[INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things

Sun Apr 9 00:11:06 UTC 2023

I have set my academia account to never email me and have even asked gmail
to send everything there to spam and yet about once a year they sneak into
my inbox and I have to do it all over again.

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:44 PM Tracy Coleman <tcoleman at coloradocollege.edu>
wrote:

> At the very least, we should not speak our thoughts aloud, or keep our
> private diaries on our devices. 🙂
> ------------------------------
> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> Ananya Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 8, 2023 3:23 AM
> *To:* Claudius Teodorescu <claudius.teodorescu at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* indology at list.indology.info <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things
>
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> attachments unless you know the content is safe.
>
> I find there’s a lot of leakage between one’s mobile phone calls, emails,
> social media accounts and services like Academia / Research Gate / Dropbox
> / Interfolio. It’s only a matter of time before our thoughts too become
> accessible, predictable and monetizable. In the event that as academics we
> can’t go off the grid entirely, perhaps it’s better to resign oneself to
> this invasion of the mind snatchers?
>
> AV.
>
> On Saturday, April 8, 2023, Claudius Teodorescu via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If it is the case that Academia app was installed, one can notice that it
> collects name and email address (see [1]), which is sure enough to
> correlate with information from Indology archives, which are public.
>
> Maybe deleting the Academia account will help.
>
> Claudius
>
> [1]
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.academia.academia&hl=en&gl=US
>
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 11:11, Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> I once uploaded an article to Academia and, since then, I receive
> notifications every day that 'people' are reading this article and other
> papers of mine. Usually, I don't know these 'people', which could even be a
> certain CuneiformComposite (the name of a font), but some are known to me
> and appear in my emails.I also receive notifications that my name has been
> quoted in such or such article (some having nothing to do with my work, as
> very specialized medical articles by instance), but it is impossible to
> know more, without paying. This seems to be a very erratic process,
> probably led by a silly robot.
>
> Best,
>
> *Jean Michel DELIRE*
> *Lecturer on History of mathematics - IHEB (ULB)*
> *Lecturer on **Science and civilisation of India - Sanskrit Texts - IHEB
> (ULB)*
> *Member of the Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences (KBR, Bruxelles)*
> *Member of the Société Asiatique (Paris)*
> *Member of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies*
>
> Le ven. 7 avr. 2023 à 23:38, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>
> That's quite suspicious.  Perhaps Kaul had a burst of online business and
> posted to INDOLOGY and *at the same time* uploaded the review to
> Academia, which triggered your notification.  We can't tell from Academia
> when papers are uploaded, but the review has 317 views, which suggests it
> was uploaded a while ago, not recently.  So that explanation is probably
> wrong.
>
> How could Academia possibly be getting information about your incoming
> emails?  What mechanism can we imagine?  Emails don't deposit cookies, so
> cross-site cookies aren't the pathway.  If Academia is harvesting from the
> INDOLOGY archive, which is technically possible, then *everyone* would get
> the Kaul notification or similar ones, not just you.  It's hard to see how
> this might work.  Without a plausible mechanism, I'm staying with
> coincidence.
>
> But I have all my Academia notifications turned off, so I never get
> anything from them.  If I want to know their stuff, I look at the website.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
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> Claudius Teodorescu
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Patricia Sauthoff, PhD (she/they)
Assistant Lecturer
Department of History, Classics, and Religion
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada

(I will respond as quickly as I can. In the meantime, here is a pdf
<https://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/med-guided2.pdf> of some of my favorite
simple guided meditations.)

Author: Illness and Immortality: mantra, maṇḍala, and meditation in the
Netra Tantra
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