@ZachWeinersmith Interesting — speaking as someone who has little familiarity with those other fields, can I ask what kind of “gatekeeping” you’re seeing in them? Is it a corporate profit thing?

@ZachWeinersmith Most scientists will just send you reprints of their papers if you ask. It's only the publishers turning this all into a money-pump...

@ZachWeinersmith Economics also has a very rich pre-print culture. In fact, one could argue that this is where the research action really is. Journals are just a historical record where the research frontier was a few years ago (we have a thing with long publication delays)

@ZachWeinersmith I came to hate the field because of its hostility to documentation. I don’t know what “intellectual resources” you’re talking about, but my experience is that coders hate explaining their code except with more code. So go figure, technical debt accumulates, systems become incomprehensible and unusable, and software stinks.

@ZachWeinersmith On a related note, when I started getting into making music as a hobby, one thing that stood out to me was how rare it was to see the bigger names in the business willing to share what they've learned with their communities.

Obviously, for many it may be due to time constraints. But then you have celebrities on https://www.masterclass.com, so that's not always a problem.

@ZachWeinersmith Cannot confirm. Lots of physics and electrical engineering journals still aren't Open Access (and will remain so for what was published in the past).

However, at least still (crossing fingers to MAGA goons don't find it), there are gems like the NASA archive and lots of open source stuff indeed.

@ZachWeinersmith
Journals.
They expect to get the content free and charge exorbitant prices.

ISO documents are very expensive. Should be free online.

Text books have gone to crazy prices, even if PDF not paper. They'd make 50% profit even with POD selling at 1/2 the price!

Loads of stuff isn't even in books, never mind internet. Try setting up a semiconductor production line.

The Patent system is broken since 19th C. mainly due to USPTO.
Patented that shouldn't be & incomplete/wrong info.

@ZachWeinersmith
Hardly. IEEE journals? Acoustical Engineering journals? Other publications filled with physicist/engineer/researcher developed papers that are behind a paywall from the general public?

@Gina goats goats goats goats!

@alice I prefer to wrap-up things amicably.

@alice I didn't mean to and I blame it on ADHD (then again, they ghosted me in return, right?)

@alice currently being ghosted after years. :/

@alice Just for clarification: "ghosting" is something you can only do to people who you were/are dating, right? 🤔

I ghosted someone I was dating once, when I was younger. I tried to explain why I broke up with them several times, then finally stopped responding because they were getting repeatedly aggressive.

I've been ghosted a couple times. One of those times scarred me really badly, and I still panic when folx I'm dating disappear without giving me a heads up first.

@alice Yes, and sometimes it was mutual, although I don't think I'd call that ghosting. Just... neither of us ever followed up. 😅 Is it still ghosting if it just fizzles out?

@alice I've ghosted people, every time after explaining specifically why I don't want to have contact with them, which they most of the time took as a challenge to give me more reason to not want to have contact with them.
And I got ghosted at least once because I did exactly the same and was an idiot.

@alice 'twasn't texting, it was calling, because I'm super-old - and I still regret it; she was delightful 🥰 but I was in a dark place & couldn't face trying to explain this to a stranger who didn't ask for my bullshit.... I felt I would be hurting her either way & the least hurt would be to remove myself from her life quietly. I'm still sorry, Sonja 💛

@alice
It's hard to say, but i had to check all yes

@alice I regularly forget answering people... even people I love dearly >.<

@alice Sadly, ghosting is my default mode of behaving. AuDHD often does that. And it really doesn't mean I don't like you, I just can't be expected to "keep in touch".

@alice Making sure an old man doesn't misunderstand... I have cut off all contact with people and disappeared from their lives... but never without talking to them first. I *think* that wasn't ghosting, but if it was, then I have.

I'm also a bad friend and am easy to lose contact with, but there's not intent there. I'm just a self-absorbed asshole who forget to take other people into account.

@alice all of them done & experienced. nevermind..

@alice in my defence, they had just outed themselves as a GamerGater and transphobe

@alice I only ghost someone if I get bad vibes from them and we didn't have much contact before. Most of the time that relates to chasers on dating apps. Never done it with people who I have interacted with more and in these context it's more common that contact just fizzles out.

@alice
Yes, accidentally (thanks AuDHD) and after knowing him for several years. We were friends in college, and I tried to keep the connection going after we graduated, but after exchanging a few messages, I got stuck on a response, and the longer I went without saying anything, the more stressful it got for me, so I eventually just let it go.

I did reconnect with him a few months ago, but when I suggested we take the conversation off LinkedIn (I know, I know), he stopped responding.

It is possible there are some people on dating apps who feel like I ghosted them after a little conversation, but my feeling would have been more like "this conversation died of natural causes, and I don't feel like resurrecting it."

@alice

I did, unintentionally (yay for ADHD) and also intentionally.

It was a, let's call it unhealthy, relationship and they kept overstepping boundaries.

I saw no other way.

