"Sometimes the problem is not how the sausage gets made, but that they’re making people into sausage" dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml...

This man should never have been given the Chaos Emeralds

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

Excuse me, sir, dialectics is a straight trans woman.

Dialectics is gay too

Introducing my class screenings

Introducing my class screenings

Really? In the year of their lord 2026?

Starting to really understand what Sontag meant by "Jewish moral seriousness"

Starting to really understand what Sontag meant by "Jewish moral seriousness"

Underlying much of this, I get the sense that what some people want is just permission, as if they haven't already been given it

But they're the most oppressed group of all www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-09...

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

sizzling internet world wide web sites

Going through some mags on Internet Archive to find class material and found this Penthouse Guide to Cybsersex from 1995

All these emails are like "cnt wat 2 do crims wit u" Get Outlook for iOS

If you want to get a laugh out of some 8 year olds, just tell them that when you were young there was a popular song called Ms. New Booty

[Cognitive capacity nobody understands] is very important. However, the underlying neural mechanisms remain enigmatic. Here we show that [stimuli somehow related to the capacity] can be decoded from [spatiotemporal description]. Our results show that we can do what we did.

Can't believe the evolutionary psychologists would do such things! Evo psych? The patriarchy field generator?

Expand👏 access👏 to poor👏treatment

I also noticed. But tbf, I would very much like to be excluded from his narrative

Yeah, I'm what leading scientists are calling "pretty gay"

I'm learning lately that a lot of people would rather identify with a reformed Nazi than *literally anyone else*

Yeah, I'm what leading scientists are calling "pretty gay"

It's still *unethical* to provide people with inferior treatments when you know a better, more effective one exists

You know that creative struggle you have in your head when figuring something out and trying to write it out? That’s called thinking!

You know that creative struggle you have in your head when figuring something out and trying to write it out? That’s called thinking!

The Trump administration is trying to divide Jews from other marginalized communities at a time of rising antisemitism and fascism, by forcing Jews to choose between supporting ICE or rejecting federal security funding. It is an unacceptable choice,. www.jta.org/2026/02/11/i...

The looks of horror as we did a platform walkthrough were so satisfying

Experts now saying absence of evidence is now evidence of absence

Starting class today with a little excercise on analyzing the new Real Food gov site realfood.gov

Theme of today’s class? That we can know things about digital tech that doesn’t require us to be computer scientists, mathematicians, or tech insiders

Listening in horror as my brother describes to me his fondness for the Chuck E. Cheese salad bar

I love jammin with my console cowboys in cyberspace

Theme of today’s class? That we can know things about digital tech that doesn’t require us to be computer scientists, mathematicians, or tech insiders

Happy to be a consulting media scholar

Today we're discussing methods and watching Isle of Flowers vimeo.com/53862971

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.

Ryan Murphy Worried All His Worst Ideas Behind Him https://theonion.com/ryan-murphy-worried-all-his-worst-ideas-behind-him/

shoutout to the 2004 Bratz collectible card game for including all four genders

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

I decided to just read aloud from the ABBA Statement on Race and Racism to my class and had good results. Plain and direct bioanth.org/about/aaba-s...

"In paying for wildly inflated prices on alcohol, clients buy the invisibility of the labor it took to bring girls to them; they pay to not have to bring girls themselves, or to pay a broker outright to procure girls. They are buying, in part, the illusion of spontaneity."

"The economic value of girls is enormous...to a network of industries spanning finance, fashion, entertainment, and urban development. Measured by the volumes of capital they generate for men, girls are priceless. But they are seen as worthless as relationship partners and are largely unpaid"

"Everything in this economy revolves around girls...Their value emerges from the very specific conditions in which they are seen. I strategically use the term “girl”. . .because in this rarefied world there is an unspoken but widely understood logic: girls are valuable; women are not."

"The phrase “sex sells” is a deceptively simple way of alluding to the historically entrenched ways that femininity can stoke desire for commodities, turning the female form into an indispensable tool of capitalism. . .when people say sex sells, they don’t mean sex acts. They mean sexiness."

Once again, it is *unethical* to provide people with inferior treatments when you know a better, more effective one exists

"I bought this before Elon went crazy" uh huh

I think the greatest marketing trick Tesla did was convincing people that Teslas weren't a luxury car, but an ethical purchase