#footnotes — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 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

📚 🤔 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

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

»#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

✨🎉 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

I'm still not out of the rabbit hole of searching for an #OpenSource #PersonalKnowledgeManagement software. 🐰

I'm gonna give a second try to @zettlr tomorrow! Their docs are *surprisingly* user-friendly and they claim to stick to the pure #CommonMark where probable. It's all the while being nice to researchers with citing, inline usage of #TeXLaTeX, #MermaidJS, and pop-over #footnotes. Provision of the simple #PDF export and #Pandoc customization are welcome, too!

But, to be fair, I may be overexaggerating how good #Zettlr is because of my recent disgust with #VendorLocking. In fact, almost anything that closely follows the common spec and is #FreeSoftware might suffice already. Having something as advanced and closer to the roots is certainly refreshing!

#Markdown #zettelkasten #authoring #Zettlr #ReferenceManager #ReferenceManagers #PKM #NoteTaking #NoteTakingApp #NoteTakingApps #KaTeX #frontmatter #Obsidian #Logseq #Anytype #Notion #VendorLock #VendorLockIn #FOSS #FLOSS

"During a brief course in the history and philosophy of science, being unfamiliar with both the style of #footnotes and many of the authors, I took the short cut of adding #references to my essay based on how they appeared in the footnotes of the books I was reading. I saw lots of references to ‘Ibid’ (who I assumed was one of the plethora of ancient Greek philosophers) and duly cited them as “Ibid, p. 365”."

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#citations #research #ibidem #Latin

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What the footnotes reveal that the January 6th Committee could not: a treasure trove of evidence in black and white. Brilliant reporting by Benjamin Wittes (gift article, no paywall): https://wapo.st/3Y4gPeL #Footnotes #TreasureTrove #Jan6 #Jan6th #Jan6thCommittee #Jan6Report #USPol #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #Extremism #BigLie #Insurrection #SeditiousConspiracy