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Alt text - Why It's Important
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https://publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/alt-text

Alt text - Why It's Important - Debbie Ridpath Ohi - Obsidian Publish
This page helps explain why it's important to use alt text when posting images on Bluesky, best practices, and tips. Cover-WhyUseAltText-v2-flat-800.jpg INDEX Here are just some of the ways alt-text …

@… the window from the timeline I measured was ~5 hours but to solve the root issue would require architecture changes to npm publish workflows — but until something changes upstream, yeah — more alerts! more emails! I want to know every time a build dependency in my projects is compromised as soon as possible so that I can make the best choices for my projects
Fro…

Hi humanities friends 👋
Where do researchers from the humanities publish preprints?
Are preprints a thing in your fields?
#AcademicChatter

Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M , it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/ghost-makes-it-easier-to-publish-t…

Miss United States Lindsey Langston accuses Rep. Cory Mills of threatening to publish her nude pics, sex videos (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/us-news/miss-united-states-lindsey-langston-accuses-rep-cory-mills-of-threatening-to-publish-her-nude-pics-sex-videos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p138#a250806p138

Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M , it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/ghost-makes-it-easier-to-publish-t…

@… yeah, I don’t know exactly what happened internally there but a “red phone” for high download count maintainers might be a good short term solution until publish workflows are improved to further mitigate this style of attack

Exposing Citation Vulnerabilities in Generative Engines
Riku Mochizuki, Shusuke Komatsu, Souta Noguchi, Kazuto Ataka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06823 https://

Exposing Citation Vulnerabilities in Generative Engines
We analyze answers generated by generative engines (GEs) from the perspectives of citation publishers and the content-injection barrier, defined as the difficulty for attackers to manipulate answers to user prompts by placing malicious content on the web. GEs integrate two functions: web search and answer generation that cites web pages using large language models. Because anyone can publish information on the web, GEs are vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Existing studies of citation evaluation…

This Fediverse Enhancement Proposal describes a way to attach a chat room to ActivityPub actors and objects.
The chat room itself can be a web page, a XMPP room,
a Matrix room,
an IRC channel, ...
The chat itself does not necessarily publish messages using ActivityPub.
https://

fep/fep/1970/fep-1970.md at main
fep - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

Open science hymn.
Imagine no more journals
It's easy if you try.
No more rejections
No "publish or you'll die".
Imagine everybody
Having access to your work.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join me And the world'll be a better one

Monero Developers Discuss ‘Publish or Perish’ Proposal to Mitigate Qubic Attacks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/monero-developers-discuss-publish-perish-215514707.html

Monero Developers Discuss ‘Publish or Perish’ Proposal to Mitigate Qubic Attacks
Monero has been suffering from what is called a selfish mining strategy, or attack, perpetrated by the Qubic Pool—led by Sergey Ivancheglo, also known as...

Former New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya is launching Bungalow, a longform journalism project, and plans to publish ten digital editions annually (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/07/2025/times-reporter-launches-long…

Times reporter launches longform journalism project
The former New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya is launching Bungalow.

I'd like to publish conference proceedings as epub rather than pdf, as they're more accessible, can include videos etc. They're basically standardised bundles of HTML as far as I can tell, that can be downloaded onto ereaders etc.
However, web browsers can't natively read them, and I somehow can't find a nice and simple, fast and useable javascript thingie for making them readable online. Does it exist?
Every time I look into this sort of thing I don't und…

whew, it’s been taken down a mere 5 hours after publish.

Where do people publish images such that they are citable, FAIR and browsable?
I‘d like to publish my drawings under a CC-BY license for reuse but I am struggling finding a good place for that.
#FAIRprinciples

Author Once, Publish Everywhere: Portable Metadata Authoring with the CEDAR Embeddable Editor
Martin J. O'Connor, Marcos Martinez-Romero, Attila L. Egyedi, Mete U. Akdogan, Michael V. Dorf, Mark A. Musen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00859

Author Once, Publish Everywhere: Portable Metadata Authoring with the CEDAR Embeddable Editor
High-quality, "rich" metadata are essential for making research data findable, interoperable, and reusable. The Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR) has long addressed this need by providing tools to design machine-actionable metadata templates that encode community standards in a computable form. To make these capabilities more accessible within real-world research workflows, we have developed the CEDAR Embeddable Editor (CEE)-a lightweight, interoperable Web Component tha…

Hackers are using security reports to translate technical problems into “partial malicious code” as part of the “vibe coding” trend.
https://www.

