Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@social.cleverlibre.org

Trick to prevent #pandoc from adding title, date or author to the document text: unset the `title` variable by assigning it the empty string:

pandoc -V title= …

Title, author, and date will still be included in the document's #metadata, but won't show up in the main text body. A common use-case for this is #HTML output, where the default header block may be unwanted.

La revue scientifique Humanités Numériques @RevueHN sort son 6ème numéro (voir sommaire dans l'image jointe) https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/3082

Un article m'a particulièrement intéressé : « Objectifs et stratégies de publication d’un bulletin de liaison : Le Médiéviste et l’Ordinateur (1979-1989) », qui raconte l'histoire et le fonctionnement d'une revue (avant-gardiste) consacrée à l'usage de l'informatique dans la recherche en histoire médiévale.

#DigitalHumanities #HumanitésNumériques

Updated my profile to assert that my posts are licensed CC-BY-ND. Reasons best explained by visiting recent posts from @djsundog and following the big twisty threads.

Also relevant; In-depth blog post: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-Privacy-and-Search

If people want Mastodon instances to behave a certain way, those rules should be written down.

And finally, the big Searchtodon Retrospective: https://searchtodon.social/Adventures-in-Mastoland.html

I erred on the side of including more rather than less and take you through:

- My background and the motivation for creating Searchtodon.
- The initial design and research.
- Recap of *the experiment*, including results and commentary.
- tl;dr: 2 our of 3 hypotheses came back positive.
- Recap of the feedback received (the juicy bits).
- A (somewhat hopeful) look at the way forward.

The call for papers/participation the "#Games and #Literature" conference at the @DLAMarbach ends soon!

Apply here: https://bit.ly/3INgU1X

I just wrote a short piece over on post.news about how the h-index rose to prominence because it was a clever UI hack—and now that the UI hack is no longer needed, it may seem like a curious choice of bibliometric measure.

Here's the link if you want to read it there.

https://post.news/article/2KNv9uat3nL8CF6tIpA7eIpVGOg

I'll serialize here as well, below.

Gold Machine's monstrous, ten-part series on A Mind Forever Voyaging concludes today! Thanks for coming along for the ride.

Next comes the end of the six game Zork saga: Spellbreaker! To celebrate this milestone, I'll be typing up a let's play over at the Interactive Fiction Community Forum. I'll post a link when it goes up in a few days.

https://golmac.org/a-mind-forever-voyaging-the-good-ending/

In plaat van "science-driven society" kan je bv "research-driven society" schrijven. Het blijft lastig, maar ruim 15 jaar geleden hebben we ervoor gepleit om de geplande European Science Council te hernoemen in European Research Council (ERC), en met succes. Words matter!

Jammer de UvA het woord "wetenschap" verkeerd vertaalt met "science". Het Engelse woord "science" is niet inclusief: het sluit humanities uit. Het Nederlandse woord "wetenschap" is wel inclusief. Ben benieuwd wat rector Peter-Paul Verbeek bedoelde.

https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/news/2023/01/uva-celebrates-its-391st-anniversary.html

NarraScope will be held at the University of Pittsburgh, June 9-11, 2023. See this post for our announcement and COVID policy:

https://narrascope.org/2022/11/narrascope-2023-announce.html

Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you.

**** Trusting Elon's Twitter Is Like Trusting Donald Trump ****

For so many years I've heard so much ranting about #Google ending various products or services with sometimes only a relatively limited amount of warning (like months) and sometimes much longer warnings (like years).

But compare that with #Twitter right now. Major third-party client apps of long standing apparently suddenly targeted for cutoff with ZERO warning or explanation, and only leaks to indicate this was done intentionally. No official word at all to confirm why this occurred.

Another example of why anybody depending on Elon's Twitter for anything of importance is acting beyond foolishness. It's like trusting Donald Trump. Maybe even worse. -L

Here's my attempt to synthesize historical trends and patterns when a new technology came along that seemed to automate art, like photography and computer animation.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2022/12/17/when-tech-changes-art.html
These ideas and text are still a work-in-progress.
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And now dead again, along with some old unused API keys, which proves that this was intentional and we and others were specifically targeted.

I wouldn't have swapped out the keys in the first place if there was even a shred of communication. Figured if nothing else this would push the issue.

Oh well, on to smaller but greener pastures.

Can we stop using the term "hallucinating" for #AI that gives false answers? Hallucinations are ungrounded perceptions based on disembodied sensation, which implies when an AI gives a correct answer it is grounding its perception in embodied sensation. But #ChatGPT can't sense anything. It just finds statistical correlations among conclusions made by beings with real bodies (us).

@Inquiry @Harishjosev

I only recently found out about him while reading *Behavior and Culture in One Dimension* by DP Waters which largely expands upon HH Pattee's work. I really enjoy Pattee's clear-cut writing style and he is also one of the few people I have a hard time finding any flaw in their line of reasoning. For example, his distinction between Laws vs Rules fits perfectly with my own effort of trying to explain to my engineering friends the difference between developing a Product (Structure) and a System as they would regularly confuse the two. 😀

I don't know about the *disconnect between dyadic and triadic frames of reference* as you put it, but here is a doodle I made a few months ago while reading Pattee and Waters that you may find interesting:

Is academia facing a massive burnout crisis?

Academics are increasingly "reevaluating whether their jobs are worth the high cost to their personal well-being. They are less willing to continue in positions with oversized workloads, salaries that do not keep up with inflation, and inflexible policies."

48% of universities report that faculty turnover is increasing and >70% of academics reported mental health difficulties in 2021.

via https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/01/trends-faculty-exiting-academia
@academicchatter #AcademicChatter

Let's pour one out for third-party Twitter clients:

Apps that shaped UI conventions, pioneered a market, and in many ways reinvented how we communicate online – unceremoniously killed off by a clown who thinks he's the smartest guy around because he has money.

These apps didn't deserve to end up like this.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/