How do Visa + Mastercard control what content is allowed on platforms? (spoiler: moral panic+algo-bias) My 💥new article💥 out today in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social clarifies credit card + payment processor influences using Pornhub's 2020 moderation scandal full article: doi.org/10.1080/2326...

the lol I lolled (cc @acorsin.bsky.social)

trying the salty emailing with links to scholarly societies’ fair use guides strategy now

okay

briefly escaping the horrors by taking my children to try out the youth gamelan

I just learned that they make these, and it’s going to make egg storage so much easier 🤯 I’ve been keeping them in a variety of small bowls and containers. This way, I’ve got one convenient basket for them all!

Available for illustration and comic art work ✨ #PortfolioDay

honestly shocked that the university (in TN!!) would agree to this, given what it seems like institutions can get away with these days

guy named Helmut Stupido

Sex, Lies, Videotape, and Mothra!!!

evergreen

my new vocal stim is "INJECTED WITH A POISON" www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDX7...

it’s been a rough decade for the “people have values and make decisions based on them” crowd

sorry, the kaiju-posting has to increase

so Godzilla 2000 is basically just “Godzilla vs the CGI Blob”

happy new year, apply for job bsky.app/profile/nick...

Does anyone have familiarity with trying to get a journal to allow you to include online meme images as figures without tracking down the originator and having them sign a license?

been using the dj controller with my eight-year-old daughter and she’s taking notes on transitions she likes 🥹

the kids are enjoying the explore-an-uncharted-planet board game

ah, the worst higher ed reporter of all time is at it again

Behold, my one of a kind Kermit The Frog Energy Dome! And inside? A screaming Kermit mouth!

okay Magical Athlete is a tremendous hit, like Mario Kart in board game form and very funny (also very randomness heavy, though not entirely) www.cmyk.games/products/mag...

from the fucked up files of mrs. basil e. freakweiler

ho ho ho folks, structuralism is back

this could be an STS book

Mara Mills, “assistive pretext”!!

don’t talk to me or my son ever again

got two very different kinds of RPG for my two very different kinds of children

not to be mean, but it seems like people who were doomers about congestion pricing should get some kind of demerits

unfortunately a great example of chiasmus

thought I heard a christmas version of “Slob on My Knob” at the brewery, was just regular slob on my knob

get it folks, best internship

every year we make a commemorative felt ornament for the tree, this year’s is:

children brought back the gundam kit, I got a FamilyMart one

hate it when there are deans inside of departments, as is so common at real universities

oh this YHWH Nailgun album is very good

the gachapon gundam situation is getting out of control here (pictured: gundam number one)

episode 4 of ALGOpod is out, featuring @nickseaver.website on the art of mouse-jiggling and other #algorithmicfolklore open.spotify.com/episode/4aYF...

Oh yes. And if you're interested in the other side of the story - the major record label perspective, discussed here briefly - then my own book might be a good one to pair with Pelly's, maybe. (Sorry for the self-promotion. The algorithm isn't doing it for me.) bsky.app/profile/polt...

anthropology of kinship take on this requires us to settle whether it’s father’s brother or mother’s brother

man, we don’t even have a faculty lounge anymore

The book that Springer used in a targeted advert to me on Facebook

kids learned to write their names in katakana, only for Gus to discover that they have *volcanic* Gus here (火山ガス)

They’re playing Moby in my Tokyo hotel’s lobby bar

nunwashing

wait

I found this guy on TikTok who does amazing live reharmonized flugelhorn solo performances: youtu.be/OC0U-wKxHk8?...

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