Making sure my kids are learning the correct versions of things.

These are all so good. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25

Some days I really love Seattle. www.thestranger.com/stranger-ele...

Did other people read this wild story? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...

My home desktop has an older version of MS Office but I'm being forced to upgrade and I'm actually a little sad. I do use the newer version on my laptop but I guess I'm turning into a curmedgeon.

#ica26 paper is submitted! Now I have to REALLY update my lecture for tomorrow, as I was planning on speaking on Meta Teen Accounts and last month there was a major overhaul of them. Sigh. Hopefully this will just be a little updating rather than a huge huge huge redo.

The #ICA26 deadline is 3 Nov 2025, at 12:00 noon ICAHDQ time (EST). We hope that everyone is feeling good about their submissions. Please remember to take a break and fill out your ScholarOne profile, listing your appropriate keywords (for CAT members, those are Communication & Technology: XXXX).

At the adverb cutting stage of my #ica26 paper.

@kexp-feed.nvm2u.com talking about impact89, my childhood public radio, made my heart soar.

Based on my neighborhood Halloween event, indeed 25% of costumes are kpop demon hunters. 💜

Unpopular opinion, huge costumes, particularly blow up ones, are not great for crowded Halloween events like when there are dozens of small children on an urban sidewalk crowding a store alcove 😀

North Americans, when would you say, approximately, that it became more common to see parents dressed up for Halloween with their kids or maybe just generally that adults wearing costumes became more normal? .

The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is seeking volunteers to be mentors at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Faculty from all ranks are welcome. CAT/Mobile membership is not required, but faculty should be aligned. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

Students who didn't do the @orbenamy.bsky.social reading are probably very confused by these stickers.

Is anyone else observing Malala's effort to say HEY I'M A PERSON, NOT A POSTER? I'm really happy for her.

As I continue to search for moral panic news stories for quiz questions, let us not forget the unicorn panic. This is Newspaper March 26, 1990 State Times (Baton Rouge, LA) (I emailed the article to myself on the bus, that's why it isn't newsprint)

Working on moral panic quiz questions again. How am I supposed to tell students that this wasn't that long ago?

We have the Mariners' game on (on Fox) and my 3-year-old just said, "we're not watching Fox News are we?" I SWEAR I've never discussed this with him.

Happy AWS outage day to those who celebrate.

My tiktok is full of children re-enacting Trapped in the Closet, particularly the Pimp Lucious part. Is this just me? My only explanation is people trying on pimp costumes at Spirit Halloween?

New thread on fun things I see while search for the pinball panic...

I'm looking up old articles on Dungeons and Dragons for a moral panic quiz and got a Toys R Us ad from 1984. Were board games really this cheap? I remember them being more like $20?

I'm making moral panic-related quiz questions for my class and... I just cannot....

I ordered a Derpy Tiger in July from the Netflix shop. It came the other day. This is one of the best made stuffed animals I've ever seen. Look at these whiskers!

I'm reading this piece and WOW! Leveraging ICTs: Central Asian women's agency in the context of bride kidnapping. Also great methods section! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week was too emotional to listen to this. But I knew that I needed to. If you put me in a time machine, back a decade, when I was actively researching this exact stuff in authoritarian regimes, if I thought I'd be listening to a podcast about this in the USA, I'd be 😕? youtu.be/2HUD9atKkUo?...

Do Vancouverites support the Blue Jays more than the Mariners?

Another great read. I don't think everyone understands that a lot of the Internet is this QVC like selling. restofworld.org/2025/indones...

Super interesting read. restofworld.org/2025/ai-chin...

Getting fifa tickets is extremely unpleasant.

I heard one song off the trainspotting soundtrack and went on a bender thinking... Did everyone else love this album as much as I did?

Basically every high school kid in Seattle walked out to protest down at the central district school office, protesting 2 lunches instead of 1. The district listened and stopped 2 lunches. These kids are so proud and so am I. (Also SPS has a civic engagement excused absence!)

Omg. BlueSky is methodone for millennial Twitter addicts, said @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on her podcast today.

I was just saying how glad I was that we didn't have smoke problems this August... Now...

Gross.

Any suggestions for a more recent update that is VERY accessible, that is an umbrella review of studies related to social media and well-being? Basically a 2025 version of this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Again, VERY VERY VERY accessible.

Yum yum.

Great video essay from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on surveillance capitalism - posted in late July 2025, so up-to-date. Students will like this because the framing is "is your phone 'listening' to you?" Looks like this will be a series, which is great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VL1...

This must be related to formerly living in Santa Barbara, right?

Will we be the only people with kpop lightsticks at the 1:15pm Kpop demon hunters singalong? It is possible!

Welp, @foxcahn.bsky.social 's interview with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social today is going STRAIGHT into my fall syllabus. This is excellent! (Power User in your favorite podcast app).

Don't hate AI.

Another vibe coded site bites the dust.

Did other people listen to open house party on the radio on weekend nights in the 90s? It wasn't on my local stations, but if I pointed the antenna in the right direction, I could get it on Flint Michigan stations. Then after I started going to Armenia, I realized John Garabedian was Armenian.

I came across this while looking for articles on age verification... Interesting perspective. I still need to chew on this a bit more though. www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-drive...

I'm offering 3 AI workshops for academic parents (although if you're not an academic or a parent, you're welcome to attend too.) Advanced on Aug 15 and 20, "basic" on August 25. www.katypearce.net/ai-empowerme...

It is common nowadays to use tools to "watch" how students have written in a document. "Watching" people type is both utterly boring and fascinating.

I'm offering 3 AI workshops for academic parents (although if you're not an academic or a parent, you're welcome to attend too.) Advanced on Aug 15 and 20, "basic" on August 25. www.katypearce.net/ai-empowerme...

I have a sincere question. Multiple students in my summer online course had hallucinated/fabricated references (to assigned materials) in their write up. I manually checked these. I gave them a list of what was hallucinated. I told them that this is serious. I marked down. I threatened reporting.

I've been trying to figure out why so many students seem to be attributing all sorts of stuff to @wishcrys (2018) that isn't in there. And by 2018, I mean her Real Life article, not her 2018 book on Internet celebrity. reallifemag.com/layers-of-id... I guess good ol' AI just loves that book too.