Robert W. Gehl @robertwgehl@scholar.social

I got a talk accepted at Hackers On Planet Earth... pretty cool! My colleague and I will talk about the history of #socialengineering -- we'll probably talk about early 20th century public relations, phone phreaks, and contemporary hackers.

still getting emails from admins from my previous employer. So I block em like I was Ben Wallace

welp. It's finally happened. I've been put on an editorial board of an academic journal without my consent. Somewhat ironically, it's the International Journal of Technoethics.

I feel like we could do one of these a week:

"Remember when Trump forced the National Weather Service to agree with his sharpie-marked storm track map, rather than, you know, actual data? Ah, nostalgia."

Whoever thought we would be nostalgic for the good old days when Trump just did stupid things like recommend injecting bleach

Hi, academic Mastodon. Question for you. Say you're peer reviewing a journal article. Let's say the article's authors cite themselves quite a few times, but do it like this: (Authors, 2019).

Let's also say they make claims and support them with these self-citations. Thus, it's impossible to follow up and look at their sources.

At what point do you ask for a version with the citations deanonymized? Or do you just trust them when they cite themselves?

"Oh, this scene has a spiritual element," says the musician writing the score. "This calls for... pan flute!"

the conservative view seems to be "buy shit and die"

ALL I WANNA DO IS OOMA ZOOM ZOOM Z --

no, wait, no I do not.

this whole trying to write while every 10 mins the kid announces something about their homework is... hard

I don't know why this is the thing that really gets me these days.

Foxnews.com's coverage of Trump's comments... doesn't quote what he said. It just talks about how the 'media' is upset and how Trump's spokespeople deny he said what he said.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/media-erupt-over-trump-comments-on-disinfectant-heres-what-he-said

What he said was, and I quote:

""And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning."

once again, Pence kisses Trump's prodigious posterior and explains how we're just about to test millions of people. He's been saying this for weeks now. Millions tested... always in the future

uspol, trump, medical

Things I never thought I'd have to worry about:
1) How to keep myself and others safe from being infected during a pandemic
2) How to homeschool my kid when there are many great public schools and teachers to help him
3) how to find a vein (in my foot? my arm?) to inject Lysol