Directed by Kari Skogland. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Dylan Baker, Brandon J. Dirden. Martha must finally face the truth she has denied - and her life may never be the same. Plus, a chilling new development in William's work forces the Jennings to face the realities of what a biological war would mean.
Month: April 2019
📺 “The Americans” Travel Agents | Amazon Prime
Directed by Daniel Attias. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Dylan Baker, Brandon J. Dirden. Martha must finally face the truth she has denied - and her life may never be the same. Plus, a chilling new development in William's work forces the Jennings to face the realities of what a biological war would mean.
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🔖 AnnotatED at OLC Innovate 2019 | Google Slides | Hypothes.is
OLC Innovate, 2 April 2019
🔖 Marginalia by Billy Collins | Poetry Magazine
Sometimes the notes are ferocious...
👓 Dissertating in the Open: Keeping a Public Research Notebook | Kimberly Hirsh
I’m making a few notes to myself here to document my process for keeping a public research notebook. They might be of interest to you, too. First, I’m talking here mostly about keeping up with the literature. There are (in my opinion obvious) ethical implications of actually sharing your data on...
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In some sense it does a lot of what I’ve been using Calibre for and is not too dissimilar to Zotero and Mendeley, though obviously all with some slightly different offerings.
hat tip: Kimberly Hirsh for reminding me about it.
Brief thoughts on receiving read posts
It’s only in the last few weeks that my site has actively begun receiving these read posts, and I have to say it’s a really lovely and heartwarming experience. While my site gets several hundreds of hits per day, and even comments, likes and other interactions, there’s just something additionally comforting in knowing that someone took the time to read some of my material and posted that fact to their own website as a reminder to themselves as well as a signal to others.
Mentally there’s a much larger value in receiving these than likes or tweets with links from Twitter, in part because there’s a larger indicator of “work” behind these signals. They’re not simply an indicator that “I saw the headline of this thing somewhere and shared it because the friction of doing so was ridiculously low”, but they represent a lot of additional time, effort, and energy and thus are a stronger and more valuable signal (both to me and hopefully to others.)
I suppose I’ll eventually need to preface that these are especially interesting to me now when I’m only getting small numbers of them from particular people who I know are deeply engaging with specific portions of my past work. I can also imagine a day when these too may become spam-like, and I (or others) are inundated with them. But for now I’ll just revel in their joyous, little warmth.
It’s interesting from my website’s administrative interface to see the path individuals are taking through my thoughts and which topics they may find interesting. I don’t think that many (any?) social media silos provide these types of views which may actually help to spark future conversations based on our shared interests.
Of course I must also admit that, as nice as these read notifications have been, they actually pale in comparison to the rest of the work that the particular sender has been doing in replicating large portions of the sorts of things I’m doing on and with my website. I hope all of our work, experimenting, and writing is infectious and will help others out in the future.
📺 “The Americans” The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears | Amazon Prime
Directed by Matthew Rhys. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Dylan Baker, Brandon J. Dirden. The Jennings hit their breaking points as they try to handle their local agents such as Martha.
📺 “The Americans” The Day After | Amazon Prime
Directed by Daniel Sackheim. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Dylan Baker, Brandon J. Dirden. The Day After premieres, making the stakes - and terrible consequences - of the Cold War plain. Even with that in mind, will Elizabeth be able to complete the painful process of the "Patty" operation?
👓 Yep. The Correspondent screwed up in its communications with members. Here’s how. | PressThink
A decision not to have its headquarters in New York or the US, and to base the English-language site in Amsterdam, has drawn criticism from supporters.
👓 Proposals for Reasonable Technology Regulation and an Internet Court | BuzzMachine
I have seen the outlines of a regulatory and judicial regime for internet companies that begins to make sense to me. In it, platforms set and are held...