Man, I wish the libre/onlyoffice writer apps didn't run so poorly. I despise word but I don't feel like I'm fighting the app when writing.

@epochphilosophy.com dope production value on the new video!

Gotta say I’m a fan of cachyOS. Reduced the potential headache from arch for sure.

Would love to see a mockumentary style series about grad school in a social science program. though every character would be a nihilist incapable of joy

Well I've done it. I have learned some fairly effective HTML and CSS skills instead of making solid progress on my dissertation this summer.

Hell yeah

One day I hope to turn my dissertation into a work even half as brilliant as this masterpiece:

looking to move out of the google/dropbox ghetto i currently live in. the @proton.me services worth it?

Healthy, vital, bright red like a fire truck skin

@epochphilosophy.com dig the new video! My dissertation is gonna deal a bit with dead labor and hauntology, definitely cool seeing your video touch on a similar space!

LaTeX is a great idea with absolutely dogshit implementation. holy hell is this shit inconsistent

Have a love/hate relationship with linux. Love the lack of MS or Apple bloat (though the former is far more egregious than the latter on the desktop os end of things) Absolutely despise how difficult it is to find a stable and actually useful open source approach to text editing.

Introductory video for my satanic panic lecture I gave this semester.

No clue what happened but something screwed my mint install and in the process corrupted multiple drives. Not ideal to lose a bunch of work when in the middle of dissertation proposal prep.

My review of Deena Isom's "Gratuitous Angst in White America" is now available at Crime, Media, Culture. She offers a compelling exploration of the social psychological components of "white criminality." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The open source community(?) is a weird beast. A mix of privacy consciousness and skepticism directed at large corporations paired with a complete political ineptitude with regards to how politics function. Generally promoting good practices but often in a way that misses the bigger picture.

Heat fuckin rules. Great movie all around but that gunfight in the street is one of the best in the biz.

what the fuck is this AI slop doing in proquest

That kinda night.

It just doesn't feel like Fable without Molyneux making outlandish promises that can never be delivered.

Added a nostalgia/hauntology section to my intro course this year. We'll see how it goes. While hauntology might be a bit abstract for the students, touching on nostalgia might prove engaging to students (not to mention gesturing to its role in contemporary politics)

Found in my time teaching that students tend to appreciate worksheets that get them out into the world (and as a sociologist that's what I should be doing anyway). Still altering, but this should be a fun exercise for my students.

Working my way through Pentiment and I'm reminded of what I enjoy about all @obsidianent.bsky.social games. They don't hold the player's hand.

Okay LaTeX is actually pretty dope once you get the hang of it. Some quirks to iron out but for templating and such it's vastly superior to MSWord and its ilk.

Let the process of learning LaTeX begin.

We're going back in time tonight.

Brilliant work.

trying out "zen browser." Interesting. Dunno how I feel about the interface.

nw

For some strange reason, Linux seems to not cooperate with word processors or even markdown editors particularly well in general. Annoying, especially as an academic attempting to shift over to Linux full time.

Getting a dissertation off the ground, prepping lectures, completing a book review and getting my advisor a manuscript draft.

Adjusting back into linux is reminding me of some of the pain points. First and foremost, libreoffice still sucks and there's really no getting around that.

Assigned this one to my students this semester. Great read!

If only he'd been president then we might've been able to do some of this

Day 3 being home for the holidays. Thus far i have narrowly avoided yet another viewing of “Four Christmases.”

Excellent work from Siddarth Kara. Highly recommend that all read, particularly if you want to expand your understanding of how, despite marketing and appearances, the shift to renewables does not do away with the harms of the neocolonial order.

The amount of AI-generated slop on YouTube now is staggering. Don’t get me wrong, there is still good stuff from creative people there, but the use of AI voiceover and imagery in the “explainer space” is insane.