Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉

It's been 3 days since I put in these numbers and just to make sure I am super angry as I go to bed, I checked again.

There area now 8,093 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 12,308 total active satellites. 1,243 Starlink satellites have burned up.

As with almost everything else happening […]

Awdah #Hathleen, a Palestinian activist who was part of the crew on the award-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot dead by an #Israeli settler on Monday.

The settler in the video was identified as Yinon Levi, who was sanctioned by the US for his violent attacks on #Palestinians.

#Trump […]

postmarketOS in 2025-07! :blobcatbox:

* apk3
* /usr merge
* immutable postmarketOS
* Fairphone 6, iPhone X, Lynx R1
* New project for improving audio reliability
* postmarketOS joined the GNOME Advisory Board
* PCBs arrived
* Events: FOSSY, DEF CON, FrOSCon
* MSM8917 modem
* Plasma Camera 2.0.0 […]

"We should also optimize the publication model and allow more publications in which studies are accessible free of charge for both authors and readers. When I talk to former fellow students, many of whom work in the financial sector, they shake their heads when I tell them about the logic of the […]

Selfie of me wearing a black shirt with a punk-looking woman wearing a chainsaw kicking down robots with the writing "DESTROY 'AI'" on top and "Bad at everything! Kills the Planet! Brain atrophy!" below.

New shirt. (https://octophant.threadless.com/designs/destroy-a-i/mens/t-shirt/premium?variation=front&color=black )

A convenient side effect of airbnb ruining cities is that you can justify staying in nice hotels as the ethical option 👍🏻

Jorge Saturno profile on Bonfire Open Science Network flavor latest version

As we integrate #OpenAlex data into the #Bonfire #OpenScience flavor, we're displaying familiar metrics: works count, citations, h-index, research topics, institutional affiliations...
These might be exactly what you need, or perhaps just a starting point […]

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High Country News: The West’s data centers suck (water and power)

From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies.

"“Sustainable” bitcoin mining is an oxymoron, given the enormous amounts of power and water data centers consume...The International […]

The UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) has declared that Famine is now unfolding in Gaza. They describe this as "the worst case scenario."

The World Food Programme describes the famine as "unlike anything this century" […]

I really wish people would get the hell off #Substack.

Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog

https://www.patreon.com/posts/substack-sent-135263203

@jaykuo

Old Frisian laws be like:

If a man’s spine be shattered, such that he may never again bring himself to bath or bed, to to wagon or wife, never again to roam on roads or glide on glittering ice: he is owed half the price of a slaughtered life.

And if he’s oozing pus, three shillings.

#linguistics

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the rise of open access publishing, commercial publishers have grasped the opportunity to grow their profits from article-processing-charges (APCs). Whereas in the past, journals competed to be the most highly respected outlet, now they compete to publish on the grounds of speed and quantity of publications (see e.g. Timmis et al, 2025). In response, various new initiatives have arisen. My focus here is on the F1000 publishing model, which was adopted by the Wellcome Trust in 2016 for their journal Wellcome Open Research. In this model, the author deposits an article on the platform (in effect as a preprint), which then is updated to a published version if two positive peer reviews are obtained. The only editorial input is from office staff who check that the submission meets basic criteria and that the selected peer reviewers are appropriate. This system could quickly get overwhelmed with low quality submissions, but aims to avoid that by restricting submissions to authors funded by the Wellcome Trust, which agrees to pay their APCs. I've always been a fan of open access, and have published several papers in Wellcome Open Research, encouraged by the prospect of straightforward and free open access publication. A check on the Dimensions platform shows that Wellcome Open Research has grown in popularity over the years, and now dominates outputs from Wellcome-funded researchers. _Figure 1. Plot of the top 5 journals, publications funded by Wellcome Trust between 2016-2025._ My funding by Wellcome Trust came to an end and in 2016 I took up an ERC Advanced Grant. Towards the end of that grant, in March 2021, the European Commission (EC) announced that they were setting up a new journal, Open Research Europe that adopted the same F1000 model and offered free open access publication for EC-funded researchers. In contrast to Wellcome Open Research, Open Research Europe has not been enthusiastically embraced. A search on Dimensions showed that a large proportion of EC-funded research is published open access with for-profit publishers (see Figure 2). _Open Research Europe_ is not shown because the number of publications is relatively small: 213, 251, 290, 374 for the years 2021 to 2024 respectively. It rates 25th among journals used by EC researchers, whose favourite publisher appears to be MDPI. _Figure 2. Plot of the top 5 journals, publications funded by EC between 2021-2025._ This raises two questions: who is paying the APCs, and why don't researchers publish on their funder's platform, which offers them free open access? Of course,_Open Research Europe_ is relatively young, and its uptake may have been influenced by its launch coinciding with emergence from lockdown. It's possible that communications from the EC encouraging grantholders to publish there haven't been sufficient to raise awareness of this option. I'd be curious if any readers who have EC funding could comment on barriers to uptake. Meanwhile, between 2021-2025 around US$973 million* in APCs has gone into the coffers of publishers - money that could have been used to fund researchers in other ways. On a rough estimate, around US$197 million of this has been paid to the most popular publisher, MDPI. *To obtain this estimate, I searched Dimensions.ai using search terms Funder = European Commission (EC), Publication Type = Article, and year range from 2021-2025, and then used Analytical views to generate a table of source titles. For the first 30 titles, I manually checked the APC and used a currency converter to convert to $US. For the remaining titles, I estimated the APC as equivalent to the average for the first 30 titles. I coded MDPI as publisher for titles I recognised, but I did not carefully check each one. A csv file with the relevant data can be found here: https://osf.io/rcxd3. **Reference** Timmis, K., et al. (2025). Journals operating predatory practices are systematically eroding the science ethos: A gate and code strategy to minimise their operating space and restore research best practice. _Microbial Biotechnology_ , 18(6), e70180. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70180 **Comments** are moderated to prevent spam, but relevant, on-topic comments are welcome.