Do Security Blogs Enable Vibe-Coded Cybercrime? | Trend Micro (US)
Security companies routinely publish detailed analyses of security incidents, making attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) widely known and visible. These reports often provide comprehensive insights into specific vulnerabilities that are or could be exploited, malware delivery mechanisms, and evasion techniques.

Puts a "Deploy" button in Strapi so rather than webhooks triggering builds on every change, you can decide when to publish. Supports self-hosted Gitlab instances and pipeline variables.
Built from a fork-of-a-fork plus some retracted PRs.
All I really did was swear at `npm` until I figured out that I was missing a "prepare" step in package.json

GitHub - jaygooby/strapi-plugin-gitlab-publish: Trigger GitLab pipelines. Supports self-hosted GitLab instances and custom variable passing to the pipeline
Trigger GitLab pipelines. Supports self-hosted GitLab instances and custom variable passing to the pipeline - jaygooby/strapi-plugin-gitlab-publish

@… ah, yeah — for sure. I just mean that packages using provenance aren’t *required* to use provenance to publish (which was an interesting design decision)

UK-based Kido nursery chain was hacked by a ransomware gang called Radiant, which posted profiles of 10 children online and threatens to release more data (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/26/kido…

The issue with "Apple takes over Substack payments to you can no longer port your subscriptions" as an argument to leave is that "it's a Nazi platform that funds Nazis" didn't work.
There's just the hope that "having a Substack" somehow pays better than running your blog somewhere else and that that trumps every argument. People will stay there.
(Which sucks cause some people whose work is important publish it on Substack making it impos…

Pentagon To Reporters: Publish Approved Information Or Lose Access https://thedissenter.org/pentagon-to-reporters-publish-approved-information-or-lose-access/

Please support Nabil, if you can.
You not hearing the details of the suffering of Nabil and his family because he cannot bring himself to publish it. But I am.
They need your help to buy the basic necessities of life.
Please share so others might help too.
Thank you!
💕 https://mastodon.social…

