This Week’s Texting Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
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We think these are things you might want to know about.
- Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen
- Making America Health Again: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- PLOS Biology announces agreement to become a MetaROR partner journal
- Commentary: no financial arrangement, just “review barter”? RORI is losing money by the way.
- 20 thing you didn’t know about Google Scholar
- Google Cardboard
- NB: I had one of these (Kent)
- Wellnesspay.com
- The MAHA grifters are coming for your HSA and FSA accounts
- Hooked on Phonics History: Way More Controversial Than You Remember
- Can my subscribers pay on the Substack iOS app?
- In addition to Substack’s 10% fee, Apple will charge 15-30%
- This appears to be a way for Substack to start reducing the ability of its writers to move subscriber lists to other platforms . . .
- They straight up built a tool to increase prices with a click if you want to offset these fees
- Substack is now an even worse choice — financially and ethically
- They straight up built a tool to increase prices with a click if you want to offset these fees
- Group accused of flooding Ticketmaster with fake accounts to buy 321K tickets to shows including Taylor Swift, Springsteen
- It’s not just universities, community colleges, journals, and ORCID dealing with these . . .
- I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
- Or, “How I learned retractions aren’t the real problem . . .”
- The Problem Isn’t Trust in Vaccines, It’s That People Don’t Know Who to Trust
- Sigh . . .