#footnotes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #footnotes, aggregated by home.social.
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🚀💥 Oh boy, Martin's back with another "revolutionary" #AI prediction—who knew the real "DeepSeek moment" was actually just a minor #economic footnote buried under layers of #newsletter sign-ups? 🤯📉 Clearly, the only margin collapse here is in the societal tolerance for such dazzlingly banal proclamations. 📰🙄
https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/ #Predictions #Footnotes #DeepSeek #Moment #Insights #Sign-Ups #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀💥 Oh boy, Martin's back with another "revolutionary" #AI prediction—who knew the real "DeepSeek moment" was actually just a minor #economic footnote buried under layers of #newsletter sign-ups? 🤯📉 Clearly, the only margin collapse here is in the societal tolerance for such dazzlingly banal proclamations. 📰🙄
https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/ #Predictions #Footnotes #DeepSeek #Moment #Insights #Sign-Ups #HackerNews #ngated -
Any WordPress gurus here?
I have a post with many footnotes, and I cannot update or add any. They appear in the editor, but they're not saved. In the text, the number appears, but not in the footnotes.
I've checked the "footnotes" custom field, and it doesn't update when I save the post. If I edit the custom field using the wpcli interface, it updates when the editor is reloaded.
It has happened occasionally, and I haven't been able to figure out what triggers it.
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Any WordPress gurus here?
I have a post with many footnotes, and I cannot update or add any. They appear in the editor, but they're not saved. In the text, the number appears, but not in the footnotes.
I've checked the "footnotes" custom field, and it doesn't update when I save the post. If I edit the custom field using the wpcli interface, it updates when the editor is reloaded.
It has happened occasionally, and I haven't been able to figure out what triggers it.
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I know this is not the longest footnote ever by far, but a solid three pages is not bad for the casual footnote, just to give some context.
From "History of the Langobards" by Paul the Deacon, translated by William Dudley Foulke, 1907.
#footnotes #curiosities #history #PaulTheDeacon #HistoryOfTheLangobards #CanWeAlsoMakeThreePageLongHashtagsOrWouldThatBeTooMuchForMostModernSoftwareButEvenIfItIsntLinebreaksWillProbablyBeAProblemWhichDoesntMeanWeShouldntTryBecauseAsYodaFamouslySaidThereIsNoTry
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I know this is not the longest footnote ever by far, but a solid three pages is not bad for the casual footnote, just to give some context.
From "History of the Langobards" by Paul the Deacon, translated by William Dudley Foulke, 1907.
#footnotes #curiosities #history #PaulTheDeacon #HistoryOfTheLangobards #CanWeAlsoMakeThreePageLongHashtagsOrWouldThatBeTooMuchForMostModernSoftwareButEvenIfItIsntLinebreaksWillProbablyBeAProblemWhichDoesntMeanWeShouldntTryBecauseAsYodaFamouslySaidThereIsNoTry
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Highlighting Footnotes, by @kittygiraudel.com:
https://kittygiraudel.com/2026/03/18/highlighting-footnotes/
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Highlighting Footnotes, by @kittygiraudel.com:
https://kittygiraudel.com/2026/03/18/highlighting-footnotes/
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🚨 Breaking News: Tom Scott, the #YouTube messiah none of us remembered missing, makes an earth-shattering return! Apparently, he took two years off to read every footnote of YouTube's terms and conditions. 📜🤓
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3lSKgz4q8 #TomScott #Return #BreakingNews #InternetCulture #Footnotes #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking News: Tom Scott, the #YouTube messiah none of us remembered missing, makes an earth-shattering return! Apparently, he took two years off to read every footnote of YouTube's terms and conditions. 📜🤓
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3lSKgz4q8 #TomScott #Return #BreakingNews #InternetCulture #Footnotes #HackerNews #ngated -
Some academic nonfiction books can benefit from footnotes, citations, and references.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/09/on-footnotes/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
That's where I am on my current project. It's not as tedious as indexing, yesterday's topic, but neither is it exciting – just a necessary accessory.
In this brief post, I share my workflow. In fact, this infographic does a lot of the heavy lifting.
#books #writing #philosophy #footnotes #details #nonfiction #citations #breadcrumbs #performance #signalling #humility #blog #podcast
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Some academic nonfiction books can benefit from footnotes, citations, and references.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/09/on-footnotes/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
That's where I am on my current project. It's not as tedious as indexing, yesterday's topic, but neither is it exciting – just a necessary accessory.
In this brief post, I share my workflow. In fact, this infographic does a lot of the heavy lifting.
