Not so long ago, Binyamin Netanyahu was eager to compare himself to Vladimir Putin. In an election campaign in 2019, his party, Likud, proudly paraded the Israeli prime minister in posters alongside Russia’s president and other strongmen. Now Mr Netanyahu is terrified he may join another club alongside Mr Putin: world leaders against whom the International Criminal Court (icc) in The Hague has issued arrest warrants for war crimes.
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“We don’t know for certain if arrest warrants are imminent,” says one Israeli official. “What is certain is that Netanyahu thinks they are—and he’s in a panic.”
"These emails — which I encourage you to look up — tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money."
"Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models", exploring the interplay between representation, accessibility, and LLMs on Wikipedia
"But how is it possible that large non-commercial funders in developed countries have committed to complying with only a minority of these best practices? How is it possible that signatories to the #WHO Joint Statement in 2017 have adopted only between 1 and 4 practices in 2022?"
Watching with interest: "Backed by 250,000 Swiss francs, or roughly $285,000,… from the University of Bern, [a new program] will pay reviewers to root out mistakes in influential papers, beginning with a handful in #psychology. The more errors found, and the more severe they are, the more the sleuths stand to make." https://www.chronicle.com/article/wanted-scientific-errors-cash-reward
(#paywalled)
This article about the plan doesn't mention the role that #OpenAccess can play in accelerating progress. Is it part of the plan, tho unmentioned here? Or does the plan assume that #paywalled science works as well as #OA science to advance these goals?
Prabowo tak berusaha menyangkal perannya dalam mengorkestrasi kerusuhan anti-Tionghoa. “Ada 128 kebakaran terjadi serempak,” katanyaOpens in a new tab, sambil terlihat bangga. “Ini operasi: terencana, dijalankan, terkendali.”
Upaya meredam protes gagal dan Soeharto pun tumbang. Kurang dari 70 jam setelah presiden baru menjabat, Prabowo melancarkan upaya kudeta yang kemudian gagal.
If Substack is perfect for your needs then use that. Your problem with substack prolly isn't who else uses it, but rather, that you yourself are calling a proprietary, privacy disrespecting deprecated monolithic silo a "Perfect solution".
Instead of doing what's right, and for the right reasons, you eschew dogfooding on #FOSS when you should be championing it, and call a professional data mining haven perfect, when it is anything but.
Well, you're already on the Fediverse, so you should know better, but I'll dispense with the lecture now and point out a few good FOSS solutions that are Fediverse powered (and one that isn't, but still rocks as a publishing platform) for you:
Option #1, #WriteFreely, which you can find over at its git repo under https://gitHub.com/writefreely/writefreely.
Option #2, deploy yourself a #WordPress site, Then install the #ActivityPub plugin - the latest release publishes into the Fediverse and allows any Fediverse account to reply/comment threads natively - like I'm responding now. It also allows anyone on the Internet to join the discussions as well. WordPress has many options for subscriber lists, Etc., as well as #paywalled#digital_downloads, if you like.
Option #3, #Mitra is a Fediverse publishing platform that currently supports paid subscriptions for Authors: https://mitra.fediverse.observer/list - pick one that has open registrations or self-host yourself, like all of the other solutions here :)
If you're really talking about maintaining subscribers lists, but especially Having a subscriber list and building it up, then most ignorant folks would recommend HubSpot - but they would be wrong, because you can get the same powerful inbound marketing solution / #CRM, only better, for #FREE (That's a bare minimum savings of over $500/month)!!! So install #Mautic and let it do what it does, which you can get here: https://www.mautic.org/download/source-code and then after that, use it in conjunction with the following FOSS application that was tailor made for exactly what you're asking for...
#Ghost is FOSS, and in conjunction with an inbound marketing platform like Mautic is the perfect dynamic duo - like Batman and Robin. But even better, is that I'm going to point you towards a #HowTo that is an actual cookbook #tutorial written by someone expressing the same lamentations as yourself, and here's the exact solution they've provided for you:
By the way, your Mautic server also integrates directly with#MailGun (or Sendgrid, SendinBlue, SparkPost, etc.) to complete your transactional email system that will tell you when each and every recipient received, viewed (and or how long) your emails, as well as how many times they looked at those emails, with a bunch of other tools as well.
I hope that helps, and I'm very glad that you came to your senses about not using a privacy disrespecting, proprietary closed source solution like Substack - besides, registering your own domain name would have hidden the fact that you were using substack anyway, so it's about YOU doing the right thing the right way. Please choose your software in the future based upon the freedoms and ethics it offers in serving you and your customers. There's evil people everywhere, and the smart ones are using FOSS too - not substack.
#SearchRxiv is an #OpenAccess#repository "where librarians and researchers can share searches created for literature reviews. To support findability and #reuse, searchRxiv issues a #DOI for every unique search posted and adds indexing to the entry."
New study: When the journal, Neuropsychopharmacology, studied its own articles (a mix of #GreenOA, #GoldOA, #BronzeOA, and non-OA or #paywalled), it found that "easily accessible article content is most often cited by readers, but that the higher #APCs of #Hybrid tier publishing may not guarantee increased scholarly or social impact." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-024-01796-4
"15 G.O.P. governors shut out food aid for 8 million children. Congress approved a Biden administration initiative to feed poor children during the summer. But 15 states led by Republican governors opted out."
The 12th round of EU sactions is a move in an ongoing chess match. Could I get someone knowledgeable to explain the economic state of play, what moves they're countering, what they hope to accomplish, likelihood of success...
I know Boomers are clutching their pearls about whether to vote for the nazi septuagenarian with dementia or the octagenarian, but it's not the ONLY story.
@landley Yeah, but that would mean someone would have to do some drab and boring #journalism and read a metric feckton of legalese jargon that amounts to few lines…
There's a reason why #paywalled spechalist publishers like #haufe (as an Example from Germany and in German I know of) can charge triple digits per user, company and month for providing a clear and understandable summary and a longer analysis on how this impacts certain legal ebtities and companies in regards to #trade & #export…
Unfortunately it also repeats two common errors: (1) the false claim that all or most OA journals charge APCs and (2) the false claim that all paid APCs are paid by authors.