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by jboynyc 9y ago
This is a very good piece that makes a kind of labor visible that often goes unseen. The article quotes a few sociologists; the concept of "emotional labor" comes from another that isn't cited in the piece, Arlie Russel Hochs
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There are plugins to do this in Vim, Atom and I'm sure other editors as well. See one academic's description of how to tie it all together here: http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html
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by jboynyc 9y ago
This is somehwat geared toward my specific preferences as a social scientist, but my cookiecutter template contains pretty much everything you need for academic writing using pandoc: https://bitbucket.org/jboy1/cookiecu
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Sleep-Worker’s Enquiry(endnotes.org.uk)
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The First White President(theatlantic.com)
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The actual presentation starts at the 3:50 mark.
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Matrix adds support for video with Jitsi(jitsi.org)
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Bell did not invent telephone, U.S. rules(theguardian.com)
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Will Amazon Take Over the World?(bostonreview.net)
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The paper this is based on is open access: https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2017.6
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The rise of passive investors(theconversation.com)
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I'm an academic. My frequent collaborator has a rule that I find very wise. Following this rule, we celebrate when we submit an article for peer review or send in a grant proposal, not (only) upon receiving positive news (article accep
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by jboynyc 9y ago
Here's a similar project that provides a lot of different formats: http://thecontext.net/
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For a quick, U.S.-centric overview of current political news headlines, Memeorandum is pretty good: http://www.memeorandum.com/
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The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy(oii.ox.ac.uk)
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Depending on how you classify him (as an economist or a sociologist), Thomas Schelling's work on residential segregation has likely informed policy over the last decades. Recently a nice animation of his dynamic models of segregation p
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If it's repeated in coming years, you should go to this summer school: https://www.russellsage.org/summer-institute-computational-s...
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Scaling down(doi.org)
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You mean this project might be summoning daemons that will claim, "Our name is Legion"? http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=363093142
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Collecting huge amounts of data with WhatsApp(lorankloeze.nl)
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Manifold is an intuitive, collaborative platform for scholarly publishing(manifold.umn.edu)
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How to Kill Someone in NYC and Get Away with It(villagevoice.com)
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Interesting stuff. Fire your headline writer, though, because I think your conclusion is potentially more hopeful than the headline suggests. I'm thinking of the bullet point about a "paid Mastodon instance." I think people (
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Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?(motherboard.vice.com)
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Until about a month ago, new account creation was still through telnet, but in this "mobile first" age, that didn't make much sense anymore.
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That's a benefit of static typing that I haven't seen discussed before. Certainly got me interesting in looking more closely at Nim.
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No, Aristotle Did Not ‘Create’ the Computer(samirchopra.com)
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The Internet's Gilded Age(potaroo.net)
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The Digital Standard(thedigitalstandard.org)
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Note that this op-ed is from last year and the report it discusses came out almost a full year ago, in April 2016. The link to the 190-page report on the NYT site is broken; it can be found here: https://chicagopatf.org/wp-c

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