Hugh @hugh@ausglam.space

Get a load of this conference paper from 30 years ago, it is so ZING! on academic journals: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxlbeayLWxeRLTB2cmVmaVpscUU/view

I'm interested in what ausglam.space users think about this from @darius - https://runyourown.social and in particular his Mastodon fork Hometown: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

If you were thinking of auto-deleting your old toots I have good news - I made a thing for you (me): https://github.com/hughrun/ephemetoot

Good day to not read the news or the opinions of our terrible politicians.

The media have this around the wrong way. Uber's CEO was actually saying that their failure to program their 'self driving' cars safely is akin to the premeditated murder of a journalist.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/11/uber-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-mistake-dara-khosrowshahi

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/12/qa-labors-mark-butler-says-climate-debate-should-be-put-aside-amid-bushfires

The new UWU is pretty exciting: https://overland.org.au/2019/11/one-union-one-fight-on-the-first-day-of-the-united-workers-union/

BRB just enrolling in a Masters of Superannuation by coursework so that I can understand how to fill in my new UniSuper paperwork.

“Dies after being shot by Police” sure is a complicated way of saying “murdered”

Picked up a bottle of Auchentoshan Three Wood today and boy was that a great life choice.

I'm a middle class white male and yet I'm always nervous around Police because they openly carry firearms and I know they largely have the legal impunity to do whatever they want. The idea that "looking nervous" is justification for a public strip search is absurd.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/10/devastating-the-drug-inquest-findings-that-condemn-wholesale-strip-searches

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I spent a fair chunk of my early career sniffing at records managers but now I'm constantly amazed at how bad librarians are at organising our own records.

That was a pretty great day.

I’m finding it increasingly difficult to work out which Silicon Valley stories are real and which are satire.

“How to Feel Nothing Now, in Order to Feel More Later”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/style/dopamine-fasting.html

"Try not to get arrested" says @Erika as I walk to the cop shop with my documents.

Helped the cops to do some real work today by making them certify some documents for me.

Morrison regime’s election bribes criticised in state audit

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/08/bus-and-ferry-project-that-received-1m-coalition-regional-grant-delayed-and-losing-money