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davidgillonThe House of Lords have been taking evidence on the Assisted Suicide Bill.
Disabled folk to Parliament: The possibility of being compelled into assisted suicide scares us
Pro-assisted suicide mob to Parliament: a few disabled people coerced into assisted suicide is still worth it.
Honestly couldn't make it up
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davidgillonAfter three days in a row of not getting to sleep until after the sun was up (and then being woken mid-morning), I've basically spent the entire day asleep, apart from answering several phone calls from my sister and then almost immediately falling asleep again*.
I answered those sitting cross-legged on the bed, and I fell asleep in that position and then slept that way for several hours. My hips are NOT happy with me.
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languagehat_feedA new Digital Scholarship in the Humanities article by Eetu Mäkelä, James Misson, Devani Singh, and Mikko Tolone (open access) examines Early English Books Online (EEBO):
Abstract
Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access to only a part of what survives. While completeness may be a tall order, researchers at least require that digital archives be representative, that is, have the same distribution of items as whatever they are used as proxies for. If even this representativeness does not hold, any conclusions we draw from the archives may be biased. In this article, we analyse in depth an interlinked set of archives which are widely used but which have also had their comprehensiveness questioned: the images of Early English Books Online (EEBO), and the texts of its hand-transcribed subset, EEBO-TCP. Together, they represent the most comprehensive digital archives of printed early modern British documents. Applying statistical analysis, we compare the contents of these archives to the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a comprehensive record of surviving books and pamphlets in major libraries. Specifically, we demonstrate the relative coverage of EEBO and EEBO-TCP along six key dimensions—publication types (i.e. books/pamphlets), temporal coverage, geographic location, language, topics, and authors—and discuss the implications of the imbalances identified using research examples from historical linguistics and book history. Our study finds EEBO to be surprisingly comprehensive in its coverage and finds EEBO-TCP—while not comprehensive—to be still broadly representative of what it models. However, both of these findings come with important caveats, which highlight the care with which researchers should approach all digital archives.
1. Introduction
The purpose of this article is 2-fold. First, we aim to show, with major datasets often used for digital scholarship, that the collection history and composition of datasets matter, and cannot be ignored when doing research without jeopardizing the validity of results. Second, by demonstrating this principle in a descriptive manner across various dimensions of interest (including temporal, geographical, and linguistic coverage), we also wish to offer a solution: a series of practical guides for users of these datasets, with which they can make informed decisions about which imbalances they need to account for, and how. While this paper’s analyses of composition and its consequences will benefit users of the datasets of Early English Books Online (EEBO n.d.) and EEBO-TCP (n.d.) specifically, our guides offer a template which is readily usable for other collections, as evidenced by our sister publication on Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Tolonen, Mäkelä, and Lahti 2022).
It looks like a valuable read for anyone who uses those archives. Thanks, Leslie!
sholio
lilisonna_tumblr_feedSergio Outdoors
These are all fascinating, and Sergio clearly knows his shit, but some of these helpful hacks are so amazingly specific that I am struggling to find an actual use case outside of Major and yet Very Arbitrary Apocalypse.
Like, when an I going to have a large amount of cordage, a knife, lighter, giant water jug and over large syringe and *not* just have a camp shower?
majumarycatelli posting in bookssanguinitygrrlpup finds my frustration very amusing.)universal_hub_feed
Posters by Lindsay Crockett.
The city, the Franklin Park Coalition and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects recently announced the winners of a competition to highlight the pendant of the Emerald Necklace, such as Lindsay Crockett, who was honored for her "New Jewels" series featuring Elma Lewis - a local artist who organized summer concerts and cleanups - the park's location in the Emerald Necklace and all the wildlife that lives there.
Also winning: Becky Fong Hughes, who also saluted park designer Frederick Law Olmsted in her "Franklin Park: Alive with People, Place, Story" series:
Helena Wang also took an honor for her "Franklin Park: Framed in Time" series.