#books #writing #philosophy #footnotes #details #nonfiction #citations #breadcrumbs #performance #signalling #humility #blog #podcast
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📚 🤔 Look, a "scholar" trying to decipher a #Swiss #hotel manager's #sci-fi fantasies from the 60s! Spoiler alert: it's still #nonsense, just with fancier #footnotes. 🏨🛸
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/scholars-will-call-it-nonsense/ #manager #scholarly #analysis #1960s #HackerNews #ngated -
📚 🤔 Look, a "scholar" trying to decipher a #Swiss #hotel manager's #sci-fi fantasies from the 60s! Spoiler alert: it's still #nonsense, just with fancier #footnotes. 🏨🛸
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/scholars-will-call-it-nonsense/ #manager #scholarly #analysis #1960s #HackerNews #ngated -
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec. 12: Who is a writer whose life inspires you?
Probably #TerryPratchett , for how many awesome and hilarious books he wrote, and how he managed to transit from a full-time journalist to a full-time writer.
Also, his use of #footnotes . I love footnotes, and have hundreds of them in my books. Does anyone know why he stopped using them in his later books?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec. 12: Who is a writer whose life inspires you?
Probably #TerryPratchett , for how many awesome and hilarious books he wrote, and how he managed to transit from a full-time journalist to a full-time writer.
Also, his use of #footnotes . I love footnotes, and have hundreds of them in my books. Does anyone know why he stopped using them in his later books?
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CVE Alert: CVE-2025-11733 - lumiblog - Footnotes Made Easy - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2025-11733-lumiblog-footnotes-made-easy/
#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2025-11733 #lumiblog #footnotes-made-easy
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CVE Alert: CVE-2025-11733 - lumiblog - Footnotes Made Easy - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2025-11733-lumiblog-footnotes-made-easy/
#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2025-11733 #lumiblog #footnotes-made-easy
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@pooserville that reminds me of this:
"In 1839 the third volume of the parochial history appeared, containing an account of the Roman wall; in it Hodgson first clearly established the claim of Emperor Hadrian to be considered as its builder; notably, as the claim isn't a claim on Northumbrian history, it is formatted as a 166-page footnote in the book, taking up about half the book's length. "
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@pooserville that reminds me of this:
"In 1839 the third volume of the parochial history appeared, containing an account of the Roman wall; in it Hodgson first clearly established the claim of Emperor Hadrian to be considered as its builder; notably, as the claim isn't a claim on Northumbrian history, it is formatted as a 166-page footnote in the book, taking up about half the book's length. "
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📖 **Why footnotes matter**
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📖 **Why footnotes matter**
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#Design #Approaches
Give footnotes the boot · Smarter alternatives to footnotes on the web https://ilo.im/1652si_____
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#Design #Approaches
Give footnotes the boot · Smarter alternatives to footnotes on the web https://ilo.im/1652si_____
#Footnotes #Content #Accessibility #DesignPatterns #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
David Foster Wallace: the literary genius who makes math errors an art form! 🤓✍️ Apparently, in "Infinite Jest," math mistakes are as intentional and meaningful as the #footnotes. Let's just say he needed a calculator more than a dictionary. 🤷♂️📚
https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryGenius #MathErrors #ArtOfMistakes #HackerNews #ngated -
David Foster Wallace: the literary genius who makes math errors an art form! 🤓✍️ Apparently, in "Infinite Jest," math mistakes are as intentional and meaningful as the #footnotes. Let's just say he needed a calculator more than a dictionary. 🤷♂️📚
https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryGenius #MathErrors #ArtOfMistakes #HackerNews #ngated -
Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.
In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes
#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia
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Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.
In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes
#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia
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»#TikTok is adding #Footnotes, its take on #CommunityNotes: But the company isn’t walking away from #factchecking.« https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-is-adding-footnotes-its-take-on-community-notes-140040044.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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»#TikTok is adding #Footnotes, its take on #CommunityNotes: But the company isn’t walking away from #factchecking.« https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-is-adding-footnotes-its-take-on-community-notes-140040044.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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TikTok introduce "Footnotes" 📝, la sua versione delle note della community per aggiungere contesto ai video. Un approccio collaborativo alla moderazione dei contenuti sulla piattaforma. Da oggi gli utenti USA 🇺🇸 possono candidarsi come contributori se rispettano i requisiti. #TikTok #Footnotes #Moderazione
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TikTok introduce "Footnotes" 📝, la sua versione delle note della community per aggiungere contesto ai video. Un approccio collaborativo alla moderazione dei contenuti sulla piattaforma. Da oggi gli utenti USA 🇺🇸 possono candidarsi come contributori se rispettano i requisiti. #TikTok #Footnotes #Moderazione
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✨🎉 Breaking News: A nearly 30-year-old software guide has been updated with 475 #footnotes, because who doesn't love reading a novel's worth of annotations on obsolete technology? 📚🔍 Now you can finally revel in the subtle differences between user interfaces from the era of dial-up and the futuristic landscape of 2025. 😂🚀
https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2025-march-mastering-delphi5-annotated-complete.html #breakingnews #softwareupdate #techhistory #nostalgia #userinterfaces #HackerNews #ngated -
✨🎉 Breaking News: A nearly 30-year-old software guide has been updated with 475 #footnotes, because who doesn't love reading a novel's worth of annotations on obsolete technology? 📚🔍 Now you can finally revel in the subtle differences between user interfaces from the era of dial-up and the futuristic landscape of 2025. 😂🚀
https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2025-march-mastering-delphi5-annotated-complete.html #breakingnews #softwareupdate #techhistory #nostalgia #userinterfaces #HackerNews #ngated -
OpenAI launches ‘deep research’ tool that it says can match research analyst - why not have a few of these running all the time - the real time constant data feeds really get left out of the ai equation but i think it will start to catch up more for smb #free for commercial use #scan your data and use that as a framework for much more data #apa #citations #footnotes #McGyver ai #scapy
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The call for Web Residencies »Tools for Citation« from Akademie Schloss Solitude looks amazing:
"The residency encourages artists to delve into associative trails, transdisciplinary thinking, and collaborative processes in and between analogue and digital networks and worlds to explore the practices of citation."
