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.

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“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.

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This grifter works with OpenAI, yet this is mentioned as a tiny insignificant detail, not The Precise Reason Why He Is Saying Something Completely Unverifiable www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“This worldwide update includes the ability for parents, as well as law enforcement, to receive notifications if a child—in this case, users between the ages of 13 and 18—engages in chatbot conversations about self harm or suicide.”

An interview with Professor Tom Alter, fired from Texas State University for participation in an online conference.

I love how Zuck tees this up casually, "I don't know, what do you think? Maybe let's make an...I don't know...Korean style steak sauce?" as if they hadn't run through this exact scenario a million times before. And it still failed. AND THE AUDIENCE STILL CLAPPED. Ridiculous.

Hot off the press: Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph and @nieborg.bsky.social trace a platform historiography of #Unity to discuss how workflows create dexterous corporate lockins in cultural production journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... enjoy!

"Duality" of course has many appearances in physics. If you're interested, here is the book for you! "The Philosophy and Physics of Duality" by de Haro and Butterfield. Available for free, just 592 pages. arxiv.org/abs/2508.01616

I condemn political violence. That's not demanding anyone mourn strangers they dislike. That's not condemning violence used in self-defense/wartime. That's not denying that pre-WWII Nazism was dangerous, just as some MAGAs' emulations of pre-WWII Nazism are. It means condemning political violence.

Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we’re committed to fostering healthy, open conversations

Amazon’s goal is to transform all public and private space into the Amazon warehouse, and it’s never been more clear.

I can’t help but notice huge parallels between the AI and metaverse hype cycles: - This is going to change the world - It will transform how you live and work - This is worth trillions of dollars - If you don’t get in early you’ll be left behind - It will get better really fast - This is inevitable

no shit

4. This line of morality and ethics drawn by who what is doing 'good surveillance' and who does 'bad surveillance' is worth our close attention. We see it now with how Google got away with the lawcase against its adtech monopoly, despite Google being one of the biggest spyware companies.

Cite each other. Cite your friends. Cite your friends' friends. Cite each others' students. Cite the paper you like at that conference last year. Cite the person you met who's going up for tenure next year. Our bibliographies should push the limits of every journal's page limits.

So you will get an automated message from OpenAI that your child is in danger? What could go wrong.

There are 79 working days left in 2025. If you write 1 1/2 pages a day, every working day, you can finish a script before New Years. If you write 3 pages a day, you could complete a novel. 1000 words a day, roughly 4 pages, and you could write three scripts. A page at a time comes together quickly

"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me

Looking at this collection of words and wondering how this company still exists.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Still impossible being a woman in academia, can confirm

In late-stage platform capitalism, trolling has become the dominant cultural technique: politics, journalism, marketing, even art have, to some extent, turned into some form of trolling

Note to self - the first week of classes is stressful for all. Small boo-boos seem like big pains. Minor changes feel like big obstacles. Little things can trigger us to melt down. A little kindness, understanding, and flexibility can go a long way. #commsky #academicsky

The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”

Bluesky has chosen to block access in the state rather than risk potential fines of up to $10,000 per violation. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...