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David S. Reed
@DavidReed@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp last week

“workers won't show up if they don't get paid, and customers won't buy things that cost everything they have…Unless, of course, you are an academic publisher, in which case this is just how you do business.” @pluralistic
Amen. I don’t mind that my work as author, peer reviewer and Associate Editor for journals is pro-bono, but do mind that publishing companies charge exorbitant prices that restrict access to what we make for free. I’m shifting my work to open access journals. #PeerReview

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/

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A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded.


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A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
David S. Reed
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“workers won't show up if they don't get paid, and customers won't buy things that cost everything they have…Unless, of course, you are an academic publisher, in which case this is just how you do business.” @pluralistic
Amen. I don’t mind that my work as author, peer reviewer and Associate Editor for journals is pro-bono, but do mind that publishing companies charge exorbitant prices that restrict access to what we make for free. I’m shifting my work to open access journals. #PeerReview

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