pivic, to bookstodon
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‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/goodreads-review-bombing

I hate Goodreads. The site is just a continuation of Amazon as a surveillance capitalist nightmare, one that's never updated. Bugs are rife.

I prefer Bookwyrm and The StoryGraph:

https://bookwyrm.social
https://thestorygraph.com

@bookstodon

boud, to academicchatter
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There is a proposal [0] to modify the 'Find general sources' template [1]. The template is used on nearly a million Wikipedia pages (esp. talk pages, not articles). Knowledge review circulates between search engines + meta-search engines, academic peer-reviewed papers, and Wikipedia - should retain its power here? This decision-making is and .

@academicchatter

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Modify_Module:Find_sources/templates/Find_general_sources

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Find_sources/templates/Find_general_sources

pivic, to bookstodon
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ICalzada, to digitalhumanities
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' are networks driven by human agency, referring to communities of individuals who maintain connections with their home countries and diasporic fellows through digital tools.'

https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328723001623

1/n

@digitalhumanities @geography @politicalscience @politicaltheory @economics

ICalzada,
@ICalzada@mastodon.social avatar

'Consequently, HD’s dysfunctionality is associated with processes that unquestioningly accept the pitfalls and paradoxes related to the (un) of in .'

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328723001623

4/n

@digitalhumanities @geography @politicalscience @politicaltheory @economics

ICalzada, to digitalhumanities
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doboprobodyne, to technology in How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet - WIRED

Nice to see hamstring themselves; they're seen as a engine benchmark, so this makes it easier for (which uses to provide it's search answers, if I understand correctly) to edge up on them in the rankings...

pivic, to random
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Zoom is a horrifying company with a long history of causing mayhem and exposing their users to different types of extreme risks, from serving Israel (denying Palestine groups use of Zoom) to installing a web server on Macs that had Zoom installed (which Apple had to remove).

Now, they've updated their terms of service to allow training of AI on user content; one can't opt out of this.

Don't user Zoom. Use Jitsi Meet or Matrix or other stable, free, and open-sourced solutions.

Zoom Terms of Service: https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

aral, to random
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If you’re developing web sites that only run in Google Chrome, you are not a web developer, you’re a web destroyer.

aral, to random
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Zuck: yea so we’re joining the fediverse and I even got some instance admins to sign ndas and federate

Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?

Zuck: they came to us

Zuck: i don’t know why

Zuck: they “trust me”

Zuck: dumb fucks


With apologies to Mark’s original IMs (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook). Threads (lack of) App Privacy screenshot via https://shakedown.social/@clifff/110653848263872804

aral, to random
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Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”

Yes, they did.

Because you’re what’s for dinner.

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