2021 07 01 tweets
Proud to be leading this hard-left censorship project since 2013.
Replying to @jmittell
Just goes to show.
Replying to @EthanWatrall
Please tell me that’s a cable lock attached to the back.
Replying to @EthanWatrall
I mean, data security is a thing.
RT @tressiemcphd: After age 20 or so, your everyday praxis of living should have more “ands” and only the occasional “but”. Rarely is somet…
RT @tressiemcphd: maybe age is a blunt instrument here. Choose whichever you like. For me, I cannot fathom being an official adult and sti…
RT @roopikarisam: Friends attending #ACH2021: are you willing to moderate a session and help out if there’s a Zoom issue? You can pick some…
Replying to @brandontlocke
I bought a new laptop last spring and used its trackpad for the first time on a trip this May. And was sure it was broken. It’s… way less clicky than I expected.
Replying to @EthanWatrall, @ekansa and @oc_sarah
You know, I saw that picture and thought “wasn’t there an Easter egg? Did anyone ever get it?”
Slackers.
Replying to @CJ_Daugherty
I’ve got my bet on some kind of allium — that bulb should explode into a puffball of purple or white flowers.
Replying to @viroviacum, @samoore_ and @petersuber
Thank you for this, Demmy! What a generous reading — I’m grateful that you shared it!
RT @viroviacum: I rarely miss an opportunity to tell people to listen to @kfitz, @samoore_ and @petersuber. https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/xe1jqufy/release/1
Replying to @EthanWatrall, @Mattermost and @Focalboard
I’m really looking forward to poking at it. I’m getting a websocket connection error right now and haven’t had time to troubleshoot… but soon!
RT @achdotorg: Alert about #ACH21 - We've started admitting speakers to the Humanities Commons group \(https://hcommons\.org/groups/ach\-2021/\) so you may s…
RT @achdotorg: An additional note - other registered attendees for #ACH21 will start being admitted to the Humanities Commons group on July…
Replying to @moncia, @barnlib and @UDLibrary
Huge congratulations, Monica! I’m delighted for you and for Barnard — they’re getting a great new dean!
Replying to @s2ceball and @KairosRTP
I’m so sorry, Cheryl. Sending you all the best. 💙
Are there skills you developed as an adult that you enjoy enough that you wish you’d picked them up when you were younger? https://kfitz.info/in-the-swim/
RT @achdotorg: Only five more days left to register #ACH21! You can register here by 7/15: https://members.ach.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=10
Replying to @katinalynn
HUGE congratulations, Katina — I can’t wait to hear more about where this path leads you!
RT @achdotorg: Next week's Annual General Membership meeting \(taking place on Wed 21 July 1\-2pm Central\) will feature a job slam where you…
We have 365 registered attendees for #ACH2021! Are you one of them? There’s still time — registration closes Thursday, 15 July. https://members.ach.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=10
RT @achdotorg: Registration for the upcoming #ACH2021 conference is still open until July 15!
Click here to register: https://t.co/T1iDpxY…
Replying to @sharonmleon
Oh dang. That’s a lot. I guess the good news is that you now have a house with all-new infrastructure?
This is fab. But what the academy needs is organizing among faculty, staff, administrators, and voters to oust the *boards* that are undermining our institutions’ ability to serve the public good. https://twitter.com/zeanes/status/1415059057409511425
Replying to @sharonmleon
I know it doesn’t help today, but just keep thinking “cost basis… cost basis…”
Replying to @kfitz
The purpose of these boards should be to ensure that the institutions are producing and sharing knowledge for and with the public. Not trying to operate them as if they were corporations. And certainly not interfering with what counts as knowledge.
Replying to @jcmeloni
Oh no — I’m so sorry :( All my best to you and @sheepeeh and Pekoe.
RT @achdotorg: Today is the last day for registration. Register today for the biennial conference of the Association for Computers and the…
RT @achdotorg: #ACH2021 begins Wednesday at 11am Central with our keynote panel! If you haven’t been able to register, you can still watch…
Replying to @dianne_s_harris, @ProfessorEA, @MellonFdn and @UWArtSci
Dianne!!! Enormous news! Huge congratulations, and I look forward to following your next steps!
The Handbook* also says “don’t be a dick.”
*8th edition.
Cc @sharonmleon @stakats https://twitter.com/halavais/status/1416683444411588608
Replying to @sharonmleon and @stakats
It’s not every piece of scholarly infrastructure that receives such tribute!
