On Mr. Rogers as an example of intentionally fostering non-toxic parasocial relationships: @susannotess.bsky.social and I have a short write-up here, including letters Fred Rogers wrote back to me and my sister: social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/reddit/...

Started teaching 150 students today how to make Bluesky social media bots (and also trying to teach ethics). Sorry to add to your bot load @pfrazee.com Our textbook: Social Media, Ethics, and Automation by me and @susannotess.bsky.social social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/bsky/in...

In which Zuck takes a move out of Pavel Chichikov’s playbook #deadsouls #gogol

Perhaps relevant, but here's a piece I wrote earlier this year about the long history of fear and joy around some foods' supposed ability to queer the body. Both of which are rooted in the knowledge that the body, and the self, can indeed be changed. www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

We’re also working on a version of this course with no programming, for those that just want to explore ethics in tech at a starter level with their students. Bonus is that it helps incoming undergrads develop a literacy and critical reflectiveness about interaction and information online!

I was never gonna be British for real, even when I thought I’d be there for the rest of my life. But this pyramid is me.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day20 #BookSky

“Other struggling people aren’t the enemy.” ~ Nathan Monk

information/entertainment skills are so different now to 20 years ago. like food pre/post industrialisation of the food supply. the skill used to be: finding & storing so that you had enough. now it’s often: selecting from a vast selection that contains a lot of junk. & knowing when to stop.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day19 #BookSky

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Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.”

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day16 #BookSky

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #561,269!

Our free online textbook now has all programming bot activities available for Discord and Reddit, and some activities available for Bluesky. Social Media, Ethics, and Automation by me and @susannotess.bsky.social social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/

I co-authored a free online textbook with @susannotess.bsky.social: Social Media, Ethics, and Automation. It teaches how to program social media bots and think about the ethical implications. (There is also no a no-coding option) social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/reddit/...

Okay now I want to hear about the vending machines! What are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes? 1. Fonts 2. Teaching Ethics 3. Food Ethics 4. Dairy Free Food in Global Cuisine 5. Food

News: Susan is moving. 💔 After 8ish years in the UK, I am returning to the States, trading the lovely seven bridges of Newcastle for the three bridges of Louisville Kentucky (via several months' detour in Bath and then in London).

Belated in #writing it, but here are some of the most interesting things I was #reading in 2023: substack.com/@susannotess...

For philosophers interested in creative ways to teach applied ethics, this UG textbook (which I cowrote) is free to read and use. This is just one way to teach ethics, designed for students of any field to develop their skills in critical ethical reflection. I hope some folks find it useful ✨

It would be nice to join in on the listing of 10 authors, 5 books, but I can't do it. I dunno if it's ADHD or being an ex-academic who pulls more from articles and surveys than books, but I've only got Dostoevsky, Pratchett, Louisa May Alcott. Shakespeare if we count plays. 🤷

I #amwriting and #amreading, finding wisdom in Salman Rushdie’s choice of door knocker. Read more here: substack.com/@susannotess...

Theoretically, I am #writing, but my outside voice on the socials has been nearly silent in the last year or two of my life crumbling. To soon to say yet quite what the geographical and employment aspects of rebuilding will be, but it’s time I relearn how to post more regularly.

We wrote a #book!

Always a pleasure to see a project taking off :)

Is this supposed to be a… a flex?!? So many ways to read this as a self-own. I can’t work out what the tone was meant to be! 🤔

I don’t often find voices who reflect so explicitly on the morality of their own practices. Admirable, and a stunning piece.

Haha! 50% chance you’re right

I went looking for Essay Camp and the Five Things Essay… great resources, thank you for sharing!

Looking forward to working my way through this list

Tiny dinosaur on even tinier spike pineapples 🍍🥰

Beautiful review and I’m keen to read this. Any other suggestions for #memoirs that tell long wandery stories that don’t have a clean, story-style resolution?

I super love this gnarled old cottonwood tree. Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park