Is caused by an evaluation process much like Google’s PageRank, where a paper is rated by how many links there are to and from it. That’s how over 400,000 research articles in the last 20 years are probably fake, created by Paper Mills. From Nature.
Category: politics
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Fake Research
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Gulf of Google
Google will change the names of Gulf of Mexico and Denali to fall in line behind Trump, reports CNBC. Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny posts that most progress made by autocrats and wannabe dictators is through accession previous to any pressure. Lesson #1 (of 20): Do Not Obey in Advance.
Time for me to move away from Google, increase my gulf. What happened to “Don’t do Evil”?
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Player drain for Japan Soccer
NYTimes article about the economics of football and how the exchange rate matters.
The third factor is that they are relatively affordable. The transfer fees asked for Japanese players are usually in the hundreds of thousands rather than in the multiple millions. The ones who sign straight from Japan are usually cheaper than those from other European or South American countries.
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You are the product
Even when you buy the product. In this case, Apple owners. Apple has been listening and sharing data with third parties (selling). Get in line, you can get up to $100 when they get things set up. From Ars Technica.
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Facebook or Fakebook?
Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to populate Facebook and Instagram with AI-created “members”. Oh joy. From Rolling Stone. (4 clicks to get through the ads.)
