The research fairy @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

A thing I feel like a lot of old people don't get is it's not like people in my generation don't care about respecting intellectual property... It's that we don't care about respecting "copyright" when it's used to stifle creativity and increase profit for corporations that are already doing fine, rather than individuals.

Like, we as individuals remix stuff and make shit out of stuff made by big corporations/people, but respect stuff made by individuals/less "powerful" people.

If you use Gmail, know that "human third parties" are reading your email https://boingboing.net/2018/07/03/if-you-use-gmail-know-that.html #termsofservice #Post

Comme �a.

When I come across new social media software and no one has bothered to think about abuse, it's like a plumber coming in to check out the house you're building and finding no one has installed any pipes, but you've already put up the walls. You are gonna have a house filled with poo, and the only people who will come in your house are people who enjoy shit.

Pushing scholarly #publishing toward a 100% #openaccess model. https://aeon.co/ideas/scholarly-publishing-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it

This Aeon article includes discussion on improving the way peer review, etc. works. The author (Tennant) says" "All of the technology and traits to build a hybridised scholarly commons infrastructure already exists. It is up to academic communities themselves to step away from their apathy and towards a fairer and more democratic system for sharing our knowledge and work."

Scholars, do (or even can) you use sources you can only access through, say, #scihub?

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France

"To attract new prison guards, salaries were raised. To attract beginning teachers, perhaps we should pay them more than prison guards."

SC teachers vilified, underpaid in anti-public school state | The State https://www.thestate.com/opinion/op-ed/article214184704.html

Centrism is childish, petulant and obsessed with the aesthetics of politics instead of the realities.

I was someone who was frequently bullied at school and was constantly implicitly taught to expect nobody was going to do anything meaningful about it precisely because the school system didn't want to upset anyone (other than me, incidentally, they seemed fine with that).

rich people are for eating not for listening to

How much does a tech bro cost?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2018/jul/02/how-much-does-a-tech-bro-cost

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i hate manuscript formatting

@noelle

https://whitespashe.uk/media/Zvw3J902hHYHPHAssFc

Use them! They're good!

It's not just about letting peoole opt in to what you're talking about, it also lets people scroll their timelines faster to get to the kinda shit they wanna read.

You're not braver, stronger, cooler, or more resilient for not using CWs, and if you react poorly to people asking you to share space in a halfways decent way, maybe I think you're a jerk?

Like, everyone should be able to browse their local and federated timelines. So use CWs.

Happy Canada Day!