Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au), page 11

Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jul-2018 02:36:01 EDT Matthew Davidson

Five rostered shifts this week. Thank you, school holidays. #work

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 03:10:03 EDT Matthew Davidson
- Ruben
@tregeagle We had the Breville model on the right when I were a lad. These days I use the George Foreman, which has the advantage of accommodating flatbread rolls, or half-moons of folded cheese and onion (& baby spinach if feeling virtuous). However it can't produce that sealed pocket of scalding cheese, so it lacks the danger element so essential in 80s cooking. https://tregeagle.com/posts/toasted-sandwich/
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  Toasted Sandwich
  
  from tregeagle v9
  
  Feeling hungry at the end of a long day my colleague and I found ourselves remembering Breville sandwich toasters with mouthwateringly fond memories. Toast is banned at work due to the smoke alarms th
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 00:37:30 EDT Matthew Davidson
- Ruben
@tregeagle Not in a regular sized bathtub if you happen to be over six feet tall. Even in most showers I have to crouch to get my head wet. This is heightism! No wonder I feel so dreadful; I'm suffering ablution oppression! http://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/13887

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 13-Jul-2018 04:15:31 EDT Matthew Davidson

"Why #Sci-Hub is illegal, and what you can do about it": https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/why-sci-hub-is-illegal-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
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1. Why Sci-Hub is illegal, and what you can do about it
  
  By ringo-ring from engineuring
  
  Sci-Hub is oftenly presented as an illegal way to get access to paywalled research papers, and hence, in some way inferior to the other options, like:
  
  – send an email to the authors of the manuscript and ask them to send you a copy;
  – search Google Scholar, perhaps the paper is available somewhere;
  etc.
  
  Indeed, Sci-Hub emerged in 2011 to surpass these ‘legal’ methods. Researchers were doing these for years and decades, even before email was invented: asking authors and other researchers to send them a copy of the paper.
  
  But that is very time-consuming and slow method to read research articles. And it does not always work, especially for old papers, when authors can be retired already.
  
  And Google Scholar can search only those papers that are available online, which was, especially in 2011, a very small percentage of the papers published behind paywall.
  
  Sci-Hub emerged as a solution for immediate access to any paper behind paywall and simply because it was better than other methods listed here, it became very popular.
  
  Why Sci-Hub is considered to be illegal?
  
  Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles.
  
  Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place. Pirate Parties emerged as a response against it:
  
  The first Pirate Party to be established was the Pirate Party of Sweden, whose website was launched on 1 January 2006 by Rick Falkvinge. Falkvinge was inspired to found the party after he found that Swedish politicians were generally unresponsive to Sweden’s debate over changes to copyright law in 2005.
  
  When Sci-Hub became known, I thought that it will provide a good case against copyright law. When the law prevents science to develop, that law must be repealed.
  
  Nothing of that happened. Instead, Sci-Hub was quickly banished as an ‘illegal’ solution and projects like Unpaywall emerged and started promoting themselves as a ‘legal’ alternatives to Sci-Hub.
  
  These projects are not in fact an alternative: Sci-Hub started providing access to paywalled papers that could not be found anywhere on the Internet, because distributing them is illegal, while solutions like Unpaywall provide access to papers that are already available on the Internet, which is a huge difference.
  
  Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science.
  
  To help Sci-Hub get legal, you can support these fight, for example by joining the local Pirate Party.
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jul-2018 04:14:47 EDT Matthew Davidson

No matter how bald I get, I always feel like I have a lock of hair dangling in front of my eyes. It's my eyebrows.

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jul-2018 02:02:44 EDT Matthew Davidson

Took Kitty to the vet because she's been getting very picky with her food, and I'm sharing my hypochondria. They have a new blood test that's fine-tuned to kidney function. Result was "not even a glimmer of kidney problems on the horizon". Best news I've had all decade. Worth the two hundred bucks to relax the hyper-vigilance for a while. #cats

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jul-2018 06:04:58 EDT Matthew Davidson

I am going to find out who controls the thermostat at #work and buy them a jumper. Sweating all afternoon and not stopping often enough for a drink. Now have a dehydration headache and acute grumpiness.

