Unprecedented interaction where someone responded to my Dutch in English and I got them to switch back to Dutch through sheer persistence and excellent pronunciation

Excited to annoy a new milieu in the fall

have to say I am increasingly comfortable asking a chatbot questions whose answer requires the synthesis of 2-3 wikipedia articles

I avoid the words "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" with my kids, preferring the gender-neutral term "special sweety"

last day of Verso's 40% sale on their tech books (including mine!) www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

new open-access edition of Vectoral Agents, on the tension between agential AI and agency, has dropped networkcultures.org/blog/publica...

After an exhausting/exhaustive trip through Estonia I am looking forward to the Digital Methods Summer School starting tomorrow… first time leading a project, and first time coordinating a methods tutorial, so a bit intimidating as well!

I'm always being thanked for my prompt response

gotta say, watching people going through midlife crises in real time via social media really sucks!

My children have spuriously decided to root for Germany over Curaçao

Nothing has made my kids laugh like my impression of “Dutch Gromit”

Trying to get started on my work, but keep noticing how much enjoyment the Others are having… kinda seems like it might even be at my expense

my graduating critical studies students have their exhibition this week sandberg.nl/events/213907

come work with me! great early career position in a collegial and collaborative environment (plus you can bike to work)

William Z. Foster, chaiman of the Communist Party USA, thought that the post-revolutionary capital of the United Soviet States of America should be Chicago

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