If you still have an account on academia.edu, you should probably delete it.
I'm not sure how their new terms are legal: they give the site the right to use your data *in any manner*. This is mainly to help them scrape academic work and republish/mangle parts of it through AI without credit: but these terms go way beyond that into your likeness, your voice, even your signature.
Please boost this to academics you know. Further PSA elements in thread:
One way rich people get that way is to stiff their creditors. Trump has done it for decades. In this report, CNN shows how Musk has adopted that tactic.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/us/elon-musk-company-unpaid-liens-invs
Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!
As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.
Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.
... 🧵
Please boost.
#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired
A long time ago, I crocheted a gingerbread house with all the trimmings.
It finally gave up the ghost 10 years ago. I've always had it in the back of my mind to make another one. I even saved the gumdrops I'd crocheted for it (they were a bitch!)
I just found the pattern on Etsy.
BUT...
It's listed as a vintage pattern! VINTAGE! To me those are patterns from the 30's and 40's but nooooooo...
It's me. I'm vintage.
Excuse me while I go swoon on a couch somewhere.
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