Apply by 15 Dec 2024
/via @proff
#WebDesign #InterfaceDesign #Art #Design #Typography #Footnotes #Citations
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The call for Web Residencies »Tools for Citation« from Akademie Schloss Solitude looks amazing:
"The residency encourages artists to delve into associative trails, transdisciplinary thinking, and collaborative processes in and between analogue and digital networks and worlds to explore the practices of citation."
Apply by 15 Dec 2024
/via @proff
#WebDesign #InterfaceDesign #Art #Design #Typography #Footnotes #Citations
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#Development #Releases
Add content to print margins · The Chrome browser brings new CSS printing features https://ilo.im/160mvv_____
#Printing #Webpages #Content #FootNotes #CrossReferences #Chrome #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #CSS -
#Development #Releases
Add content to print margins · The Chrome browser brings new CSS printing features https://ilo.im/160mvv_____
#Printing #Webpages #Content #FootNotes #CrossReferences #Chrome #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #CSS -
🆕 blog! “How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress”
As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices must start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1. The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was nothing. If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancien…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/
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🆕 blog! “How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress”
As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices must start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1. The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was nothing. If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancien…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/
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How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices must start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1.
The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was nothing.
If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancient version of Markdown Extra. You can either monkeypatch this, or install a separate Markdown plugin.
I've patched my fork of it in two specific places.
Firstly, I set
$this->footnote_counter = 0;in the initial config of the footnotes.Secondly, I changed the display so that the ordered list began from zero:
<ol start="0">Wait… should that be zerothly and firstly?
There's no way to change footnote links to symbols like * or ♪. Perhaps I'll add that next3😉?
Anyway, I enjoy hacking around on my theme.
I've even got certificates in it! ↩︎
Or is it "noughtst"? ↩︎
OK, maybe there is a way. But it isn't particularly easy or automated. ↩︎
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/
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How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices must start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1.
The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was nothing.
If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancient version of Markdown Extra. You can either monkeypatch this, or install a separate Markdown plugin.
I've patched my fork of it in two specific places.
Firstly, I set
$this->footnote_counter = 0;in the initial config of the footnotes.Secondly, I changed the display so that the ordered list began from zero:
<ol start="0">Wait… should that be zerothly and firstly?
There's no way to change footnote links to symbols like * or ♪. Perhaps I'll add that next3😉?
Anyway, I enjoy hacking around on my theme.
I've even got certificates in it! ↩︎
Or is it "noughtst"? ↩︎
OK, maybe there is a way. But it isn't particularly easy or automated. ↩︎
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/
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So I thought I got info straight from a website but actually after spending 45 minutes on the wayback machine, it turns out that I apparently took what they actually said and then abstracted it to make a visual.
So, past me was quite smart (and my visual is quite cool) but past me didn’t quite get the credit right. Document document document, and claim credit for your own work!
#AmWriting #FactCheckYourself
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The new #Bibisco is really really good! The addition of #footnotes and #comments as well as the enhanced #CharacterDevelopment are a welcome surprise.
If you're a #writer or a #novelist and you've never really taken a liking to #Scrivener, then you really owe it to yourself to check out Bibisco.
It's free and open source (#foss)! But there is a Supporters' Edition available on Gumroad with a few extra features if you want to support its development.
bibisco.com/novel-writing-software-download/
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"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame."
Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
#FlannOBrien #Mirrors #deSelby #Footnotes #books #literature
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History’s Footnotes
The addition of footnotes to texts by historians began long before their supposed inventor, Leopold von Ranke, started using them (poorly, as it turns out).
By: Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily
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Oh the joy of #footnotes, this one has “I am using British understatement here. The American equivalent would be ‘utter crap.’” :-). If you're interested in the complete article do read https://www.tcj.com/reviews/rogue-trooper-blighty-valley/.