Looking forward to rooting for Curaçao in the World Cup

It’s too bad Baudrillard’s critique of Enzenberger in "Requiem for the Media" is so gnomic and annoying, he seems like he might have a point or two!

welcome to my first tiktok meme, following the #redshambhala trend, itself a problematic "spin" on right-wing agartha memes and part of a general schizoid aesthetic of "hype moments and aura-farming"

Plein air oil painting of Zuckerberg's megayacht in flames on Lake Union in Seattle. 9"×12" oil on panel

tough question I'm wrestling with today: is it too hot to go to the Yemeni restaurant for my daughter's birthday dinner?

In a second-grade class in the Netherlands, the teacher will just ask “who here believes in God” and like half the class doesn’t raise their hands

Anybody else grow up listening to Jack Nicholson reading Rudyard Kipling? youtu.be/FuRrbcaDD9E?...

Reading the Pope's AI encyclical. Tons of references to the Bible -- not sure how this is relevant

Yet another holiday in the Netherlands — Pinksteren, or Pentecost. My preferred term is “Easter 3”

belatedly realized I had a student re-inventing Hardt & Negri's Empire from first principles in their thesis...

student confessed that she'd been watching Euphora, but "through Reels, so I might be missing a lot"

my favorite music genre? probably zumba

ok ok, i'll do it

"A specific kind of literary performance is emerging – call it hot intellectualism." www.protein.xyz/the-writer-a...

Last night I referred to Jacques Offenbach's Galop Infernal as “the Percolator of its time”

Lord give me the confidence of a mediocre university president

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my eldest (9) is begging me for a DJ Screw t-shirt

From the magazine Computers & Automation, 1962

had some real archival successes the past couple weeks so i'm challenging myself by trying to find mp3s of the hardstyle remixes from tiktok schizoposts

how much of the crisis in reading is because american parents have given the fuck up

Round of applause for @alexhanna.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social, Catherine Lhamon, and Laurie Palmer for being invited to speaker at a UC Berkeley commencement but refusing to cross the picket line until AFSCME 3299, the union for staff, gets what they need.

although I’ve never clicked on any of them a SINGLE time, YouTube never stops recommending me “liquid dnb chill n64“ mixes

Concordia U is hosting this event — we’re going to make it into an episode of The Data Fix. I think that anyone can register and attend online or in person:

ok, canvas is evil, but you're not going to convince me to say "we should just go back to the superior method of students emailing their papers individually in a million different formats at a deadline of their choosing"

Massive thanks to @gavinmueller.bsky.social for this book review. You can't ask for for a better review: it's highly engaged with the analysis, understands the project, really gets the style and readership, while also identifying the book's limitations. Loved reading about how Gavin read my book.

IT'S HAPPENING! Over the past month the first three articles that are part of the special issue on Utopian Media Studies have been published (links in thread).

Subscribe to me, Chat, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of mogging, the streamer, trolled for years on end

had no idea Public Enemy made a track about Mao... Kool-Keith-esque flow too www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOtU...

recently learned that John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers had his life changed by an Autechre concert and now makes IDM with Venetian Snares.... congrats to Warp Records for another high-level one-shotting www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZhs...

Baudrillard wants to know if it’s got a lil stank on it

Got an invitation to my neighbor’s amateur cabaret performance. Really feels like that bit from Big Lebowski. Can’t wait to go

Probably the worst thing you can do is tell someone you are a professor at a university

It's hard to believe that a White House UFC fight for the 250th anniversary of America is happening. Mike Judge must be considering seppuku

How your email finds me:

Forgetting for a second that the “slur” quoted by Roth is not racist, it is quiet part he says aloud: like Fitzgerald’s Tom Buchanan, Roth imagines the rich are a different race of people. Class eugenics are now a matter of elite common sense

It’s official: I am too swole for Uniqlo shirts 😔

Any good essays on Epstein Thought, meaning the commonalities in his intellectual network around evolutionary psychology, genetics, intelligence, and AI?

“You want me to sing in English? But I can’t sing, and I don’t know a word of English!” Italo disco producer: “Perfect”

as if Outlook didn't suck ass enough, now it's randomly not sending emails through... like 5% get stuck in drafts without notifying me

my new hobby is watching Dutch reality shows and trying to identify the Belgians

As he transitions from Squarepusher to “Peanut Butter Jelly Time“ on the playlist, it is clear he is my son

In my research on internet Maoism, I came across a self-published sovereign citizen text from 1993 with this cover

Mark Fisher: the future has been slowly cancelled, there is no more creativity Brazilian DJ: What if I run this anime theme through 10 filters, completely shred it on an MPC, and then get my neighbor to rap over it

as brilliant as he was, Marx lived to early to benefit from the insights of media studies

excessive verhoeven levels…

I think of myself as strongly anti-nostalgia but I spent the evening playing Worms Armageddon and listening to Nine Inch Nails with my kid so

anybody else have this site return a 403 error for the past 3 days?