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
Should AI coding be taught in undergrad CS education?
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I teach undergraduate computer science labs, including for intro and more-advanced core courses. I don't publish (non-negligible) scholarly work in the area, but I've got years of craft expertise in course design, and I do follow the academic literature to some degree. In other words, In not the world's leading expert, but I have spent a lot of time thinking about course design, and consider myself competent at it, with plenty of direct experience in what knowledge & skills I can expect from students as they move through the curriculum.
I'm also strongly against most uses of what's called "AI" these days (specifically, generative deep neutral networks as supplied by our current cadre of techbro). There are a surprising number of completely orthogonal reasons to oppose the use of these systems, and a very limited number of reasonable exceptions (overcoming accessibility barriers is an example). On the grounds of environmental and digital-commons-pollution costs alone, using specifically the largest/newest models is unethical in most cases.
But as any good teacher should, I constantly question these evaluations, because I worry about the impact on my students should I eschew teaching relevant tech for bad reasons (and even for his reasons). I also want to make my reasoning clear to students, who should absolutely question me on this. That inspired me to ask a simple question: ignoring for one moment the ethical objections (which we shouldn't, of course; they're very stark), at what level in the CS major could I expect to teach a course about programming with AI assistance, and expect students to succeed at a more technically demanding final project than a course at the same level where students were banned from using AI? In other words, at what level would I expect students to actually benefit from AI coding "assistance?"
To be clear, I'm assuming that students aren't using AI in other aspects of coursework: the topic of using AI to "help you study" is a separate one (TL;DR it's gross value is not negative, but it's mostly not worth the harm to your metacognitive abilities, which AI-induced changes to the digital commons are making more important than ever).
So what's my answer to this question?
If I'm being incredibly optimistic, senior year. Slightly less optimistic, second year of a masters program. Realistic? Maybe never.
The interesting bit for you-the-reader is: why is this my answer? (Especially given that students would probably self-report significant gains at lower levels.) To start with, [this paper where experienced developers thought that AI assistance sped up their work on real tasks when in fact it slowed it down] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089) is informative. There are a lot of differences in task between experienced devs solving real bugs and students working on a class project, but it's important to understand that we shouldn't have a baseline expectation that AI coding "assistants" will speed things up in the best of circumstances, and we shouldn't trust self-reports of productivity (or the AI hype machine in general).
Now we might imagine that coding assistants will be better at helping with a student project than at helping with fixing bugs in open-source software, since it's a much easier task. For many programming assignments that have a fixed answer, we know that many AI assistants can just spit out a solution based on prompting them with the problem description (there's another elephant in the room here to do with learning outcomes regardless of project success, but we'll ignore this over too, my focus here is on project complexity reach, not learning outcomes). My question is about more open-ended projects, not assignments with an expected answer. Here's a second study (by one of my colleagues) about novices using AI assistance for programming tasks. It showcases how difficult it is to use AI tools well, and some of these stumbling blocks that novices in particular face.
But what about intermediate students? Might there be some level where the AI is helpful because the task is still relatively simple and the students are good enough to handle it? The problem with this is that as task complexity increases, so does the likelihood of the AI generating (or copying) code that uses more complex constructs which a student doesn't understand. Let's say I have second year students writing interactive websites with JavaScript. Without a lot of care that those students don't know how to deploy, the AI is likely to suggest code that depends on several different frameworks, from React to JQuery, without actually setting up or including those frameworks, and of course three students would be way out of their depth trying to do that. This is a general problem: each programming class carefully limits the specific code frameworks and constructs it expects students to know based on the material it covers. There is no feasible way to limit an AI assistant to a fixed set of constructs or frameworks, using current designs. There are alternate designs where this would be possible (like AI search through adaptation from a controlled library of snippets) but those would be entirely different tools.
So what happens on a sizeable class project where the AI has dropped in buggy code, especially if it uses code constructs the students don't understand? Best case, they understand that they don't understand and re-prompt, or ask for help from an instructor or TA quickly who helps them get rid of the stuff they don't understand and re-prompt or manually add stuff they do. Average case: they waste several hours and/or sweep the bugs partly under the rug, resulting in a project with significant defects. Students in their second and even third years of a CS major still have a lot to learn about debugging, and usually have significant gaps in their knowledge of even their most comfortable programming language. I do think regardless of AI we as teachers need to get better at teaching debugging skills, but the knowledge gaps are inevitable because there's just too much to know. In Python, for example, the LLM is going to spit out yields, async functions, try/finally, maybe even something like a while/else, or with recent training data, the walrus operator. I can't expect even a fraction of 3rd year students who have worked with Python since their first year to know about all these things, and based on how students approach projects where they have studied all the relevant constructs but have forgotten some, I'm not optimistic seeing these things will magically become learning opportunities. Student projects are better off working with a limited subset of full programming languages that the students have actually learned, and using AI coding assistants as currently designed makes this impossible. Beyond that, even when the "assistant" just introduces bugs using syntax the students understand, even through their 4th year many students struggle to understand the operation of moderately complex code they've written themselves, let alone written by someone else. Having access to an AI that will confidently offer incorrect explanations for bugs will make this worse.
To be sure a small minority of students will be able to overcome these problems, but that minority is the group that has a good grasp of the fundamentals and has broadened their knowledge through self-study, which earlier AI-reliant classes would make less likely to happen. In any case, I care about the average student, since we already have plenty of stuff about our institutions that makes life easier for a favored few while being worse for the average student (note that our construction of that favored few as the "good" students is a large part of this problem).
To summarize: because AI assistants introduce excess code complexity and difficult-to-debug bugs, they'll slow down rather than speed up project progress for the average student on moderately complex projects. On a fixed deadline, they'll result in worse projects, or necessitate less ambitious project scoping to ensure adequate completion, and I expect this remains broadly true through 4-6 years of study in most programs (don't take this as an endorsement of AI "assistants" for masters students; we've ignored a lot of other problems along the way).
There's a related problem: solving open-ended project assignments well ultimately depends on deeply understanding the problem, and AI "assistants" allow students to put a lot of code in their file without spending much time thinking about the problem or building an understanding of it. This is awful for learning outcomes, but also bad for project success. Getting students to see the value of thinking deeply about a problem is a thorny pedagogical puzzle at the best of times, and allowing the use of AI "assistants" makes the problem much much worse. This is another area I hope to see (or even drive) pedagogical improvement in, for what it's worth.
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If I've understood the Labour Party rulebook correctly, there are 12 days left until the deadline for submitting leadership challenges for an election at this year's party conference. If the content of Angela Rayner's legal advice does exonerate her, that's long enough for her to publish it and get it digested by the press corps, no?

