Kevin Marks

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my websitehttp://kevinmarks.com
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@stephtara would that be a 'then' page?
I'm here, with pizza and beer, tunes playing, ready to write HTML - join me! 🎸🍴 HTML Day Sheffield 2025 Peddlers Market

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Why is the nonsense phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” turning up in fake scientific papers? Add two-column formatting to the list of things AI doesn’t understand. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
Via @researchbuzz
As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use

The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…

Retraction Watch
@kissane @jnl one of the big structural failures of pre-X Twitter was the presumption that fame was a function of the person and not the post. They built special features and filtering for blue ticks but not for the person whose post took off that day and was drowning in notifications.
This persisted even after the weaponised repost and harassment tooling of gamergate. I wrote about it back then https://www.kevinmarks.com/twitterhatespeech.html
How did Twitter become the hate speech wing of the free speech party?

@wimg does the file have a known extension? If you hexdump it is there a signature looking thing upfront?
#ukgc25 air quality is looking OK at the MoJ
#ukgc25 rather than live note on bluesky as well as mastodon, you can follow my bridged user and I may repost the odd thread here
I'm at UKGovcamp today and will be live noting some of it here under #ukgc25 - mute me if it's annoying