"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

As a kid who went to a mid-tier SLAC on scholarship, and then went to a good, but not Ivy, public university, I am always amazed at the fact that we don't talk about this kind of class/status/resource stratification. When I step onto campus at an Ivy, I feel ill-at ease. 1/4

Nothing says “middle-aged” more than hanging around the Starbucks you treated yourself to after dropping off your tax returns because the playlist is peak Gen-X bangers.

The book Still A Man’s World (pub 1995, still depressingly relevant) studies men’s experiences in the female-dominated fields of teaching, nursing, librarianship, and social work. 0% surprisingly to anyone who has been in any of these fields (I’ve been in 2) — 🧵

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They made Jesus my type to lure me in I see

The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.

Gotta say, it’s really affirming to see someone who covers wearables as their job point this out. www.theverge.com/column/90973...

Boy I love living in the age of "AI", where every new startup or project is the most unsettling nightmare of abuse and exploitation and alienation possible (until the next one makes the previous one seem tame by comparison)

This is really a fantastic TL; DR (AND ZINE!) to give to anyone wanting to get started in DH and trying to get their heads around building a corpus.

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

Thank you for publishing my piece @readywriting.bsky.social where I describe my journey as a writer grappling with #AI. Long story short: I hate it. But I am honored to be featured alongside these incredible educators in this issue of the NTLF onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

New Pew Research on how Americans get their health info.

I will go to my grave hollering IF YOU TEACH PEOPLE WELL WHILE TREATING THEM WELL THEY CAN LEARN

Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world. www.weareravenous.com

Over the last couple of days I’ve uploaded over 350 unique items to my website. All things made by me up in the Yukon. Lots of earrings but also magnets, patches, pins, coasters, hair clips, etc. Polymer clay, wood and fabric. Everything is $5-$30 Canadian. #bsnm Loxythemaker.com

Interesting.

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

The Machine That Changed Everything: How the Apple II Kickstarted the Personal Computer Era

In a special "loosie" installment of Catalog Club I talked about the album that has probably changed the most in terms of critical esteem during my lifetime. Free post! tinyurl.com/4b7vn9nt

Tonight! Catch D&S board member Cindy Cohn, author of the new book "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance," on @thedailyshow.com!

As a Crohn's patient I don't want natural organic remedies, I want the special high-tech biologic meds that scientists in lab coats cooked up over the past 15 years. It is magic, hook that shit into my veins forever, I'm not going back to being sick all the time

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

Attention universities:

"Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government,” the judge wrote.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Nothing like reading a book waiting for your flight and finding yourself sobbing in the gate area…

Galton's eugenics should be understood through the lens of race, class, gender AND disability: the latter especially so, given how the gAI industry uses #DisabilityAsDiversion (@fractalecho.bsky.social) to bypass and short circuit legitimate critiques.

He even says “I live the dream, bro,” spreading his hands as if outlining a movie screen. The statement of a man who believes he has fully executed a pre-determined set of expectations. A “real man” is by definition an artificial one, performing a script written by others.

If you’d like to bring boredom back into your child’s life, sign them up for swim team and don’t let them have a device during the swim meets.

It's a really specific kind of nostalgia that hits you when you watch an old episode of Price is Right. Chances are you haven't seen that particular episode or clip when it happened, but the vibes and familiarity of the show, Bob Barker, the games, the vibes...

Yeah, it can often take people a while to fully comprehend the violence and abuse they experienced, particularly sexual violence. Even when they understand it, people are often mentally resistant to admitting it.

It's a weird time to be in the digital pedagogy/academic technology space. I have so much more to stay, but maybe just read @audreywatters.bsky.social because she says it way better.

"I want to remind you that the future is yours, and it is not known — not by you, not by Georgetown, not by Sam Altman or Elon Musk, not by the chatbot, not by me. And that is a beautiful thing."

I've heard rumors and snippets for about as long as I've been in the Army, and no one who called the whole operation a clusterfuck was ever exaggerating

I've turned on the OOO email starting tomorrow, I have a swim meet this weekend, and then on Monday I'm off to visit Humboldt with the daughter. Not sure if I'm looking forward to or dreading the 6hr drive from San Fran to Arcata.

The new Darwin award-winners are going to kill us all. cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app

LOL in the end who survives is going to depend on proximity to an idiot like this.

Here's the thing: there is no going back to a different era of Twitter. This doesn't replace it, Threads doesn't replace it, Twitter doesn't replace it. That era is dead, no return, it was a very fun 5-10 year window or so that dragged on past its prime until it dropped off a cliff.

HOLY SHIT PROJECT HAIL MARY IS AMAZING. All the seemingly hyperbolic hype was actually just the truth.

New dream job unlocked.

Real life Lex Luthor still Lex Luthoring

And I try to break it to them gently: honey, you cannot be a writer under these conditions. Some believe me. Some don’t.

This is exactly how my class discussion started. These are graduate students, btw. A lot of students really take my courses for writing instruction and not content. So the issue of finishing a draft comes up. Turns out they cannot write (or read a long text) because they have every notification on

I haven’t had notifications on my phone in a decade. A list of exactly five people can break through my DND if they call twice. This freaks 1) millennials 2) Gen Z 3) students out to no end. I don’t know how we ever thought this was okay but then again I’m old.

Perfect

Have been waiting for this one for a long time

“If we really cared about people, we would increase housing, we would increase basic income. Instead, we’re creating expensive task forces and expensive cameras that are about surveilling people.”

ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts