Loveland Leases – The Economic Fallout: How Predatory Housing Kills Local Business

Why unstable housing leads to unstable markets, unstable workforces, and the collapse of small‑scale economic life 1. The Core Insight: Housing Is the Foundation of Local Economies Small businesses…

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📢 Save the Date: KI-Fachtag 2026

Wie beeinflusst KI wissenschaftliche Qualitätssicherung und den Umgang mit #PredatoryPractices?

Jasmin Schmitz spricht darüber in ihrem Vortrag „Herausforderungen durch KI für Bibliotheken hinsichtlich Paper Mills und Predatory Practices“

📍 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
📅 16. März 2026 | 11:30 Uhr
🎟️ Teilnahme kostenlos

🔗 Mehr Infos & Anmeldung hier: https://www.bibliotheksverband.de/ki-fachtag-2026-kuenstliche-intelligenz-wissenschaftlichen-bibliotheken

#KIFachtag #OpenScience

Just a reminder amidst all this noise and chaos…Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. Report linked below. #SocialMedia #DigitalAddiction #Meta #Google #Snap #TikTok #Capitalism #exploitation #PredatoryCapitalism #PredatoryPractices #TechBros

https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/

TECH OVERSIGHT REPORT: UNSEALED COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW TEEN ADDICTION WAS BIG TECH’S “TOP PRIORITY” - Tech Oversight Project

New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The documents provide smoking-gun evidence […]

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Predatory Publishing – What is a library’s role? An attempt at finding our place – Scholarly Communications in Transition

Predatory Publishing – Aufgabe von Bibliotheken? Versuch einer Verortung – Scholarly Communications in Transition

Schmitz, J. (2023, 10 Januar). Beyond Predatory Publishing: Weitere fragwürdige Angebote im wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesen. https://in-transition.at/de/beyond-predatory-publishing-weitere-fragwurdige-angebote-im-wissenschaftlichen-publikationswesen/ #PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryPractices
Beyond Predatory Publishing: Weitere fragwürdige Angebote im wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesen – Scholarly Communications in Transition

Schmitz, J. (2023, 10 January). Beyond Predatory Publishing: Additional Questionable Offers in Scholarly Publishing. https://in-transition.at/beyond-predatory-publishing-additional-questionable-offers-in-scholarly-publishing/ #PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryPractices
Beyond Predatory Publishing: Additional Questionable Offers in Scholarly Publishing – Scholarly Communications in Transition

Predator & Prey – A Classic Role Allocation or a Symbiosis? – Scholarly Communications in Transition

Baker College Faces Federal Investigation Over “Recruitment and Marketing Practices”
ProPublica and the Detroit Free Press found that Baker College spent more on marketing than it did on financial aid. Now, the school faces an inquiry by the U.S. Department of Education
https://www.propublica.org/article/baker-college-under-investigation-us-department-education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_College

#BakerCollege #PredatoryPractices #fraud #Michigan #education #EducationInMichigan #ProPublica

Baker College Faces Federal Investigation Over “Recruitment and Marketing Practices”

ProPublica and the Detroit Free Press found that Baker College spent more on marketing than it did on financial aid. Now, the school faces an inquiry by the U.S. Department of Education.

ProPublica
How did we get here? – Scholarly Communications in Transition