❝   The problem with all of us being so much more a hive mind than we realize is that knowledge problems that ripple across our a information ecosystems can become not just threats to individuals with weak character or bad habits, but the equivalent of colony collapse.†

~Erin Kissane [Landslide: a ghost story](https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/)

Ugh.

Research-integrity analysts are warning that ‘journal snatchers’ — companies that acquire scholarly journals from reputable publishers — are turning legitimate titles into predatory, low-quality publications with questionable practices.

~Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’, Nature News 17-APR.

The Shackles of Convenience, from Dan Miessler.