This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

My former upstairs neighbor, out there doing the work <3

This is Goose. His stick didn't fit through the door at first. But Goose believed in himself, and more importantly, so did his doorman. 13/10 (TT: bigstickgoose)

ZeMKI Reminder: Save the Date 📢 On November 25th The last ComAI lecture with Taina Bucher on the topic “Tech Transitions - Presenting AI: Slowing down the future” will take place at the Bremen Press Club! More information: zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/event/tai...

If you have thoughts, questions, or concerns about the upcoming "AI" bubble, @the1a.org is doing a show on the idea in about 30 minutes, and your should call or write in with those thoughts, questions, or concerns: the1a.org/segments/the...

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Chatbots are not people. Stop conflating the two. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be better privacy with chatbots. We can have those things without them functioning in specific human roles.

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How.Dare.You, @durbin.senate.gov. You sold out your constituents and all Americans. We have endured so much in Illinois, then you pull this bs?! Pathetic. You and @schumer.senate.gov have been spineless since January. @housedemocrats.bsky.social better not be cowards like @democrats.senate.gov.

Help! Earlier today, I saw a post today about misinformation and disinformation regarding disease long before Covid. May want to assign it, but now I can't find the post. Anyone else see, bookmark it? #academicsky

Hey, @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov, you had better not be caving on anything. Bad politics, period. Selling out constituents. I hope every single Dem that caves is up for election and gets primaried. I will gladly donate to their opponents. @democrats.senate.gov

Julie is amazing, and her work is transformational.

Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language. Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day. Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)

Hey! Calling all Wonder Women! We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit. 50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

Regarding the fight for SNAP benefits: an often overlooked group on food assistance are university contingent faculty/instructors, certain staff, & many students. Some higher ed institutions already have food pantries, so it might be worth a call to see what they need as well.

Please consider helping my student Laura Müller by answering her English language survey on the perception of Instagram ads. The survey is anonymous & only takes around 5 minutes: www.soscisurvey.de/bachelorarbe... Laura is completing her BA thesis at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.

Honestly, ladies. If we want to be equal to men, we're going to have to ruin a whole lot more. 💅

An article by Andreas Hepp entitled “Approaching digital futures: why media and communication research needs to move from a perspective of consequence to one of emergence” was recently published in the journal “Communication Theory". zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/new-journ...

This will be my home for the next month while I work on research regarding the proliferation of AI in everyday life and the implications for individuals and societies.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

So the NYT didn’t endorse Mamdani, but now thinks it can set policy for him. 👌 Out-of-touch doesn’t even begin to describe their editorial board. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Mamdani should recognize that his election shows that he is wrong on the issues and should abandon his policies and preferences for a bland Park Slope technocratic corporatism. @nytimes.com tomorrow

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Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

No. Just no. AI, particularly facial recognition, is notoriously faulty. Furthermore, law enforcement previously has wrongly arrested people in other cases (not ICE related) by relying only on the technology and not following up.

You don't say, LinkedIn news. You mean the plagiarism machine that spits out wrong things isn't a reliable replacement for actual human labor?

For the win:

Now this is the community service journalism I am here for. Might have to independently corroborate results, though.

How do you possibly learn to think critically about—investigate, protest, boycott, historicize, hold accountable—big tech *power* when your uni culture & leadership says to embrace these companies? When tech employees teach classes & you need their favour for jobs? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

Devasting on all fronts. New details of Sewell Setzer III's interactions with Chatbot, activities in his last days. Fuller details on Character Technologies, Noam Shazeer, De Freitas. Devastating. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/m...

Amid growing public demand for tech accountability on harms & rights, the public has turned to scientists — especially on issues of causality. So how can we reliably inform courts? Join @meetalijain.bsky.social & me online Oct 29 at @thecoalition.bsky.social citizensandtech.org/2025/10/even...

I hope the person who thought CVS’s new phone system was a good idea has bad karma for the rest of their life.

I feel like I will be repeating this until I die, but here is your reminder that AI neither understands what you are asking of it nor what it tells you. #academicsky #journalismsky

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

- 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. - 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. - 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

This is Poet. He would have really crushed it as a barista in the early to mid-2010s. Born in the wrong decade smh. 12/10

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.) Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

the difference between a wonderful audiobook performance by a gifted voice actor and this "digital voice" horseshit masquerading as legit audiobooks makes me steaming mad. good narration is important and deserves to be paid for!!!!!!

This is really excellent work, just released by #AoIR2025 keynote speaker Marie Santini's Netlab Brazil, on #greenwashing in LinkedIn ads ahead of #COP30. Can't think of too many people who've even paid attention to advertising practices on LinkedIn ! (ping @ketanjoshi.co)

Thanks to American Campus, the podcast about the history of higher education, for featuring my book. We talk about how NPR and PBS emerged from equal access to education discourses. And how Media Studies originated as a strategy of public media activism.

Has anyone tried the Apple AirPods real-time translation? Would like to know how they work generally. Any experience with them translating German would be extra helpful.

Looking for new carry-on luggage that is not a roller bag. I travel often. Needs to be durable and (fairly) stylish. What do you good folks suggest? ✈🛄

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence reut.rs/4h2JXgV

Strongly worded, but 🎯 "Trump is putting Europe under pressure to water down its digital rulebook. But now more than ever, Europe should hold large US tech firms accountable" The time is ripe to put the DSA, DMA, AI Act etc to work. Not pause or water down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...