nickagliano

I can’t believe there’s a Pope from Chicago quoting Gandalf in an encyclical about AI.

There’s some nuance to this surrounding the “creative commons” licensing of these ACM publications.

Open access does not mean Creative Commons license (CC-BY, or CC-BY-NC-ND).

Jan 1 2026, all ACM publications will be open access, but not all will be creative commons.

Per an email I received on April 11th, 2025 from Scott Delman:

“Thank you for your email. All ACM published papers in the ACM DL will be made freely available. All articles published after January 1, 2026 will be governed by a Creative Commons license (either CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND), but ACM will not be retroactively assigning CC licenses to the entire archive of ~800K ACM published papers.”

This is unfortunate, in my opinion, because a lot of the foundational computer science papers fall into that category.

#FreeAlanTuring

Fantastic comment

Interesting to see astral come out with this right around facebook’s release of “Pyrefly, a faster Python type checker written in Rust”.

Not making any sort of ethical statement, just interesting that rust keeps eating the python and JS tooling worlds.

As a card carrying Substack hater, I’m not suprised.

> "How could Substack improve this situation for technical writers?"

They don’t care about (technical) writers. All they care about is building a TikTok clone to “drive discoverability” and make the attention-metrics go up. Chris Best is memeing about it on his own platform. Very gross.