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 04:47:19 EDT Matthew Davidson

Academia.edu, 2018, 'How to use Open Access as a Trojan horse for platform capitalism' http://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/13671

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 04:24:10 EDT Matthew Davidson

My most guilty pleasure is anything that's compared to #Watergate. Illegally extend and expand an already horrifying cascade of crimes against humanity, and nobody raises a peep. Play the quadrennial election charade in anything less than a sportsmanlike manner, and that's when the dramatic stakes are raised. http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/13670
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1. Is Michael Cohen ready for the John Dean role: A hero who saves America from Donald Trump?
  
  from Salon
  
  A trusted lawyer turned on a corrupt president 45 years ago — and changed history. Are we witnessing a repeat?
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 03:47:23 EDT Matthew Davidson

So last week I was reading about soon to be published novels and comics featuring Jodie Whittaker's Doctor and thought that obviously this requires sharing footage with many people, which in turn means some will be leaked. Days later, the #BBC throws a legal tanty about leaks. That's the inevitable price to be paid for getting in early on the merch; don't pretend to be shocked Aunty! If a single person is actually prosecuted, that would be seriously uncool, man. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/07/03/doctor-who-leak-bbc-requests-subpoena-ca-court/ #DrWho
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1. Another 'Doctor Who' Leak; BBC Requests Subpoena from CA Court
  
  By Mary Anne Butler from Bleeding Cool News And Rumors
  
  Another ‘Doctor Who’ Leak; BBC Requests Subpoena from CA Court
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 20:12:21 EDT Matthew Davidson

#OMGA! Scott Pruitt has resigned! I wonder if the EPA gets to keep his cone of silence. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-pruitt-resigns-trump-epa-20180705-story.html https://hooktube.com/watch?v=HWtPPWi6OMQ
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1. Scott Pruitt resigns as President Trump's EPA administrator - NY Daily News
  
  from nydailynews.com
  
  Embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday, putting a meek end to a short federal career darkened by a smog-like cloud of controversies.
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 07:59:48 EDT Matthew Davidson

Met a bariatric surgeon the other night. His evangelical zeal for the procedure(s) rang some bells. This is digestive lobotomy, isn't it?. The symptoms are the problem. We can turn fat people who want to die into thin people with malfunctioning digestive systems who want to die! Aesthetics win! https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2448916
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1. Self-harm Emergencies After Bariatric Surgery
  
  This population-based, longitudinal cohort study of patients undergoing bariatric surgery reported an increased risk of self-harm emergencies after bariatric surgery.
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 06:16:33 EDT Matthew Davidson
- kat
- kat
@kat That would be some consolation. If everybody in the world is mystified by "She will shower you with Blu-ray full series box sets for new improvement at deli counter," but one "sleeper" agent nods grimly and applies poison to the tip of an umbrella intended for a minor bureaucrat with a conscience who knows too much, I'd be quite okay about it. At least _some_ information is carried on the data.

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 02:38:57 EDT Matthew Davidson
- kat
- kat
@kat Ha! Of course I meant "looking after" quite loosely. I "look after" websites through invite-only write access, which is not what I'd want in an ideal world. Oh, for a workable spambot solution that didn't invite platform capitalism to sink its hooks into your audience: https://xkcd.com/1897/

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 02:08:20 EDT Matthew Davidson

Say what you like about #Wikipedia, on subjects of little, or at least debatable, consequence it is an unrivaled joy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 01:56:16 EDT Matthew Davidson

It's odd that Kentucky Fried Chicken has an app. Fried chicken and touch screens do not go well together. But nothing a sachet of wet, lemon-scented tissue can't fix, I suppose.

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 01:45:39 EDT Matthew Davidson

Highlight of the year, #Sawtell Chilli Festival tomorrow. I have #work 6am-9-ish, so intend to spend the rest of the day groaning, snacking, and drinking. Nice to see our chum @panda is still looking after the website from sunny Estonia: https://www.sawtellchillifestival.com.au

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jul-2018 04:57:52 EDT Matthew Davidson

#LOL https://hooktube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog #NotAFascist

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 02-Jul-2018 02:08:18 EDT Matthew Davidson

How lovely. https://hooktube.com/watch?v=8CY0qfOxVDQ #DrWho #TomBaker

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Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 03:34:09 EDT Matthew Davidson
- Ruben
@tregeagle Training is cheating. There should be complete honesty in sport. Turn up as you are, and see how you go.

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