Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jaranta@scholar.social

Just heard about journals outsourcing the storage of a paper's supplementary materials to a 3rd party company that also charges for it

What exactly are journals paid to do again?

Looks like #Zotero is now monitoring Retraction Watch to alert people of retracted articles! That's pretty cool.

There's been a recent rash of spammers on the Fediverse spreading misogynist hate

If you see something like this, please click the three dots for the post (in the web interface), then click "Report" and I will block the spammer from interacting with anyone on this instance

Thanks!

the only video game hardware announcement that would actually interest me is, like, one of the big three committing to *not* release a new console in the next ten–fifteen years (unless it's a less expensive and more energy-efficient version of their existing console). I'm sick of buying these things, sick of having them pile up in my apartment, I don't care about 8k or raytracing or any of that garbage

Robert Minto draws a fine distinction between critical writing and hot takes here: https://robertminto.com/2019/06/07/the-basic-unit-of-all-criticism/

In which @darius recommends library archives as an alternative to museums, and explains how you can access them when traveling: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/library-archive-tourism/

#Announcement: check out #ConfTube, a #PeerTube instance dedicated to conference and community events videos.

https://conf.tube/

If you are a conference organizer or speaker, feel free to contact me to get an account.

Friends into #game studies, interactive #narratives, and #design research, take a look at this #CfP for GAME - Games as Art, Media, Entertainment journal on 'agency'
"The new issue of G|A|M|E proposes a re-examination of the concept of #agency in games. We welcome contributions that address the idea of agency (...) taking into account its interdisciplinary history and application."
https://www.gamejournal.it/n-8-2019-would-you-kindly-claiming-video-game-agency-as-interdisciplinary-concept/

Let’s talk about The North Face defacing #Wikipedia

"When The North Face exploits the trust you have in Wikipedia to sell you more clothes, you should be angry. Adding content that is solely for commercial promotion goes directly against the policies, purpose and mission of Wikipedia to provide neutral, fact-based knowledge to the world."

#BoycottTheNorthFace

https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/05/29/lets-talk-about-the-north-face-defacing-wikipedia/

> my preferred operating system is that sense of lightness and liberation that comes after dropping your computer into a trash compactor