Don Moynihan

Scholars could start new AI journals, where reviews and editorial decisions are made by AI. That replaces most labor. Will other scholars rush to publish there? I am skeptical, but that would be the test case. That still does not resolve the legacy journals that make or break careers.

Different labor components of journal production include managing manuscripts, peer review, editorial decisions, formatting, publicity, plus engaging with peer scientists. AI can help with some of those components, its role would be debated on others, and is not going to replace some.

Interesting possibility, but not really explained. The current model has a labor component, but also a pretty big property component. Publishers own journals in many cases. Professional orgs that own journals might be tempted to go open access but I'd be careful in assuming AI would enable too much.

*Brutal but absolutely fair and accurate
*Gives a new meaning to "special government employee"
*Yeah, thats her husband listening to all of this

I will let smarter minds than I work out the logic of this.
"Year in and year out, Iran has been an imminent threat against us because they never faced an imminent response until President Trump."

Bari Weiss reposing a CBS News stories that says the current war with Iran stretches back to 1979

Story at the The Free Press: Our 50 Year War with Iran

Bari Weiss is pushing the “50 year war” narrative at both the Free Press and CBS. The erases both American culpability for the current war (since Iran started in 1979!) and the reasons why a theocratic anti-American regime took power in the first place.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

America: from "land of the free" to "punching them while they are done"

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

“Ellis, a registered nurse who is Haitian-American, said she is outraged and called for an investigation into Damas' death, which she said came weeks after the man first complained of tooth pain to Florence staff.

'Nobody should die from a toothache,’ Ellis said. 'Something has to be done.’”

On @virginmedianews.bsky.social today we look at the impact of climate change on communities.

Following a deadly flood - that saw more than 130 people killed - 1,000+ people were marked to leave the village their families lived in for generations.

The fabric of communities in Rwanda is being torn.

Objection: What Happened in Dallas County Was Not a Glitch What happened in Dallas County tonight should scare the hell out of you.

What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.

In March. Imagine November.

I broke it down here:

open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

4. I think that it is important that critics of LLMs get this. The 'LLMs are useless which is terrible and everyone is using them which is also terrible' shtick contained contradictions even in the beginning, which took a lot of work to maintain . Now it contradicts people's lived experiences.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

People are underestimating how good AI is now. What if I were to tell you this whole account is run by AI?...Oh, so you hate me even more?

For government agencies, as with legacy media, the message is clear: don't pivot to video

Reminiscent of the Marshall McLuhan scene in Annie Hall, except the reporter had already asked the question.

Trading halt in Korea. Dayum.

I genuinely do not understand who the audience for this is

There’s a big public management literature on third-party governance and contracting out.

At this point when you’re dealing with 99% of private students paid via voucher subsides, Iowa private schools are contractors for public service provision.

They should be treated as such @donmoyn.bsky.social

Ian Miles Cheong (second from left) and other paid influencers in Dubai.

oh my god this photo of ian miles tails cheong hanging out with his fellow paid to live in dubai social influencers i am DYING. smeagol glow up era.

Trump likes to close the curtains so the Declaration can’t witness the especially unconstitutional stuff

We've gone from Colin Powell’s Pottery Barn Rule that he articulated to Bush - “If you break it, you’ve bought it” - to the Trump rule: “you break it, they own it.”

the sad thing is that he would absolutely do it.

YOUR JOB IS TO PICK THE MOST AWFUL ACTOR POSSIBLE TO PLAY JAMES BOND. GO! Ricky Gervais.

Man you want to participate in something and then someone gives an answer so objectively correct that there’s no point adding onto it

Senior Trump official said Iran in nuclear talks was trying "to get us into a long, drawn-out process with meetings and experts and something that would have taken time in order to do the third meeting." Iran then gave US a longer, five-page proposal. "We joked that even though we were in Switzerland, the proposal was like Swiss cheese, because there were, you know, a lot of holes that they were able to go through."

The Iranians dared to go to the negotiations with a position paper

Again, Rubio said the opposite yesterday bsky.app/profile/bill...

Thom Tillis … who is not running for reelection. And don’t think that is immaterial when it comes to periodically showing flashes of a spine.

I just can't tell what's a throwaway line, what's a joke, and what's a policy announcement these days.

Is the President serious about an embargo on Spain?

will be interesting to see if Tillis is gone before Noem

Kansas invalidated the driver's licenses of hundreds of trans people, made it a crime to drive to the DMV to "correct" them, & started keeping a list of everyone who did so. @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social & I on trans people in the state's surveillance architecture for @donmoyn.bsky.social's substack.