[Air-L] First Monday shutting down after 30 years

Tue Mar 10 20:03:14 PDT 2026

Solutions are easier said than done.

Here goes the said iterations for whatever it's worth:

The publications driven academic learning industry is going to transition
and rise above it's current two dimensional academic flat lands and move
toward a three dimensional emotional economy of scale where the fruits of
data will be directly shared with the bottom of the pyramid, the so called
research participants (very much the entire global population) who will be
eventually entitled to the return on their data investment that involves
privacy tradeoffs and essentially being used as a product.

This video illustrates the above process at it's end:
https://youtu.be/ONDSeZjskrk?si=9m5rGMO-6rMUQPAJ

Data collection will involve Orwellian devices, the ideal kind and not
dystopian as conjured originally by Orwell that will involve ambient AI
with a mix of robotics, check out this recent release from Stanford and to
quote with generalizeable edits:

"Mimicking human cognition via a dual-system architecture, this technology
demonstrates superior reasoning on  benchmarks and autonomously executes
complex research. To extend this intelligence physically, the system
simulates human trouble shooting procedures as a physics-aware model to
foresee adverse events. Generating and validating on the previous
benchmark, the tech exhibits spatial intelligence for reasoning and action.
Crucially, we demonstrate that this platform democratizes expertise and
narrows the performance gap between junior and senior human trouble
shooters. The tech transforms human trouble shooting interventions towards
a collaborative discipline where human intuition and machine intelligence
co-evolve."

Unquoted from:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.26345936v1.full-text

More about "trouble shooting humans" here:
https://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2025/04/book-proposal-introduction-to-medical.html?m=1

More about "emotional economies at scale" here:
https://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2025/12/udlco-projr-role-of-human-agentic.html?m=1

More about Orwellian devices here:
https://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2025/07/user-driven-orwellian-eyes-at-pivot-of.html?m=1

best,

rb

On Wed, 11 Mar 2026, 06:31 Christian Fuchs via Air-L, <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> AI-generated papers are a real problem as it can be no coincidence that
> within a year many journals have seen a multiplication of the number of
> submissions...
> It makes the whole academic publishing process more difficult than it is
> already. And papermill factories have already made a capitalist process
> out of AI-generated papers, even creating fake reviewer email addresses
> of people actually exisitng that are suggested as potential reviewers, etc.
> I feaer there is no easy solution... Any ideas?
> Best Chrisitan
>
> Am 10.03.26 um 03:36 schrieb Rakesh Biswas via Air-L:
> > AI co-authors would automatically beget AI co-editors and AI peer
> reviewers.
> >
> > Perhaps it's time for every human to experience being the last human
> > "editor in chief" before they are edited out and written off from their
> > academic flat lands!
> >
> > Either way in our regular data collection and raw blog publications (peer
> > reviewed by our own large number of global team members), we have come to
> > terms with the fact that the humungous human TLDR data we generate daily
> is
> > largely fit for AI consumption and currently not fit for most humans who
> > are not a part of our participatory action research in real time!
> >
> > best,
> >
> > rb
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Mar 2026, 07:43 Christopher Lueg via Air-L, <
> > air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I would also be interested in helping keep FM alive.
> >>
> >> The crazy increase in submissions and the associated scarcity of
> reviewers
> >> is a challenge that all journals have been dealing with but now we face
> an
> >> incoming avalanche of AI (co-)generated papers that exceed even the
> >> capacity of editors that have substantial institutional support.
> >>
> >> "Perhaps FM - the Sequel" could become a testbed for a different
> submission
> >> model!? Happy to share a few ideas.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Christopher
> >>
> >> Dr. sc.nat. Christopher P. Lueg
> >> Professor, School of Information Sciences
> >> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
> >> https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/christopher-lueg
> >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/clueg/
> >> cplueg at illinois.edu
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 5:36 AM Ruth Tsuria via Air-L <
> >> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Would be happy to volunteer as well, and have experience acting as an
> >>> Editor-in-Chief
> >>>
> >>> Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts
> >>> Program Director, MA Communication and MS Professional Communication
> and
> >>> Digital Media Arts
> >>> College of Human Development, Culture, Media
> >>> Seton Hall University, NJ, USA
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Keeping Women in Their Digital Place (2024, Penn State University
> Press)
> >>>
> >>> Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (Brill)
> >>>
> >>> For more publications: https://works.bepress.com/ruth-tsuria/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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