Richard Naples

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

"Authoritarian leaders topple democracy faster than you can imagine. If you wait to speak out against them, you have already lost."

Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.

“The use cases for artificial intelligence across every domain of work and life have started to get silly really fast,” our columnist @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes. “Most of us aren’t using A.I. to save lives faster and better. We are using A.I. to make mediocre improvements.”

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Too Communist, Too Freudian — Parapraxis The life and times of Wilhelm Reich Hannah Zeavin

Today, we're releasing our folio and retrospective on Wilhelm Reich, featured in Issue 05: Economies.

The folio's brilliant intro—"Too Communist, Too Freudian—was written by @hzeavin.bsky.social
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/too...

Has anyone checked if members of Congress have invested in iron lungs?

Has anyone checked if members of Congress have invested in Xanax recently?

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

The crash in DC highlights the dangers of a push for efficiency-by-austerity, because it shows that much of what gets misperceived as government "inefficiency" is just the result of chronic underinvestment and neglect.

Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.

Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly.

There is no need to help evil by adopting their language.

theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

In the coming media hellstorm of disinfo and bad takes, at least I will find succor in this

Stole it from Bette Davis—I can’t take credit!

Anita Bryant, Singer and Crusader Against Gay Rights, Dies at 84 She has hits with songs like "Paper Roses" and served as a spokesperson for Florida orange juice before her career came crashing down.

My mother told me to only speak good of the dead. She’s dead. Good. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...

Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive After a year of quiet labour, we are launching our new image-forward PDR sister-site!

You can read more about it on a blogpost on the PDR site: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01...

Or just dive straight into the PDIA: pdimagearchive.org

And follow on BlueSky here: @pdimagearchive.bsky.social

What is the impact factor for?

(fm "Replication Crisis", John Whitfield @londonreview.bsky.social 2021)

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

How Narcissists Climb the Career Ladder Quickly People with a high degree of narcissism get promoted faster, new research shows. Why?

I wish this were not so obvious and there were some way to counter it. getpocket.com/explore/item...

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Are you US based? Checked Worldcat?

search.worldcat.org/en/title/907...

Just gave $30 even though I already donate monthly ;)

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…

Another wild one. Mass resignation after Elsevier implemented AI that introduced errors after acceptance, stripped out capitalization of cities, removed italics of genera, etc. H/t @jo.nny.rip retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...

It’s not the first and won’t be the last. This is going to be a rough few years for federal science. I just hope in addition to skeeting, everyone direct the outrage to your elected officials, please!

What We Talk About When We Talk About Tariffs With apologies to Raymond Carver. - - -My friend Kevin Maddox was talking. Kevin Maddox makes a fortune selling novelty pickleball T-shirts on Etsy...

If you're thinking of spending $40K on an MFA, just read "What We Talk About When We Talk About Tariffs" instead (via @mcsweeneys.net). Should provide all you need.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

The urge to strip away any regulations that protect regular people

Screenshot of the Quilt Index website, featuring a quilt overlain with a text block featuring the site's title

"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

Also, the fact that Russia already borders NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Norway (and honestly is very close to the US, too)...

If you have’t seen it yet, I’m working with @rfrank.bsky.social as co-editor of
“Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary” for @mitpress.bsky.social.

You can read and comment on all the draft chapters on PubPub -> digital-preservation-a-critical-vocabulary.pubpub.org

OpenAlex, a big step towards Open Science? The new and free database OpenAlex seems to fit in with the Open Science ambitions of Utrecht University. An interview with Jeroen Bosman about the options OpenAlex has to offer.

'I must say that in libraries the paid databases are viewed more and more critically. The question is now: what are the essential use cases for which you really need Scopus or Web of Science?'

Jeroen Bosman on the benefits of OpenAlex.

www.uu.nl/en/backgroun...

My sympathies in advance to my colleagues who work in land grants & larger Federal Depository Libraries, as #LibraryLand sees yet another purge of formerly free & accessible data, & the agencies responsible for collecting & disseminating that data are rendered minimally functional. 📚

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child In an exclusive interview, Vivian Jenna Wilson said her father’s recent statements including that she is “not a girl” inspired her to speak out: “I’m not just gonna let that slide.”

EXCLUSIVE: NBC News has the first interview with Vivian Jenna Wilson, the trans daughter of Elon Musk. She says he was an absent father who berated her as a child for being queer. But she says she won’t let his latest comments go unchallenged. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

When you realize both your glasses and your Excel report metadata template are #brat