Weaponized Procrastination

Militant laziness. Don't worry though, it's not like we're going to do anything with it, nor would it do much to you... now. Coming soon: @[email protected]

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Searching best practices on JSTOR

Hi Tumblr researchers,

As promised, we're going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This'll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

Basic Search on JSTOR

To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like "to be or not to be".

To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as "tea trade" AND china.

Advanced Searching on JSTOR

Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.

Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as "cat NEAR 5 dog," but not for phrases like "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.

Utilize the "Narrow by" options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.

To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the "Select an access type" feature, which offers the following choices:

All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you've refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the "access type" checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

[memescomedy]

[necrobob]

That’s not quite true. The reporter behind the story, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was murdered.

[whatisthisplaceidonteven]

After mass protests, the Prime Minister of Iceland was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

After mass protests, the President of Pakistan was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

Worldwide, hundreds of people – many rich and powerful – were arrested.

Billions in stolen assets were returned to the people.

And 82 countries changed their laws to crack down on the wealth hoarding the papers revealed.

(Source here)

To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.

Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.

Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.

[ebookporn]

Price fixing lawsuit against Amazon, publishers refiled in federal court

In the US, a class action lawsuit accusing Amazon and the Big Five publishers of colluding to fix ebook prices has been re-filed in federal court, reports Publishers Weekly.

In September this year a New York federal judge dismissed the price-fixing claims against Amazon and the publishers, following a magistrate’s recommendation that the case be dismissed due to lack of evidence. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, in January 2021 law firm Hagens Berman filed the class action suit against Amazon for allegedly colluding with Big Five publishers for anti-competitive behaviour in the ebook market.

The refiled complaint, which has been amended, accuses Amazon and Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House of a hub-and-spoke agreement to eliminate price competition from the ebook market, and alleges Amazon is a monopoly that has used its market dominance to ‘coerce’ publishers into ‘entering into contractual provisions that foreclose competition on price or product availability’.

[ebookporn]

Won't somebody think of Stephen King? Antitrust law and the publishing world's mega-deal

An unusual Justice Department strategy sank the merger of two publishing titans. Here are the real-world effects

by Spencer Hamersmith

Antitrust is having a moment. From both the left and the right, politicians clamor for new tools and enforcement to maintain a spirit of competition in the U.S. economy. While many focus onBig Tech, one of the Biden administration's first big swings in a more aggressive antitrust enforcement regime took aim at a decidedly un-techy industry: book publishing. In a sealed ruling issued on Oct. 31, a federal judge sided with the government and blocked the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. While the country's attention was focused on the midterm elections, Judge Florence Pan unsealed her full opinion. In it, she sided with the federal government's persuasive and creative legal thinking, which focused on harms to an unusual victim: highly paid authors. Faced with this setback, the merger officially collapsed this week when Simon & Schuster's owner decided not to appeal. 

It's worth focusing on how the government achieved this victory. The fact that it felt compelled to make such an atypical argument shows how the current legal regime forces regulators to hide the ball in terms of whom they're really advocating for in the courtroom. This trend isn't limited to publishing; it also arises in one of the biggest of Big Tech suits — the case against Google. 

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[ebookporn]

TikTok to sell books directly to users via marketplace

To further capitalise on the popularity of BookTok the social media giant will let users purchase titles through partnerships with publishers and retailers

by Lucy Knight and Sarah Shaffi

TikTok has proved to be a hugely successful way to promote books in recent years, with publishers attributing the popularity of books such as It Ends With Us byColleen Hooverand The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid in large part to recommendations on the app. Now TikTok has decided to sell books directly, announcing partnerships with publishers HarperCollins UK, WH Smith, Bloomsbury and bookshop.org, all of which will sell books via TikTok’s online marketplace.

#BookTok is one of the social media platform’s most popular hashtags, reaching more than 90bn views to date, and as a resultTikTokhas formed several partnerships off the back of its success, including with the Hay festival and publisher Penguin Random House (PRH), where since September, app users have been able to tag any PRH title in their videos.

However, these new partnerships mark the first time users have been able to buy books directly through TikTok. Any merchant signed up to TikTok Shop can advertise and sell products to users within the app. The marketplace has been gradually expanding to include fashion, consumer electronics, beauty and fresh and frozen goods – and now books.

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[cchelberg]

http://91.215.104.140/

A note from the Bricker-bot guy, or why .Hack//Sign is close to being real than ever before

YOU SHOULD WAKE UP TO THE FACT THAT THE INTERNET IS ONLY ONE OR TWO SERIOUS IOT EXPLOITS AWAY FROM BEING SEVERELY DISRUPTED. The damage ofsuch an event is immeasurable given how digitally connected our societies have become, yet CERTs, ISPs and governments are not taking the gravity of the situation seriously enough.

