the Trump administration and DOGE and they deserve your support.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/doge/" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/sahil-lavingia/" target="_blank">#SahilLavingia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/va/" target="_blank">#VA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/vittoria-elliott/" target="_blank">#VittoriaElliott</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://blog.kamens.us/tag/wired/" target="_blank">#WIRED</a></p>
Ehay2k<p>These seem really cool, and I've read that they feel like you're actually writing on paper. I have a convertible laptop and I've found that writing on it is difficult because there's no friction between the stylus and the screen. </p><p>For me, the deal breaker on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Remarkable2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Remarkable2</span></a> is that you can't search on the device (or the cloud) for what you've written. That doesn't make it any better than a big notebook. </p><p>Article on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wired</span></a> :</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/review/remarkable-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">wired.com/review/remarkable-2/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gadgets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gadgets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tablet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tablet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/notes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notes</span></a></p>
ItsDrGrandmaToYou :verified:<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wired</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tarriffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tarriffs</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/nist-trump-man</span><span class="invisible">ufacturing-extension-partnership/</span></a></p>
d4nyl0 :linux: :manjaro:<p>Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real? | WIRED</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/betavolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>betavolt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/battery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>battery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/WIRED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WIRED</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/is-this-50-year-battery-for-real/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/is-this-50-yea</span><span class="invisible">r-battery-for-real/</span></a></p>
100% TAX ✅ ✅<p>If you don't give a damn about truth or facts like Trump doesn't give a damn about it's likely that the people that work with him won't!</p><p>It's 'Trust Everyone'. Crazy!</p><p>“and nobody bothered to even check, security hygiene 101, who are all the names? Who are they?”</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/signalgate-isnt-about-signal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/signalgate-isn</span><span class="invisible">t-about-signal/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crazy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crazy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SecurityHygiene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecurityHygiene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhoAreThey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhoAreThey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SecurityHygiene101" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecurityHygiene101</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrustEveryone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrustEveryone</span></a></p>
Pankil<p>Remember when M was the Message? Now it’s <a href="https://izonelayer.click/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p><p>Stay <a href="https://izonelayer.click/tags/WIRED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WIRED</span></a></p>
safest_integer<p>WIRED: Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-m</span><span class="invisible">ost-transformative-code-science/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arxiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arxiv</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a></p>
gclef<p>"With an expected downgrade to the status of electoral autocracy, the US will share its label with Turkey, Hungary, Iraq, India, and Russia. This makes Big Tech's data collection, storage, control over, or any use of that data an even more urgent issue around the world."</p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/QJFOY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/QJFOY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wired</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DataPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataPrivacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cloud</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/CloudSeccurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CloudSeccurity</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWS</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Backups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Backups</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WorldBackupDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldBackupDay</span></a></p>
George Ellenburg (he/him/his)<p>Yay! One of my favorite comedians has done a <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/Wired" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wired</a> "<a href="https://bofh.social/tags/StandUp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StandUp</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/Comedy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Comedy</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/Support" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Support</a>" episode! <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/MatteoLane" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MatteoLane</a><span> <br><br></span><a href="https://youtu.be/xXpNGOpj4Cc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/xXpNGOpj4Cc</a></p>
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson<p>There's a non-zero chance that a benevolent superintelligence will terminate Elon Musk &amp; Peter Thiel, for being the threat to humanity they are. So, at least we've got that going for us.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/questions-answered-by-yuval-noah-harari-for-wired-ai-artificial-intelligence-singularity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/questions-answ</span><span class="invisible">ered-by-yuval-noah-harari-for-wired-ai-artificial-intelligence-singularity/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Singularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Singularity</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wired</span></a></p>
zeldman<p>WIRED: “We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. The results amazed and disturbed us.” <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-software-engineers-coders-actually-use-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.wired.com/story/how-so...</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ai" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23wired" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wired</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23survey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#survey</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23surveys" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveys</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23aiSurvey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aiSurvey</a><br><br><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-software-engineers-coders-actually-use-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">How Software Engineers Actuall...</a></p>
Lillian A’Dju<p>Must read</p><p>The clear selfless actions of a small group of Irish working class workers despite threats from management, fellow workers and the majority of the wider public, shows that we all have the capacity to stand on the right side of history.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/human_rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>human_rights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zeteo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zeteo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/euractiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>euractiv</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycott</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BDS</span></a><br><a href="https://www.newarab.com/opinion/boycotts-turn-tides-lessons-irish-anti-apartheid" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newarab.com/opinion/boycotts-t</span><span class="invisible">urn-tides-lessons-irish-anti-apartheid</span></a></p>
