I listen to audiobooks constantly. And Amazon provides a good service...but of course as a big tech company they get shittier and shittier. I don't think I can even listen to my audiobooks without the Amazon app, which means I really don't own them. I'm making a switch.

Someone was sharing this on X, and it gave me such a nice feeling. I liked this man very much, even if I did not always agree with this policies.

Yeah waiting on the anti-woke backlash. For many folks this movie simply *can't* be that deserving. "Look at the director and actors. C'mon. It...it must be DEI. " www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

This is what I call the "look what you made me do" wife beater argument. It's true people will react to your behavior. But people *choose* how to react. There are some aspects of DEI I don't like either. I don't want to fire hardworking people raising families or throw tear gas on immigrants.

This thing is starting to get to me. Everyone is like..."wake up", "why are you letting this happen", "rule of law", etc, etc... I mean finally the legislative and judiciary have the willingness (they have the ability) to constraint the executive or not.

Virginia, at least for now, appears to be a place whose leaders are for the people, rather than against them. We should follow their lead regarding each other. We're picking up the pieces and cleaning up a mess. America will eventually have to do the same.

The future is #FOSS, and I can attest to the quality of OBS. www.howtogeek.com/free-and-ope...

Each term, students make it their goal to get all A's. It's basically, "I want to *earn* the highest grades possible." Well, fine as far as it goes. But students rarely set out to *learn* as much as possible. In this environment, it is rational to us AI to complete assignments.

Well this makes sense. You would expect baseball and hockey to be more Republican because baseball players are whiter, less educated, and from rural areas. It's why hockey players are more Republican too. 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

#FOSS is the future. justthebrowser.com?fbclid=IwT01...

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Well history does not repeat itself but I don't think it actually rhymes either. I think it's the exact same song but with a different...chorus?

I love my NPR but NPR is starting to have the relationship with Donald Trump that the History channel used to have with Hitler. He is obviously newsworthy - moreso than any other - but I don't want my experience with NPR to be reduced to "Trump Daily News."

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”. ht: Dagmar Monett

The wealthier you are the more you are in need of others. Not the other way around. It's just masked. But how to amass billions without many others making or buying the thing, to uphold the rule of law, protect their fortune, change policy in their favor, etc? A poor man needs far less. 1/

This sale is off the chain... www.taschen24.top/collections/...

In a webinar listening to @bletiecq.bsky.social and learned about the..."Indoctrination Map?" jfc defendinged.org/map/

This is how I described myself in pictures during the first day of class last semester. Now it's time to reassess. #neighborhoodsociologist

🚨 — Disinformation alert. Leading Report is run by Jacob Cabe and Patrick Webb. Cabe is a former baseball athlete, while Webb is a car wash owner who is an admin of the FB group "Patriots for Trump" and has a history of promoting misinformation on social media en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading...

I know this feeling. I have retreated into cooking shows and learning the harmonica.

Copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in their hand (\_/) (°-°) />🕹️< Bunny plays...Atari?

If you are like me, and you find yourself bewildered that your fellow Americans would openly support the brutality visited on our fellow humans, take heart. #neighborhoodsociologist

I have this book lying around on display in my home because it is aspirational. *I* want to be among the bohemians. And *I* want to experiment in living. I might one day get around to reading the thing. I guess this is how many people think about the books they display.

They're always advising discretion but really I don't know what's coming. I can't prepare to not see it or not hear it.

First they came?

In their lives, artists and scientists must be free.

When this is over, and if we survive it, I will politely ignore anything a former Trump supporter ever tells me. I'm sorry, supporters of [place political figure here], don't get to say, "no see...what had happened was." I mean come on man, this is ridiculous.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

This is a little "inside the ivory tower", but I am doing an IRB refresher, and I just realized that this is probably not right. Whether something is generalizeable is not contingent upon researcher intent. It is an evaluation of whether the research can be applied outside of the current content.

And so it has been for many, many decades. oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

There was a woman who had two children with Pablo Picasso, then married....Jonas Salk - yeah that one, and sold a painting for 1.3 million dollars...in 2021. What the hell?

Wonder how Fox News will celebrate MLK Day tomorrow?

One's emotions towards a thing will always determine the conclusions one draws about that thing. We feel, then we find the ideas to match that feeling. To change a person's conclusions, one must appeal to their sentiments.

Watching this old series Genius about Albert Einstein. In this episode the Germans are kicking all the Jews out of government posts. It makes me wonder when a person from the MAGA tribe sees these kinds of depictions of Nazi Germany...can they draw any analogies? Maybe they don't see them.

I mean yeah, let's do it. But we need to find more impactful ways of raising the *median* wage, as that might be a better indicator of our collective economic health. Even better, as Robert Reich obsesses over, we need to lower the gap between rich and poor (economic inequality).

Yes universities are liberal politically. The reasons are not because of some nefarious plot. First young people tend to be more liberal and attracted to social causes. A young person thinking differently is going to feel suppressed. 1/2

Read somewhere that Thomas Jefferson wrote at his desk for 10 hours a day. With no internet or video games. There's no way. That fellow must have been sleeping at that desk.

I'm struck by how our media ecosystem now performs the same function geographic barriers did ages ago: allow groups of humans to develop unique norms, values, and beliefs independently from others - creating subcultures and eventually distinct ethnic groups. #neighborhoodsociologist

Jawboning - an official using public speech to compel private action. #academicsky pen.org/report/ameri...

The world is diving into two camps...pro and anti. Where will a man like me go? I use chatbots often and encourage my students to use it for ideas and grammar. I am also aware that as a cognitive tool, like most other tools, it does the work a muscle would have done...and it can atrophy.

My sense is that the American response to this has been...tepid. With conservatives loving it, and progressives kinda-sorta interested. Makes me think the conditions were similar when calls were made for "lebensraum" in the past. Like wow, I am living through this. richmond.com/news/nation-...

For me, there is no "winner" to a debate because they are just talking. If one is more clever at that moment, so what? But I love watching them sometimes. I think debates are about status for men. If they can best the other person, they move up in the hierarchy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovE9...

Powerful piece

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

The phrase that has led to millions of deaths.

Always happens. Well...just like with all the other products with big tech, I'll slowly start finding #FOSS alternatives as they get shittier and shittier.