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I support this post very much.

In my space news updates I try to spell out every acronym beforehand and link to a source. Man, there are a lot in that, er, space.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 3:33 PM on March 31, 2024

What a good question.

Here are my leaders:
space (28) wwi (28) NASA (27) Mars (23) SpaceX (21) ESA (20) moon (19) Earth (17) ISS (17) AI (15)

Which surprised me a bit, since I spend most of my time in academia and futures.... spaces.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 6:00 PM on March 23, 2024

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posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 5:53 PM on March 23, 2024

My most recent book, Universities on Fire, explores the future of higher education in the climate crisis. It came out in 2023.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 5:05 PM on February 11, 2024

In my posts I try to put up a link (and a previously, where it exists) about an author, if the post focuses on one mail URL.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 10:33 AM on January 26, 2024

A lost Edward Gorey manuscript.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:33 PM on July 9, 2023

Thank you for doing this. I'll CamelCase my posts from here on.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:08 PM on July 2, 2023

Some of my posts, the updates on space exploration, are link frenzies.

I try to structure each one to make the items more accessible. Top level, that's by location in space (on the moon, around Jupiter, etc.). Within each header I sometimes divide stuff by other logics, like private vs public efforts.

I don't have a good sense of how these posts go over. They don't elicit much commentary, although what appears is positive and contains good… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 8:13 AM on March 28, 2023

Thank you, sagc.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 6:40 AM on March 29, 2023

Dysk, I make those posts about once every month and a half.
Would a better plan for you be a series of smaller posts, then? One on a Russian orbital thing, then another on a Japanese asteroid mission, then later on one about a rocket startup, etc?
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 6:41 AM on March 29, 2023

Dysk, that's useful. Thank you.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 8:24 AM on March 29, 2023

Aha! I was wondering.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:29 PM on June 23, 2022

Thank you for your work, LobsterMitten.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 8:50 AM on June 12, 2022

Thank you for creating and offering this survey.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 7:18 PM on May 24, 2022

Thank you for all of the good, hard work you've done, Cortex.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 3:34 PM on March 30, 2022

Very good description from Serene Empress Dork.

One more reason for its popularity: a relatively easy video editor, with a huge stack of music to add.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 6:30 PM on March 3, 2022

I've read some FanFare threads, but rarely commented. I've never posted, nor has it occurred to me to do so. Maybe it's because of being very cautious about posting in MetaFilter, or because of the culture on the blue of snark/jumping on topics.

Elsewhere, I post book reviews regularly to Goodreads and some to my blog. I just learned about Letterboxd and am thinking of writing movie reviews there. Maybe I should hit up FanFare.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 5:39 AM on February 3, 2022

That sounds very pleasant, sardonyx.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 11:51 AM on February 3, 2022

Thank you for this thoughtful post, WCityMike2.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 5:23 PM on January 1, 2022

Thank you for this post, bondcliff.

It can indeed be daunting to post here. The likelihood of negative comments piling on is a strong disincentive. So is the chance of no comments or other reactions. Every week, it seems, I start to write up a post, then kill it. Either MeFites would piss all over it or just ignore the thing.

So I've learned to open the MeFi post box rarely, and to do so by donning mental armor, expecting to be shot at.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 10:54 AM on December 28, 2021

Very cool. Happy to contribute.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 6:37 AM on December 16, 2021

Looking forward to my new book appearing.
Now it's in the hands of the publisher, so there are edits etc to come. Unfortunately supply chains plus Amazon mean it won't appear until 2023.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 1:09 PM on October 18, 2021

will forever be more visible

The reverse is also true. So much has been deleted. In historiographical terms, a lot of primary sources are gone: the original story on Clarkesworld; the comment thread there; some of the comments on the MeFi thread; plenty of tweets; the Archive.org copy; potentially more.

Now we rely on secondary sources to learn about the event, if we know of them, if they did a good job of reproducing the originals.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 8:01 AM on July 4, 2021

Bravo!
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 11:26 AM on July 2, 2021

This is a good step, Going To Maine.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 5:57 PM on April 29, 2021

A recent post illustrated this problem.

It was a single link to a Bloomberg site or minisite. Some readers complained that the page required a login. There was no other option in the post, nor did one appear for a while. (Kudos to Nelson for that.)
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 11:44 AM on May 1, 2021

Speaking personally, without addressing the macro or ethical issues:

This problem has irked me for a while. I hate running into paywalls when the post and comments don't warn me - and I'm in a position of relative privilege, being able to pay for some subscriptions while relying on a major university's library for some others.

When I hit a wall thanks to a MeFi post I try various ways of getting around it, most of which have been detailed in this… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 9:13 AM on April 14, 2021

Seeing "Grauniad" reminds me of a joke about the Guardian in The Young Ones, and that makes me happy for a moment.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:03 PM on April 10, 2021

For me? War and Peace, because a middle school teacher said I couldn't do it.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:07 PM on April 3, 2021

But my son, ah. School lit readings have driven him away from lit. He reports that they are uniformly dismal and he dreads each one.

My own passion for lit hasn't really crossed over for him. I suspect he thinks I'm a good person to talk with, but that my love for serious fiction is an eccentricity.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:08 PM on April 3, 2021

Another non-iPhone user here, like most of the human race.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:33 PM on April 1, 2021

There's also Sheldon Allman's Folk Songs for the 21st Century, with songs like "Radioactive Mama" and "Crawl Out Through the Fallout."

