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Scientific publishing is facing a quiet crisis. The Atlantic is reporting that AI-generated slop is flooding academic journals, with researchers and editors struggling to distinguish machine-produced filler from genuine scholarship. The implications for peer review and public trust in science are serious and growing.
Shifting to the world of enterprise databases, AWS has announced ExtendDB, an open-source adapter that brings DynamoDB's familiar API to pluggable storage backends, starting with PostgreSQL. For teams who want DynamoDB compatibility without the vendor lock-in, it's a meaningful option — letting existing SDKs and workflows carry over without modification.
And on the more personal side of AI, the New York Times is examining a trend where professionals are deploying AI digital twins to handle meetings, messages, and conversations on their behalf. It raises a question worth sitting with — when an AI stands in for you often enough, what does availability even mean anymore?
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