AIES – 258: “The Problems with Proxies: Making Data Work Visible through Requester Practices”

I suspect know I’m not the only person out there that used ZotFile to manage their slightly-overflowing Zotero libraries. Turns out, ZotFile is incompatible with Zotero 7. After paging through a series of Zotero forum posts, I came across ZotMoov which functions more or less the same. I was pleasantly surprised to have no compatibility…

I’ve out-of-the-box transformed enough machines from Windows and MacOS to Linux that missing wifi is no great surprise. What is, however, an extremely unpleasant surprise is when functional wifi goes missing, as it has during the transition to Fedora 40. As it turns out, this is not such a big problem to fix, but isolating…

I suppose the title gives it away. After the untimely (only 13 years of use!) death of my 2011 Kindle Touch, I’d been in the market for a replacement. I’ve been trying to buy most (re- or non-programmable) tech products used, that I either feel confident I can fully wipe or don’t have to worry…

Curious about DataWorks? Here’s an article and a podcast about the organization. And the critical data literacy curriculum is available here. Poster: “Calculating the cost of data refusal” Abstract: How does data refusal fit into the economic structure of a pro-social data work enterprise? If data is seen as “the new oil,” how can we…

This excerpt is premised on the differences between eggs at American and European grocery stores. Eggs in the US are pasteurized (cleaned) before they can be sold, resulting in a bleached shell that must be refrigerated. Eggs sold in Europe (and some US farm-to-table situations) are more commonly unpasteurized and therefore maintain the dirt and…