"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

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At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.) [stephenfollows.com]

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

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Reading AI-news is quite upsetting if you try to square it with observed realities of what people are actually achieving (not much). This piece assures us that we are not wrong. The world of business is no longer able to to talk about AI coherently: ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...

NEW: Modular Cave Kit includes 40 models, and is perfectly compatible with earlier modular releases. Completely free for everyone, no attribution/donation/etc. required 🙌 kenney.nl/assets/modul...

With the recent news this form is open once again. If you've been in a (massive) layoff and feel like my products could help you in your career, please feel free to request any for free. Please don't abuse this, thank you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wrote a minimal, extensible Gaussian Splat renderer PR for @ThreeJS using TSL for sorting, vertex processing and fragment shading + instances. It separates the GS3D data structure from the loader and from the renderer. github.com/mrdoob/three...

Really good post from @ky.fyi that mirrors a lot of the thoughts I've had about the current moment. ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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"98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI" ☝🏻 Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti... Bookmarked.

Report: How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts

98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI

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Cynthia Dunlop@cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · last mo.

Here are the results writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti...

Great talk on the AI bubble, why it will probably pop, and what we can do about it. youtu.be/uWnUnMphmPM

Keynote: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next - Richard Campbell - 2026

YouTube video by NDC Conferences

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I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs

A function you cannot do without

YouTube video by Inigo Quilez

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🌧️ hey yeah it’s launch day. had a blast making this website with the inimitable @likethecolour.red, a Bluesky Account & in many ways a dear friend whose outlook on life inspires me deeply :) this is a project made with love for the web, friends, and reiselust. i'm excited to share it with you.

Strangers By Spring

Strangers, By Spring is a blog about escapism, romance, and rebirth.

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“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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procedural sky exporter

Six years later this is still one of my favorite outline effects especially for hard surface models like CAD & architecture. And now it works with three.js' WebGPURenderer thanks to a contribution from "cmhhelgeson" on Github!

So it’s very important, it needs to be nice at first. But then 🫰 MAKE IT SHITTY www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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"If you separate the thinking about things from the doing of things, then innovation will suffer." - berthub.eu/articles/pos...

How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents - Bert Hubert

This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Hi everyone, This is a transcript of my presentation over at the European Microwave Week 2020, actually held in 2021. You ca...

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[ ] Does your project involve making things that can't be reused, creating waste? [ ] Are the steps you make reversible, allowing revision and learning? Amazingly, this checklist is from 1989... What if more projects had followed it? slab.org/2022/02/11/u...

this is sick as fuck, i didn't know you could program music but i guess it makes sense

Coding Trance Music from Scratch (Again )

YouTube video by Switch Angel

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The world is now so full of ridiculous things that I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The world really is idiotic. I made a list of things that are impossible to believe. Seeing it in writing might help you deal better with the situation. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-ho...

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New process video on modeling, texturing and lighting the stylized spring camping animation in Blender is out now! 👉 youtu.be/oBEkgeWMzYM 👈

I've wrote a new post on the math I use to draw procedural roads only using lines and arcs. Here is how the construction unfolds:

INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS finally done. gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

New blog post: I got tired of having repetitive arguments explaining why I think it’s OK to be skeptical of LLMs for coding, so I wrote six and a half thousand words on the topic that I will be referring people to from now on. www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/...

this is so painful to read, i love it github.com/stephenturne...

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG ╬ Boolean ops ◮ Oblique & perspective 𝑥 Zero dependencies ◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures. meodai.github.io/heerich/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...

Heerich Website Demo

YouTube video by David

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I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below 👇 #threejs #webgpu

Very much rooting for Cloudflare here

Standing up for the open Internet- why we appealed Italy’s Piracy Shield fine

Cloudflare is appealing a €14 million fine from Italian regulators over

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Filed under PSA. thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...