been rewatching this interview with sam altman from cleo abram where, and i don't think i noticed this the first time around, he says "a kid born today will never be smarter than AI" and it sounds like a threat youtu.be/hmtuvNfytjM

eating a fully loaded turkey sandwich with a bag of some crunchy kettle cooked potato chips for lunch...... this is living

we’re live now! at 7.30pmET! nancy drew finale?????

ok what if the internet wasn’t a mistake

last night & the night before jack and i have been playing nancy drew: treasure in a royal tower. we're so close to the end we can taste it keep an eye on THIS SPACE and also buttondown.com/katbamkapow for when we stream next to close out the game -- because it might actually be TONIGHT!!!!!!

if you are in a professional or personal situation where you cannot fully divest yourself from something being rightly boycotted, you've got an easy out: shut the fuck up. no one asked. you're free. i'm not your priest.

something abt the cava bag is too good, here. the collection of washingtonian fast casual health food quarter zip and slacks vibe too powerful. when will they hit sweetgreen, chop’t

playing nancy drew again in ten minutes and we WILL get you up to speed, some come hang!!! there’s not a lot of substance to these games but at least there’s a whole lot of style 😎 😎 😎

We've passed 4000 magazines in our digital library! Every issue is cataloged and text-searchable, so it's easier than ever to do historical research with game magazines archive.gamehistory.org/folder/9a193... Here's a few recent highlights... 🧵

this exists it is called thinking

at BEST this is meta not understanding how its own recommender systems operate (ha!) to silo posts to its "most engaged" audiences alongside a woman whose back-to-school posts were, without her knowing, used as advertising in a predatory weaponizing of threads' T&Cs... which, frankly, is bad enough!

mark zuckerberg you dumb bitch you look like someone brought a dollar store Beaker puppet to life and gave it a PacSun gift card

if you can believe it, this is happening again TONIGHT. we WILL solve the mystery of the treasure in the royal tower

Nancy Drew games are... how should I put this?... "resistant" to being played live, so this will be interesting

at 6.30pm ET tonight, @katbamkapow.bsky.social will be beginning our new NANCY DREW LP, live on twitch.tv/katbamkapow

When ProPublica was reporting on baked in algorithmic bias a decade ago, this is what it was warning us about. But it was too abstract. Or we didn’t wanna fix it. Probably both! Probably both…

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

so after using it for almost a decade, zotero has updated and i am wary of the marketing speak in the company blog post about the update... i need my citation/PDF/scholarship cluster management tool to have zero personality... negative rizz preferred

1. UCLA is in negotiations with Trump. Now we know the demands. Trump wants a statement that UCLA does not recognize trans student identities, a ban on youth care at UCLA clinics, bathroom bans, and more. Students are fighting back. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

friendly reminder that tomorrow, september 18, is national CHEESEBURGER day. don't mix that up with may 28, national hamburger day. that's almost as embarrassing as confusing national hot dog day (july 16) and national chili dog day (last thursday in july). thank you for your attention in this m

do you remember when new outlets would embed tweets in their stories online & people would change their twitter username or alter their content so that it pointed out how their post was used without consent or misrepresenting what they originally intended? do you have... screenshots. or examples

Strange Antiquities is out! It's the sequel to Strange Horticulture, which is a fantastically atmospheric puzzle / mystery / plant game. Big recommend from me:

(nineties surfer dude "bodacious babe" voice) salient points

i see

Hmmm.

if it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's public

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Jooooooe. 😍 joepera.merchtable.com/A5PQ

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

as for me, i love being a dumbass

Hannah Einbinder accepting award: "Fuck ICE & Free Palestine" and after: ''It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.'

i see

I'm facilitating a workshop on personal archiving at Communiversity next month. One thing I am going to advocate strongly is that people start journaling again using ACTUAL NOTEBOOKS [not your phones].

live now! :) ✉️

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

about six weeks ago i said “send me the stuff you’ve got lying around in your house you’ve been meaning to do something with— a souvenir postcard from a holiday you never sent, a recipe you cut out from a magazine you never made, a stamp” and people DELIVERED. come hang tonight while we unbox!

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

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Excited the Spring/Summer 2025 issue @saa-official.bsky.social American Archivist is out! It includes a ✨Special Section on Accessioning✨ (edited by Audra Eagle Yun, Rachel Searcy & myself). 5 case studies straight from the field. Practice-driven, principle-supported scholarship: ow.ly/2epI50WVnyP

i think that i had such a shitty 33rd birthday that i constantly forget im still 33 and my brain just skipped right ahead to 34. i think when i do turn 34, it should revert my brain into thinking im 33 for a year, and then i can skip ahead to 35 (my president year)

painting these was a trip. forever grateful to bo for asking me to work on this project with them so that people can discover it anew again and again 🌊⚓️💦🐚🦪

👇 This thread omg

Ice cream trucks should cruise around playing soft jazz at 2 AM

Reading in the first week of Critical AI and Curation class: 🗒️ Bender and Hanna (2025) “Chapter 2: It’s Alive! The Hype of Thinking Machines In The AI Con 🗒️ Kotliar (2024) “Can't stop the hype: scrutinizing AI’s realities” www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/...

great advice going around for turning off autoplay videos but might i suggest

A new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social focuses on data center expansion in the US South, looking at environmental racism and practices of resistance. Can’t wait to dig in!

me: clean up your citations, it's easy to do! just a little mindless activity you can do to tidy up a document before you submit and make sure you've dotted your is and crossed your ts! :) also me: nnnnnoooooOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ah! ah! ah!!!!!!!!!!

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