Gus Riva @gusriva@mastodon.social

as an establishment clause-loving USian, I was thinking about #religion and public life this Easter Monday

I'm always kinda scandalized by countries that have an official religion, where the liturgical year affects public accommodations, etc.

I found this Pew report on countries that have official or preferred religions, but it seems a little modest in its conclusions

anyone have good readings on religion and public life, esp in liberal democracies?

http://www.pewforum.org/2017/10/03/many-countries-favor-specific-religions-officially-or-unofficially/

wait: CC licenses expire after you die, right, so your work is just in the public domain? or do the stipulations of CC licenses persist after death? (if so, when do those expire? ever?)

this seems like it should be both obvious and an easy thing to nail down, but I'm having trouble finding any good discussion of the question... is there a #librarian here who could enlighten me?

#openacces

Could someone recommend something on open acces vs traditional editorial practices in academia?

Books, papers, news articles, anything. If it is from the last two years, better.

Hey everyone! I'm a Colombian journalist working with Radio Ambulante, a podcast that seeks to connect Latinamerica through non-fiction stories. I also teach a class called "Innovations in media" at a local university. I'm looking forward to learning from all of you :) #introductions

Me hicieron una nota!! Soy de madera me gana los nervios jajaja.
https://ar.radiocut.fm/audiocut/entrevista-a-rikylinux/#f=show&l=recent

(though I tremble to ask, a bit)

what's going on with #markdown these days? have any dialects become dominant, or consolidated?

I'm pretty happy doing most things in #org, but I've been curious

Hey Mastodons, I hear you like open source and federation, so I'd like to tell you about https://gettogether.community/ an open source, federated(*) event planning service similar to Meetup

It's free to use, and while it's still very early development it is live! Try it yourself, share it with your friends, start a team ahd have a Get Together! #gettogether

* Federation is simple and minimal, any help would be most welcomed. Source code is at https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether https://mastodon.cloud/media/cPwAJ8QWw5m9yjpJqQk

anyone know of good mapping tools?

in particular, if you wanted to produce a map you could use in a book rather than online. any suggestions?

(for a colleague)

Some people may have heard me talk about Uncanny Echo earlier. Well, the first Issue is out now--and it's free! Please share liberally and enjoy :)

Every month--via a Patreon that I will launch in January--there will be a new Issue. All of these Issues are tied to either an Uncanny event or the echo of one. Creating a larger meta-narrative as the players work together to create an emergent story that slowly unfurls.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/228854/Uncanny-Echo-Issue-0

#Introduction I live in Western MA, design tabletop & live action RPGs and conserve land for a living. I spend a lot of time on Twitter @Emilycare and curated the #rpgtheoryJuly hashtag with Evan Torner this summer to make some space for talking about how games work, design & play.

I'm running Monsterhearts right now, and writing a Jane Austen larp for Intercon R.

I'm chair for Living Games Conference in Boston 2018, which is an international gathering of many RPG communities.

it's well after friday, but if you're into tabletop gaming, y'all should be following:

@lumpley
@paulczege
@Epidiah
@Emilycare

(and probably other amazing #ttrpg designers who I haven't come across yet)

#ff
#rpgs

Medieval marginalia pins! Everyone's jacket needs a jousting bunny riding a man-faced snail. (CW: That nun picking penises off a tree. You know the one.)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/165086912/marginalia-paraphernalia-f1

I want to run a D&D campaign where the big villain is a lich bard. He was originally a bard but he became a lich so he'd have centuries to perfect his poetry. His massive villainous scheme is to manipulate cultures over centuries, starting wars and introducing cultural shifts and destroying whole kingdoms of people. His ultimate goal, though, is just to change how the Common language is pronounced, so that he can find a word to rhyme in one of the stanzas of his poem.

to follow with a historiographical point:

I found Hobsbawm's emphasis on Nazism as a middle-class phenomenon particularly chilling (given middle-class Trump support in the primary), but it appears that this line of argument (influentially argued by Michael Kater) has undergone revision in the last decades: the revisionist position appears to be that Nazis drew support across classes

(but then, DT was heavily supported across classes in the general, too 🙁 )

"In the longer run democratic governments failed to resist the temptation of saving their own citizens' lives by treating those of enemy countries as totally expendable."

"We have a vague cultural respect for “hard” science, for “STEM subjects,” but not for the humanities, which teach us to ask crucial questions like, Who is making this assertion? Who made this item? Why? or even, Why did someone decide to group all the objects in this museum exhibition together? These questions all fundamentally boil down to one bigger question: How can I tell when something someone is telling me is bullshit?"

from Vox's piece on the new DC bible museum:
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/identities/2017/11/17/16658504/bible-museum-hobby-lobby-green-controversy-antiquities