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That part about how some people have strong opinions about what absolutely needs to be in a proposal, but if you look at a handful of successful ones, there's no clear winning recipe, really resonated, having recently gone through this for a similar ERC competition.

The part about finding >10 typos is pretty much my nightmare, and I appreciate the candor with which you share that and other parts of your experience.

Nice writeup, keep it up!

One reason is the lag between a paper being "online first" vs. being included in an issue. I've seen as much as three years (paper published in its accepted form in 2017 but not included in an issue till 2020).

Another important contribution summarizing the new evidence just appeared at Undark:

https://undark.org/2022/02/16/new-evidence-revives-old-quest...

Book 1 was amazing, can't wait for renovations on the sequel to be done!

I appreciated this careful look at the legacy of E.O. Wilson and his sociobiology by historians who actually bothered to study his archive to adjudicate some of the claims that have been made about Wilson since his death, both by detractors and supporters. I decided to post it here because there were some previous submissions that got a lot of comments, many of which were supportive of Wilson.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29990427

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29741171

The writers of this piece conclude that, though Wilson made many important contributions, hagiohraphic accounts fail to address important flaws and mistakes he made, particular with regard to the sociobiology he advocated.

Can tell from what you linked, does this JSON format have anything like bib(la)tex's \mkbibquote and \mkbibemph?

Thanks for sharing your perspective!

came here to say the same. great book!

Also Grafoscopio: https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/readme....

You might have more fun reading Marcel Mauss' classic, also called The Gift, on the structure and function of gift exchange across various societies.

Kieran Healy's Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction https://kieranhealy.org/publications/dataviz/

Shameless plug of a thing I wrote about the same essay. Might be useful for added context.

https://axyl.us/post/3048516084/waking-up-to-fatigue-society

I wrote it before an English translation was published, so I called it "fatigue society", which I still think is a more appropriate term than burnout society.

(Knowing that the essay is more than a decade old should help explain the strong assertion right off the bat that we aren't living in a "viral" age.)

Yes, good explanation. Case in point: Neogit has never tagged a release: https://github.com/TimUntersberger/neogit/tags

Looks to me like it had commits in June and August of this year. Or do you wonder whether they'll add features like pushing from within vimagit?

That may be true about the ERC, but the NGI Zero scheme works very differently. Take a look at the grantees and you'll see.

You're probably thinking about this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wY7FBtr7_c

Leandro submitted it to HN but it didn't get any traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25620711

Here you go: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

Oh, you're right! I just realized I misread the paragraph about POFMA. Thanks for clarifying.

Here's a helpful explainer of the law being applied here (as well as data on additional cases where it was used since its introduction in 2019): https://pofmaed.com/explainer-what-is-pofma/

I really liked Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future as a guide to think through the effectiveness of various carrots and sticks in staving off the climate catastrophe. It's a work of fiction set in the very near future. The carrots include a carbon coin that is paid out to those who sequester carbon emissions, for instance by leaving oil in the ground.

I don't recall courts being one of the sticks, but notably targeted assassinations of the worst climate perps are.

Not just other commenters, the (sociological) science backs you up as well: political backlash is a big reason for recent disaffiliation. https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-vol1-24-423/

Take a look at sourcehut pages (srht.site) too.

There's a recent book about this, subtitled "The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job": https://www.versobooks.com/books/3184-breaking-things-at-wor...

> In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and manoeuvres that they would later deploy on unsuspecting machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ineffectual effort to stem the march of history; for Gavin Mueller, the movement gets at the heart of the antagonistic relationship between all workers, including us today, and the so-called progressive gains secured by new technologies. The luddites weren’t primitive and they are still a force, however unconsciously, in the workplaces of the twenty-first century world.

Who'd've thunk, two sociologists on the orange website! I thought about including Marx, but it seemed a bit complicated, because there is no trans-historical conception of social cohesion in his work. Marx arguably thinks the glue of bourgeois society is ideology. Work is the glue of a class-in-itself, which is not coterminous with "society" under capitalism.

No, it's not. Marx thought workers could come to consciousness about their conditions through work, which Bourdieu did not.

As a sociologist, I can't help but notice some glaring absences. Allow me to amend:

...gift-giving (Mauss, 1925): Giving gifts creates an obligation to reciprocate, tying people together in bonds of mutual obligation.

...collective effervescence (Durkheim, 1912): People engaging in repeated ritual action which aligns their focus on a common object (Erving Goffman called this "interaction ritual") and who become attuned to one another have a shared intense experience that generates what Randall Collins calls "emotional energy."

...symbolic violence (Bourdieu, 1970): Interests of different groups in society run counter to one another, but the dominant classes and their elites manage to universalize their interests by inculcating subservient dispositions among the dominated through education and other cultural institutions.

A few more that I don't care to elaborate right now: kinship (Levi-Strauss, 1949), libido/cathexis (Freud, 1899), orgone (Reich, 1940), imagination (Castoriadis, 1975), interdependence (Elias, 1937).

It's not an e-reader but a tablet computer. The founder of ReMarkable is (or was?) a KDE developer, so they supposedly do a lot of things right when it comes to developer experience, openness, and documentation.

Did you look at this product? It has an e-ink display. That makes it very different from an Ipad.

You might be interested in what one of the foremost sociologists studying white supremacy online has to say about this: https://contexts.org/articles/the-algorithmic-rise-of-the-al...