What is it like in your head?

I want to teach a class with this as the core text...

I know I don't post here much. I should, but I don't. Part of it is that it feels performative. The other part is that I don't want the gestapo snooping on me.

Canvas is down. Whether related to the AWS outage or not I don’t know. Sucks that this is how university infrastructure runs now either way.

I don't think we talk enough about Cultivation Theory and how it has turned vast swaths of people into completely unthinking blobs, like POTUS

It’s super bad to suggest someone is in hell, right, Republicans?

It was about "protecting women's sports" in the same way gamergate was about "ethics in gaming journalism."

Hint: if a group doesn't have any organizational structure, and instead affiliation is solely determined by ideological alignment, and the definition is deliberately distorted by its enemies, then declaring it a terrorist organization is solely a tool to dispose of political enemies

Trump's idea of hate speech is as nuanced as Michael Scott's idea of it

The unreality of fascism requires martyrs and Kirk is now a martyr for the fascist state that is being built around us. I would expect he gets a state funeral as well as all the pageantry that would go along normally with the death of a head of state because the fascist are building myths.

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.

"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it." - Albert Einstein, 1946

you cannot be disparaged by your own words... people cannot attack you with your own ideas if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats it is a reflection of the author

It's only political violence if it targets white conservatives, otherwise it's the way things are.

Matthew Dowd was right. Stating facts about someone is not celebrating, and CK was unnecessarily cruel, racist, and dehumanizing. His “brand” of rage bait is no different than the KKK of yesterday years. He did nothing to make society better, and actively made it worse.

Can someone explain why Americans are treating Charlie Kirk with so much respect when he treated EVERYONE but conservatives, including children killed in school shootings, with so much contempt and indifference?

“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. I think it's worth it.” – Charlie Kirk

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

This is my shocked face

Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, a "Teflon Don." But in truth he's becoming an increasingly weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2000...

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Just go home. Leave.

‘AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex.’ I’ll ask again: What is the trillion dollar problem that this trillion dollar technology is supposed to solve? A difficulty writing emails?

The first day of presentations here in Konstanz is about halfway done with the first day. It's fantastic to be together in a cohort that is aligned directly with my research experience

Kennedy’s the fifth dentist in those commercials where it’s like “four out of five dentists say you should brush your teeth” and if they cut to the fifth dentist it’d be RFK Jr, tweaking out on Zyn patches and roadkill, licking his rotten teeth and telling you “toothpaste is how they autism you.”

Happy Birthday, Mom! You passed 6 years ago, after fighting a glorious 20-year battle against dementia. So much has happened since then. From my earning a PhD, to your first grandson (by blood) earning his Eagle and going to College, to your first granddaughter (by blood) joking marching band

ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

The best part of white supremacy is assuming Black folks are just going to stop talking about racial oppressions because they order it. The Smithsonian is important but the lessons didn’t start there. Way to undermine your own institutions though.

One issue that media almost never considers is the overwhelming power that content creators have in shaping public perception. It's a responsibility There needs to be a recognition of how content can be interpreted, and misinterpreted. Art is subjective, but its consumption has a collective effect

And there we have it. A call to boycott SCMS this year.

Looking forward to visiting Konstanz and attending @gamesbeyond.bsky.social next month. It has been too long since I merely flew through Germany and Switzerland. I am looking forward to meeting and engaging with global scholars!

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended: Lucy Dacus *Parenting Gap* Barenaked Ladies Guster Dave Matthews Band U2

I have routinely visited DC for decades. I spent nearly a week walking and riding the Subway with my son for the 4th of July. I can say that I have never felt unsafe in DC at all.

I'm old! Mine is so old that Half Life 2 and the Orange Box Box don't even show up...

Elite pedophiles better watch out, the dumbest people we went to high school with are hot on your trail

I do not think Snyder really "understands" Superman, let alone superheroes. The Superman of Snyder is nihilistic and alien, a living god who shows no connection with the world around him.

Funny, the same right that has been shitting on academia for all long as I can recall (40+ years) finds out that not many folks in academia share their beliefs. Maybe right wingers have self-selected away...