Jonne Arjoranta @jaranta@scholar.social

Hey! My friend's awesome edited volume on Pokémon Go is going to be available at the end of the month! Maybe suggest that your university library should order it if you're interested in STS, gaming studies, Japanese studies, or new media?
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498574914/The-Augmented-Reality-of-Pok%C3%A9mon-Go-Chronotopes-Moral-Panic-and-Other-Complexities

*grabby hands*

If statistics taught me anything, it's that I'm fairly average at pretty much everything. And so is most everyone else.

stages of literature review:

1. I am a brilliant genius whose originality is beyond compare
2. [searches google scholar]
3. oh no
4. oh god no
5. like fifty people have done this exact thing
6. [actually reads some of the papers]
7. wait these are all related but not exactly the same thing
8. also some of them are not very good
9. oh this one is actually really helpful!
10. I am a brilliant, gracious genius whose originality is beyond compare

https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/

Important topic but this podcast was kind of annoying. Ultimately they framed surveillance as an issue of individual balancing benefits and harms, and said that you can opt out.

I think these are dangerous arguments because they sidestep the societal significance and power issues involved. This will impact democracy whether or not we open certain websites or use certain specific apps.

#surveillance

Quit using Mendeley people!

They started encrypting your database so you cannot easily move it over to other tools any more.

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

That link also helps you saving your data before it's too late.

(Elsevier are a bunch of crooks, blocking interoperability one-way and not the other. Almost as bad as Google blocking uBlock for your safety...)

Hey, academics, want more journals to be open access? Step 1: Refuse to referee for closed access journals.

"Oh, you want any of the conveniences of modern smartphones? Cool, choose which of two global megacorps get access to all your most personal info."

We live in the worst cyberpunk future.

me: I would like for the commands I typed six months ago to do more or less the same thing today
computers: no

ahh its good to have so many browsers to choose from

As if you needed any more impetuous to migrate away from ELS products...Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

> Mendeley 1.19 and later have begun encrypting the local database, making it unreadable by Zotero and other standard database tools. Elsevier made this change a few months after Zotero publicly announced work on an importer

Here's a good paper from the Journal of Economic Theory from 1992, with a price of $3 down in the corner of the first page ($5.50 in present dollars): https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/economics/pdf/workingpapers/Segal/1992_jet_bikhchandani_sharma_stochastic.pdf

Or, download a PDF copy from Elsevier for $35.95: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002205319290087X