If I ran a software program on my computer and "it" hacked into someone else's system, I would be in prison. The same would apply if I ran a small company that did this.
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Martin Paul Eve
@mpe@hcommons.social
hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons, MESH, Michigan State University | Lit Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
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When looking for the phone number for my dialysis unit, I came across job ads for the band 5 nurses who administer haemodialysis on the ward.
Needling patients w/ enormous needles; life/death alarm situations; complex patients. You are saving lives every day.
£29k per year.
Our world is so wrong.
Wow. Final judgement in the Anthropic class action is approved.
Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors whose works it pirated. The lawyers get $101.56 million (6.8%); a third of what they initially requested.
There is a 30-day notice-of-appeal period.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.434709/gov.uscourts.cand.434709.680.0_1.pdf
One of my sisters-in-law is currently at the Margate "Kate Bush Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" event and it looks hilarious 😂
I couldn't attend due to dialysis but I regret this! Haha!
Happy 60th birthday to The Crying of Lot 49, published April 27th, 1966. A strange, hypnotic novel that fascinated me as an undergraduate.
I will be giving a keynote at the ACM Hypertext 2026 conference, hopefully in person, though this is dependent on health.
But I love these countdown banners. As though there is an urgency to get tickets to see me (and others) speak. Ha!
https://ht.acm.org/ht2026/
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... culture if people feel they can speak aloud of difficulties, challenges, health problems, whatever in this space, without feeling they have to act with a professional mask on all the time. Not every post needs to start with 'I am pleased to announce'. Indeed, it's OK to start with 'I am struggling'. We are all people, humans, and we are susceptible to the frailty of our bodies. We cannot but bend to its whims, and to try to make people pretend otherwise is unrealistic. Some people ... 🧵7/8
Zotero 9 is out!
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... think that every illness is defeatable by force of will. It is simply not true. 🧵8/8
Been reflecting on the challenges of maintaining a blog that's preserved long-term. Balancing the cumbersome process of digital preservation with the ease of instant publishing is tricky, but it's worth ensuring my work persists. Exploring tools and networks like Rogue Scholar for this task while automating wherever possible to reduce the effort.
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... treatment, without which I will be seriously unwell. They are quibbling over a slightly deranged liver function test result, which, quite frankly, is the least of my worries. Finally, you might wonder why I share this all. First, it is cathartic for me. I have friends who are online, people I have never met IRL, who express empathy and kindness and seem interested to know that I am still here and surviving through difficulty. I appreciate that. Second, I think it builds a healthier ... 🧵6/8
In her 143-page ruling, Judge McMahon ordered the agency to rescind the cuts while saying the plaintiffs had suffered “irreparable injury.”
“The injury is not limited to the loss of money,” Judge McMahon said.
Gift article.
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@kfitz@hcommons.social I look forward to reading this! Many years ago now, I co-edited a collection on The Abolition of the University. It might be of interest?: https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/446/
Some thoughts on how Claude can still read your .env files even if it's told not to, which could compromise secrets. My colleague had this issue despite using specific instructions. I'm experimenting with 1Password environments to protect sensitive data. I think Claude's current mechanisms need strengthening for better security.
My recent threaded post was made possible by the app I whipped up that handles all the social media platforms I am on and will auto-thread a post, with thread counts etc.
Shouts: IT'S ALIVE!!! etc. 😂
How much does it cost to peer review grants? Ie how much does selection cost? This paper has the numbers.
Amusing. I have been sent an invitation to an event promising to take one on a tour of London's lost hospitals I guarantee you, I have seen enough of London's hospitals. Practically done whatever the equivalent is of a pub/hospital crawl.
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@viroviacum thank you Demmy. To be honest, this is a trial too far. I have endured rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis, primary immunodeficiency, a stroke, pneumonias, end-stage kidney failure and dialysis (I am on the machine now and it's every other day, for life), fluid overload (feels like you are drowning in your own body), and now this. Chronic norovirus. There are people worse off than me. But I also feel like I could catch a break.
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@j_feral thank you - I will ask, though I feel bigheaded doing so.
It shouldn't be hard to archive it in WARC format
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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social exactly what I have just been thinking about for a book chapter on AI and the Gothic (book will be Reyes, Xavier Aldana and Townshend, Dale (eds.) The Gothic World, Expanded. London: Routledge.) Now I'll need to cite you and this toot!
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@c_riesen yes, actually - I need to eat as much as possible. However, it's difficult to eat when you feel ill with norovirus.
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@kfitz thank you, Kathleen. Very much appreciated. I hope they give me a twilight slot, so this doesn't overlap with KC stuff.
