An #introduction for Mastodon:
I’m a rare book dealer, co-founder of the rare book firm Type Punch Matrix and co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. I mostly post about #rarebooks #bookcollecting and #BookHistory topics. I also post about bookish things more generally, with current special interests in #sff #romancebooks #JaneAusten and #Sherlockian stuff.
You may also know me from Pawn Stars (as the book specialist) or The Booksellers Documentary (the one who is still excited).

Its out!!!!! The Future World of Eighteenth-Century Studies, a special issue of ECTI inspired by the work of Felicity Nussbaum!
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49466

A colleague has asked me (on behalf of a student) for readings about the *phone book* as a historical media object. I recommended these and wonder if folks have other recs!

https://www.journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/556

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0142639022000023934a

https://www.ftrain.com/rotary-dial

https://mediacommons.org/imr/2010/02/14/surveying-wired-landscapes-early-telephone-directories-mobile-perception

Okay people, I've got some NEW PUNCTUATION for you

The "commash", the "colash", and the "semi-colash"

Back in the 19th century, writers used these *everywhere*. It's hard to open a book to a random page and *not* see one

Yet in the 20th century, they vanished -- practically overnight

It's up to us to BRING THEM BACK

My essay is here, for Medium subscribers: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-19th-century-punctuation-marks-you-should-try-using-49d2e2516e5e

If you're not a Medium subscriber, here's a "friend" link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-19th-century-punctuation-marks-you-should-try-using-49d2e2516e5e?sk=0b0b750a1dc3cf296efbf036ebbd2d34

Hi new #DigitalHumanities people finding your way over here! If you're looking for DH folks, there's a list going here: https://tinyurl.com/dhmastodon. Please add yourself with the link at top, and DM me if you need anything to be updated! #TwitterMigration

🚨 SAVE YOUR STUFF 🚨

If you post research to Twitter and have not had a chance to archive or save your posts, now is a good time to do so. I expect the recent TOS updates to disproportionately affect activists even more than we've already experienced.
Here are some tools for archiving:

Download friend lists and last 3200 tweets:
https://tweetbeaver.com

Extensions for grabbing all the media off of Twitter accounts for Firefox and Chrome:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tw-media-downloader/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitter-media-downloader/cblpjenafgeohmnjknfhpdbdljfkndig?hl=en

Archive important threads here:
https://web.archive.org/save

https://archive.today

Most tweets after late 2019 are automatically saved to the Wayback Machine and can be retrieved with tools like this (requires API access): https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture

Older threads will need additional attention.

If anyone is migrating to Mastodon and wants a list of your friends from Twitter to auto connect with: https://www.movetodon.org/

I also recommend using Fedifinder or Debirdify and exporting the CSV just for account verification later even if you don't plan on following people today.
Note: you can look up Mastodon friends of accounts other than your own with Debirdify.

We do have some research account backups saved from a few weeks ago but if you have posted anything important that needs to be preserved externally please grab it.

#osint #twittermigration #alerta

I get why #hashtags matter. But does anyone else get a kind of #GeorgeSaunders esque #ShrillVibe from too many of them?

This company allows anyone to do a demo of what it is like to take a remote proctored test with their product https://proctoredu.com/demo I will admit I couldn't even get to the test because I couldn't bring myself to allow the application the level of access it wanted to my computer

Wishing today I had much more space for the press. Got an email from a guy elsewhere in IL who read the news about Skeuomorph Press (https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1136956733) & reached out because he's part of a "multigenerational family owned printing service" and "we are wondering if you would facilitate bringing new life to some other letterpresses, or print shop equipment." In short, their father recently passed and "One of our father’s final wishes was to donate a printing press, or other print shop equipment to a museum, or school, to show how the fine art of printing: was so impactful in our past, how it could be used to facilitate the present and inspire the minds of our youth, in the future." Assuming it's all in decent condition, the list of things they're looking to donate is mind-blowing. I may try to see if we can accept some tiny portion of it. But if you're in the midwest looking to set up or bolster a campus printing operation let me know so I can connect you.

@rachelcleves

RT @campvolant@twitter.com

Algérie. Un souffle nouveau sur l'édition indépendante https://orientxxi.info/magazine/algerie-un-souffle-nouveau-sur-l-edition-independante,6061

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/campvolant/status/1603746809880494080

🔔🔔Exciting News🔔🔔

New issue of Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is now available

https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/jcdl/vol2/iss1/

#libraries #library #archives #digitalLibraries #critLib #critInfoLit #specialCollections #criticalDigitalLibraries

A little bit about each article 👇

Welcome to all joining Mastodon!

Helpful Links

From @jeffjarvis
“On Joining Mastodon…a guide to diving in”
https://medium.com/whither-news/on-joining-mastodon-d539eed5e41a

From @jeffjarvis
“master class in Mastodon”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnbct41Sxnk

Fedi.Tips “An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon & the Fediverse”
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/109362974704059719

From @djnavarro
Everything I know about Mastodon
https://qoto.org/@jljcolorado/109299930715189729

(the importance of) Hashtags
https://masto.ai/@DavidElfstrom/109367983726048594

“How to write an image description”
https://toot.community/@ianburnette/109392499868597377

Twitter feels like the Wild West these days while Mastodon feels like the suburbs of Long Island, with people politely introducing themselves and holding conversations across picket fences.

Had a wonderful conversation last night with Julian Posada over drinks. He's working on supply chains of keyboard labor. Turns out a large number of the human teams in the "Reinforcement Learning" that makes ChatGPT work are Venezuelan turks making $0.30 per 1,000 tasks. To get the machine to speak right, we must still operate under fundamentally fucked out capital flows and uneven distribution of wealth. Put another way, no one here in the USA would work for 30 cents per 1000 tasks. Company couldn't even get people to do a penny a task. The more you know.

If you want to learn more about #JaneAusten and early women's magazines, please consider attending this free, online talk I am giving for the wonderful Jane Austen and Co series on January 10 2023. https://www.janeaustenandco.org/event-details/jane-austen-and-the-magazines

That escalated quickly

Assuming that the shelter-building Jeffers to whom at least the beginning of Rachel Cusk’s Second Place is addressed, who knows and writes about the badness and evils of the world, is none other than Robinson Jeffers

Am I hallucinating or does this ad say to stop *working* and start *teaching* because there's "always somebody willing to pay you for it"?