I quit using Facebook almost 10 years ago and now the only time I check it is when a friend has died, which at this age threatens to make me a habitual user. Deathbook. Ghoulbook. HardToFacebook.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

One nice kind of happiness is when your 14 year old dog who’s been very unwell with one thing after another for 10 months has kicked it all and is eating enthusiastically again.

Sometimes I like to check the Rockd app as if it were social media and yep, still sitting on precambrian rock, nothing has changed.

Yay, our glorious @mediaarchaeologylab and her fearless leader @loriemerson appear in @FastCompany this week! Come visit us sometime. https://www.fastcompany.com/91483774/these-historic-computing-labs-teach-kids-what-technology-was-like-before-phones-social-media-and-the-cloud

when you wake way too early but then realize you’re thinking about dunking ceramics in buckets of glaze and not about work so you mind a lot less

some exciting news: announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors. submissions open Feb 12.

Insta ad algorithms are convinced I should become a certified Forest Therapy Practitioner and, ya know, maybe they’re right.

Catherine O’Hara made me laugh so hard so many times. Too soon.

Update: Blacksmithing is absolutely not the thing for 2026. But now I will forever appreciate hand forged things far more.

Neighbor across the street emailed to alert us that a mountain lion attacked her dog when she let him out last night. (dog is injured but will recover, lion is… gonna try our dog next?) I’d still rather live among animal predators than government ones.

Some sunrises DELIVER

Cancer treatments for people in Greenland are carried out in Denmark, mostly Copenhagen. People in treatment either travel or stay (for months) in 🇩🇰 Greenland and Denmark collaborate closely on cancer treatment. Treatment can be improved, a new cancer deal was signed in 2025 #factsmatter

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

“It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Shutting the government down because the president’s thug army keeps murdering American citizens for no reason seems pretty reasonable, IMO!

Deepest gratitude to the people of Minneapolis.

social media is a thousand indoor kids calling each other cowards for not individually waging physical combat revolution against the largest military in the world

HIGHLY recommend!

Why yes I did just write “authenticity, schmauthenticity” in something destined for publication and no I don’t think I’ll edit it out.

If you want to be humbled, take your first blacksmithing and your first pottery wheel classes at the same time. So many everyday objects become wondrous.

Good morning

Do they know what “breaking” or “news” mean?

Reminder that our intern search closes this week. I am especially interested in working with people on questions of emerging norms of AI use and non-use in work contexts.

Cancelled my Hilton account. That was easy. Hard to imagine sleeping soundly knowing who might be down the hall.

Felt like trying to remember a fever dream but apparently I really did once experience this liveforlivemusic.com/features/bob...

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

They spent all that time complaining about crime in cities so they could implement their solution of killing people in cities.

What a time to revisit a ranty essay I wrote about social media a decade ago. The things I ranted about got so much worse than I knew they would. So much worse.

Since the world is asking, and sometimes supposing otherwise: The victims of America — Black, red, yellow, brown, and everyone else with a marked identity — who still live in the USA know precisely what it is, and know it in a way that few people elsewhere in the world ever will

The president of Venezuela must be held legally accountable for his crimes, which the Supreme Court forbids to happen for the president of the US, who recently pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes.

Congress please do your job. Impeach. Remove. Convict.

Always a shock to wake to a high crime and misdemeanor.

Signed up for a blacksmithing class because why not. Maybe banging hot metal with heavy tools is just the thing for 2026.

A thing that makes me happy: Our son’s chef friend who, as his gift, cooked a spectacular dinner for my son’s wedding, just opened his own restaurant (Victoria BC). We got to go opening night. Now 3 weeks later it’s always full and has 5⭐️ reviews calling it the best Thai restaurant on the island.

Have now entered the cooking chicken and rice with pumpkin era of getting this old dog to eat.

Tried a complicated new recipe for dinner last night and now my beloved sister in law says I have to make it every Christmas. Guess that’s a win.

Lines I did not expect at Christmas dinner: “Pickleball is a great way to market audiology.”

Have yourself a merry sunrise

Came to our door just after midnight but didn’t ring the bell.

I am told that announcing you make donations encourages others to do the same. So at the risk of virtue signaling, I will signal virtue by announcing I spent much of the day making sure I donated every penny my employer will match for 2025.

We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17. apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening. mishmash.no/news/positio...

Just when you thought you were done with new weather words comes… grapuel. Because why settle for snow, hail, or wintry mix. Where do they come up with this stuff? Is there a dusty box of weather words in the attic they pull out when they get bored?

The wind broke time.

Learning new acronyms like PSPS* and PDS** *Public Safety Power Shutoff **Particularly Dangerous Situation OMFG PTSD WTF

First 100+ MPH gust at NCAR Mesa in SW Boulder occurred at 11AM #COwx #Boulderwx

This is not particularly pleasant.