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 <[email protected]> wrote: > At the very least, we should not speak our thoughts aloud, or keep our > private diaries on our devices. 🙂 > ------------------------------ > *From:* INDOLOGY <[email protected]> on behalf of > Ananya Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, April 8, 2023 3:23 AM > *To:* Claudius Teodorescu <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things > > This email originated outside Colorado College. Do not click links or > 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 < > [email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > > -- > Cu stimă, > Claudius Teodorescu > > > > -- > Sent on the fly, please excuse typos. > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- 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.) 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