Other times (yes plural) is because I simply did not wish to spend any spoons on them anymore.

But mostly, ADHD. So if I ever not get in touch feel free to remind me. I can get stuck in my own head

@alice
Ummm... Yes, other: I had my reasons that seemed good to me at the time. In hindsight, I'm pretty sure I was the asshole. It was a looooong time ago and I'd like to think I've grown a lot since then. Not my proudest moment. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@alice Is it ghosting if you tell them multiple times that certain racist, violent and/or homophobic remarks are not okay. But they don't stop so you stop the contact?!

@alice and I am so not proud of it

@alice What I really know and I'm sure is that a person is ghosting me here on Fedi.
On their two different accounts!
I'm not a bad person, I don't know what I did, but that happens

@RickiTarr

sounds exhausting

@RickiTarr do my cats count because 2 out 3 ain't bad right

@RickiTarr
Five, I can't think of one, and that's including myself.

@RickiTarr Does it count if you approve their time cards?

@RickiTarr there's um

Um

Ummm

I'll come back to this

@RickiTarr

people displeaser is where it's at

we all make enemies

why not lean into it

we're defined in many ways by who are enemies are. so define ourselves with a selective application of bile

@RickiTarr challenge accepted

1. Mick Zellerman, Calistoga High rope poopin champ 1992

I easily have 3 more

@RickiTarr Your mom, Gloria Estefan, Optimus Prime, my girlfriend in Canada, and me, I’m pretty pleased with myself.

@RickiTarr I can name five people I pleased. It's not quite the same but they count as people pleaser points nonetheless.

@RickiTarr

I misread this as: "Name 5 people who you are pleased with"

Same result, sadly....

@RickiTarr

I made five donations to the same candidate: Rebecca Cooke WI-03. She has good taste withal.

@RickiTarr hmm 🤔

Hey Fedi! Have I pleased you?

@RickiTarr

@RickiTarr G’day Ricki 🤗🥰

Does having my toots favourited count?

Asking for a friend! 😜😂

@RickiTarr

How about 5 people I pleasured? :D

@RickiTarr I once asked a therapist: How can you call me a people pleaser if I do not please people? (She just gave me one of those looks people give me whenever I ask the wrong question.)

@RickiTarr
New and powerful source of anxiety dropped.

@RickiTarr How dare you

@RickiTarr I never said I was a *good* people pleaser...

@RickiTarr Never said I was a people pleaser. People annoyer is more my line.

@RickiTarr That’s the kicker. I never feel that anyone is ever pleased with me

@RickiTarr
1. My mom thinks I'm ok..
2.

@RickiTarr Ricki: LOL.

-Have a great weekend, Ricki.

@RickiTarr

1&2 My dogs for two. Dogs are people, too.

3. My spouse, currently. 😅
4. My boss, generally. 🤷🏽‍♀️
5. You.

@RickiTarr What? I don't please people.

@RickiTarr nobody said you had to be good at it, just that you have the drive.

Now excuse me while I go weep in a dark corner...

@RickiTarr

I think the accurate answer is zero, but only from the perspective of the people pleaser.

@RickiTarr

Huh.

Rita
Roger
Jessica
Debi
...

Uh-oh.

So close.

@RickiTarr Living or dead?

@RickiTarr
None

@RickiTarr

So you value material things, what is the nicest thing you own?

(Interesting exercise)

@_elena I mean, I run a mastodon, I'd surely not forget to disclose that!

@_elena Next Space Karen buys Bluesky for $44 billion

@_elena if trump supports it, then it must be really bad

@_elena Russian oligarchs ?? https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598

@_elena they aren't investing this kind of money if there's not a path to more money... People are the only thing of value on the platform... It's the same crap all over again with what people think is a prettier bow.

@_elena "Open social infrastructure" - Haha, nice bullshit term.

@_elena This is disappointing. I hope the best for BlueSky, but I have a bad feeling this is going to come back to haunt them.

@_elena we could ask our founder and CEO John Mastodon about it, for sure. 😁

@_elena I'm pretty sure the WHOLE of the Fedi does not meet 100M costs in 10 years

Combined

@_elena Someone suggested that the vague "and other interactions" very likely means people's DMs and honestly I think they're probably right because "posts, likes, and comments" kind of covers everything else...

And that would be everything since like a year ago — at least.

@_elena
"Can you imagine Mastodon raising 100 MILLION dollars from a crypto VC fund..."

Well *I* can imagine it!

@_elena @lisamelton guess how many millions threads.net has quietly raised from FAANG companies—mostly F tho.

@_elena

I sure great things could be done for the Fediverse with that level of funding though.

Where the money comes from is as important as the amount though.

@_elena

Whenever I read something about "crytpo", I substitute the word "criminal" and it makes it much easier to understand.

@_elena Came across yesterday with my first thread on Mastodon, in which a techbro was proudly mocking others for not liking his LLM app making a summary of Mastodon posts without users consent of course. 🤬