Revisiting: A Fake Paper in 20 Minutes
A commercial offering lets anyone make a fake science paper over lunch
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Song: “Walking on Sunshine”
For a song the lead singer didn’t like and the bassist found annoying, “Walking on Sunshine” has redeemed itself over time, becoming one of EMI’s most lucrative songs since its release in 1985 through royalties earned for reuse in ads, television, and movies.
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This Week’s Texted Discoveries
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A Microplastics Preprint Grift
The journey from an OA “joke” paper to a bioRxiv preprint to a medical grift
A Slow Writing Week
Activities preparing for book launch means a midsummer slowdown
Song: “Dream Police”
An enduring rock classic about Big Brother with some hat tips to movie horror
This Week’s Texted Discoveries
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Is arXiv Becoming aiXiv?
The AI-powered degradation and enshittification of arXiv is well underway
Sloppy With Cyberlibertarianism
The rhetorical tricks of the ideology jump out when you know what to look for
Friday Song: “Big Love”
Fifteen years in the making, we see a singer-songwriter-guitarist in his prime