Always disappointing when a moribund tech blog you subscribe to re-appears with a fresh post in NetNewsWire after a 10 year hiatus, except it's spam, in Russian or Vietnamese.
@diarmidf I'm gonna spoil your discussion with my ignorance. I didn't know what an academic monograph is.
Made me think of this…
“We talk to each other and write for each other in ever more esoteric vocabularies, until our journals become inaccessible even to our society members”
Is it stupid that I am now considering writing my own mastodon implementation?
I mean, I'll start working on it this week and then abandon it next week (if not this weekend)