these YT thumbnails are getting more insane by the day

brauche eine un be fristete e fünf zehn stelle zum an legen von schatten biblio theken

This Saturday we are taking you to CYBER_SPACE. We are going to go inside the Computer, onto the Information Superhighway. And we have found 4 amazing DJ's to really take us inside of the World Wide Web. Start: Saturday 16 May, 22:00 CEST / 16:00 EDT Join via: vrchat.com/home/group/g...

Reminder: Man kann noch eine Woche lang Abstracts für unseren Ad Hoc Call innerhalb des diesjährigen DGS Kongress einsenden ✍️✍️✍️ soziologie.de/aktuell/news...

film you've watched more than six times with a gif

PSA: Go to your YouTube app, options, then time management, then click the new option time limit for shorts. Then set that limit to zero minutes. Shorts are now gone from mobile. On PC, you can escape the brainrot with the browser addon "Unhook" save yourselves some time and braincells!

Deadline 3.5. #DGS2026 #Mainz #GameStudies

Wir sind bis Sonntag mit unserem Comic Non-Profit Verlag Polly auf der Leipziger Buchmesse :) Kommt vorbei, wir sind in Halle 5! :) #Leipzig #Buchmesse

they shut down horizon worlds, damn. Gotta make a last addition to my manuscript for that now...

I'm excited to announce that my new plugin VHS Pro is out NOW! A FFGL plugin that brings authentic NTSC composite video and VHS tape artifacts to your live visuals. 40+ tweakable parameters for everything from subtle analog warmth to "the VCR just ate my tape". Get it at glitchp0t.shop/l/vhs-pro

I made a linked in profile today bc of job search reasons. Man it just feels wrong 😭

Sleeved these speaker cables today! Also made the wooden Y-splitters myself in my dads workshop, that took me longer than I expected 😅

Culturally significant moment in my life relived

GdP Sachsen nutzt KI generierte Bilder für eigene Narrative (Bild via @boschpolforsch.bsky.social). Es ist das erste Mal, dass ich solche Bilder von seriösen Stellen sehe, die Ereignisse so darstellen, dass sie besser ins eigene Bild passen. Das ist nicht gut, der DGB darf hier nicht schweigen!

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterstelle, 1 Jahr befristet, 50 Proz-

Looking at uni jobs atm feels like an absolute clown show, everyone wants AI specialists all of a sudden, even in the social sciences and humanities 🤡

Post-defense PoE2 Session with a 5h London Elektricity liquid set playing in the background. Yeah this absolutely hits the spot...

PhD acquired!!! too tired to write something sentimental now, but I'm sure there'll be a time I DID IT

I will defend my dissertation tomorrow its happening TOMORROW ahhhhhhhhhh

Today the students of my uni hold a farewell party to a study program that has been cut. Several profs that are affected have been invited too. I for one am looking forward to the chaos that will ensue tonight lol. Don't think the new management is prepared for how bad this will look for them 🤣

Damn 🏃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV2O...

Just held a block course and have to hold three more 6h sessions next week. Then travel to Berlin for a presentation. Then travel to Brussels for another presentation. Then prep my PhD defense on December 15th. I'm back to working 12-16h days. I hope I don't collapse before can finish everything 🫠

I really hope I won't need to actually use linkedin in the future for work or something. I just went there to check someone's profile and saw a few posts that were doing the rounds and it was physically revolting to read. If I ever post shit like this y'all have permission to punch me

I was hanging out in Shattrath and Dalaran so much as a teen that I realized these MMOs and Virtual Worlds became genuine social sites, no longer games to me. That really was the initial spark that made me a media sociologist

Found a Nick Yee quote from his 2014 book "The Proteus Paradox" that resonates with me. I think of this a lot when I read papers and posts on how the Metaverse will revolutionize remote work and meetings 😅

"so i asked chatgpt"

Brazilian BBQ!

I DJd in a bus yesterday for my friends 30th birthday!

I cannot believe it. Deckard is finally real. Gonna miss waiting for it with y'all

(stolen from Twitter, I'm wheezing)

New meta-article published by Slater et al. on Social VR. What irks me is how little it tackles actual social lives that ppl (will) lead in VR, focusing instead on the commong categories of collaboration, work, wellbeing, teaching, AI, regulation etc. (1/5) www.frontiersin.org/journals/vir...

Polly Verlag is releasing its first book for children, "Pepe und die Draussentiere"! We are doing a release event in Berlin for it, where I will also do some comic readings. If you know anyone there who might be interested, let them know ;) Of course, the whole event is kid friendly!

This was my first time in Bremen and at a ZemKi event, was very impressed! Will keep an eye out for future calls and conferences to return eventually ;) I held a presentation about Social VR there yesterday 🗣️

I love my Job

To all vrc folks: For a sociological book that tackles everyday situations/life in VRChat, what cover do you imagine? What would bring accross your everyday experience inside vrc in a single picture or scene? Currently collecting some ideas, if you have any, let me know ;)

This makes me happy www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9N7...

Always am fascinated with how much work goes into VR filmmaking!

Call for Papers: Antifaschistische Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft #cfp #soziologie

Just watched One Battle after Another in my local theatre, can highly recommend! Sean Penn has such an amazing character in that movie haha

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Kai Cenat hit a million twitch subs, that is crazy to think about. The format is really mainstream now, with huge production crews and star power behind it.

Sitting in the Mittelbau/Post-Doc Meeting at #DGS2025 right now and my perspectives for sustainable work positions in academia are looking bleak, I gotta admit 🫠 There's a palpable air of defeated cynicism in this room, and I can't fault anyone for it. Not really looking forward to post-doc life 💀

Review times are really taking a toll on me atm... I have so much content I want to get out in the world, but its locked behind closed doors for who knows how much longer😞

Everything is truly coming back every 20 years or so, haha. I thought for sure this was uploaded two decades ago but its just emulating the style. Nearly looks identical to homemade electro dance videos I used to watch when i was like 14 years old 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlEv...

Will reach Durness today, that completes the western highlands!

NC500 still ongoing - don't know if I can do the whole thing but I'll try until I physically cannot move anymore!🦵

Climbed Baelach na Bà today, that one was on my list since I got back into cycling in 2020! So far the highlands are like a fantasy land, but also definately the hardest tour I ever planned. Day two over, a lot more to come!