Darrell Rudmann @dsrudmann@scholar.social

This has made me do a think

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/06/twitter-is-a-garbage-company-and-jack-is-fawning-at-the-feet-of-fascists/

Just so you know, Twitter is a fucking garbage fire.

There are 2 main rivaling programs to handle your scientific references. One is free/libre software (#Zotero), the other is not (#Mendeley). Guess which one you should use?

Hint: if you use the closed source one, it will encrypt your article-database and not give you the possibility to decrypt and export it.

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

Babies held hostage.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/19/what-would-liam-neeson-do/

Speaking truth to power comes with a cost, I guess.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/15/what-does-it-take-to-get-a-cartoonist-fired/

Entrepreneurs: "Running a company is a risky business, we deserve to be paid more than other workers"

Also entrepreneurs: "It only makes sens to run a company if the state will give us a tax cut, an initial investment, a state-wide incentive and then a long-term tender"

It is interesting to see different perspectives in thesauri. Here are the entries for the word, #entrepreneur :

Oxford American English Thesaurus:

businessman/businesswoman, enterpriser, speculator, tycoon, magnate, mogul; dealer, trader; promoter, impresario; informal wheeler-dealer, whiz kid, mover and shaker, go-getter, high flyer, hustler, idea man/person.

American Heritage/Roget's:

architect, author, creator, father, founder, inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch.

Hmmm.....

Regular reminder: "legal name" is a very boring sounding phrase.

It sounds WAY cooler if you call it your "government alias"

Every couple of months I like to share with new people or people on new instances how to add #Mastodon timelines into #rss feeds:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cosullivan.atom

Roll your own: https://[federated.instance]/@[userid].atom

Could be worth trying if your favourite accounts are 8-16hrs away, or if you detect spotty synchronization issues between instances. #Mastodon101 #rss

If we have a “don’t at me” emojo I should make a “don’t explain this to me yes I know and I’m aware I’m just trying to make a joke fuck god”

ZoteroBib is a new free service from the #Zotero team, that helps you quickly create a bibliography in any citation style

https://zbib.org/

A very neat and well crafted service indeed, useful at all levels for #Academia and #Publishing routine work with #Citation #CitationStyles

Hi just a reminder that https://scholar.social exists explicitly in order to be a safe space for queers and other minorities in academia

We take it to be a founding principle of this instance that academic freedom can only exist where the existence and validity of interlocutors' identities is taken as axiomatic

Abuse, "debates" over minority rights conducted in bad faith, hate speech, etc. are all not tolerated here

Look what you made me do!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/14/look-what-you-made-me-do/

Jeet Heer actually gets it: "Freethought" is not a word that means you get to babble stupidly about whatever opinion you hold.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/13/freethought/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clIIh0l26kY

"2,000-word op-ed that I realize 3/4 of the way through was inspired by a tweet" seems to be a common genre these days

CSU does a fairly good job of handling a PR catastrophe.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/06/so-now-native-americans-are-creepy-kids/

I guess some academic problems are pretty universal. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/questions-for-the-jedi-vice-chair-of-graduate-studies

"Ugh, TMI." "Yeah, that's some tantalizing meat info."
https://xkcd.com/1989/

I decided to download Scribus as a FLOSS alternative to InDesign or Publisher.

I opened it and was told I need to download GhostScript and it directed me to a site which redirected me to a GitHub releases page

Which had about ten different release versions with shorthand filenames making it very difficult to find the right version. The documentation for Scribus was outdated and gave no help

First one I tried told me to install using Command Line

didn't work