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<center> '''But if you are looking for me, leave a message , or feel free to ]'''<br> <center> '''But if you are looking for me, leave a message , or feel free to ]'''<br>
you can also find me at: ] * * * irc:brassratgirl <br> you can also find me at: ] * ] * irc:brassratgirl <br>
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''The tinfoil protects me from *government* conspiracies. You need more than a hat to protect against rogue Wikimedians!''
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==Meetup==
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Everyone -- I hope to be able to plan the next SF meetup soon... -- ]/<small>(]) </small> 21:20, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
* ] -- ''in which I am welcomed to Misplaced Pages and asked to work on marine bio articles''
* ] -- ''in which I return as a lapsed Wikipedian after a year+ of absence, and get invited to some meetups''
* ] -- ''in which I organize Wikimania II: the Prodigal Son of Wikimania; and do some other stuff''
* ] -- ''in which I go to Wikimania:Taiwan, and lots of other in-person events''
* ] -- ''in which I work on San Francisco-area meetups, the Signpost, and a few contentious articles; and publish a book, "How Misplaced Pages Works"''
* ] -- ''in which I work on the Signpost quite a bit, give some talks, and recover from writing HWW''
* ] -- ''in which I muck around with the 'post, run WikiSym, and get elected to the board''
* ] -- ''in which I edit very little but do a lot of outreach. And worry about the board''
* ] -- ''in which SF meetups come into their own, we bring down Misplaced Pages for SOPA, and I finish up my board term''
* ] -- ''in which I edit a lot, do outreach, get involved in some wikiprojects and and am reelected by the community to the board after a year break''
* ] -- ''in which I do work at various UC campuses, debate superprotect, do board work and more.''
* ]) -- ''in which I work on classes, my second board term wraps up, and I move cross-country, which leads to a whole new set of meetups!''
* ] -- ''in which I spend the whole year in Boston, help run WikiConference in San Diego, do a bunch of editing training, and for the first time ever (!) skip Wikimania
* ] -- ''in which I don't skip Wikimania. What else happened? who knows?''
* ] -- ''in which I run a bunch of edit-a-thons in Boston and MIT, and get more involved in Wikicite!''
* ] -- ''in which I run a women's health editathon, and end the year with a message from one of my favorite people on my favorite author''
* ] -- ''in which I don't work on covid articles, but do work on George Floyd-related articles]]
* ] -- ''in which there is more movement on the climate change wikiproject, and I run some virtual editathons''
* ] -- ''back to work in person in the real world, I spend time on virtual conferences, and see little activity on the talk page''


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The project namespace has a lot of text, but in some ways isn't comprehensive. I guess there's entire volumes to be said about wikipedia. --] (]) 06:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


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== Cybernetics in the Soviet Union ==
Hi Phoebe,


Hi! I need to check a quote from a book to which you may be able to have relatively easy access: Gerovitch, Slava (2002). From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262572255
I'm afraid that I managed to lose that email address for the Wikimania Jury list. Would you be able to give it to me again? Thanks! ] <sup>(] | ])</sup> 12:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC).
: sent! It was helpful, thanks. :) -- ]/<small>(]) </small> 20:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


According to the article ], it's on page 288: "tactical uses of cyberspeak overshadowed the original reformist goals that aspired the first Soviet cyberneticians."
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Is that the actual text? English is not my native language, but I find this usage of "aspire" a bit odd in a professionally edited book published in the U.S. I'd expect "inspired", or maybe "goals to which the first Soviet cyberneticians aspired". But if that's the actual printed quote, then I guess that's what Misplaced Pages should have. ] (]) 08:04, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
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:I found it myself! :) Here's the full quote: "By the early 1970s, the cybernetics movement had changed completely in character. It no longer challenged the orthodoxy; instead, tactical uses of cyberspeak overshadowed the original reformist goals that aspired the first Soviet cyberneticians."
== i feel i owe you an explanation... ==
:As an English speaker, what would you say: is it an acceptable usage of "aspired", or is it indeed weird? ] (]) 08:46, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
:: Hey {{ping|Amire80}}! I think it's weird. Typo for inspired I guess? Or I'd reorder the sentence: "the first Soviet cyberneticians aspired to" -- ] / <small>(])</small> 16:27, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
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== Books & Bytes – Issue 55 ==
...but first, an apology.
I wrote the article on TVG, Turpis Vomica Gland, and as you suspected, it was a hoax.
However, i wrote it with the intention of playing a prank on a friend, please believe me when i say i intended (and still do intend) to remove it once it's served its purpose.
it wasn't very well written anyway ;)


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Great to meet you too! I'm looking forward to reading the book soon. Thanks for the kind offer on RCC09 too, I'll drop you a note if there's anything. See you around, ]] 20:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
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== Books & Bytes – Issue 59 ==
Since I couldn't find a way of e-mailing Steve Dufour, please forward the following to him:
http://www.saablofton.org/announcement.html


