"Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges

Members of the departing editorial teams say that the fees to publish articles are unsustainable."

Open Access helps science immensely. Lets make it affordable.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01391-5

Florida just ruled it’s now illegal for me to use the restroom, have a child or for students to ever learn about people like me exist.

I need to leave the place that’s been home for the past 30 years.

Please help my wife and I get to safety. We are NOT safe. https://gofund.me/b71ea872

Is your boss—or the economy itself—forcing you to work this Saturday? Make them pay!

April 15 is Steal Something from Work Day!

https://crimethinc.com/stealfromwork

Work steals the hours of our days, the time we would like to spend with our families and friends and lovers, the energy we would otherwise direct towards pleasurable, creative, unselfish pursuits. It steals our imaginations: even today’s most innovative employees and entrepreneurs are still inventing inside the very narrow frame of what can compete in the market rather than, for example, what might bring joy to human beings.

It steals into our leisure hours, into our most intimate relationships: the work of competing for social capital, of answering emails and text messages, of paying bills and taxes and insurance premiums—and preparing, yet again, to go back to work.

Work—the aggregate labor of all humanity since the Industrial Revolution—has already done permanent harm to the biosphere we all depend upon.

Another century like this—another century of work—and our species will be done for, along with countless others. Work—which is to say, all activity that is determined by the necessity to make a profit for someone, rather than chosen on account of its intrinsic value—is precisely what prevents us from fulfilling our needs.

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Easter eggs, rabbits and the Pagan Goddess of Fertility: the Stephen Collins cartoon.

I made an obvious "Looking forward to Trump's next book 'The Art of the Plea Deal'" joke and am saddened by the lack of immediate response to it.

Why don't more people like my obvious joke that's probably been made by thousands of others today?

A source of new Fediverse accounts is dev.brighteon.social.

46,862 were discovered during the past day.

Brighteon is known for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories all over Facebook and Twitter, and it looks like they’re trying their hand at the Fediverse now.

I’ve looked at the accounts on that server, and the overwhelming majority look like bots. The goal seems to be spamming misinformation.

I recommend putting brighteon.social on #Fediblock.

https://botsin.space/@mastodon_daily_active_users/110107223841240128

Just a couple of months ago, 'journalists' were decrying that mastodon/the fediverse was dying. Now we're saving proper journalism. Not only can journalists find a place here, but when they do, we do great things together.

We dared to do a mighty thing. We dared to show that proper journalism still has a place in America. Together, we don't just have to dare mighty things. Together, we accomplish mighty things. Live long and prosper, @TexasObserver #TexasNeedsAnObserver