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@brembs thank you, as ever, for the kind words. In patients with my immunodeficiency, it can last /years/. The severe danger is malnutrition, which is affecting me now. I am 6ft 2in and my weight is down to 57kg. It's really not good.
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@mike Thank you, Mike, I very much appreciate it. I hope it's okay that I keep posting updates and where I'm at, because it helps me to feel I've got it off my chest.
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... top of managing the dialysis and the wound, which is clean and free of infection, thankfully, I also have to contend with a chest infection that has been going on for two weeks. I have different sets of antibiotics from immunology to try to combat this. Finally, my ongoing bowel issues are proving incredibly problematic. Since January I have had uncontrolled bowels, apparently due to a norovirus infection, and have lost a great deal of weight as a result. I mean a great deal. This ... 🧵4/8
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... dialysis you have to conduct a bolus saline flush to ensure that the circuit does not clot. This not only adds fluid back into me, which we are trying to take out, but means the session is highly disrupted. Even reading is difficult, although I would prefer to sleep! Three-hour dialysis sessions are also far more taxing on the body, because you are trying to do the work of days' worth of kidney function in a very compact period of time. So I feel a little bit hit at the moment. On ... 🧵3/8
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... in itself is problematic for infections, as I lack the required body mass reserves to fight off new infectious agents. I have all sorts of protein pudding supplements and so on from renal to try to boost my weight, but I am also being referred to the Immunological Gastro Clinic for what they call nutritional work up. That sounds fun. So, overall, my health is terrible right now. On top of all this, I am also having to fight with rheumatology to renew my core rheumatoid arthritis ... 🧵5/8
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@neuralreckoning sorry, just to be clear, I agree with you and not the paper conclusion!
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@neuralreckoning yes - I don't agree with that at all. Grant culture is a blight on academia and it's what academics have been forced into doing. Hardly their fault. Selection process needs reform.
I've been diagnosed with chronic norovirus. This usually clears in days, but I've had it for 4 months due to immunodeficiency. So, I am travelling to hospital in London for an immunology appt, bloods, and a PET-CT. This scan will show whether I can still absorb food or whether I need IV feeding.
In people with a healthy immune system, norovirus isn't a problem. It's unpleasant, but clearable. In immunodeficient people, like me, it's life threatening.
Not sure what I think of this proposal to completely overhaul the governance contract between English HE and the state. All I *do* think is that it is unlikely to happen under this government.
I spoke today with the hospital. They told me that I require IV nutritional support. This, though, will be the slightly lesser version, administered during my dialysis, rather than through a new line. This means I must now go to hospital 3x per week for haemodialysis instead of doing it at home.
This is logistically terrible. So much of my life will be spent doing dialysis. But I feel awful and need to be able to fight this norovirus. Putting on weight is the key to this. So I must go along with the process.
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Complete nonsense list. Just the placements of The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest are enough to discredit it.
Today, I am revisiting Packer, Abel L., ‘The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of SciELO’, in Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access, ed. by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray (The MIT Press, 2020), https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.003.0030. The significant history of SciELO should be in every scholarly account of the development of open access.
With reference to my last post: I just remembered that Reclaim Hosting, with whom I used to have an account and who are excellent, offer the option to pay triannually. This would mean that my blog would be available until the end of the three-year period, which is a darn sight better than AWS. Unsure what CDL/CDN they have...
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@GoodCheerPixie Thank you. That is most generous of you to share and send good wishes. I am grateful.
I am trying Typeless keyboard on Android, and I must say the dictation is absolutely incredible quality. It is annoying that SwiftKey did not keep up, and its voice input is very bad. The one annoying thing about Typeless is that it does not have a full keyboard for spelling corrections, etc. Otherwise, I am pretty much sold on it. Will try it out for a couple of weeks to see how it goes.
Death merchants move to insider trading on wars
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns
I find it very frustrating when people announce new versions of software they have produced, with no information on what the software is or does. Assuming people already know.
"Pleased to announce v0.1.2 of Darkwing. This version brings Capybara integration and Dingbat rollback support!"
I thought I would write with another health update. Thanks to everyone who has wished me well recently. It has been a difficult time. The real challenge that I face is handling an acute problem like this serious dog bite on top of chronic conditions, specifically end-stage renal failure with dialysis and rheumatoid arthritis. As just an example, this has forced my dialysis to come off overnight and into three hour sessions, which means that some days I work all day, then just have ... 🧵1/8
I'm interested in reading Gothic-ey/creepy texts about the creation of artificial life (in whatever form that takes), beyond Frankenstein. Do you have a favourite or other suggestions? Got the contemporary Frankenstein in Baghdad already, too...