oddletters

crossposting here from bsky: does anyone know anything about SAnet, a local ISP in southern Arkansas that may have started in 1994/spun out of a bbs based in El Dorado, AR? it may also have been known as ELDONet

repostable repost!

do you care about venture capital (derogatory)? do you care about *weird charts* (complimentary)? do you care about using extremely fiddly historical methods to trace the use of One Weird Chart through 40+ years of venture capital policy? HERE YA GO

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-society/article/up-and-to-the-right-the-development-diffusion-and-impact-of-the-casey-life-cycle-model-on-venture-capital-policy-and-practice/4429C5E81D9954C0689D2A83D0CAE065

i WANT to TAKE a NAP

205 lb deadlift!!!

mols attempts to herd cats/organize a pile of academics to agree on a dinner reservation time so some grad students can make friends and also get fed

new stickers are here!!!

extremely tempting to put "i can lift 200 pounds" in my annual review materials

@sophiabrueckner@vis.social @natematias@social.coop just gonna quietly like this and move on for no particular reason at all

@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net yes!

@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net he's not famous! he's nobody! he says so in the running-through-the-office-from-agents scene!

@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net it's just weird things like saying Neo was a "world famous hacker" or saying he's "strapped into" a chair during the red pill/blue pill scene. like, stuff you could correct just by _watching the movie you're describing_

im reviewing an ms for a scholarly press and the thing that is bugging me the most is how badly the author appears to have misunderstood THE MATRIX

oh i see that someone who got his phd at the media lab decided to use ChatGPT as a therapy standin for thousands of patients without their clear consent, was surprised when the patients hated it, and is now surprised that people are pissed about it.

wild.

oh i also see that he declared the study exempt from IRB and ethics review because it was for a business with no intent to publish in an academic journal and he thinks filing for IRB approval is hard.

_wild_.