Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Here's my review of @driscoll`s THE MODEM WORLD - the book explores little-known aspects from the (pre)history of social media, c. 1978-1995. The book's call to imagine a post-commercial online world hits the nerve of our time!

Can't recommend this book enough (go buy & read it)! I especially hope that the book will encourage scholars outside the US to explore the history of their local BBSs (that's still a niche).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448221151051

#technologyandsociety #history

Having left Twitter for reasons, I’m dismayed to see some of my fellow refugees posting content from Twitter. RT’s. So that, to explore the content, I would need to connect to Twitter again.

Isn’t it worth the extra trouble to find the non-Twitter version of whatever it is you’re highlighting?

That is all. Thank you for listening.

📢Join a team of linguists from USI, Basel University, University of Lausanne, and University of Neuchatel to work on #openresearchdata in the study of #talkininteraction. Part-time assistant position 🗓 04/2023-09/2024 📩Apply before February 15! 📋Call: https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/ials/ials-call-assistant-project-chord-2023.pdf

I just filled in a survey about the state of #academia in #Germany, and was really stumped on the question "How do you spend your work time, specifically?" I wanted to check 40% teaching and 40% research and also 40% advising students and certainly 40% admin meetings... and they didn't even have a separate category for email... 🤔

Spannender Vortrag des @tu_wien
eduLAB: @Arnold_Pears
vom @KTHuniversity
hält diesen Mittwoch einen Vortrag zu Engineering Education Futures: How will #AI and ML transform higher education? https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2348

When scholars without expertise in infrastructure reform encounter the goals of the reform movement, such as e.g., replacing academic journals,

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

they sometimes reflexively defend the status quo that served them well, e.g.:

“You ‘open’ wackaloons are forcing your revolution on us, against our academic freedom!”

I was asked to write a *one-page* cheat sheet with the evidence to counter such a reflex:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vjbohSsf-qy8ZkCvQ9FRlF9k1N12oSLu8qwXoKxjD2o/edit?usp=sharing

Can you/we improve on that?
#openscience

A while ago I saw a thread about FilemakerPro (mostly discussing the "why") but can't find it again... but does anyone have any suggestions about how to open/convert a Filemaker database into some sensible format, without having Filemaker?

For reasons that are unlikely to become clear at the moment, I've been given a dataset in this format, and being able to do anything with it would involve not having it in this format. Almost any technique (via CSV, SQL, etc.) would be good!

2023 call for COST projects in Switzerland
COST encourages networking of scientific and technological research activities throughout Europe and beyond. The deadline for submission is 20.04.2023. Details are available on our website. https://sohub.io/j419

Wow, so the other day I shared what #Microsoft does when you search to download #Firefox from #Edge* but they go one step further for #Chrome.

(I have zero love for either surveillance capitalist but, my goodness, what absolute asshattery. Having spent more time than I’d like testing in #Windows these past two days, I constantly feel like some malevolent entity is trying to exploit me at every turn. Because one is. This OS is a case study in hostile #design.)

* https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109704475608404103

#web

So viel allein

New music!

I've just released my new solo synthpop track, "Eternal September".

Created with free and open-source software (especially @ardourdaw@twitter.com) and free to stream and download on @SoundCloud@twitter.com.

https://soundcloud.com/transitsofmars/eternal-september

This week's blogpost:

The "De Roucy" Hours?

(In which I suggest that Prof. Rossi got her identification of the original patron completely wrong).

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-de-roucy-hours.html

Von #Scholz Entscheidungskompetenz zu erwarten, ist wie mir Fähigkeiten im Eiskunstlauf zuzutrauen. #Zeitenende