Lmao this introduction absolutely slaps

had a dream where I was at a conference and saw snoop dogg during the coffee break and thought “this is like the kind of thing that would happen in a dream” but obviously snoop and I knew each other so it was not

I will be stepping back from my public commitments but I will continue being around teenagers all the time

people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

I don’t think people were sufficiently amazed by this

were you aware that the thing that sounds like a siren in “I Like to Move It” is actually a sample of Sylvester from “You Make Me Feel”?? youtu.be/vuo8kD5zF5I?...

where is ebirah, horror of the deep

if I’m going to give multiple choice in intro to STS, might as well lean in to the absurdity

🔔new paper alert🔔 I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

was searching to confirm this and in the process found this lovely reddit reply under a deleted comment

okay chestertonhouse.org/events/the-w...

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

Was showing a YouTube video for my intro STS class from the in-room desktop and got a pre-roll ad for a bible and NASA-inspired nail fungus solution. You know we had to watch it and analyze on the fly.

students asking the pressing questions after last week’s discussion of manosphere discourse and attention

honestly not sure if this follows the cryptic rules exactly, but I think it does

What am I in for

I’m a Japanese fishing boat captain and my boat just got replaced with a miniature, is that good

I am obligated to share with you that this track off of Autechre's INCUNABULA, at about 15 seconds in, sounds unmistakably like "What What in the Butt" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lArX...

chat, do not sleep on LEENALCHI: four singers, two bassists, a drummer, korean pansori style, does not sound like anything else out there right now

hey that sucks

Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...

going through these, it was very funny to read one and be like "this is nonsense" and to discover it's the one written by a university president

returning to this for inspiration today

hey, so did you see the video of a Miss World Chile contestant singing death metal at the pageant youtu.be/MZXuK8bFJyg?...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

new LEENALCHI album!! youtu.be/PXM0W3BTmQ0?...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

going to see Boris play all the way through PINK tonight 😸 youtu.be/avDfUvnlx7Q?...

got to drop a well-timed "by the way, that Mamdani in the reading is Zohran's dad" in lecture today

honestly this is what the Impossible/Beyond Meat guys should be working on. passably-goat-tasting-but-plant-based birria should be treated like the fucking Space Race

No, I refuse to believe this and will continue to use it as a metaphor for all organisational life. If anything, I might do it more.

This is slightly old news though isn't it...? We were definitely talking about this back in the early 2010s at least. And my PhD supervisor then wrote this: link.springer.com/book/10.1057... after I gave him a copy of Lurie's Imaginary Friends that I found in a secondhand bookstore

Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

twice as many stars as usual

it was

When Godzilla day falls on a Monday

desperately want someone to write about the tone of these prompts—there are a million bizarre linguistic things going on here

this sounds amazing, looks like he does it (extemporaneous vocoder lecture break) regularly these days, found something like it from a concert earlier this year in Stuttgart: youtu.be/UES44tPrESA&... (at about 1:07:00)

this figure from the Sianne Ngai essay on cuteness is iconic

made it this long without realizing that Usha Vance was in the same class as me in college, gotta step up my wickedness if I want to compete

Give Daisy Buchanan a Gundam OK maybe not, her driving skills in the book aren't that great

omg local movie theater hosting 12-hour Godzilla marathon, Christmas coming early this year www.somervilletheatre.com/production/g...

the need for a contraption research center grows

the thing where you can highlight text and just paste a link to turn that text into a hyperlink—that's got to be the best UX invention of the last decade

we just had this with Whitney Houston last week