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Beware the academic vanity honeypot

14 points by kawera 9y ago

icapybara 9y ago
What is this other than a really wordy, slightly narcissistic "how I got phished" story? My mom falls for these all the time, and she doesn't feel the need to go writing pieces for Wired about it...
- telesilla 9y ago
  To be fair, if a group of all her friends read her article, they might actually take phishing seriously and stop clicking on links that appear in their inboxes, asking for their passwords on fake domains.
- fjsolwmv 9y ago
  Wired is the magazine about tech for people who watch Big Bang Theory. Your mom might enjoy it.
  - jhbadger 9y ago
    These days, it is pretty fluffy. But in the early-mid 1990s Wired really had it going on about the current and future status of technology. William Gibson used to write essays for it.
    - kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
      Except for the pink text on yellow stripes everywhere. Thankfully that future hasn't taken hold.
KKKKkkkk1 9y ago
From the title, you would imagine this is about PhDs spending years and years of their lives being paid minimum wage hoping to jump onto the tenure-track bandwagon. But this is actually about the author's personal experience of a phishing event on Twitter and her opinions of the economist Larry Summers (whom she doesn't like).
- baxtr 9y ago
  Thank you for helping me not to click the link.
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
  From my perspective, PhDs spend years and years working on what inspires them and motivates them, which is normally something they can't do in the industry.
- njarboe 9y ago
  I would suggest, if you want to know Larry Summers "rare insight into women’s gender-borne intellectual shortcomings", to read the Harvard released transcript[1] of the speech in question first and then, if you want to read someone else's commentary on what he said, follow the link she provided. [1] https://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber.php https://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber... P.S. The link to the transcript from Inside Higher Ed article no longer works.
jsnell 9y ago
> I must say, though the transaction all went down in the automated help system, and I didn’t hear even a note of contrition. Not even my bank’s pro forma “I can understand how frustrating that must be for you.” (Lately we all seem to be waiting on a sincere apology from the big tech companies; it may never come.) I'm probably missing something in the story, since this seemed about as self-inflicted a wound as is possible. What exactly does the author want Twitter to apologize for?

14 points by kawera 9y ago

What is this other than a really wordy, slightly narcissistic "how I got phished" story? My mom falls for these all the time, and she doesn't feel the need to go writing pieces for Wired about it...

telesilla 9y ago
To be fair, if a group of all her friends read her article, they might actually take phishing seriously and stop clicking on links that appear in their inboxes, asking for their passwords on fake domains.
fjsolwmv 9y ago
Wired is the magazine about tech for people who watch Big Bang Theory. Your mom might enjoy it.
- jhbadger 9y ago
  These days, it is pretty fluffy. But in the early-mid 1990s Wired really had it going on about the current and future status of technology. William Gibson used to write essays for it.
  - kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
    Except for the pink text on yellow stripes everywhere. Thankfully that future hasn't taken hold.

KKKKkkkk1 9y ago

From the title, you would imagine this is about PhDs spending years and years of their lives being paid minimum wage hoping to jump onto the tenure-track bandwagon. But this is actually about the author's personal experience of a phishing event on Twitter and her opinions of the economist Larry Summers (whom she doesn't like).

baxtr 9y ago
Thank you for helping me not to click the link.
YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
From my perspective, PhDs spend years and years working on what inspires them and motivates them, which is normally something they can't do in the industry.
njarboe 9y ago
I would suggest, if you want to know Larry Summers "rare insight into women’s gender-borne intellectual shortcomings", to read the Harvard released transcript[1] of the speech in question first and then, if you want to read someone else's commentary on what he said, follow the link she provided. [1] https://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber.php https://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber... P.S. The link to the transcript from Inside Higher Ed article no longer works.

jsnell 9y ago

> I must say, though the transaction all went down in the automated help system, and I didn’t hear even a note of contrition. Not even my bank’s pro forma “I can understand how frustrating that must be for you.” (Lately we all seem to be waiting on a sincere apology from the big tech companies; it may never come.) I'm probably missing something in the story, since this seemed about as self-inflicted a wound as is possible. What exactly does the author want Twitter to apologize for?