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AO3 is turning 16! It's been another year of growth for AO3. Since this time last year, we passed both eight million and nine million registered users! We also passed 14 million, 15 million, and 16 million fanworks on the site, including one million works in Mandarin Chinese—the first non-English language to reach this milestone!
AO3's committees have also done a lot of important work this year! Accessibility, Design, & Technology published multiple important code releases, including security improvements like sending you an email when you or someone logged in to your account changes your username, password, or email as well as new features like allowing you to use CSS custom properties in site skins or add tags to your collections!
AO3's Tag Wranglers published four updates on "No Fandom" tags, which are tags that are not associated with any particular fandom. Many of the new tags they've made canonical (marked common) include commonly requested ones like Breeding Kink, Mind Break, and Rivals to Lovers. Check out the full list of new and modified No Fandom tags!
OTW Open Doors announced the import of five fanwork and two zine archives to AO3, including fanworks related to fandoms such as Harry Potter, Inuyasha, and Star Trek: The Original Series. You can look through all old import announcements by browsing AO3 news for the Open Doors tag.
Policy & Abuse published a series of important Terms of Service (TOS) Spotlight news posts that answered common questions about violations of AO3's TOS. Check them out here:
We're so excited about all the wonderful things that have happened this year and we can't wait to see what future years bring!
To celebrate AO3's 16th birthday, we want to prompt you to post a fanwork featuring 16 in some way! This could be a work about Season/Series 16 of a show, or a character with 16 in their name like Android 16 (Dragon Ball), or even a character celebrating their 16th Birthday. We encourage you to get creative! When you post your works on AO3 or social media, tag them #AO3Celebrates16!
If you don't feel like creating a work, that's okay! Instead, celebrate this anniversary with us by commenting on 16 fanworks and recommending your favorite in the comments!
Thank you for celebrating 16 years of AO3 with us!
The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan-run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.
ranunculus
otw_news_feedAO3 is turning 16! It’s been another year of growth for AO3. Since this time last year, we passed both eight million and nine million registered users! We also passed 14 million, 15 million, and 16 million fanworks on the site, including one million works in Mandarin Chinese—the first non-English language to reach this milestone!
AO3’s committees have also done a lot of important work this year! Accessibility, Design, & Technology published multiple important code releases, including security improvements like sending you an email when you or someone logged in to your account changes your username, password, or email as well as new features like allowing you to use CSS custom properties in site skins or add tags to your collections!
AO3’s Tag Wranglers published four updates on “No Fandom” tags, which are tags that are not associated with any particular fandom. Many of the new tags they’ve made canonical (marked common) include commonly requested ones like Breeding Kink, Mind Break, and Rivals to Lovers. Check out the full list of new and modified No Fandom tags!
OTW Open Doors announced the import of five fanwork and two zine archives to AO3, including fanworks related to fandoms such as Harry Potter, Inuyasha, and Star Trek: The Original Series. You can look through all old import announcements by browsing AO3 news for the Open Doors tag.
Policy & Abuse published a series of important Terms of Service (TOS) Spotlight news posts that answered common questions about violations of AO3’s TOS. Check them out here:
We’re so excited about all the wonderful things that have happened this year and we can’t wait to see what future years bring!
To celebrate AO3’s 16th birthday, we want to prompt you to post a fanwork featuring 16 in some way! This could be a work about Season/Series 16 of a show, or a character with 16 in their name like Android 16 (Dragon Ball), or even a character celebrating their 16th Birthday. We encourage you to get creative! When you post your works on AO3 or social media, tag them #AO3Celebrates16!
If you don’t feel like creating a work, that’s okay! Instead, celebrate this anniversary with us by commenting on 16 fanworks and recommending your favorite in the comments!
Thank you for celebrating 16 years of AO3 with us!
bruce_schneier_feedThis is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
The list is maintained on this page.
universal_hub_feedA distraught resident filed a 311 complaint this morning about the situation outside BLS on Avenue Louis Pasteur:
Cars and van parked on the sidewalk in front of Boston Latin. Children walking to school come up to me, tears in their eyes, asking why cops won’t do their job.
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