timorl @timorl@qoto.org

I want to do an experiment. I apologize for how self-indulgent this is, but ... y'know, like, a whole thing with this kind of blowup is that the original context is lost, so I want to see what happens if that context is reintroduced. I'm sure none of this will need explanation to folks who have been following this story.

(That said, feel free to ask for explanation - we didn't see all of this but we saw a lot.)

I just learned that earlier this year, the logistics community of the Foxhole playerbase wrote a list of QoL demands to the developers, who predictably did not bother responding.
In response, participating logi players stopped doing their "jobs", and the frontlines started having serious supply issues. 49 days later the devs released a list of upcoming features, many of which specifically addressed the demands

Players went on strike in a game and won

dubioza kolektiv when trustworthy kolektiv shows up

Learning a lot about people who are saying we should be respectful and reverent at the moment because an old lady did what old ladies do and die.

Where were they when that old lady was wearing a diamond and gold hat and sitting on a gold chair while her subjects queue at food banks?

Their respect and reverence is clearly aimed at wealth and power, not human dignity.

#queen #monarchy #endthemonarchy

I've never really got into submitting my research to academic journals, they're super hard to access and read even when you work for an institution that subscribes to them, have very long delays from submission to publication, and are often super expensive to publish open access (££££s)..
That's been fine because google scholar is good at picking up conference papers etc that other citation databases do not.
But I just had the realisation that if google scholar went away (which is entirely possible, based on google's record) then I'd have no record of my work or its citations.. and I'm not sure what to do about that. I've been thinking of uploading all my papers to zenodo, but despite having DOIs, stuff there is practically ignored by other databases (including google scholar!). I'm not sure what to do about this..
Academic publishing and reporting is a total mess, completely compromised by publishing companies like Elsevier, with absolutely *astonishing* profit margins, and heavy investments in fossil fuels..