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whatever you think about Australia’s social media ban, it seems important to hear from the teenagers actually affected by it 📵

“New Zealand’s Supreme Court ruling that four Uber drivers were employees… signals a deeper shift in how this country understands the business models behind gig-enabled platforms”

I’m holding a new book proposal workshop on January 9th! I’m donating 50% of all registration fees today to @trevorproject.bsky.social There’s also a 25% discount for unfunded scholars Save your spot today & write an outstanding book proposal in 2026! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/outs...

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

Proposed new laws in Australia would require workplace surveillance to be reasonable and proportionate, incl. 2 weeks notice of surveillance + new restrictions on workplace AI and automated systems used to allocate work, giving unions power to investigate those systems

cop isht

there is no cloud

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

gotta bring bring Bumpsy and Bumptious back [browsing OED to procrastinate boxing up my academic life for the latest restructuring]

Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.

happy 14th anniv. to all who celebrate the greatest academic listserv email of all time

manifesting

🍿 [cracks knuckles] 🍿

ouroboreos

computer and information science undergrad and grad enrolments in the US have dropped 7.7% and FIFTEEN PERCENT respectively

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Preliminary data from @umich.edu survey on student AI use for class. Most rarely/sometimes use AI & always follow class policies, but think others frequently use AI & only sometimes follow policies. Perceptions of misuse ≠ reality Misperceptions may provide implicit permission for misuse.

$13 Billion projected investment in new undersea cables from 2025-2027

Life is extremely kiki right now and I would really like it to be just a little more bouba

A great piece by @kattenbarge.bsky.social, with a powerful note from @mariahlwellman.bsky.social that the radicalisation of women and girls has flown under the radar because girly content online = make-up = ✨trivial✨, and yet it so clearly, clearly isn’t. www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...

What a queen

A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

From player pianos to ChatGPT, every generation fears its machines will colonize human experience. Yet we always find ways to reclaim them. I talked with Andrew Keen about why our bodies have always been technological—and who gets to design that change. 🎧 keenon.substack.com/p/why-our-fe...

“The advice to 'write every day' is ableist bullshit.” @slothprof.bsky.social (2023)

BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2 careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...

Tāmaki cops breathalysing morning commuters 👀

Explore the intersections of #literarytheory, #linguistics and #artificialintelligence in Cambridge’s new collection of chapters and articles: 🤖📚 https://cup.org/42HqvR8 Free to read (where not already #openaccess) until 30 Nov. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

All headlines, even @mcsweeneys.net headlines, are 2017 headlines again. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

Kiki Bryant, who wrote about "labor diggers" on her blog Uppity Negress this summer. Rather than contributing equally to the relationship, Bryant wrote, "a labor digger expects their partner to act as a maid, manager, therapist, or caregiver, while they provide minimal labor themselves."

2pacalyptic

Happy to report that The Baffler has released my new essay "The Texas Ideology" just in time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its inspiration, Barbrook and Cameron’s “The Californian Ideology.” Link below. Enjoy!

typescript ascending to #1 because AI does better with typed languages is… something

“said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell” not even the most cursed element here

Maybe I'm not plugged into the right literatures, but it seems like "the work of conversation" is substantially undertheorized in philosophy of language. Sustaining the flow of a mutually desired conversation takes cognitive/emotional labor, which can be distributed equitably—or not. #philsky 🐦🐦

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... here's the audio and i can confirm that i did not use any foul language while bemoaning the demise of basic science in new zealand

more metrics more problems #academicChatter #academicSky

h/t nosidesrecords.bandcamp.com

“Cloud infrastructure from American companies, whether located in Europe or Canada, is incompatible with sovereignty…These companies fall under US jurisdiction &, therefore, are subject to the 2018 CLOUD Act, which enables US authorities to access data they hold, even if that data is stored abroad.”

"Last remaining Māori news show has funding slashed" important story from @glennmccnz.bsky.social

the players in those voodoo sessions, unreal — I knew about roy hargrove and pino but this video with charlie hunter blew my mind #DAngelo

please send favourite #DAngelo deep cuts