Basically, this person was trackint IoT (Internet of Things) botnets for a while, back-hacking to clean them up, until they saw a massive vulnerability and decided that bricking the devices was the only way. They claimed to brick 10 million devices over a 13 month period. But things are getting worse over time out there. Just a couple massive openings and we might need to rethink the entire architecture (a long shot I know, but really) of the Internet.

That end point there, as unlikely as it is, was the backstory of .Hack//Sign. Basically the internet broke, and they had to make a new one. The game that the show is set in was so popular as it was the first MMO to use the new network. I've felt that something along those line, if not as extreme could be coming if companies producint IoT devices are not required by law to be more secure, and if ISPs in this case also aren't required to do so as well - which given what they just got out of the FCC seems unlikely until something much worse happens.

Man, poking my nose into the infosec side of twitter was not beneficial to my background stress level of things that could go very wrong.

[cchelberg]

Made pepper sauce today. I used three ghost peppers I grew myself, as well as four jalapeño peppers, and two habanero peppers. Filler was four stalks of celery, a handful of fresh picked tomatoes, a carrot, and half an onion. I just made the mistake of rubbing near my eye, and it's watering and burning slightly, plus my tongue is lightly burning. Good times.

[cchelberg]

There’s a reason I’m quite glad I got dragged into the Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night, etc universe. It’s awesome and I’m quite glad I know more background info. It makes it even better. 

[cchelberg]

Going to try and get a few things done this weekend. Make pepper sauce, clean, and write stuff for a LARP. Also I need to start plowing through the ILL books I have before the new ones show up.

[cchelberg]

Some fun clouds from an airplane.

[cchelberg]

So, if you're trying this out on Micro.blog (it's cool), I've not yet set up a clean feed for it, so all my old tumblr blogs are showing up. If anyone has an idea of how to segment an RSS feed, I'd appreciate it.

[madewitharkit]

Room measurement using Apple’s ARKit by @SmartPicture3D. Music by @joakimkarud.

[cchelberg]

This is really nice. It seems pedestrian, but then at the end it has the room's area.

[muspeccoll]

Why do “text” and “textile” have the same word root? In this video, learn from Tim Perry about ancient technologies and ways of thinking about texts and fabrics.

This is the first in a series of three videos we just finished for an online course on the history of fashion, taught by Nicole Johnston of the Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection.  The videos were produced by Alora Bauer, the University of Missouri Libraries e-Learning graduate assistant.

Stay tuned next week for medieval fashion! 

[uispeccoll]

Library video!

[libraryadvocates]

Help Save Internet Fairness | American Libraries Magazine

The Federal Communications Commission has published its proposal to undo the 2015 net neutrality rules, which means the public is once again able to comment.

The net neutrality battle has serious implications for libraries. Submit a comment before the July 17th deadline and let the FCC know why you care about #netneutrality.

[cheshirelibrary]

You know it!

[ebookporn]

All aboard the Library Train: Subway stations offer free e-books

Ride the subway, read a book. New Yorkers do that every day. But now the MTA and the city’s public libraries are making the commute even wordier, so to speak, by offering free access to hundreds of e-books and e-book excerpts.

The six-week program called Subway Library is a partnership with the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Public Library. Commuters waiting in underground subway stations can connect to free TransitWirelessWiFi on their mobile device and then click on the SubwayLibrary.com prompt.

NYPL librarian Gwen Glazer helped pick the hundreds of e-books and short stories now available. “We realized that people on the subway often are looking for something to do and looking for something great to read,” Glazer told Fox 5’s Lidia Curanaj. “However long your commute is, however long you’re on the train, we have something for you hopefully.”

To promote the program, the MTA unveiled a Library Train that is wrapped to look like the New York Public Library’s Rose Main Reading Room on 42nd Street. The Library Train will run on the E and F lines.

“The New York Public Library’s mission is to make information and knowledge accessible to all, and this exciting partnership with the MTA is certainly right on track,” NYPL President Tony Marx said in a statement. “By making thousands of free stories easily available to subway straphangers, we are encouraging reading, learning, and curiosity.”

The available books and excerpts fall into several categories: New York Stories, New & Noteworthy, Select Shorts, Children, and Young Adult, the MTA said. These are some of the titles available: Soar by David Banks, At Balthazar by Reggie Nadelson, The Soul Is Not a Smithy by David Foster Wallace, The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis by Karen Russell, Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes, and Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket.

[everylibrary]

When folks talk about Detroit, we hear the same words used over and over again: poor, broken, abandoned, blighted. But our experiences in the Motor City have shown us something completely different – a community that, in the face of overwhelming challenges, maintains a profound commitment to making Detroit a better place. This juxtaposition of

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