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For the record, I never asked to have a Misplaced Pages page ...
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I'd say he's notable, he wrote a few books. I met him today, quite an interesting character. Decided to look him up. 24.22.229.243 10:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Chris Jr.
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... but if you'd rather delete my page than deal with this stalker by simply, permanently locking it down, fine. Just make sure NO other Misplaced Pages page has the name Saab Lofton on it. Believe it or not, whoever this STALKER is is that obsessed ...
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Steve Dufour: "I've looked into the books listed in the bibliography... The first was published by a small defunct anarchist publisher which describes itself as publishing 'pamphlets', sold out and was not reprinted."
III Publishing printed novels as well. Half of the first printing of A.D. sold within its first year. Granted, the first and only printing consisted of two thousand copies, but don't punish III Publishing or myself for being poor. Besides, look at these reviews ...
http://www.mcn.org/e/iii/books/iiirevs.htm
http://www.slimeworld.org/innerjourneys/ij06fant.html
http://www.mcn.org/e/iii/adreview.htm
http://www.mcn.org/e/iii/politics/practicl.htm
Steve Dufour: "The second was described by Pop Occulture Magazine as 'obviously a low-budget and quite-possibly home-printed affair'."
Jarvis Marlow is the man who paid out of his own pocket for the second printing (one thousand copies) and third printing (two thousand copies) of Battle Neverending. His phone number is 702-469-9188. I sold all three thousand copies of Btl Nvrg within the span of a year. Tim Boucher's Pop Occulture review was a petty act by someone gratuitously snide and stuck-up. As you can see ...
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-neverending-Saab-Lofton/dp/B0006R7DVQ
http://www.theseattlesinner.com/Pages/books/neverending.html
... Boucher's in the extreme minority.
Steve Dufour: "I'll keep an eye on it. I also find it a little hard to believe that he was kicked out of San Francisco State for writing a novel that was 'too radical.'"
Believe it ...
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19981101&slug=2781130
Lofton wrote "A.D." while a student at San Francisco State University and spent so much time hawking the book when it was published three years ago that his grades began to fall and the university cut off his financial aid.


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... too radical means I "spent so much time hawking the book" because I had to overcompensate for all the censorship surrounding the book. CORPORATE censorship, NOT the stereotypical Stalinistic kind all too many assume is the only kind that exists. Had I an easier time "hawking" the book, there'd have been more time for classes. Of course, plenty of wayward students have had their financial aid renewed after having missed classes for far less substantial reasons, so one wonders why was it so important for me to be dismissed ..? Unfortunately, I'm no stranger to censorship ...
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When you start censoring yourself and others, e.g. Saab Lofton, because you’re afraid you might upset some rich white assholes then you might as well give up any claim to being liberal and progressive because you’re not.
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YOU'RE MORE WORRIED ABOUT CIVILITY AND THE INCLUSION OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES THAN THE DAMAGE THIS STALKER CAN DO, HOW INCREDIBLY SAD. I INCLUDED THE E-MAIL ADDRESS SO IT'D BE CLEAR THAT REAL PEOPLE SUPPORT ME; PEOPLE WHO COULD BE CONTACTED SHOULD ANYONE ACTUALLY BE STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THE STALKER FOR ONE MILLISECOND. EXCUSE ME FOR BEING THOROUGH ... BY THE WAY, SHOULD YOU PEOPLE DECIDE TO NEGATE MY PAGE, THE STALKER WILL CONSIDER THAT A VICTORY AND HAS REPEATEDLY ADMITTED TO THE VANDALISM.


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==Writing women into STEM==
Greetings! I posted some links and a question to the ] entry's discussion page. I'm hoping the links fill in some missing citations, but I can't add them due to the page lockdown. Thanks for all your time, patience, and consideration! ] (]) 10:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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Cybernetics in the Soviet Union

Hi! I need to check a quote from a book to which you may be able to have relatively easy access: Gerovitch, Slava (2002). From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262572255

According to the article Cybernetics in the Soviet Union, it's on page 288: "tactical uses of cyberspeak overshadowed the original reformist goals that aspired the first Soviet cyberneticians."

Is that the actual text? English is not my native language, but I find this usage of "aspire" a bit odd in a professionally edited book published in the U.S. I'd expect "inspired", or maybe "goals to which the first Soviet cyberneticians aspired". But if that's the actual printed quote, then I guess that's what Misplaced Pages should have. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:04, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

I found it myself! :) Here's the full quote: "By the early 1970s, the cybernetics movement had changed completely in character. It no longer challenged the orthodoxy; instead, tactical uses of cyberspeak overshadowed the original reformist goals that aspired the first Soviet cyberneticians."
As an English speaker, what would you say: is it an acceptable usage of "aspired", or is it indeed weird? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:46, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Hey @Amire80:! I think it's weird. Typo for inspired I guess? Or I'd reorder the sentence: "the first Soviet cyberneticians aspired to" -- phoebe / (talk to me) 16:27, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
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