Thursday, July 10, 2025

The Festschrift For Cliff Lynch

Source
The festschrift that includes the edited version of the draft we posted back in April entitled Lots Of Cliff Keeps Stuff Safe has been officially published as Networking Networks: A Festschrift in Honor of Clifford Lynch, an open access supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy 25, no. 3. Joan K. Lippincott writes:
The final CNI membership meeting of Cliff’s tenure, held April 7–8, 2025, in Milwaukee, was to include a surprise presentation of the Festschrift’s table of contents. Though Cliff’s health prevented him from attending in person, he participated virtually and heard readings of excerpts from each contribution. Clifford Lynch passed away shortly after, on April 10, 2025. Authors completed their essays before his passing, and the original text remains unchanged.
Below the fold is a bried snippet of each of the invited contributions and some comments.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Tesla's Robotaxi Revolution!

The mythical CyberCab
@ChrisO_wiki tweeted:
How to tell if someone's bullshitting: watch for them to give a deadline that they repeatedly push back.
This was apropos of Donald Trump's approach to tariffs and Ukraine, but below the fold I apply the criterion to Elon Musk basing Tesla's future on its robotaxi service.