Things are Getting Weird

Drafts are causing usability issues for visually impaired users · Issue #10035 · bluesky-social/social-app

Steps to Reproduce I saw this on Toni's blog post about the transition, but it needs to be tracked here, so: Attachments (I'm assuming mobile/iOS below, but I'm not sure) What platform(...

How I draft stories

I discovered that trying to write one big blob does not work for me. I can get as far as 2000 words before the volume overwhelms. As with many things in life, breaking it down into pieces helps a lot! This is where most outlining writers suggest a big bulleted

Publishing is fucked. The ATmosphere could save it. | Paul Stephenson | Offprint

Building a future for publishing that keeps authors and readers at its heart.

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)

A 20-year analysis of CrossRef metadata demonstrates that global scholarly output -- encompassing publications, retractions, and preprints -- exhibits strikingly inertial growth, well-described by exponential, quadratic, and logistic models with nearly indistinguishable goodness-of-fit. Retraction dynamics, in particular, remain stable and minimally affected by the COVID-19 shock, which contributed less than 1% to total notices. Since 2004, publications doubled every 9.8 years, retractions every 11.4 years, and preprints at the fastest rate, every 5.6 years. The findings underscore a system primed for ongoing stress at unchanged structural bottlenecks. Although model forecasts diverge beyond 2024, the evidence suggests that the future trajectory of scholarly communication will be determined by persistent systemic inertia rather than episodic disruptions -- unless intentionally redirected by policy or AI-driven reform.

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65

The many interesting things I read in July 2026

Zachary Horvitz on Twitter / X

LLM review weirdness... Just renaming an uploaded pdf from "paper.pdf" to "paper_final_draft_pdf_ready_for_review.pdf" boosts average scores(gpt-5.6-terra) pic.twitter.com/wdsjaq9DoI— Zachary Horvitz (@zachary_horvitz) August 10, 2026

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file

The biggest transition for me when I started college was learning to get organized. There was a point when I couldn't just remember everything in my head. And having to constantly keep track of things was distracting me from whatever task I was doing at the moment.

2026 Idea Dump

AF just went on its annual summer break in June, and I spent the most glorious two weeks up north for some much needed, off-the-grid time.

Don’t just Build a Second Brain: share (part of) it

I’m exploring how MyHub.ai could become a unique hybrid of personal publishing and productivity tools by launching a newsletter powered by…

20 years in, a "professional" rollout, and only 2k streams. This was my last hurrah and I’m feeling defeated.

325 votes, 326 comments. I’m struggling to process a massive disconnect and need some perspective from other career artists. I’ve been in the…