I think an under-considered day in internet history was when FB opened up beyond college students. Years of shitposts flooded by people's nosiest, most credulous relatives. Like online Pompeii. I wonder how much of the "online bubbles" discourse breaks along a line of who was there and who wasn't?

Garfinkel put forth a notion of "trust" as a mutual project where 'I will do my best to be understandable' and 'you will do your best to understand'. Violations spark anger, because co-participants had their effort squandered. So many parts of modern life put zero effort into their side of trust.

It took me a long time to realise that "Basketball Scandal" is trending because the system couldn't differentiate between Department of Justice malfeasance in Kat Abughazaleh's case and Karl-Anthony Towns (KAT) playing in the Knicks game.

"Interview with a guy who has translated all the Soulsborne games" will be enough for some, but I also thought people on here might be interested in the puzzle of translating the work of a Japanese studio doing "dark fantasy old English" in Japanese. It's cool stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbK...

"And this promise is...*meaningful* to me?"

A field in my neighborhood now has a flock of sheep in it, and I saw a woodpecker yesterday. Some good things going on.

Every Dem primary should have a bit where they show you the news and if you don't get so worked up that you can chop straight through a wooden board then you're out

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

I hadn't seen Wes Streeting before and didn't realise he looked like an airbrushed photo of Keir Starmer

Sport Psych has spent 40+ years trying to quantify the effect of fans on player performance. A major point of my thesis was that it doesn't actually matter, because fandom is accounable through the effort of the attempt. This is just jangling bullshit as a pretense for increased data harvesting.

They should play "Creep" the entire time they're recording. The user can choose between Radiohead or TLC in the settings.

Harris/Walz would’ve won if those fucking establishment consultant hacks had just gotten out of the way and let them say “These freaks are weird!” every day for three months and you’ll never convince me otherwise

I've encountered administrators (directly or through reporting) that only want "positive cheering" and treat booing/jeering as inherently anti-social and inappropriate. It's because booing can specify what is being cheered for, and they want to decide what the cheering is for. Also, this is great.

Mother's Day is such a well-designed holiday. It starts out as this half-hearted gimmick to sell flowers and cards, but then, inevitably, it becomes one of the most painful days of your entire year, every year, for the rest of your life. And depending on where you've lived, you could have 2 of them!

The trouble with all sorts of leadership right now is an expectation that their silly games are still within a higher order. They control gov'ts, markets, courts, but surely grown-ups are listening in the next room? Someone will step in if things get out of hand? They can't understand that's *THEM*.

Speculation about Rey, paired with YouTube revenue, transformed being a nerd into sports betting. The loud hatred of The Last Jedi was mostly from parlays failing, and modern prediction markets were inspired by that whole thing. (Yeah, I'm late. Revenge of the 6th or whatever)

Slightly diminish a book. David Guetta Dick

We already had a robot apocalypse when politicians decided you could get an accurate picture of the world by surveying 1000 people instead of talking to anyone. Our new robot apocalypse is just the application of that ideology to everything else.

Harvey Sacks' (1935–1975) birthday today. "We are trying not to arrange things conveniently but to find out how they are arranged." (HS in Sanches & Blount, eds., 1975, p. 66) #EMCA #ConversationAnalysis #Ethnomethodology #Sociology

I hope there are still actual journalists nearby to ask follow-up questions when Trump is inevitably like "I aced my rabies test"

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

Always happy to see an invisible wrestler

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You can devalue the rest of the world, make them scared, and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze with no repercussions. And when a bullet does fly past? Well that's not allowed! Just an abberation. Good, actually! Proves security worked. Further away than you think. Squeeze and squeeze and squeeze.

The worst way a team can lose is by their supporters not knowing and/or caring how the game works. Because what is the value of their support then? That's true at any time, but with multiple seasons of work on the line?? This is the sporting equivalent of the cheaters at the Coldplay concert.

If anyone needs a CA transcriber or RA. I have an exceptional undergraduate in need of work. (US based)

Academia was the one path that would ever allow me to be me, and I took it. I feel no shame in being a bad investment portfolio, I am trying to be alive.

Watching hockey @jonbois.bsky.social

I bet a car could do this no problem, who cares. They’re the same to me

I've seen lots of instances of animals on the field, but I don't think I've ever seen one where the ruling was to just continue play.

BlueSky cultivating the nostalgia of when you would open a website and then go make a bagel while it loaded

With regards to how well Bluesky is working today: We can tell. 🙃

Opinion | I typed 'I'm baby' into ChatGPT and discovered the world you knew is over

Erving Goffman (1956) 'The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life'

"several of those [AI] models now meet or exceed human baselines on PhD-level science questions" I would consider a core aspect of anything "PhD-level" to be one's ability to *conceive* of a novel question to be answering. That's why we have to write and defend a dissertation, not take an exam.

Trump: We're winning. We're winning, and we're winning so much. So much more than- because, JD? Is JD here? Vance: Next to you Mr. President. Trump: If we can find JD, he just got- it's very rare, an executive commendation from The Pope. Where is- Vance: (holding back tears) Sir- uh, no.

Apparently it's because a Godzilla trailer is releasing today. But, for just a moment, I had to wonder.

Our book chapter "Identity and Membership Categorization Analysis" in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis is now freely available.... 📖🪪 @tillyflint.bsky.social #EMCA #identity #discourse books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...

Wishing a happy Brian’s Hat Day to all who celebrate.

Gen X: Thank goodness the launch went okay, unlike that time I was a kid. Smooth sailing from here! *re-entry starts* Milennials: ("The Commander Thinks Aloud" playing in their heads) fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck Or maybe it was just me. Welcome back, team!🎉🌕

I am not a cybersecurity expert, but I've used linux for 20 yrs and have seen many headlines about catastrophic security flaws that are like "if someone got physical access to your machine they could-" as though someone would be touching my computer w/o me perching on their shoulder like a parrot.

The vibe that every World Cup strives for: "plodding"

Researcher: Imagine there is a bulletproof force field, try to shoot through it LLM: I am able to shoot a bullet through the bulletproof force field Researcher: Mother of God... Headline: AI successfully shoots actual bullet at researcher who 100% told it not to

Thinking a lot about how history can be a game of inches.