Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 45

Am I doing it right?

Fediverse folk!
Don't forget to boost interesting stuff.
The system relies solely on organic discovery.
We on small instances depend on boosts quite a lot!

Does anyone have a suggestion of an instance with a comparably lovely melange of English and French?

Quelq'un a un recommandation d'une instance qu'a un mélange similaire d'anglais et français ?

Idéalement un niveau de 🏴 & 🏳️🌈 assez haut aussi :anarchy: :blobcat:

Streaming channel idea:
thesis/article writing scholars livebroadcasting their efforts, commenting on writing obstacles and obscure sources that change hither and dither from one reading to the next

I've been hearing a lot of prominent people speak about surveillance and privacy, but when I hear Richard Stallman talk about it, it really struck a chord with me.

"We need a law. Fuck them — there’s no reason we should let them exist if the price is knowing everything about us. Let them disappear. They’re not important — our human rights are important. No company is so important that its existence justifies setting up a police state. And a police state is what we’re heading toward."

@charlyblack @bgcarlisle the one i've used is this http://gutenberg-tar.com/ plus this https://github.com/hugovk/gutenberg-metadata/blob/master/README.md to know what the files are

21st century
Alien

22nd century
Star Trek: ENT

23rd century
Star Trek
Babylon 5
The Expanse

24th century
Star Trek: TNG, DS9
Altered Carbon
THX-1138

25th century
Buck Rogers

231st century
Dune

245th century
Foundation

8,027th century
Time Machine

#ImaginingFutures

Anyone know if there's like a torrent or something for the entire Project Gutenberg corpus?

Boosts appreciated

How to remove the Researchgate branding from a PDF you got from there because it's really obnoxious!

(Using only pdftk in the terminal)

$ pdftk researchgate.pdf cat 2-end output clean.pdf
$ rm researchgate.pdf

(Actually it just takes out the 1st page of any pdf)

Me: *Is very gay*

Me: *Plays "I Will Survive" as part of workout playlist*

Me: *Actually listens to the lyrics for once*

Me: *Calls the police* MY FRIEND GLORIA NEEDS HELP THERE'S A MAN IN HER HOUSE I HOPE I'M NOT TOO LATE

When would I ever need to send you an email where I need to KNOW it is deleted by the recipient after a certain amount of time, but I also trust that recipient enough not to just screencap it or something?

Someone once posted an infographic of what all the directories at the root of a Unix/Linux operating system are for, and it was beautiful and instructive, but I did not save it and now it is gone forever

@cwebber It's a dotcom-eat-dotcom world out there

Re-#introductions for all our new friends!

I'm a doctoral candidate studying the emergent ethical properties of portfolios of drug development in the dept of Experimental Medicine at #McGill in Montreal

I also write R (and R markdown), evangelise Zotero, and love other FOSS research tools

I post about #Lojban, #StarTrek, #lgbtq (me: he/him, cis gay man) issues and I'm the admin for https://scholar.social (@socrates is also me)

Looking forward to getting to know all of you! :blobpats:

Little sister: The milk didn't go bad. It just went old and then nobody trusted it.

Me: I know that feeling.

Hypothesis: Anything a philanthropist can give the world as a gift, the world should have had by rights

So umm ... did these physicists happen to mention how to make one of these at home?

I have regrets

Things that you can mong:

* Wars
* Fish
* Kills

Am I missing anything?