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Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research@tmlrorg.bsky.social · 14h ago

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

I don’t normally do this: If you’re an archivist or metadata sicko who is doing working to preserve/collect/organize TTRPG materials and/or Actual Play & you’ll be at PAXU, let me know. If there’s already something brewing I don’t need to be involved unless it’s useful. But it needs to be there.

Just had to block IP addresses from Brunei, Morocco, and Brazil, in addition to Singapore, because of bots getting past the Anubis checks. Again, the bots burned through Open Context's map API credits. To stop the bleeding, I've blocked some 300 million (?) people from accessing #opendata in […]

The United States military can end the war in Iran with this one weird trick

that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.

This just is the plot to Red Dawn or any 80s action movie

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6d ago

Ted Cruz: "We are witnessing a new and dangerous red-green alliance, communists and Islamists, coming together…They hate Christians, they hate Jews, they hate capitalism, they hate the Constitution, and they hate America."

DPLA is rebranding, which is necessary considering the "public library" part was far too exclusionary to other cultural heritage orgs.

From 11-13 September, the Bodleian will open up spaces and show off collections not usually accessible to the public, for #OxfordOpenDoors 2026! Enjoy tours, storytelling, a Victorian printing press, and MUCH more. https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-open-doors We can't wait to see you!

It's amazing how many virulently pro-Nazi replies there are to a post on Facebook by HBO on the 25th anniversary of Band of Brothers

How nice of Russia to wait until Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff left Kyiv to bomb the city and kill Ukrainians

CNN@cnn.com · last wk.

Russia bombarded Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with missiles and drones Tuesday morning, killing two people. The attack came just one day after US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited the region in an attempt to kickstart stalled peace talks. https://cnn.it/4A5XuO4

BIBFRAME data is non-hierarchical graph data - this is the beauty and the mess! - It doesn't preclude hierarchy, but it also doesn't require it - it simple links resources and their characteristics together via their relationships. #bfwe2026

A (possibly slightly predictable) blog post on the Mercator projection and the recent UN vote): stuartdunn.blog/2026/09/07/p...

Projecting emotions: Mercator and Equal Earth

Last week the United Nations General Assembly voted to institute the Equal Earth projection system as the basis for the default world map, following a campaign by Togo and other African nations. Al…

stuartdunn.blog

The Library of Congress can move quickly when it wants to classweb.org/tentative-su.... This is from the September tentative LCSH list. They moved swiftly to overwrite Denali and the Gulf of America, too. So much for librarians being freedom fighters. 📚

What if Virginia passed legislation to prohibit this company from receiving any state construction contracts? Why does no one seem willing to punish companies that take these contacts for Trump? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Trump ballroom being built under no-bid contract: Report

The project is one of many undertaken by the president as he looks to remake the White House and Washington, D.C.

usatoday.com

Cringe af post from the UVA police

Deforestation in Italy had become so severe by the Emperor Augustus’ time that wealthy Romans were importing timber from 1000 miles away for their villas

Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire

An important question for our understanding of Roman history is how the Empire’s economy was structured, and how long-distance trading within and between its provinces was organised and achieved. More...

journals.plos.org

Everyone in these pictures thought they won

That's a scandal, that clock was 0:00

MICHIGAN HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAJABANANAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABABAHAHHAAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The White House has games on its website now. Just sick stuff, tbh.

One way to understand Trump's trade views: In his private business, Trump got used to not paying for things—stiffing the granite-countertop contractor, or chandelier salesman—but still got the products anyway. So maybe he thinks America should just be getting the world's goods for free, too.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce

“IT’S BETTER THAN TARIFFS!”

Thomas Rose, a 37-year-old assistant professor at MIT and an expert in the archaeometallurgy of copper, has died after being hit by a driver while riding his bike at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Massachusetts Ave.

MIT professor hit while riding his bicycle in Cambridge last month has died, university officials say - The Boston Globe

Thomas Rose, 37, joined MIT in January and was set to begin teaching courses this fall.

bostonglobe.com

The Jerusalem Post argues indebted Americans should be conscripted into the Iran War.

Come on, that was a push off

$1.55 million.

It's true

The last time UMass led a P4 team in the 4th quarter was against Vanderbilt on September 13, 2014.

This is why I am continuously asking if we have a backup plan? What are we gonna do if someone flips a switch and almost all our digital infrastructure disappears in a puff of hegemonic intransigence?

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

If Trump wants Greenland, he can just order Microsoft to switch off Office 365 for the country and every ministry and significant firm will be shuttered in an instant, along with many households: pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/d... 40/