@… I’m not sure this would fix it? I think https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers is the new thing that might help prevent bad publishes from other workf…

Integrated Wheel Sensor Communication using ESP32 -- A Contribution towards a Digital Twin of the Road System
Ventseslav Yordanov, Simon Sch\"afer, Alexander Mann, Stefan Kowalewski, Bassam Alrifaee, Lutz Eckstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04061

Integrated Wheel Sensor Communication using ESP32 -- A Contribution towards a Digital Twin of the Road System
While current onboard state estimation methods are adequate for most driving and safety-related applications, they do not provide insights into the interaction between tires and road surfaces. This paper explores a novel communication concept for efficiently transmitting integrated wheel sensor data from an ESP32 microcontroller. Our proposed approach utilizes a publish-subscribe system, surpassing comparable solutions in the literature regarding data transmission volume. We tested this approac…

“the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector,”
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115277162069992407…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book about why I'm sick of writing about AI⹋, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in 2026. ‡probably ⹋"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI" -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: …

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Vincent van Gogh (@Vincent_van_Gogh@mastodon.nl)
291 Posts, 0 Following, 125 Followers · Every day a post with a painting made by Vincent van Gogh. This is a bot, and it will publish both the famous and not so well known works of van Gogh. Enjoy!

Which journal would you recommend to publish a review on the topic of #CognitiveMaps?
Criteria: non-profit, open access, good reputation
#ScientificJournals #OpenAccess

SpecEval: Evaluating Model Adherence to Behavior Specifications
Ahmed Ahmed, Kevin Klyman, Yi Zeng, Sanmi Koyejo, Percy Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02464 https://

SpecEval: Evaluating Model Adherence to Behavior Specifications
Companies that develop foundation models publish behavioral guidelines they pledge their models will follow, but it remains unclear if models actually do so. While providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have published detailed specifications describing both desired safety constraints and qualitative traits for their models, there has been no systematic audit of adherence to these guidelines. We introduce an automated framework that audits models against their providers specifications b…

Here is a song I'm working on for a purely instrumental (orchestral) album I'm going to publish soon.
#ClassicalMusic #orchestral #orchestration

Someone publish a yearly coffee table book called
Now That's What I Call Memes
start the presses!

Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/ransomware_gang_publishes_toddlers_images/

Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data
: Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack

Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data
Stephen Meisenbacher, Svetlozar Nestorov, Peter Norlander
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01470

Extracting O*NET Features from the NLx Corpus to Build Public Use Aggregate Labor Market Data
Data from online job postings are difficult to access and are not built in a standard or transparent manner. Data included in the standard taxonomy and occupational information database (O*NET) are updated infrequently and based on small survey samples. We adopt O*NET as a framework for building natural language processing tools that extract structured information from job postings. We publish the Job Ad Analysis Toolkit (JAAT), a collection of open-source tools built for this purpose, and demo…

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful. What the hell is RSS? RSS is just a format that defines how websites can publish updates (articles, posts, episodes, and so on) in a stand…

We recorded this short clip with @… during our verification call for Gaza Verified with him.
https://vimeo.com/1119119334
I didn’t want to publish it when we lost touc…

And that's why I publish my photos under CC 😍 https://amerika21.de/2025/09/277057/argentinien-milei-verliert-im-parlament

When, will Americans realize we are descending into dictatorship?
Trump has already silenced ABC, CBS, and Facebook,
extorting millions of dollars from them for offending him.
The job was done using bogus lawsuits and the power of the presidency.
And now it's the turn of The Wall Street Journal. -- Trump is suing the newspaper owned by his sometime supporter Rupert Murdoch.
The Wall Street Journal had the effrontery to publish a piece painful to Trump

And Now It's The Wall Street Journal's Turn To Tango With Trump | Opinion
The Wall Street Journal had the effrontery to publish a piece painful to President Donald Trump—painful because the truth hurts.

