January 30, 2023
This late-October MIT Technology Review story hasn’t aged well: [Rumman] Chowdhury says that working as part of a well-resourced team at Twitter has helped, reassuring her that she does not have to bear the burden alone. “I know that I can go away for a week and...
January 24, 2023
Murray State University’s A.J. Boston, writing in C&RL News on so-called “transformative agreements” (TAs, aka read-and-publish deals): On balance, any upsides that TAs may present are negated by the normalization of paying-to-publish, posing huge problems for...
January 19, 2023
Smart piece by Christopher Kelty: What is even weirder, and harder to explain, is that the internet we do have was caused by the internet we could have had. Elements of the figuration of that internet we could have had turned out to be motors of political domination....
January 16, 2023
Reggie Raju and Auliya Badrudeen, writing for 360ino on “transformative” [sic] read-and-publish deals: The nation-wide agreements, conceived in the Global North, have shifted the prejudice from reading to publishing: communities can now read the research but cannot...
January 6, 2023
Forbes: OpenAI—the artificial intelligence company behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot program—is in discussions to sell shares valuing the firm at $29 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, after the launch of ChatGPT was lauded by many as a revolutionary...
