Happy to share this new publication: “Learning on the live feed: A social constructivist approach to discourse and dialogue on social media platforms,” now in Communication Teacher.   www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Earlier this year, @hoornazkeshava.bsky.social and I published “Make Iran great again”: Apolitical influencers and the revival of a romantic patriarchal nationalism. If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, you're in luck - the article is now open access: academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

all i'm saying is that there were better options

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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT

Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. https://to.pbs.org/3Y9b15s

New misinformation vector just dropped.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

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can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

When OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings to appeal to more people, some users were left spiraling. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

AI is becoming a big part of kids’ lives—but it raises questions about safety, fairness, and bias. 🤖 @mariyastoilova.bsky.social & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social explore the pitfalls and promises in their latest Media@LSE blog: 🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered public schools in Texas to remove displays of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

ONLINE FIRST! This article by @nicolestewart.bsky.social, Joseph M. Nicolai and Graeme Beamiss examines how streamers-as-news-providers on #Twitch remix and amplify secondary #news sources for followers, and develops a new “platform #streaming framework”. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who said twitch is just for games? We ARE the media now.

“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”

My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar roaming the online world

Big beautiful elections. 🇺🇲🍾👀

My favorite way to "derive" the Schrödinger eq: think of a plane wave with frequency ω and wave number k. Planck tells you E=hbar ω, de Broglie says p = hbar k, and Newton says E=p^2/2m. From that you can get a dispersion relation ω = (hbar/2m)k^2. Then just guess what equation has that solution.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

“it’s 2025, surely nobody could still be using ‘password’ as their password” the louvre: hold our baguette

The authoritarian takeover of X was a harbinger of the regime’s strategy for America at large. Bluesky is a perfectly adequate refuge for X exiles. The biggest problem with Bluesky is that so many political and media elites are still on X. That’s not Bluesky’s fault—it reflects poorly on the elite.

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"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

#CfP out now: M/C Journal '#multiverse' issue, edited by Angelique Nairn & Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Articles due 12 Jan. 2026, issue launch 18 Mar. 2026. journal.media-cultur...

My gut reaction to all these announcements of “AI” driven layoffs is that it’s ideological cover for recession-driven layoffs

How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates. www.wired.com/story/donald...

As it turns out, Texas is one of the queerest states in the country. Only California has more LGBTQ+ identifying residents. Texas is home to more queer people than all the queer people in Canada.

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I am getting the sense that people are reading Wired's article about Alpha Schools and thinking they are public schools. They are not.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

ADM+S researcher @tjthomson.bsky.social explores the idea that AI systems don’t ‘see’ the world like humans do, which is shaping how AI generated images look and feel Read the full @theconversation.com article here: bit.ly/47eXJZy #AIgenerated #AIimages

Oh damn, Kohei Saito has entered into the techno-feudalism debate and his argument aligns with what me and @bigblackjacobin have been saying for a long time: Stop saying techno-feudalism, this is called rentier capitalism, and it's the basis for techno-fascism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm giving the talk "The Ends of US Public Media" at the University of Québec at Montreal on where NPR and PBS came from, and what's going to happen next for US public media. This one's on Zoom, free registration - next time in person I hope because I love visiting Montreal!

Fonts were really expensive back then. Especially well-hinted ones with good outline and bitmap designs, and especially multiple masters. If you didn't pirate them, it was common to use knockoffs (typefaces are not protected by copyright). It was embarassing to be using a knockoff font.