fake stars, swiss sovereignty, and copy-paste science

Monday, April 20, 2026

Copy-paste research will accidentally optimize fake reputation marketplace algorithms. Don’t interrupt the person already doing impossible work.

1. Six million fake GitHub stars selling at $0.06 each
2. Which US clouds handle Swiss municipal email
3. Copy-paste errors in landmark Parkinson’s research went unnoticed for 8 years
4. What we lost when XMPP died
5. Why anti-AI sentiment may be visceral, not rational
6. Robert Trivers died and nobody noticed for two weeks