Publish to Perish: Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM-Assisted Peer Review
Matteo Gioele Collu, Umberto Salviati, Roberto Confalonieri, Mauro Conti, Giovanni Apruzzese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20863

Publish to Perish: Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM-Assisted Peer Review
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into the scientific peer-review process, raising new questions about their reliability and resilience to manipulation. In this work, we investigate the potential for hidden prompt injection attacks, where authors embed adversarial text within a paper's PDF to influence the LLM-generated review. We begin by formalising three distinct threat models that envision attackers with different motivations -- not all of which implying malicio…

FDA to publish reports of adverse events tied to drugs on daily basis | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/22/fda-faers-drugs-adverse-events/?utm_campaign=rss

"Open-Access-Publikationen der TU9 bei kommerziellen Verlagen: Transformationsverträge und Kostentransparenz von 2019 bis 2023": Masterarbeit von Rhiannon Schmitt am @…: https://doi.org/10.18452/34354

A Formalization of the Correctness of the Floodsub Protocol
Ankit Kumar (Northeastern University), Panagiotis Manolios (Northeastern University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19013

A Formalization of the Correctness of the Floodsub Protocol
Floodsub is a simple, robust and popular peer-to-peer publish/subscribe (pubsub) protocol, where nodes can arbitrarily leave or join the network, subscribe to or unsubscribe from topics and forward newly received messages to all of their neighbors, except the sender or the originating peer. To show the correctness of Floodsub, we propose its specification: Broadcastsub, in which implementation details like network connections and neighbor subscriptions are elided. To show that Floodsub does re…

Conference vignette 👀: #OpenScience is about much more than #OpenData. Presenting unpublished work is also Openness, as social science alumna Dr. Ros Attenborough reminded us. And if you can share that way, then...
In the Presidential symposium, another lab alumnus introduced a mouse protein that massively affected the clock ⏰ . His group found it through an ambitious phosphoproteomic 🧪 candidate selection approach on a cell line 🧫 , looking beyond the canonical idea of the clockwork (TTFL in the jargon). Canonical here means canonised by a Nobel prize.
A good friend from Japan explained in the Q&A that his group had just found the SAME gene in a genetic screen of mice 🐁with altered sleep patterns 🐁💤🛌. We know the clock controls sleep. So, independent evidence across continents.👍
Over dinner they started to coordinate how they would each publish their work. #Science working.

TIL it’s possible to publish directly to my WordPress site on @… from Obsidian using the aptly named «Obsidian WordPress Plugin».
What will they think of next!

#UkAcademia question: I see references to the "REF" a lot, including needing to publish papers that get a specific REF "rating" like 3* or 4*. Anyone knows what these stars mean and how do they decide how many stars your papers get?
#Academia

Enabling Content Management Systems as an Information Source in Model-driven Projects
Joan Giner-Miguelez, Abel G\'omez, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19797 https:/…

Enabling Content Management Systems as an Information Source in Model-driven Projects
Content Management Systems (CMSs) are the most popular tool when it comes to create and publish content across the web. Recently, CMSs have evolved, becoming \emph{headless}. Content served by a \emph{headless CMS} aims to be consumed by other applications and services through REST APIs rather than by human users through a web browser. This evolution has enabled CMSs to become a notorious source of content to be used in a variety of contexts beyond pure web navigation. As such, CMS have become …

I was sent a link for a very weird survey... It asked about Meta, Amazon, Walmart, and also... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
It seemed to be asking if I was a fan of corporations. I am not, and I let them know.
Also, here are two of the questions I had to answer.

Might be a while until I have people in a VC on stream after this one. Not even gonna publish the VOD.