BishopBlog: New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-publishing-models-will-only-work-if.html

Open letter from 1,000+ Rabbis worldwide
http://ljs.org/1000rabbis

"We cannot condone the mass killings of civilians, including a great many women, children and elderly, or the use of starvation as a weapon of war…The killing of huge numbers of #Palestinians in #Gaza, including those […]

the text from the last day of Old Frisian class:

King Charlemagne and King Radbod both showed up and claimed they were king. The people wanted peace but these fuckers insisted on fighting. The people therefore challenged the kings to a T-posing duel. They T-posed at each other a day and a night […]

Your job.

I factory reset my old phone to use it for app development and oh my fucking god is the modern Google the master of annoying users into submission.

It's been a long while since I've experienced pristine Android out of the box on a real device, and I kinda […]

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Niet verwacht, tóch gekomen…

Een Telegraaf bericht waar je blij van wordt: een kundige, ervaren, moedige kandidaat voor het lijsttrekkerschap van BIJ1 waar ik achter kan staan én eindelijk erkenning voor mijn parlementaire successen.

☺️☺️☺️

Chris Trottier on stage hosting a panel with the speakers sitting next to him. In order left to right: Dan, Ben, Julian, Johanna, and Dawn. Behind them is a giant screen that says "All Your Bases"

@atomicpoet hosting a panel with today's speakers to close out #Fedicon: @dansup, @benpate, @julian, @johannab, and @dawn

Op naar Rotterdam, voor de mars tegen #femicide!

Het is duidelijk nodig:
https://nos.nl/l/2577395

Bijzonder om te zien hoe een actiegroep van 1969, de Dolle Mina's, nieuw leven in geblazen wordt om de verworvenheden van toen te blijven beschermen.

Zoek de #DolleMina in jezelf als je je ook […]

Wrong: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Switzerland." Right: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Americans who buy from Switzerland." Every time you see this mistake, correct it. Every. Time.

The BIG MAIL operators disappear valid mail. We have all seen it happen.

I am pondering starting a campaign to collect war stories with as much log data and other relevant data as possible in order to write an article which may
evolve to something else.

If you have potentially useful input, I […]

[a horrifying thing we found (relating to "feminine hygiene")]

Thanks to the magic of the Fediverse, I'm going to donate that hideous lysol "feminine hygiene" bottle to the @vagina_museum so that loads more people can be horrified by it!

But probably what I'm most looking forward to is my […]

One month left to apply!

If you are looking for a PhD position and are interested in working on probabilistic inference, sensitivity analysis, and decision-making, this might be the job for you! We are looking for candidates with a strong background in Computer Science, and ideally also in […]

I like the Luxembourg model of Public transport https://luxembourg.public.lu/en/living/mobility/public-transport.html#section-content
Public transport is a fast, clean and free way of getting about in Luxembourg. Yes, you heard it right: it's free! Since 2020, all modes of public transport - […]

Tweet by mike ginn: “its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further”

#ai #chatgpt

https://xcancel.com/shutupmikeginn/status/1898198950349353154

In their letter, the politicians said: "The Gaza Strip is not just another geographical area - it is the living heart of the Land of Israel, an area with deep biblical, historical, and national roots. The return of the Jewish people to these places is not just a strategic step - but a return to Zion in the deepest and most practical sense." They argued that Israel should resettle northern Gaza because it is now under full IDF control and "empty of Gaza residents."

They are telling the world EXPLICITLY that what they are doing is ethnic cleansing. There's no need to speculate.

https://aus.social/@ki_sekiya/114952191954629634

Hoe moet ik mijn schrijfonderwijs herzien nu chatbots perfecte nieuwsberichten afleveren?

https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/08/schrijvend-je-menselijke-stem-vinden/

Stop using ChatGPT. Ask me any question and I'll give you false information myself without destroying the environment to do so.

Happy to help! 😇

#chatgpt #ai #environment #climate #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #xr #climateactivism

When the "resistance" has over 200 cookies from 80 or so vendors and most of them are claiming "legitimate interest" oh just fuck right off.