Ryan P. Randall @foureyedsoul@scholar.social

Keep reading articles when what I really want are accomplices.

Perusing an article whose title claims to be a critical survey of the concept of information & haven't gotten through the first page without some overwhelmingly gendered language.

My profs would have called me in for this as an undergrad in 1998, so how the everloving eff did the IEEE editors let this get into print in 2008?

I mean, I certainly have some ideas why. But also: I want an accounting of who and why.

Starting to really wish I'd asked whether anyone at the conference I wish I were currently at would organize shared note-taking.

The birdsite kind of suffices but it breaks everything into shards; I think group notes (especially at conferences) is a really good praxis. But said conference has a lot of emphasis on reflective aspects of pedagogy, so maybe there are good aspects of people doing individual engagements, privately and publicly.

Trying to find some music that’ll help me focus on what I need to read tonight… forgot how impressively autumnal early Six Organs of Admittance can be.

Still exasperated, but I found the thread I remembered liking. Turns out that retracing your steps (“hey, did I like or retweet that?”) is a much more effective strategy than an all-new search!

Here’s Gwen C. Katz’s thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/gwenckatz/status/1047516105718124544

And an article at Slate: https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/grievance-studies-hoax-not-academic-scandal.html

So after yesterday’s vote on a levy to get a campus building built seems to have failed by .06 percent, a coworker decided that to pick up our spirits, they’d share a fun link… to the uncritical NY Times article on that bullshit “grievance studies” hoax.

This unsurprisingly hasn’t exactly lifted my spirits.

If anyone has one of the good “this hoax doesn’t reveal what the authors claim” responses handy & feels like sharing it, that’d be much appreciated.

Surprising no one, I mostly like Mojave's dark theme.

A very small thing, but I'm glad that I found a kludgy recommendation online for how to make my Apple Watch give me a little nudge every 30 minutes. It took about 10-15 minutes to add a bunch of fake "events" to a calendar, each repeating indefinitely, each set to give an alarm when the "event" happens. I put them in a new calendar, so I can hide it from other apps & all those events disappear from the calendar app I actually use. Since I don't quite perceive time, it's super helpful.