- Aug 2024
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x.com x.com
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https://x.com/Chronotope/status/1828785701732663335
Crypto miners are being paid not to mine to ease energy production/consumption cycles.
Related to protection money for the mob
re: https://x.com/curious_founder/status/1828511303788322888/photo/1 on The Economist's article about crypto mining in Texas o/a 2024-08-27
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- Apr 2024
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Since leaving office in 2021, former President Donald J. Trump has spent more than $100 million on lawyers and other costs related to fending off various investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials, according to a New York Times review of federal records.
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- Feb 2021
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www.stm-assoc.org www.stm-assoc.org
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Wiley
Similar to CUP and IOP, Sage, and Springer Nature, many UK institutions have signed a contract to fund Wiley's publishing activities for four more years as a result of Plan S, regardless of how many authors accepted manuscripts (AAM) are openly available in repositories. This fact undermines the arguments made above by the STM Association about the rights retention strategy (RRS) undermining financial sustainability.
Furthermore, the financial credit cap for the Wiley deal is operationally low, resulting in additional expenditure for institutions at the end of the calendar year when open access support funds are running low. This additional cost is not sustainable for many institutions and unintentionally creates inequitable access to no-additional-cost publishing.
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Springer Nature
UK institutions have been through several terms of the Springer Compact deal and continue to negotiate amendments and additional terms with added expense. The Springer Compact deal delivers no-additional-cost publishing for an upfront commitment of funds by institutions. Regardless of how many authors accepted manuscripts (AAM) are openly available in repositories institutions continue to support Springer Nature's publishing activities. This fact undermines the arguments made above by the STM Association about the rights retention strategy (RRS) undermining financial sustainability.
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The Rights Retention Strategy provides a challenge to the vital income that is necessary to fund the resources, time, and effort to provide not only the many checks, corrections, and editorial inputs required but also the management and support of a rigorous peer review process
This is an untested statement and does not take into account the perspectives of those contributing to the publishers' revenue. The Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) relies on the author's accepted manuscript (AAM) and for an AAM to exist and to have the added value from peer-review a Version of Record (VoR) must exist. Libraries recognise this fundamental principle and continue to subscribe to individual journals of merit and support lucrative deals with publishers. From some (not all) librarians' and possibly funders' perspectives these statements could undermine any mutual respect.
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- Oct 2020
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www.counterpunch.org www.counterpunch.org
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College sports are also a tremendous drain on financial resources. A large majority of college sports programs – 90 percent – lose money for their schools and require additional funds beyond what is earned through ticket, apparel, and other revenues.
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- Aug 2020
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Fazackerley, Anna. ‘UK Universities Putting Finances above Student Safety, Expert Warns’. The Guardian, 1 August 2020, sec. Education. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/01/uk-universities-putting-finances-above-student-safety-expert-warns.
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- Jun 2020
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cfmsurvey.org cfmsurvey.org
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COVID-19 and UK Public Finances | The CFM-CEPR Surveys. (n.d.). Retrieved June 8, 2020, from https://cfmsurvey.org/surveys/covid-19-and-uk-public-finances
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