Vicky Steeves @vickysteeves@octodon.social

i'm so in a "burn down corporate owned distribution of the arts" mood lately

Honestly, text based adventures deserve more innovation and development as a genre.

It's not outdated so much as it is not properly utilized. Books aren't outdated just because movies exist, and text based adventures aren't outdated just because graphical adventures exist.

#gaming #gamedev

Here's my tech startup idea:

A printer that actually works

Conferences should not be allowed to sell out your registration email address to every vendor who wants it

boosting https://twitter.com/OKFNLabs/status/1158328296620339206

Save the date! v5 of CSVConf
- a community conference for data makers everywhere - will take place on May 13 + 14 2020 at the University of California's Washington Center in Washington DC, USA (link: http://csvconf.com) csvconf.com #csvconf

Is anyone on Mastodon attending #asa19 (the big #sociology conference)?

it is the responsibility of CS educators to bring up ethics in each and every course. the textbooks won't. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/08/05/computer-science-could-learn-a-lot-from-library-and-information-science

tips for newcomers

follow, boost and fave all you like! we don't care about follow ratios and faves are private. go hog wild!

boosting your own posts is 100% ok. no shame. the TL is chronological, so there's no algorithm to fight.

please do use CWs. if in doubt, use one just to be safe.

hashtags are your friends and really the only effective way to search for posts. be sure to use them to maximize your reach.

don't be afraid to engage. dumping pictures is fine but stay and chat a bit too!

@platypus For the curious: The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here

The intersection of Western intellectual property law and traditional knowledge in Africa.... [The book] focuses on the appropriation and protection of adinkra and kente cloth in order to examine the broader implications of the use of intellectual property law to preserve folklore and other traditional forms of knowledge.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-copyright-thing-doesnat-work-here

the same professor taught a class called marxist psychology and when a young me asked him about it, he replied that "every other course at this university has an ideology, i'm just the only one who admits it"

Trying a similar request again: can anyone recommend a good #OpenAccess journal that covers environmental justice?

Reminder: OCR is the beginning and not the end of making your text accessible. It often outputs some garbage and always benefits from a look over and some cleaning up by a human. It is not magic and it doesn't mean there's no work left for you. Sorry.

Reading @TeamMidwest's "Peer review for archivists (or, WTF is going on with this SAA pre-print)"

which is 🔥 and also v. constructive.

http://eiratansey.com/2019/08/01/peer-review-for-archivists-or-wtf-is-going-on-with-this-saa-pre-print/

I love the "this article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]" part

Like, what *does* "peer" "review" even mean, man?