The Librarian 🌷 @thelibrarian@scholar.social

Re-posting & pinning my #introduction for any new folks:

Hi, I am an academic #librarian, #geospatial information scientist, computer scientist, #linguist (theoretically) and amateur #mathematician into:

#higherEd / #education,
#visualLearning & #infoViz
#publicPolicy,
legal studies,
political theory & economics (MMT, etc),
#computationalSocialScience, and
#systemsScience (#SD and #ABM, etc).

I like #synthWave music and #garmentEngineering (#fashionDesign).

An #omnipologist if you will.

Use CWs as subject lines to give others more freedom of choice in what they read.

Help our vision-impaired friends know what we are talking about when we post images by adding a description.

Use #hashtags to make posts discoverable, if desirable.

Mastodon is about community, not celebrity.

It is perfectly fine to have more than one account, especially on different instances. Federation allows one to lessen context collapse this way.

I am planning on more frequently tooting passages from sources I'm reading and I am going to do so thus:

The *public* post will be reference information, comments, content notes, tags;

Interesting pull quotes/passages will be posted as comments in reply with a brief citation, so they are boostable. These will be reflective of things that can be considered in an edifying way, even if my personal opinion differs (a note may or may not indicate this).

Pinning this post for followers new & old.

If you don't understand feedback and the structure of systems, you don't understand economics (or really much else).

When you use a direct quote, please please cite the original, primary source — not the fact that another historian attributes it to somebody. If you can't confirm the quote, don't use it. Period.

Also, Modern Monetary Theory is a bit of a misnomer. The foundational concepts are facts, not opinions or theories. The public policy proposals then theoretically, and logically, follow.

Best intro to #MMT I have found:
Stephanie Kelton, "But How Will We Pay for It? Making Public Money Work for Us"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS9nP-BKa3M

Also when placing them on the cookie sheet they should be approximately ¾ to 1 inch spheres.

(1 tsp of matcha powder will give a pleasant hint, 2 should give firm flavour)

Matcha Chocolate-chip Cookies

Move oven racks to middle positions & preheat over to 375°F.

In a medium mixing bowl:
Cream ¼ lb butter with
½ cup white sugar &
½ cup brown sugar

Add 1 egg, 1 tsp of vanilla extract, and ¼ tsp salt.

Mix. Add 1 to 2 tsp of matcha powder.

Mix being sure to scrape the sides of the mixing bowl.

Add Chocolate Chips. Mix.

Add 2 tsp baking soda and 1 cup + 2 Tbsp of all-purpose flour (I use King Arthur).

Bake on ungreased cookie sheet, 11 min.

For my green friends:
Springer e-book:

Bioeconomy: Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-68152-8

Yesterday, I made matcha-chocolate-chip cookies. As you may be able to see, they didn't survive long. (I hope to find time to type up the recipe, will attach as a reply when I do).

The coverage of #YouthStrike4Climate in the UK puts me in my current soundtrack mood:

"A place called England" / June Tabor

"...There's room for you both root and branch as long as you love the English earth / room for vole and room for orchid room for all to grow and thrive / just less room for the fat landowner on his arse in his four-wheel drive..."