Friday Song: “Subdivisions”
A rooftop cover of a timeless Rush synth powerhouse gives the song an entirely different feel
Kent Anderson
Is ChatGPT All But Dead?
Courts, users, and authors have wised up fast, while the LLMs themselves continue to deteriorate
Let’s Have Some Irreverence
The political environment of access debates adds to the damage done to freedom, and irreverence may be just the tool we need
Coughing Up the Subscription
As with other things, you can't have a solution while embracing what caused the problem in the first place
“The Song of the Volga Boatmen”
A Russian folk song, a genre created to support a dance coming out of Harlem, and a timeless classic
AI Begins to Pollute the Internet
An expert in cognitive science has been documenting the drek coming online from LLMs — and, hoo boy!
#paywall
Trigger warnings don't work, and make us weak — so why do we have a trigger warning for a business model?
Let’s Implicate the Librarians, Too
A PhD student’s thesis gets pirated — and the reporters should have asked the librarians how they allowed it to happen
Friday Song: “What Do You Say?”
A snappy little bluegrass number by a mandolin prodigy rising to the top is captured via a green room session
Dimensions’ Access Politics
Word choice reveals Dimensions’ non-neutral stance about publishing models