Hooray, JoVI is now officially listed in @DOAJ , the Directory of Open Access Journals! 🥳 Find us at https://doaj.org/toc/2794-5502 👍

#publishing #OpenAccess #academia

New space, new server, time for a new #Introduction!

We're Exilian, best found at the https://exilian.co.uk/ website and forums which we've maintained as an independent, democratic, member-run web community for creative geekery since 2008. We support indie and hobbyist creative and academic projects of all kinds: we're a non-profit organisation with members around the world.

As our main regular activities, we maintain our website and social media, run monthly virtual meetups, run occasional other events and competitions, and we have a quarterly newsletter and an articles section with a wide array of eclectic and unusual ideas and information in it. We also have two sporadically updated YouTube channels with a wide array music and informative talks on them. Our community includes game developers, indie authors, crafters, and musicians, as well as just fans and people who want to support eclectic, kind curiosity about the world. We also support a number of small scholarly networks by providing them with web hosting, including the Middle Ages in Modern Games network (@MAMG), and sometimes run creative-scholarly events like the annual Coding Medieval Worlds workshops.

Please do follow us, chat to us, ask any questions you have and recommend us to potentially interested friends! Whether you're looking for support on a project, want to tell the world about a cool thing you made, want to ask people how to get started on an idea, or just want to hang out and miss what forums used to be like, our doors are always open.

#CreativeToots #WritingCommunity #GameDev #MastoArt #IndieDev #Introductions #History #Academia

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Poll.
1. Should I write another academic paper?

If YES should it be about
2a) the collapse of the knowledge commons
2b) data, consent and privacy in digital learning

3. NO. Don't bother, academic publishing is a busted flush, at least in education and humanities

(caveat: this post got zero reactions in bsky, which was a litmus test on engagement)

#academia #academicchatter #feedback #academicpublishing

https://independent.academia.edu/RazeBuckbriar

#Academia #Preprints #Papers

@papers@soc.octade.net

AI Watermarking and Transparency Laws.
Claude is the first major LLM to legally watermark text generated by, or edited with, their tools. Open AI (ChatGPT) is to follow suit in the coming weeks, amongst most other providers:

https://www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-stamp-of-shame-what-claudes-new-legal-watermark-means-for-your-research/ #globalmuseum #AI #academia

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What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research

📲 Credit: D. Miller / trackingpower.substack.com

#law #equalityact #uk #zionism #apartheid #freespeech #racism #academia #palestine #activism
#genocide

https://youtu.be/YzQ_KFOyRt0?si=_lKjwHfy_OZgdtYR

Rhizome Function Anagram Random Generator

preprint | https://zenodo.org/records/21551292

doi | https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278

Herein are described principles and a scheme of random number generation styled as, pangrandomonium, or ‘pangrand’. Pangrand is a anagrammatic random number generator that uses rhizome functions as chaotic indexing and shuffling instructions to reorder and sum perfect pangrams. Brief descriptions are given for the principles of pangram summing and rhizome indexing functions, Source code of the random number generator is included herewith. The source code is attached to the PDF file.

Sections:

1. Pangrams (Holoalphabetic arrays) ;
2. Rhizome Functions ;
3. Rhizome Hardness Problems ;
4. Random Generator Methods ;
5. Errata ;
6. Source Code.

#Preprints #Random #Cryptography #RNG #Pangrams #Anagrams #Pascal #Papers #RhizomeFunction #AcademicMastodon #Cryptology #Math #NumberTheory #Papers #Academia #ComputerScience #CompSci #AcademicChatter #OpenScience

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding.

One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-science-grants-russell-vought-omb?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Science #Physics #Research #Funding #Academia

NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas.

Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas.

One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #Environment #Research #Science #Academia

I wish people would stop giving credit to "prominent cybersecurity/cryptography experts" just because they released some "cypherpunk" book or software of unproven impact 30 years ago and have since then retreated into golden tenure, writing technically empty but catchy preprints with provocative titles. These "Ludd grandpas" (you know at least a couple of names of who I'm referring to) are, unfortunately, still worshipped by a large number of semireligious followers, who contribute to the spread of their moldy ignorance.

Thinking deeper, maybe mine is a typical case of rejection for the image in the mirror: I hope I will never become like that in the future.

The world does not stop at your rants. Keep moving and stay open-minded, or become obsolete.

#cybersecurity #security #infosec #cryptography #crypto #academia #rant #luddism