Andrea Hacker

#scholcom #publishing #openaccess

“Zuckerberg has reportedly spent €51m buying a castle in Ireland. His net worth is around $240bn. Using an average Irish salary of €58,000, the equivalent proportion would be roughly €12” Blindboy AKA @bbboatclub on podcasting, politics, and the tech bro takeover of Ireland Q&A by Brenna Spain

Nowadays, the internet sometimes feels like a once well-to-do neighbourhood that became a slum after an industrial park & motorway were built through it. And I'm the lifelong resident who refuses to leave, unable to accept that the decaying, now unsafe area will never regain its former grandeur.

I wonder what @eve.gd thinks avout SNW?

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Don't forget to register for October 29! Can Data Sovereignty and Open Access Co-exist? Perspectives from across the Asia Pacific. Join us live! In collaboration with @oaaustralasia.bsky.social

this auspicious Japanese textile design features a pair of red-crowned cranes (tsuru) banking in flight around a luminous, crimson sun disc (hi no maru).

Berthe Morisot’s “Woman at Her Toilette” (1875-80), French Impressionist #Womensart

Sometimes only the genius of Alice Coltrane will do #nowplaying #jazz #sanity youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family

Beautiful picture of an older woman, 1654. Exactly the eyes of gentle old age. By Michael Sweerts, whose day has been today.

Wooded Path - 1865 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6706

To cheer you up on a gloomy day (there are too many of them!): arrangement of flowers from Pedro de Camprobín, who's sharing today.

Coming in 2027... #doctorwho #scarfolk

"When the Doctor loses control of the Tardis, he finds himself transported to #Scarfolk, a town forever timed-locked in the 1970s. There he faces dangerous foes including a telekinetic child-owl called Roy; an overhead projector possessed by a demon, and a group of tutting pensioners"

#NowPlaying Very much looking forward to seeing #Autechre live soon. They may have been around for almost 40 years, but they're still the sound of the future.

Ancient Greek gold bracelet with terminals of maned #Lions, dated to the 4th century BC. The bracelet was found in the Taman Necropoleis, near the village of Vyshesteblievskaya, #Russia #Archaeology #Art #Jewellery #History #artwork #FindsFriday

Water Lilies - 1914/1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11109

Enkoji Temple, Ichijoji Temple, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto North garden

This is amazing; everything is very stupid. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Autumn - Kyoto, Japan

"Instead of giving up, scientists and UN officials recommend trying to limit excessive warming and then bring the temperature back down to the agreed-upon threshold. But it still will mean decades of increased weather-related disasters, rising seas, extinctions and melting ice and glaciers."

Blochers Geschäfte im Osten: Wie die Ems-Chemie trotz Sanktionen in Russland floriert. Eine Spurensuche von @lukashaeuptli.bsky.social und @fabokola.bsky.social. Zum Beitrag 👉 republik.link/dWeC3

I think if I could do it all again, I would learn to play the piano as best I could. Words and languages are a messy, difficult, sometimes treacherous affair. Music is not: youtu.be/5PC0FrLlO5E #bach #music #nowplaying

Through the golden road, Shiga, Japan. Photography by Takk B on 500px

Here’s a truth that lands harder every year.

Teapot, 1924 by Marianne Brandt, designer and artist who became head of the Bauhaus metal workshop #WomensArt

My chat with the delightful @richardlittler.bsky.social www.patreon.com/andrewoneill...

Park Monceau - 1878 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9005

' #Bluebird is an independent social-media company.' Buying into yet another US tech company that will sell everyone down the river again? Nah. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. We need new models. Relocate outside the US, gift #Twitter to the people, to the fediverse, and we'll talk.

[Exit Queen.]

Today's newsletter is the AI Hater's Manifesto - where generative AI fails technically, economically, and morally. From its ever-changing products and rate limits to its ever-increasing demands for trillions of dollars, LLMs exhaust everything they touch. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-hater...

This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...

More kickback, and in The Guardian, perhaps to atone for Lucy Mangan's flimsy, muddled review. "Pemberton displayed a warped non-scientific logic [...] It bore little relation to a genuine scientific debate; in fact, there was no evidence of a debate at all" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We. Must. Stop. Emissions. Now. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climate #heatwave #CO2

Two Vases with Chrysanthems - 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10335

1/ NEW Preprint on an important question for the #DiamondOA community: Who Owns, Publishes, and Governs Diamond Open Access? based on a survey of journals using OJS. osf.io/preprints/me... cc. @nataschachtena.bsky.social @mikaellaakso.bsky.social

The Poetess Ono no Komachi, Shojo Shokado, 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese Art

This is our chance to found a new game theory journal without commercial publishers. Let's go for it!

Ein beeindruckendes, gedankenanregendes Interview mit einer klugen und erfrischend direkten Frau. Zeit den Tatsachen ins Auge zu sehen. Sehr empfehlenswert (und hart) #hitze #klima #krieg #kapitalismus

So I just moved this account over to @eurosky.social - super simple and quick. Another step away from US Servers. Next: E-mail (not looking forward to that).

Oregon Coast - 1941 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104255

Untitled by Kazimir Malevich, 1911 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137865

Hi, I'm never leaving the house again. It's also why I haven't joined Threads. Because he has the lingering aura of a clammy, underwear-sniffing, pet molester, everything he touches is tainted by the kind of ick that induces the gag reflex, and has me reaching for the hand sanitiser.

I'm getting to the point where there's no point buying new vinyl, especially from the corporates. This is the state of the latest #MilesDavis box set. I've tried 2 copies, one from the UK, the other from Switzerland, both the same. 0 quality control. They just don't give a fuck. #Entshittification

Wow - insane score for Warwick! #universitychallenge

I know it’s just American marketing nonsense but today is, for some reason, National Rice Pudding Day (as mystifying, National Peach Melba Day is Jan 13th) but I’m happy to go along with it as it gives me a ready excuse to make my Rice Pudding Cake #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/rice...

#RecipeOfTheDay is Baked Pasta Shells Stuffed with Spinach and Ricotta! Yes, it’s a bit fiddly, but it’s not difficult in any way, and it so repays the effort. It’s best eaten warm rather than hot, and in this weather, it need be no more than slightly warm at that. www.nigella.com/recipes/bake...

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