The Near-Infrared Spectral Characteristics of Water Ice, Epsomite, and Halite Mixtures Relevant to Europa
Jodi Berdis, Carlie Wagoner, Akemi Takeuchi, Karl Hibbitts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22927

The Near-Infrared Spectral Characteristics of Water Ice, Epsomite, and Halite Mixtures Relevant to Europa
We publish the first NIR spectra of grain particulate mixtures of water ice, epsomite, and halite at cryogenic temperatures. Furthermore, we perform a quantitative assessment of the ability of both intimately- and linearly-mixed models to reproduce laboratory data of different grain mixtures of water ice, as well as water ice mixed with epsomite. We find that smaller grains of water ice impart a stronger influence than larger grains of water ice on the 2.0 μm spectral feature in epsomite, and …

BTW - if you're building Inuksuit in National or Provincial parks, please stop. Every few years, park staff ask news media to publish a plea to visitors to stop creating their own stone sculptures because of environmental impact.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jasper-national-park-inukshuk-cairn-1.4758917

Just in case you missed it.
I publish my #hiking and #cycling videos and clips on my own #peertube instance at:

Well crap...
Somehow the publish got cancelled 🤷
So #Jellyfin for #Roku 3.0.8 will now be published tomorrow, Thursday, Aug 21, 2025 5:00 PM PT

Working on an article called Tinpot in Tinseltown. I'm going to publish it to my https://stuff.davidaugust.com/ first, so if you wanna see it first, maybe subscribe over there?

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault.
(Original title: The Professionalism Trap)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/24/the-professionalism-trap/

The Professionalism Trap
I’m in the process of rewriting a talk I gave a few weeks ago in order to record it and publish it online. When I mentioned that to a friend who’s a filmmaker and knows how lighting and all that works he offered to help me doing it “right” so it doesn’t look like shit. […]

TIL that if you publish an MTA-STS record and then change your MX records without updating it, Google will refuse to deliver any mail to that domain. Which *is* reasonable, but just another thing that people need to remember.

Now that GCSE results are out, I think we can publish Calum's fantastic film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra9Gu5TNYzk
We're so proud of him! Brilliant work Calum 😃

Research in Medicine: Journal ranking vs. Interdisciplinarity
Anbang Du, Michael Head, Markus Brede
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24994 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Research in Medicine: Journal ranking vs. Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary research is critical for innovation and addressing complex societal issues. We characterise the interdisciplinary knowledge structure of PubMed research articles in medicine as correlation networks of medical concepts and compare the interdisciplinarity of articles between high-ranking (impactful) and less high-ranking (less impactful) medical journals. We found that impactful medical journals tend to publish research that are less interdisciplinary than less impactful journal…

Why does Meduza, who knows better than any of us that any election in #Russia is a farse, publish whytewashy stuff like this? Is Pertsev writing from within Russia, by any chance?
https://mastodon.social/@meduza_bot/11

OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/openai-co-founder-calls-for-ai…

OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models | TechCrunch
In an effort to set a new industry standard, OpenAI and Anthropic opened up their AI models for cross-lab safety testing.

I'm frequently despondent when I see organizations remove or hide once public Internet operational status and trending data.
At one time, lots of networks used to publish a variety of status and traffic summaries. The non-profit Internet2 for example was exemplary in this regard. Cloudflare, a commercial organization, now provides far more public benefit data than they do.
A big loss earlier this year was the once public Equinix network status page -

Introducing Equinix Status | Equinix Community - 519
Starting today you can check the status of your network products on the new Equinix Status page.  - 519

It is very revealing that @… has received money from the fascist Chinese government to publish their propaganda article “explaining” why Taiwan allegedly belongs to #China and why recognising Taiwan's struggle for independence from the totalitarian-ruled Chinese empire…

Hah score! Managed to push data from #HomeAssistant to #MQTT using the MQTT Publish action in HA, then https://

Turkish hackers call Defense Minister Katz on video, he answers — and they publish his photo
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syzoddgjxe

Turkish hackers call Defense Minister Katz on video, he answers — and they publish his photo
Alongside the call, which the hackers publicized with an image, Katz also received thousands of hostile messages, including curses — some automated — and threats such as 'We will kill you

