"Open access (OA) could one day put the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the goal of allowing everyone to read everything faces fierce resistance. In Athena Unbound, Peter Baldwin offers an up-to-date look at the ideals and history behind OA, and unpacks the controversies that arise when the dream of limitless information slams into entrenched interests in favor of the status quo."

The book is, fittingly, OA, too!

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5557/Athena-UnboundWhy-and-How-Scholarly-Knowledge

At the same time Microsoft is accelerating its work to bring AI into its products, last week the company laid off one of its responsible AI teams. @zoeschiffer and I on what the company's ethics and society team did — including warn the company about how OpenAI's tech could be misused.

https://www.platformer.news/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its

This week I wrote in praise of basket weaving as a subject for serious study: https://clivethompson.medium.com/in-defense-of-studying-basket-weaving-at-college-a862792f3a85?sk=05da00e8ad388013630497ce92368ed8

Then @maximum_mew wrote a phenomenal essay riffing off it, describing her own formal education in weaving -- and the wide array of skills, from math to engineering to aesthetics, it required: https://maryewarner.com/2023/03/14/on-the-practicality-of-a-weaving-degree/

And she linked to this fantastic essay by @pluralistic about the Luddites' *actual* relationship to tech -- i.e. "love the machine, hate the factory": https://doctorow.medium.com/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk-463e2730ef0d

INTERVIEWER: Can you explain the gaps in your resume?

ME: Yes. That’s where I hit the space bar and/or enter keys on my keyboard

INTERVIEWER:

ME: My resume also says I’m proficient with Microsoft Office programs, which I hope I was able to convey here

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I am a forensic psychologist and researcher and mostly post about sexuality science, child sexual abuse prevention, and forensic mental health. With occasional posts about fishing and food!

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