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@katbamkapow
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phd candidate @ uc irvine
9-5 academic: queer histories of personal computing
elsewhere: videogames, food, art, books

piecing this together | wildly under construction

Show threadkbNov 26, 2024
@90sScriptKiddiw you can email me! kbrews @ umich dot edu :)
Show threadkbFeb 4, 2023
whoever suggested using TK as a placeholder because no word in the english language uses TK has clearly never cited ann cveTKovich at the rate i do
kbFeb 3, 2023
today it took one hour to cry from reading BBS content :) ha ha i love to care so deeply abt my work
kbJan 9, 2023
Show threadDr. Casey FieslerJan 9, 2023
Also! If you are interested in design fiction or similar speculative methods, coincidentally here's an awesome looking postdoc position to help imagine the future of AI with @ndiakopoulos at University of Amsterdam! https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoc-CASMI/760945702/
Postdoc CASMI

Postdoc CASMI

kbNov 30, 2022
Dr. Casey FieslerNov 30, 2022
Really excellent article about the mixed experiences for marginalized groups on Mastodon. Read this. I've seen way too many posts implying that Mastodon is the solution to all our toxicity problems. And things aren't going to get better if we think that. https://www.fastcompany.com/90817452/can-mastodon-be-a-twitter-refuge-for-marginalized-groups
kbNov 27, 2022
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Nov 26, 2022
Brilliant writing from Heather Ford about the role of open infrastructures like Wikipedia in shaping collective memory processes. https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-shaping-history-why-i-spent-ten-years-studying-one-wikipedia-article-192602
Friday essay: shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article

How are Wikipedia pages about contentious events put together? Heather Ford discovered a hotbed of passion, a rotating pack of editors and a struggle for power behind its mirage of neutrality.

The Conversation
kbNov 25, 2022
Wolfgang ViechtbauerNov 24, 2022
It is 1925 and you need to simulate data from a normal distribution. What do you do? Obviously have somebody (probably some poor student) draw 5000 cards out of a bag. From Tippett (1925, https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/17.3-4.364). #statistics #history
ON THE EXTREME INDIVIDUALS AND THE RANGE OF SAMPLES TAKEN FROM A NORMAL POPULATION

L. H. C. TIPPETT, B.Sc.; ON THE EXTREME INDIVIDUALS AND THE RANGE OF SAMPLES TAKEN FROM A NORMAL POPULATION, Biometrika, Volume 17, Issue 3-4, 1 December 1925,

OUP Academic
Show threadkbNov 23, 2022
@v is this about mexican gothic
Show threadkbNov 23, 2022
@lolkat literally just updated my profile picture to prove i am, indeed, still me
kbNov 22, 2022

ok, again:

very slowly carving out a mastodon presence!