Because I'm fueled by spite, I'm now tempted to write a better paper on the topic.

I have looked at the paper(s) this refers to and the authors clearly have a pretty surface-level understanding of hermeneutics. They talk about "Heideggerian textual analysis", which makes no sense.

The explanation is of course nonsense. "The hermeneutic circle" as described in the text is not Heidegger's concept, or how Heidegger understood it.

@juergen_hubert Then she might like it, if she would be into rainy cyberpunk dystopias.

@juergen_hubert Not sure how old your niece is, but the Blade Runner starter set is great.

@bookandswordblog I keep wondering: who are the people or universities building their careers or infrastructures on Google Scholar? I would've guessed US scholars/universities, but the author seems Australian.

Otherwise the content doesn't track at all: we use actual publication databases and […]

@drbjork Signal. You're right to be wary of libertarian oligarks who roll their own crypto and host Russian disinfo-networks.

@tmalsburg I almost said that even simple language manipulation skills lead many humans to attribute cognition to a system, but we've actually known that for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

I think this will also be the last time I work with Routledge. I've had nothing but negative experiences working with them. I still don't have a copy of the chapter in the previous book we published with them.

@electricarchaeo Discord is at the point in the enshittification cycle where they make everything worse to make more money so it's been a steady decline. Soon, it will be unusable for its purported purpose of gaming.