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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Presented, without comment, this book cover:

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Blockchain Technology and Digital Twin for Smart Hospitals

(found on the social medias, the books' website)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

God, I hope this is a scam, and that whoever is running it is just smashing together today’s buzzwords to print money.

This 180$ ebook better be completely autoplagged and in no way intended to be informational.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago

the upside of it listing a pile of author names: one can go look up their published works, and add them to crank trackers if necessary (seems likely)

the ToC is some fantastical fucking nonsense

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

this is one hell of a hat trick

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago

only needs a quantum chapter somewhere in there for bonus scoring round..