Prince William: How much are you paying in tax?
£22.9 million. That's the staggering amount Prince William raked in last year. But unlike his father, who revealed his tax contributions while he was Prince of Wales, Prince William is refusing to say how much tax he pays. What has he got to hide?
https://38d.gs/fd5e

Prince William: Publish your taxes
Prince William made £22.9M last year. But he won’t say how much tax he paid. What is he trying to hide? We fund the monarchy, so the least we deserve is transparency. Sign the petition if you agree:

"For Fairer Open Access Deals, Base Article Eligibility on Submission Date" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/fairer-oa-deals-article-eligibility-submission-date…

Editor of a scientific journal refuses to publish one of our papers (already approved by both reviewers) if we don't replace the title with one that doesn't have a colon.... 🙄🤔

A look at CollabScan, a tool to scan short-form videos for pirated content, offered by Collab, a digital content studio founded by Vine creators (Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/08/28/collab-collabscan-digital-rights-manage…

Short-form creators can't keep their content out of pirates' hands. Collab wants to help. - Tubefilter
Since the dawn of digital content, piracy has been a problem for creators of all kinds. But those who make short-form content are particularly vulnerable, Vine might have perished (RIP), but these days, thanks to the rise of TikTok, short-form content is everywhere. Collab works with creators who publish videos on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and more. And some things never change: short-form content is still harder to protect than long-form videos.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US plans to publish GDP and economic data on the blockchain, but gave no details on the blockchain or timeline (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/368383/us-economic-data-onchain-lutnick

CPPA fines Tractor Supply Company $1.4 million for privacy violations https://therecord.media/ccpa-tractor-supply-privacy-fine

An objective criterion for evaluating new physical theories
Yefim Bakman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16217 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16217

An objective criterion for evaluating new physical theories
Currently, the value of a new physical theory is determined by whether it has been published in a prestigious journal. Yet, to publish an article in a prestigious journal, one must undergo a rigorous process of independent subjective peer review, with the success of the theory depending on the subjective opinion of reviewers who have proven themselves in developing old theories of physics. As a result, a closed system (gatekeeping) has been created that does not allow the penetration of new the…

FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger
Late on July 1, Paramount announced it had settled a lawsuit with Trump over the editing of a
"60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris
-- a suit that Paramount told the court was without merit.
The company agreed to pay $16 million
— most of which would go to Mr. Trump's presidential library
— and agreed to publish transcripts of future "60 Minutes" interviews with presidential candidates afte…

FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger
Paramount Global and Skydance Media agreed to merge last year.

NASA website won't publish major climate change reports | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nasa-reports-trump-hidden-doc-1ade1eb89bb4785f7cdd6e1d6ba31a21

Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change report on NASA website as promised (Seth Borenstein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nasa-reports-trump-hidden-doc-1ade1eb89bb4785f7cdd6e1d6ba31a21
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p139#a250714p139

(Today was another day where me writing directly into the CMS bit me: Due to some issue with iocaine WordPress wouldn't save the document so when hitting publish I lost the first version. The joys of hosting everything yourself ;))

You mean it fed directly into this promotional video. Having taken part as an invited expert on privacy and tech at the EU Parliament, I’ve seen firsthand how the points we raised at our meeting were entirely absent from the plenary session that followed and how the politicians went with their usual talking points and policies.
It’s good optics, though, right?
You want us to believe this? Publish actual changes in policy and link them to the contents of this meeting.

Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp, who has held that position since 2020, says he will step down and lead a new S&S imprint that will publish six books a year (Elizabeth Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/books/review/jona…

Jonathan Karp to Step Down as Head of Simon & Schuster
Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books year.