Mark Squires<p>While Elon Musk tries to get South African white people here, white replacement theory that he subscribes to has gone mainstream. And they've proceeded to go completely crazy. This is what is running the country now.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/natal-conference-matchmaking/?cndid=45338865&amp;bxid=5cec2f073f92a45b30fd3df3&amp;esrc=Bluesky&amp;hashc=7a6a639b35e674ccbc001e412ec0d33410a2b738fed5697af4fee3b9cfe2644a&amp;hasha=d47aa6ec48518a1d3fadfb1376bce2b4&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_033025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/natal-conferen</span><span class="invisible">ce-matchmaking/?cndid=45338865&amp;bxid=5cec2f073f92a45b30fd3df3&amp;esrc=Bluesky&amp;hashc=7a6a639b35e674ccbc001e412ec0d33410a2b738fed5697af4fee3b9cfe2644a&amp;hasha=d47aa6ec48518a1d3fadfb1376bce2b4&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_033025</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Wired" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Wired</span></a></span></p>
Hal9000 :firefox: :kubuntu:<p>Caso <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a>, e se l’uso dell’ <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>app</span></a> da parte dei vertici del <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/governo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>governo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Usa</span></a> non fosse un errore? | <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wired</span></a> Italia</p><p>L’uso del <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> potrebbe essere stato deciso a tavolino. Sulla vicenda l’ombra degli <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hacker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/cinesi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinesi</span></a> che hanno infiltrato le <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/telco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telco</span></a> statunitensi</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/uno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uno</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/diggita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diggita</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/signalapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signalapp</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.it/article/caso-signal-hacker-cinesi-salt-typhoon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.it/article/caso-signal-h</span><span class="invisible">acker-cinesi-salt-typhoon/</span></a></p>
Tamahagane<p>Great watch!<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toxicmasculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toxicmasculinity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ruthbenghiat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ruthbenghiat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?si=nPzRbQJu7HuWY5a3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?si=nPzRbQ</span><span class="invisible">Ju7HuWY5a3</span></a></p>
Henrik Sundström<p>WIRED on the Elon Musk Takeover:</p><p>"Since the first days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been everywhere in the federal government, moving fast and breaking things. </p><p>The big takeaway: Many on the DOGE team are from Musk’s world. If Musk is America’s CEO, then DOGE has become his Silicon Valley executive branch."</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-silicon-valley-corporate-connections/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge</span><span class="invisible">-silicon-valley-corporate-connections/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️<p>One thing I dislike about <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wired</span></a> is that they tend to promote <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> a lot.</p>
Marfisa<p>From Wired: “DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months”</p><p>Ahahaha.<br>Wait. You serious?<br>AHAHAHAHAHA!</p><p>Anyone who wants to port such a giant COBOL code base in mere months is either a complete moron or wants to completely dismantle SSA without going through Congress.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ssa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ssa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheEndOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheEndOfAmerica</span></a></p>
Sven<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@elfin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>elfin</span></a></span> </p><p>Remember that 25 years of prosperity we where promised? Yea, that ended 5 years ago.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wired</span></a></p>
In the Dark<p><strong>Kudos to arXiv!</strong></p> <a href="https://telescoper.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/brand-logo-primary.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a> <p>There’s a <a href="http://Inside%20arXiv—the%20Most%20Transformative%20Platform%20in%20All%20of%20Science" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">good piece</a> in <em>Wired</em> about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ginsparg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Paul Ginsparg</a>, the physicist who created <a href="https://arxiv.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">arXiv</a>. The lede of the article begins <em>Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv</em><strong><strong>.</strong></strong> For once, this isn’t an exaggeration. I recommend you read the piece yourself so I won’t say much more about it except that I found it fascinating. I couldn’t resist in including this extract, however, with which I wholeheartedly agree:</p><blockquote><p>Every industry has certain problems universally acknowledged as broken: insurance in health care, licensing in music, standardized testing in education, tipping in the restaurant business. In academia, it’s publishing. Academic publishing is dominated by for-profit giants like Elsevier and Springer. Calling their practice a form of thuggery isn’t so much an insult as an economic observation. Imagine if a book publisher demanded that authors write books for free and, instead of employing in-house editors, relied on other authors to edit those books, also for free. And not only that: The final product was then sold at prohibitively expensive prices to ordinary readers, and institutions were forced to pay exorbitant fees for access.</p></blockquote><p>I’ve written words to that effect so many times I’ve lost count!</p><p>Anyway, as if to reinforce the point about the transformative nature of arXiv, it has just been announced that the European Astronomical Society has awarded the 2025 <a href="https://eas.unige.ch/inspiration_medal.jsp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Jocelyn Bell Burnell Inspiration Medal</a> to <a href="https://arxiv.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">arXiv</a> “for its impact on astrophysical research thanks to the open, free and world-wide distribution of scientific articles”. What a bold, imaginative and fully justifiable decision that is, and congratulations to arXiv! It is a truth universally acknowledged that every paper in astrophysics worth reading is on arXiv.</p><p>I’m planning to be at this year’s <a href="https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2025/index.jsp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">EAS meeting in Cork at the end of June </a>when this, and the other EAS awards, will be presented. I’m not sure who will receive it on behalf of arXiv but they’re sure to get a rousing ovation.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/arxiv/" target="_blank">#arXiv</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/european-astronomical-society/" target="_blank">#EuropeanAstronomicalSociety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/paul-ginsparg/" target="_blank">#PaulGinsparg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/wired/" target="_blank">#Wired</a></p>