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Far from being the fringe model that many people think, these figures demonstrate that Diamond Open Access is the most frequently used form of OA. I predict that its use will increase with time.
9 June 2026 Yesterday afternoon at 1:20pm my phone lit up with messages from Julie Hanify and Stephen Tirone. A peregrine fledgling was on the ground in front of the library and a bunch of crows were shouting at her. It was “Yellow” and...
Freshness is now everywhere in wine. It is how we describe lower alcohol, higher acidity, less extraction, less oak, and early picking on the productionContinue reading
☀️ I signed Leo up for an intensive English class this summer. It's only a week, but it will be full of kids like him. Classes in the morning and activities in the afternoon. I am quite curious to see how much progress can be made in...
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The appeal of living in a small town is being surrounded by the right number of people whom you can care about. On the other hand, living in a big city might make you feel lonely in huge crowds. Being a blogger in smallweb (or IndieWeb)...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mark Trail,...
In movements, communities, and alternative projects, we need language to describe the different forces shaping what happens. Without shared vocabulary, patterns remain invisible. People experience the same problems repeatedly, but each...
A simple way to completely change the frame with which we view the world is to view everything that frustrates us or puts us on edge as a lesson from the universe. It is amazing how transformative “maybe I’m meant to learn something from...
Something that sounds like it should be the title of a long and arduous exploration of big tech finances culminating in some hedging about the future and the wonders of AI but no is pretty much the only answer you need. And to remind you...
After this report from Axion about an unnamed company managing to torch half a billion dollars in the span of a month through unregulated Claude token usage it's unsurprising that more and more companies are starting to reconsider the...