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Happy New Year! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access, making computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusable worldwide.
“This is a truly monumental milestone,” said ACM President Yannis Ioannidis, marking a new era for the global computing community.
Explore ACM’s open access journey:
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Since we’re heading for a future where everyone will have to read my blog post, really you need to ask yourself if you’d like to understand it now, or be left behind.
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing momentum, confidence, and ultimately, the argument. One of my close friends won international debate competitions for fun while we were at university (he’s now a successful criminal barrister), and he told me that the only trick in the book, once you boil it all down, is to make sure the conversation is framed in your terms. Once that happens, it’s all over bar the shouting.
> “We are entering a world where we will learn to coexist with AI, not as its masters, but as its collaborators.” – Mark Zuckerberg
@trenner is spot on 🎯 "[They're] framing the conversation in a very specific way. Rather than “is this the future you want?”, the question is instead “how will you adapt to this inevitable future?”. Note also the threatening tone present, a healthy psychological undercurrent encouraging you to go with the flow. [...]"
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing momentum, confidence, and ultimately, the argument. One of my close friends won international debate competitions for fun while we were at university (he’s now a successful criminal barrister), and he told me that the only trick in the book, once you boil it all down, is to make sure the conversation is framed in your terms. Once that happens, it’s all over bar the shouting.
“I’m done with relationships held together by nostalgia, proximity, or politeness. I’m done performing availability for people who don’t reciprocate presence. I’m done being admired but not included. Checked in on only when I’m useful. Spoken about, not spoken to.”
Availability is no longer a personality trait.
https://brilliantcrank.com/availability-is-no-longer-a-personality-trait/
A while ago, a friend told me I should write down my thoughts about relationships—but delete them after I was done. As someone who has rarely held back from saying or writing what I’m thinking, that felt like suggesting I should think about oxygen but not draw a
Assn for Computing Machinery
Maxim Leyzerovich
Tom Renner
Florian Weber
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