#Paywalls

X Æ A-Xi Jinping

comradebernout

The trend towards extreme specialization and division of bourgeois academia into a fractal of fields & sub fields reinforces ruling class ideology, as academics often lack a cross-disciplinary perspective. Lay

Jack Schneider

Edu_Historian

Several groups have reached out over the past few months, asking whether or not I do PD/workshops related to assessing school quality "beyond test scores." Here's my answer, which I'm

Felix Salmon

felixsalmon

My free idea for Substack: Allow people to pay for emails they’ve read and enjoyed, rather than forcing them to only pay for emails that haven’t even been written yet.

Steven N. Godfrey Jr.

38Godfrey

Quick thread on paywalls and media and revenue The dearth of budget for local media outlets is absolutely depressing. There's no other way to say it. Right now across the

HarrietTubmanFreedSlavesWhileWhiteWomenSighed

ParableofSower

Everyone wants to think that they’re experiencing something new. I think that our education system has failed to teach us history, largely bc I when I talk to old hippies

Dr. Jessica Taylor

DrJessTaylor

A reminder that Elsevier made$6 BILLION selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and made more profit than Amazon, Google and Apple every year for YEARS...And paid the academics

Andrew Trask

iamtrask

In your mental model for how super/general intelligence will occur, there's a very important core axiom.ML/DL doesn't *create* or *collect* information, it *compresses* information.It takes a huge number of samples

kyle a.b.

kyalbr

Whole lee fuck. Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool (2008) is goddamn scare reeeeeeee. It takes place entirely inside of a radio station as a shock jock’s town is slowly overcame by what

Sekoetlane Phamodi

MrPhamodi

FTR, SABC launching a streaming service is an NB step in helping it turn the corner and set itself up for long-term competitiveness, even if it is only about five

homo-stasis

CandyCornball

This gap between what the masses are hungry for and the fact that many of us know better is the best case for Political Education. Where are people becoming radicalized,

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

One thing the Cummings row does is distract from this crushing Sunday Times review into @BorisJohnson failure to get on top of #coronavirus in March. And the lives that cost.

magitweeter

magitweeter

(market design for the “marketplace of ideas”: a thread)So. I have a day job, which is researching game theory(the mathematical modeling of human interaction, so to speak)and it's rare that

Vaas Bhaskar

vaasbhaskar

The COVID induced lockdown(s) have increased time spent and number of users across social/content products. Will this sustain when people start getting out of their homes? Chinese apps offer some

Helen Dale

_HelenDale

In light of a large number of new followers, my un-paywalled writing [1]:1. Novels: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Helen-Dale/e/B001K82V2G 2. @CapX archive: https://capx.co/author/helen-dale/ 3. @Quillette archive: https://quillette.com/author/he

Alastair Thompson

althecat

This is terrible news. @jacindaardern @grantrobertson1 @KrisinMana while not your fault, and a pure commercial decision, it points to a looming news crisis arriving like a freight train.@NZMETweets and @NZStuff

The Blockchain Blog

blockchainblog_

The Internet we have today is because of the contribution and sacrifices of so many geniuses we don't know. One such genius was Aaron Swartz.In 2013, 26 year old Aaron