Sebastian Karcher

@adam42smith.bsky.social

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Director, Qualitative Data Repository (personal account).
Data, Zotero, Social Science Methods
https://sebastiankarcher.com

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 4h

forums.zotero.org/discussion/1...

Android: issues with citation generatio

I have several issues with the citation/bibliography functions in Android 1.0.0-204 1. When I click the copy citation button, the app crashes reliably.

forums.zotero.org

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah they don't work well for me either (one is for the citation/note, the other for the bibliography, citation crashes, bib doesn't work right.)
I'll ask, but FWIW this works in the mobile web library

Reposted by Lindsay M. Tedds, Sebastian Karcher, Lisa Diedrich

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Reposted by Safiya U. Noble, Naomi Klein, Jan W. Mueller , and 22 more Safiya U. Noble, Naomi Klein, Jan W. Mueller, Joshua S. Weitz, David H. Kaye, Rosemary A. Joyce, American Library Association, Juan Cole, Michael Kevane, Robert C. Richards, Melanie C. Green, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Michael W. Kraus, Aaron Sojourner, Sebastiaan Faber, Bessma Momani, Sebastian Karcher, Brian Keegan, Sarah Roberts, Lisa Diedrich, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Sylvia Perry, James M. Thomas, David Darmofal

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

"I want to shoot person XY" is a terrible phrase, pretty much context independent (and one not written/sung by Cash), and a mod policy that makes people think 5 times about typing it is fine.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

I mean -- she paraphrased the lyrics, not quote them, I don't think that's debatable. She did that in a repost that contextualized the paraphrase, sure.
Would I be offended if she didn't get suspended for this? No. Am I offended that she did? Also no.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

I was aware of the context (Bsky did correct the date part in that thread).
I stand by my view that it's better to not get (or refuse to get) jokes about killing someone than to make them.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

She loosely paraphrased, she didn't quote. And Oswalt referenced a famous movie scene -- you see how slippery this particular slope is. Mods erring on the side of not getting the 'joke' on death threats is fine.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

You can always Zotero of course -- snapshot isn't public, but you can still document

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

FWIW, NYT has for a long time had a "noarchive" in its robots.txt, so they do object to being in the Internet Archive; it's possible they've started to enforce that.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Depends on your definition of "news story". For the polisci/history nerds crowd, the release of a four-part Netflix series on Garfield (the president) is certainly news.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jop...

Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

www.youtube.com

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I'm glad you both made it!

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Neither the DLF's accessibility group (wiki.diglib.org/IT_and_Devel... ) nor the Library Accessibility Alliance (www.libraryaccessibility.org/testing#eres... ) have it in their list, so doesn't look like it.
Surprising, honestly.

IT and Development

wiki.diglib.org

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

A CC license can't be revoked, so regardless of the status of the original, the re-use license remains effective. So if anyone still has the originals they're free to share them (in accordance with the license terms) and others are free to keep using them.

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · 2d

Statistical Intuition without Coding (or Teachers) [and w/o LLMs]
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I think this is a very useful approach when one does not want to teach coding in parallel. Simulating data and quantities of interest are insightful features, though at the expense of not using 1/

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Circe's Catering. Food that transforms you

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Theseus' Marina and Repairs. We can replace *everything*

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

Pandora’s home organizer. Hire us and all your boxes will be emptied.

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Theseus' Marina and Repairs. We can replace *everything*

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

Pandora’s home organizer. Hire us and all your boxes will be emptied.

Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 2d

Sisypheus hauling services. You’ll keep calling us back.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, hard to tell the difference sometimes

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

That's not how medians work...

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

That's a good slogan.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, obvious concerns with marketization and I'm still not 100% sold, but at least here it appears only realistic way to scale up quickly. They put up cameras at every public school in town over the summer, e.g.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3d

I'm at the point where I am favorably inclined towards semi-privatized traffic law enforcement. E.g. they have a contractor put up speed cams in school zones here & share some of the profit. Expand that broadly to all sorts of traffic rules

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher, Annalee Newitz

caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 3d

a “Space Force”, if you will

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a department of kerning

The Department of War's seal hangs on a wall. The kerning appears to be off.

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Mark A. Lemley, Steve Peers , and 25 more Jonathan A. Eisen, Mark A. Lemley, Steve Peers, Alistair Munro, Michael A. Clemens, Rosemary A. Joyce, Joshua Goodman, Shelly Lundberg, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Silvia Secchi, Patrick S. Forscher, Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Amy W. Ando, Anne Norton, Sebastian Karcher, Brian Keegan, William Myers, Jason Lyall, Catherine J. Frieman, David L. Anderson, Simon Lester, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Lorna Hughes, Antonio Fatás, Peter Bergman

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 3d

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Epstein Document Search

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 4d

It's real -- I've met Susanne Friese and she's actively advertised & explained the event on a listserv I'm on. My sense is that this isn't a scam/money-making scheme, but that she's a true believer.
I agree the 'research design' of the event makes it unlikely that it'll yield any insights.

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Patrick S. Forscher @psforscher.bsky.social · 4d

We have some unpublished data where we find that pretty much all the attention checks we tried filter out people with lower incomes

Reposted by Gordon Pennycook, Linda J. Skitka, Sebastian Karcher , and 1 more Gordon Pennycook, Linda J. Skitka, Sebastian Karcher, Matt N Williams

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d

Experimental participants to us

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 4d

There is still time to register for our upcoming hackathon hosted by @rdapassociation.bsky.social ! Join us TOMORROW Nov.13, from 1-2pm Eastern.

Zoom registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

You'd have figured they learned about the importance of getting business names straight right in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, but alas...

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 5d

It's the "Magnificent Mile"; crime in Chicago is down significantly; vacancy rates on the Magnificent Mile are improving from 34% two years ago (obviously this problem is hardly solved, of course)

Other than that, spot on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks

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