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Code: R, Citations: Chicago, NBC 80s sitcom: Night Court. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Cultural analytics is what I do, also department chair stuff, which I’ve been doing since third year review. I guess that’s me.
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One of the things in the procession of stories is the reason why you can't "permute" a disadvantage in debate, additional new proposals to fix the problems with your old one can get out of hand. Thus, the Lumber DA to the Canadian Trade war is solved by a big new logging initiative

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Canvas is under such load (midterm 2 time at quarter system schools) that it says to try grading again later.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A central problem in academic administration: we design complex activities for middle managers to see for themselves some very reasonable idea and they don't get the idea or come away with actively bad ideas. Lower entropy strategies please.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...

submitted 29 days ago • 619 comments

Beneath a lot of the rot in journalism lies an insidious editorial class more intent on maintaining a vague status quo than creating anything of value. They are destructively incurious and proudly ignorant, terrified of learning new things or having any chance of altering the course of anything.

submitted 52 days ago • 40 comments

"As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over online speech, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government."

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

submitted 55 days ago • 188 comments

the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version

submitted 63 days ago • 186 comments

Called it on the TikTok ban the day it passed.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone have a working clip tool for liaon5b anymore?

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The old titans of industry built opera houses and universities and libraries! They fed the poor! These guys spend their money on ketamine and white nationalism.

submitted 62 days ago • 29 comments

"Climate misinformation is exploding — and Canadian politicians are spreading it." But is fact-checking the cure-all? thenarwhal.ca/canada-polic...

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Is it a good sign or a bad sign when you need to find your copy of the Ecrits?

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The degree to which gambling coverage has replaced meaningful sports commentary is wild.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

The magical time when you can quick swap AI stuff in place of human content will have some windfalls and then the bubble will pop. Some folks are in the golden age right now.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Mark it in the log, valentines season started on 12/10

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

Been using Steve Susman as a fictional character name in jokes, turns out he was a real guy

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We've agreed that this will henceforth be known in popular discourse and technical literature as the Magic Carpet fallacy. It needs a name on an emergency basis because of the growing threat this specific fallacy poses in American political discourse.

submitted 102 days ago • 35 comments

Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...

submitted 104 days ago • 20 comments

This is why we should be open about our salaries. The taboo around talking about money hurts us as workers.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah Boz Scaggs rocks and also my wrapped is much weirder than yours

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Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.

submitted 104 days ago • 180 comments

Initial run of a new experiment in algorithm studies. Discrete states in transition from TikTok and InstaReels.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

If someone asks you what you would teach if you got to pick, don’t say: whatever you want me to teach.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

As Bluesky grows, I'm reminded of @mmasnick.bsky.social's brilliant content moderation speed run he did for Elon back in the day:

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

One of the challenges with very large college sports conferences is that you really are at the mercy of randomness for having a very weak schedule in what could be a strong conference.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

New OA pub w/ Dan Faltesek! Check out our computational-rhetorical take on Trump’s first term using a MALLET (machine learning) topic model to periodize his (almost) full Twitter corpus (c. 2010-2020). doi.org/10.1080/1057...

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

At long last, my essay, “An Exercise in Political Imagination: The Day Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson Debated William F. Buckley.” Grateful to @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and @liberalcurrents.com. Hope you enjoy it. #DemandTheImpossible bit.ly/3Uw9CV8

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

In a bid to gain influence, corporations are buying the Trump cryptocurrency token and trying to get spots on Joe Rogan, while their lobbyists are instructing them to scrub their websites and corporate policies of language that favors Democrats and instead tout GOP issues www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

submitted 109 days ago • 88 comments

www.404media.co/happy-affili...

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Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

submitted 110 days ago • 95 comments

People endogenously allocate more attention to thinking about prices in high inflation environments; which they hate doing because they don’t like complexity. A plausible reason people hate inflation so much Sort of remarkable how far “thinking is costly” can take you

submitted 110 days ago • 16 comments

Love this late transmedia form, a reality tv person switching genre to singing to promote streaming. And this commentary post is key too

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Also to be clear, Newsinfluencers are an important dimension of dead internet theory.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

"There is a systematic underestimation of the contribution that creative industries graduates make to the economy. This coupled with an absence of any method of determining value beyond financial gain...omits the recognition of the contribution of hundreds of thousands of creative graduates."

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about something I saw last week, a presentation on teaching and learning specifically student reactions to AI grading, audience member goes off on AI water use, doesn't have a question. Speaker pauses for a good 5 seconds then says "I don't have much to say to help you here" laughter ensues

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Our key finding is that in different periods of his twitter life distinct patterns can be identified in the post-to-post flow of Trump twitter and that these arguments are substantially more coherent and important than any particular tweet. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Rising activity here suggests that the temporal network affordance has real depth. Or basically nature is healing.

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Prof. Lynn Vavreck showing survey data about individual voters changing views over time. Argues big shift happened in 2016. Gradual (tectonic shifts) were happening before that.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

And sometimes reviewer 2 has some fantastic ideas, thanks reviewer 2!

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

submitted 125 days ago • 85 comments

Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome! github.com/brianckeegan...

submitted 125 days ago • 16 comments

one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed

submitted 128 days ago • 569 comments

How did Americans experience the months leading up to the election on TikTok? (They saw more politics than you'd guess - about 8% on average and more around big political events). www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky has the edge where X once dominated: news and live events.

submitted 126 days ago • 79 comments