Probabilistic Latency Analysis of the Data Distribution Service in ROS 2
Sanghoon Lee, Hyung-Seok Park, Jiyeong Chae, Kyung-Joon Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10413 https://…

Probabilistic Latency Analysis of the Data Distribution Service in ROS 2
Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) is now the de facto standard for robotic communication, pairing UDP transport with the Data Distribution Service (DDS) publish-subscribe middleware. DDS achieves reliability through periodic heartbeats that solicit acknowledgments for missing samples and trigger selective retransmissions. In lossy wireless networks, the tight coupling among heartbeat period, IP fragmentation, and retransmission interval obscures end to end latency behavior and leaves practitione…

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
The Environmental Protection Agency has 💥ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all efforts to publish research,
according to two agency employees familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week
⚠️and instru…

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

What percentage of the US Social Security Administration's COBOL has been migrated away from since March? Does DOGE publish progress updates on Twitter? I'm assuming they're doing it piecemeal.
(The original timeframe was "months" which I'd understand to be under 24.)

New on #Quansight PBC blog: Python Wheels: from Tags to Variants
#Python distributions are uniform across different Python versions and platforms. For these distributions, it is sufficient to publish a single wheel that can be installed everywhere. However, some packages are more complex than that; they include compiled Python extensions or binaries. In order to robustly deploy these software on different platforms, you need to publish multiple binary packages, and the installers need to select the one that fits the platform used best.
For a long time, Python wheels made do with a relatively simple mechanism to describe the needed variance: Platform compatibility tags. These tags identified different Python implementations and versions, operating systems, and CPU architectures. Over time, they were extended to facilitate new use cases. To list a couple: PEP 513 added manylinux tags to standardize the core library dependencies on GNU/Linux systems, and PEP 656 added musllinux tags to facilitate Linux systems with musl libc.
However, not all new use cases can be handled effectively within the framework of tags. To list a few:
• The advent of GPU-backed computing made distinguishing different acceleration frameworks such as NVIDIA CUDA or AMD ROCm important.
• As the compatibility with older CPUs became less desirable, many distributions have set baselines for their binary packages to x86-64-v2 microarchitecture level, and Python packages need to be able to express the same requirement.
• Numerical libraries support different BLAS/LAPACK, MPI, OpenMP providers, and wish to enable the users to choose the build matching their desired provider.
While tags could technically be bent to facilitate all these use cases, they would grow quite baroque, and, critically, every change to tags needs to be implemented in all installers and package-related tooling separately, making the adoption difficult.
Facing these limitations, software vendors have employed different solutions to work around the lack of an appropriate mechanism. Eventually, the #WheelNext initiative took up the challenge to design a more robust solution.
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#packaging

"The Open Science Cookbook" #OpenScience
[why on earth is ALA unable to publish the open access version properly with…

After News Media Corporation announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states on August 6, a publishing group bought 8 papers in WY and another bought 4 in SD (Sarah Raza/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rural-newsp…

Closed newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are saved as buyers swoop in
A dozen newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again after buyers stepped in to keep the communities from becoming news deserts where little or no local media remains. This quick action is notable in an industry where, according to a 2024 report from the Medill School of Journalism, more than two newspapers close each week. Illinois-based News Media Corporation had announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states. Within two weeks, new buyers in Wyoming and North Carolina p…

The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.
Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark.
Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it.
At the …

NASA website won't publish major climate change reports
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports. On Monday, NASA announced it would not host the National Climate Assessments, reversing earlier plans. These reports detail climate impacts across the U.S. and were previously available on government websites that went offline earlier this month. NASA stated it has no legal obligation to host the data. Critics, including scientists, accuse the administration of trying to …

Crypto investor Justin Sun files a lawsuit against Bloomberg, seeking to block the media company from publishing a detailed breakdown of his crypto holdings (Vivian Nguyen/Crypto Briefing)
https://cryptobriefing.com/justin-sun-lawsuit-bloomberg-crypto/

Justin Sun sues Bloomberg over plan to publish confidential crypto holdings
Justin Sun lawsuit aims to stop Bloomberg from publishing confidential crypto holdings, alleging breach of agreement and security risks.

Kevin Durant's Boardroom, a site focused on athletes and other entertainers, plans to launch a print magazine this month, with quarterly issues starting in 2026 (Daniel Kaplan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Boardroom Plans Print Magazine Launch as Kevin Durant-Backed Start Up Branches Out
The company run by Rich Kleiman is testing the waters with a U.S. Open-themed cover feature in August and plans to publish quarterly beginning in 2026.