Radioactive mama, hold me tight
Radioactive mama, treat me right
Radioactive mama, we'll reach critical mass tonight

Well, when we get together, clear away the crowd
There won't nothing left except a mushroom shaped… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 2:45 PM on March 26, 2021

Crawl out through the fallout, baby
When they drop that bomb
Crawl out through the fallout
With the greatest of aplomb
When your white count's getting higher
Hurry, don't delay
I'll hold you close and kiss those
Radiation burns away
Crawl out through the fallout, baby
To my loving arms
Through the rain of Strontium 90
Think about your hero
When you're at… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 2:46 PM on March 26, 2021

how many mefites have access to clubhouse

Isn't it iPhone-only?
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 9:43 AM on February 28, 2021

Then that offers a hard limit to MeFi participation, given that not everyone sports an iPhone.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 1:52 PM on February 28, 2021

We go for walks. My wife and son are especially fond of long strolls and try to do this daily. Me, eh, maybe 3x/week.

We live on the edge of a small city so most of the time we don't run into people. Which is good, because I'm terrified of them.

I can't stress this enough. Pre-COVID I was an extreme extrovert. I loved meeting people. For my work I got to visit universities, address crowds, and consult with groups, which always boosted me.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 11:38 AM on February 21, 2021

My wife's a contact tracer, which means she got both shots last month.

I'm not an essential worker, but have one comorbidity (asthma) and am a university person, so... got one vaccination scheduled, then canceled, and another appointment tomorrow. Here's hoping.

My father's about 90 and riddled with comorbidities. He's in a rehab facility and has no idea when he'll get one.

My kids are young, nonessential (in this scheme), lacking comorbidities, and so have no idea.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 4:26 PM on February 13, 2021

Update here: just got my first shot (AstraZeneca) this afternoon.

It was a public-private partnership between our county and one medical clinic. Hundreds of people were in line during the hour I was there.

I shared this on Facebook and Twitter, and was deluged with stories from across the US of folks not getting appointments. California, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, Texas, etc.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 4:09 PM on February 14, 2021

Thank you for writing this, adrianhon.

Doing a FPP here... it can be daunting.
On the one hand, I feel some confidence posting about topics I know well, especially professional ones.

On the other, when I find something nifty or intriguing that I'd like to share, and I'm not a diehard about it? I'm quite skittish. Either the post might sink without much notice, or the snark comes out in force.

Posting (FPP,… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 11:07 AM on January 18, 2021

Doing a FPP here... it can be daunting.

No, no it really isn't, just post.... Do highly recommend stepping away for a few hours and let it go it's way.

Perhaps I'm misreading, but nothing in your comment makes me rethink my feelings, experience, or reflection. This thread is full of people sharing their similar experiences about feeling attacked, dismissed, disdained, or otherwise just plain bad after making an FPP. Is your… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:03 PM on January 19, 2021

Reading further into this thread, I tabbed to one of today's posts. It's about a new development in launching craft into space.

First comment:
I will probably get shot down in flames here but I find Richard Branson's wankfest like that of Elon Musk and the others to be completely unpalatable at a time when so many are struggling to survive. Space tourism isn't really what humanity needs right now. YVMD

Is that a… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 12:05 PM on January 19, 2021

I have no problem with sammyo's post.

Good to know. But your comment - especially being the first one out of the gate - shouts PROBLEM! PROBLEM! right at the thread's start.

At least that's how I read it. Knowing your context here, it's less so to me.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 2:47 PM on January 19, 2021

Thank you. This morning we decided not to go into town. Good move, it turns out.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 3:27 PM on January 6, 2021

Wordshore, I'm interested in what you find. My current book project is about the impact of climate change on higher education.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 8:40 AM on December 6, 2020

I use YouTube for most of my music needs, so the channels I follow are often about music.

Two very cool ambient/doom/drone/space/sleep ones:
Cryo Chamber
Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 9:49 AM on December 4, 2020

Trick or treating is banned here for COVID-19, so we did some basic decorating and tried to stay inside.

Well, ok, my wife and I did stroll for an hour, me wearing the plague mask.

Then back in for movie watching.

And me reading a favorite scary story.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 6:39 PM on October 31, 2020

It's great to see what other folks have published.

My latest book is Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. This looks at the next generation of colleges and universities.

Before that, I did a second edition of my first book, The New Digital Storytelling. It's about, well, digital storytelling.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 3:26 PM on October 24, 2020

It's been very nice to see these, brainwane.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 1:02 PM on October 6, 2020

Right now I have bookshelves. That's because I'm an academic and also because I'm a bibliophile.

We're still settling in from a major move, so are building/getting more bookshelves to support the thousands of tomes now uneasily resting in boxes. So hopefully I can cram more into the video frame.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 9:40 AM on August 30, 2020

I read the US politics threads here, as far as I have time. Like freethefeet says, they offer a good perspective.

I usually don't comment or post because it doesn't seem useful. The American scene is incredibly contentious, as others have said. I'm not sure what I can contribute to MeFi on this topic.
posted to MetaTalk by doctornemo at 10:53 AM on August 19, 2020