Congratulations to all our fall 2025 @lsu.bsky.social @manshipschool.bsky.social graduates!

grading ... done (*makes note to self to not save so much of this for the very very end of the semester*)

love this photo of Toni Frissell during c. WW2, that one of my students included in their final research paper for my media-history class @manshipschool.bsky.social

The release of the documentary series “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” produced by 50 Cent, marks an escalation in what was once a low-stakes beef between two hip-hop luminaries.

for my grad student colleagues, here's a very cool post-doc focused on the history of computing (which I would argue is very akin to media history): networks.h-net.org/jobs/69559/b... -- check it out, @manshipschool.bsky.social @masscommgrad.bsky.social

Good day for chili down here so it’s in the crockpot simmering into what I hope is a good iteration

First Sunday of #Advent #hope #waiting #longingforhome

I was listening to a podcast of authors talking about "bad review" parties where everyone brings their most brutal review to try to win a predetermined prize. Academics should do this with peer reviews. I think my "amusing at best, waste of academic time at worst" is a strong contender.

like they used to say on ye olde social media networks that no longer exist, reposting for the Monday crowd #othernetworks

A new week, a new morning news roundup from your friends at the @chicago.suntimes.com.☕ Today's lead: Feds eagerly used tear gas, caused crashes: Judge chicago.suntimes.com/morning-edit...

Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing

“Last” mow /yard cleanup of the season until Mardi Gras…despite the latest round of heat/humidity…and less than a week to go to Thanksgiving (!)

In my Foundations of HCI class, we’re in the midst of our social computing section, thinking about how to address online toxicities. Had the students play Masnick’s “Trust & Safety Tycoon” game in class yesterday. Their reactions: moderation is HARD... www.techdirt.com/2023/10/17/t...

🎊 Thank you for helping us reach 5,000 Bluesky followers! For anyone new to HMML, this page is a great overview of some of the countries where HMML has partnered with libraries to photograph manuscript collections for free online access: hmml.org/about/global...

"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This @nickhunebrown.bsky.social piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

📣 CALL FOR CHAPTERS 📣 Co-editors Amy Tooth Murphy & @georgesevers.bsky.social invite expressions of interest to contribute chapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory Handbook. Visit: oralhistory.org/wp-content/u... #OralHistory #OralHistoryTheory #Routledge #OralHistorian

cool new issue of @internethistories.bsky.social just dropped: (and just because an article of mine with a great friend and colleague is in it :): www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/9/3 #mediahistory

Friends! Here is the first episode of a new podcast i'm hosting. I'm thinking of it as a way of trying to have more of the conversations I have w/ smart ppl about the internet/politics/broken attention economy in public. first guest is the great @hankgreen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=A492...

Holy shit

This segment is so so good. Truly no one out there uses his platform like John Oliver

Stunning. Archives are everything.

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Read the dingus this week! Find some joy in the madness www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

Facebook, Google, Amazon and other platforms have invested heavily in creating convenience cocoons that make switching to competitors feel like too much of a heavy lift.

Accreditation of colleges, once low key, has gotten political lailluminator.com/2025/11/13/r...

This journalist has spent years studying the rise of QAnon and antivaccine conspiracism. After his house in Altadena, California, burned down, he found himself mired in similarly sticky webs of misinformation.

Immigrant parents are scrambling to secure emergency caretakers for their children as deportations increase under President Trump. Some said guardianship planning has become one of the few things they can control. “It helps me breathe,” said one mother.

Chili night