Replying to @miriamkp
I used to get Liza Minnelli. When I was 12. Telling a 12yo that she looks like a 35yo recently out of rehab has effects.
Replying to @scott_bot
I am so sorry. Thinking about you.
Replying to @biblioracle and @annehelen
This was a massive hospitality issue in NOLA post-Katrina. The problem wasn’t that there weren’t people who wanted work. It was that there was no housing available at a rate those working people could afford to pay.
Replying to @ncecire and @miriamkp
Alas, the Liza Minnelli thing wasn’t entirely wrong in a superficial sense. But ethically? Even spiritually? I dare say super wrong.
Replying to @ncecire and @miriamkp
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RT @s2ceball: I REALLY wish administrators would finally kick these numbers to the curb, along with the biases of SAT/GRE scores. Let’s als…
Ahem. @michiganstateu https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1417163591774613506
RT @EthanWatrall: if this can be pulled off in Indiana….INDIANA….we sure as hell can do it here. https://twitter.com/aquandiary/status/1417198112330985478
Replying to @tressiemcphd
I think the exact words were “oh my fucking god, are you kidding me,” and there wasn’t a slow build to get there. Who even are people.
RT @ADHOrg: #ACH2021 begins this Wednesday! The keynote featuring Dr. Maria Eugenia Cotera & Dr. Andrea Roberts will be live streamed:
Spe…
Replying to @miriamkp and @ncecire
That was somehow enough. :)
RT @roopikarisam: Looking for your Zoom links for sessions at #ACH2021? Links will be available on the schedule in Humanities Commons no la…
RT @achdotorg: #ACH2021 begins tomorrow! The keynote featuring Dr. Maria Eugenia Cotera & Dr. Andrea Roberts will be live streamed:
Speaker…
Attending #ACH2021? Make sure you join the Humanities Commons group today. Zoom links for each live event will be posted there at least half an hour before they begin. http://hcommons.org/groups/ach-2021
Replying to @kfitz
\(Note that your friendly HC host will respond to join requests as soon as she gets back from dinner\.\)
Getting geared up for the launch of #ACH2021 this morning! If you're attending, be sure you've joined the ACH 2021 group on Humanities Commons in order to get Zoom links and participate in discussions! https://hcommons.org/groups/ach-2021
Am I ready for #ACH2021? SO ready. 😎
WOO technology is fun :) #ACH2021
Hey Zoom, here’s a free idea: “office hours mode.” Allow the office hours holder to create a video-off slide saying something like “Be right back!” Because sometime you have to step away, but don’t want to leave video of an empty office.
Replying to @MeganLFaragher
I’ve used a screen-shared Google slide to do that, which is clunky but works. I’m currently in a meeting on my laptop and office hours on my iPad, and would love something I could just switch on quickly…
Replying to @kfitz
Ooh, another idea: a custom waiting room message. Rather than just "wait here until the host lets you in," let me tell waiting folks something more specific.
Replying to @kfitz
That I am having ideas about improving Zoom suggests that I might need to go take a walk outside for a bit.
Replying to @FrueheNeuzeit
ahahahahaha 😭
Replying to @eetempleton
I am so sorry for this enormous loss, Erin; I’ll be thinking about you and all your colleagues and students.
Replying to @shermandorn and @bdotshiny
I like it.
Replying to @quinnanya and @elotroalex
Larger point notwithstanding, Zotero hasn't been on such a hamster wheel! It's got a highly viable business model, enabling its parent org to make donations in support of other open source projects.
Replying to @quinnanya and @elotroalex
Larger point notwithstanding, Zotero hasn't been on such a hamster wheel! It's got a highly viable business model, enabling its parent org to make donations in support of other open source projects.
Once more with the hashtag: #ACH2021
RT @nhannahjones: It’s easy to criticize, hard to create.
Replying to @swarthmoreburke, @brettbobley, @quinnanya and @elotroalex
From my perspective, the issue is less profit than it is producing enough revenue/goodwill/community investment to keep the thing running. Without that kind of sustainability contributions to the general good can wind up doing inadvertent harm.
Replying to @swarthmoreburke, @brettbobley, @quinnanya and @elotroalex
Fair enough.
Replying to @sharonmleon
You are not kidding.
Replying to @sharonmleon
Backatcha.
I’m in the early pages of Jenn Shapland’s gorgeous My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, which brings the methods and subjects of literary criticism and biography and memoir together in lyrical and deeply personal ways. At one point, Shapland comments ... https://kfitz.info/23-july-2021-0951/
Replying to @darth
Every cat also knows that they deserve a crown.
RT @PaulaKrebs: Next week: The Teaching Remotely Core Deposit Party in Humanities Commons. Share all your tips, tricks, reflections, syllab…
Replying to @kfitz
I’ve gotten to hear so many amazing presentations, to meet so many fantastic scholars and practitioners, and to learn so much that will help us shape the future of @achdotorg. #ACH2021 +
We're winding up an amazing week at #ACH2021. I've had two days of meetings with our amazing executive council, and then three days of running tech with my co-conspirators, @lgmerchant and @SantiThompson. +
Replying to @kfitz
Now, I plan to retreat to my bed with a glass of wine and a book. And I may stay there for a little while. But I’ll look forward to our next conversations, and to everything that’s ahead for @achdotorg. #ACH2021 /fin
Replying to @kfitz
Last but far from least, I’m grateful to the more then 250 of you whose volunteer work — planning, reviewing, moderating, and more — made this event possible. A conference like this is always the work of many hands, and we’ve all benefited from your amazing work. #ACH2021 +
Replying to @kfitz
I’m enormously grateful to all 408 of you who registered and joined us on Zoom, and to the many many of you who have participated in the discussions in @humcommons over the last three days. \(Those conversations will continue\!\) #ACH2021 +
Replying to @jojokarlin, @achdotorg, @roopikarisam, @gbaezaventura, @SantiThompson and @jenguiliano
Thank you for this, Jojo!
I’m reading Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers and it is giving me THOUGHTS. https://kfitz.info/23-july-2021-0951/
How did a funnel become the graphical representation of “filter”? I mean, everything passes through a funnel, just with higher pressure.
RT @autoblography: I retweeted this once without comment. Then I remembered some of the wonderful technical pedants who follow me. I’d like…
Replying to @kfitz
I mean, I get the metaphoric sense of “narrowing the stream,” but it’s still the whole damn stream.
Replying to @S_Insley_H
Yes! One of those stainless steel ones with the feet.
Replying to @CameronNeylon
Not so much! In the lab, it makes sense, but as a general purpose icon, a good bit less so :)
Replying to @windloochie
WOW.
Replying to @windloochie
Yeah, and this is the issue with the funnel as the icon for “filter.” Chem lab folks may envision a filter funnel straining out impurities. All I see is gavage: a means of ensuring that the firehose makes it down your throat after all.
Replying to @james3neal and @NewsHour
Oooooooh thank you!!!
Replying to @hels
One of my faves: https://damndelicious.net/2018/03/10/instant-pot-butter-chicken/
Replying to @hels
Also: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015845-pressure-cooker-porcini-risotto
THIS. I am not going to say the word that we’re all going to have to deal with next week, but here it is on the horizon, and I’ve made appallingly little progress on the main thing I wanted to do this summer. https://twitter.com/GeorgeOnline/status/1419674187191496707
RT @MLAnews: Join us this week on MLA Commons for the #TeachingRemotelyDepositParty. Each day during this weeklong event, we'll feature a d…
RT @ekansa: I wrote a letter in support of a kind and genuinely caring colleague. I'm grateful to @kfitz for her book on "Generous Thinking…
RT @Conversations89: Resource 1: @kfitz’s outstanding @humcommons project, GENEROUS THINKING: THE UNIVERSITY & THE PUBLIC GOOD, challenging…
Replying to @sharonmleon
I tucked mine in an old conference badge holder and keep it with my passport.
Replying to @sharonmleon
I also scanned mine and keep it on my phone. If we need the actual physical object on a regular basis, I may need to think different about how I carry myself and my stuff!
RT @kwazana: I hope everyone reads this. The future of the profession just cannot look like its past.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/why-lorgia-garcia-pena-was-denied-tenure-at-harvard?utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny
A great opportunity to help shape the future of a key open-access journal in DH! https://twitter.com/achdotorg/status/1420411375499812872
Replying to @ncecire
On top of which, the article says that the process asks for TWELVE external letters. TWELVE. Is ridiculous.
RT @DHQuarterly: DHQ is excited to be recruiting a general editor to join the team--the first step in a longer update to the journal's edit…
Replying to @swarthmoreburke and @ncecire
100% agreed. It’s unconscionable.
Replying to @EthanWatrall and @digitalocean
I am intrigued. I’d very much like to move out of GA and into something more ethical, whether Umami or Matomo…
Replying to @LibSkrat
LA LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU
Wrong kfitz, I suspect :)