What’s your New Year’s resolution? Mine is 320x240

Paywalled & I don't have the time to research, but I am curious what that fucking guy's rationale (stated, as well as unstated) is for this, if the prosecution was also happening under his first term

The guards in upstate NY prisons are the worst form of racist trash. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

One of the interventions I'm trying to make here and throughout my work is that problems facing our media today exceed that of ownership concentration--as truly dire of a problem that is. We must confront the capitalist logics that permeate every aspect of our information and communication systems.

Hoping to publish a book in 2026? I've got a series of free webinar recordings to help you get in the right mindset and avoid the most common sticking points for scholarly authors. All the recordings are free to access, but registration is closing on December 31st. Thread (with links):

oh guys maybe you should read a tragically obscure dissertation from (checks notes) 12 years ago?

In spite of all the everything else, 2025 was a pretty great year for my YouTube channel. I doubled my subscriber count, got over 100,000 views, and most importantly, am very proud of the videos I made. I started off in January looking at some of Saitek's truly bizarre gamepad hardware:

According to the Nature Conservancy, some 10 million live Christmas trees end up in landfills every year. https://to.pbs.org/4qxg8ZB

This new Health album, damn

I'll forget by next week but: need to stop putting Fallout on while eating dinner

In 2025 I read about 20 Warhammer 40K books and about 6 Marxist economic theory books and I reckon the best game was Baby Steps and the good song was Genesis Owusu’s Death Cult Zombie.

This podcast extends two key concepts in my vocabulary as a critic. “The People Formerly Known as the Audience” (PressThink, June 2006) archive.pressthink.org/2006/06/27/p... and... "There are no masses, there are only ways of seeing people as masses." (Raymond Williams, at 22:07

We had this whole discussion in 2016! It was sparked by an article about how "dapper" open Nazi Richard Spencer was (and he didn't even dress that well!) And then he got punched in the face on camera, and it was good, actually, because FASCISTS ARE BAD

What if, and just hear me out now, what if it really should not be on overworked individual faculty to adjust their approach to teaching to avoid AI cheating, but instead it should be dealt with at an administrative and legislative level?

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

Scholars (by which I mean me) would give their eye teeth to have this much trust from ANY interview subject — let alone one of such importance — even off the record, to say nothing of on the record in this way. (This series of interviews is edited down, full versions will be held at the Strong)

At the risk of indulging in performative (non?) productivity, a quick personal "2025 in review" thread: *Wrapped up my first full year at NYU Tandon! It's fun! It's still incredibly weird being back!! I have amazing colleagues & feel very fortunate to be in a place that's just a better fit for me.

Earlier this year, Republicans tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their 2026 budget, while proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. The Institute of Museum and Library Services just got their funding back through courts.

I'm listening to @onthemedia.bsky.social's end of year roundup without a full bottle of whiskey in front of me, I've made a huge mistake. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

‪I didn't know about this journal, and just peeked at the last issue. This title is amazing! "Screenshots or It Didn’t Happen: Screen Photography and Early Game Cultures" Jacob Gaboury Congratulations @jacobgaboury.bsky.social! www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...

New @romchip.bsky.social issue just dropped and it's a big one! Come for @lainenooney.bsky.social's epic interview with Leigh Alexander, stay for Hanae Kramer's dive into the Japanese hobby culture around "superguns". www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

A special edition of our normally Patreon paywalled Bombers podcast is available to all, in which we choose songs we nominally like from a genre (as chosen by our backers) we appreciably hate. www.patreon.com/posts/bomber...

We’ve raised almost $25,000 — thank you. 💛 But to keep abortion access possible this winter, we still need to reach $75,000 by year’s end. Help us close the gap: www.tinyurl.com/psafsupport

A lot of great work on the comments dunking on Rob Schneider. Enjoy.

Also as a disabled person, I believe it’s more ableist saying that we cannot do things without robots as it reduces us to lesser beings, which is a key component of ableism.

tell me if you've heard this one before: a billionaire gets upset for being criticized for saying stupid things on social media, then confidentially concludes the problem is most certainly everybody else

i still don't know where conservative zoomers get this from (from the Manhattan Institute voter panel of zoomer voters)

I got a request to review an article on Christmas Eve and a "Didn't you see my email?!" this morning. Look, we are the "leave me alone I'm burned out" season for researchers. No one is reviewing. Also, I've had a paper under review since JUNE. I think you can take a break over these weeks too.

Vintage Konami. Double Dribble for PC. 🏀 #Konami #Basketball #RetroGames

Every research project starts with a question and ends with a folder called “final_FINAL_reallyfinal2”

CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364... #HPS

ultimately a lot of these guys have the personality trait where they encounter dipshit bullying (which is what a lot of anti-masking sentiment is) and their natural reaction is to make sure the bully thinks they are cool and shouldn't get lumped in with the rejects and losers.

After a period - over Christmas of all times - which has seen a giant increase in Russian attacks, explicitly aimed at civilian targets and energy infrastructure, and rolling power cuts, intended to freeze people to death, this is basically Putin gaslighting the world, through his orange spokesman.

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

Reminder that if you still have FSA funds to spend this year, you can spend them at FSA store: fsastore.com - you can purchase menstrual products for example to donate to your local pantries and homeless shelters. I have $130 left and that's what I did yesterday.

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

INTIFACE CENTRAL V3 BETA 3 IS LIVE If all goes well, we'll release this as mainline on 2025/12/31! And fuck I hope things go well! If you're on beta 2, note that you MUST upgrade. Otherwise your build is going to break on the new device config format! github.com/intiface/int...

I hope the PS6 looks like this

We don't make much mention of our Patreon podcast Bombers (basically an outlet for all of our non g/i interests, of which there are so many) but we'll be putting out one in the next couple of days and it will have opinions re a genre of music we don't like bit are trying to say nice things about

sign of the times: every single person mentioned in Neil Diamond's "Done Too Soon" has died

another day working at the japanese artificial mouth company. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the artificial mouth. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

Grilled tomato sandwich dunked in broccoli cheese soup also acceptable. Any sandwich. Any soup. Pho and banh mi? Why not? It probably rules. Haven't tried it but I will. Po boy in gumbo? Probably rules.

Welp. It was bound to happen. If you’re a WIRED subscriber, your personal data was likely exposed in a September breach from Condé Nast. Time to change your password.

Pediatric brain cancer research: cut. Faster chemical safety testing: cut. Training doctors to treat addiction: cut. Six scientists spoke about the devastating impact of 2025’s federal science funding cuts on their work, on their colleagues and on society. buff.ly/cx6x1Ho

Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.

I have never had a Spotify account and always just played music on Winamp. A loved one's moving away from Spotify to also just owning mp3s and showed me this website. I can't get over how it's exactly the kind of internet I miss and what I wouldn't do to bring it back. skins.webamp.org

ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.