Chanders

Chanders, 6 months ago to bluesky

It appears the mass #Commodon migration to #bluesky is well underway. Sigh.

Chanders, 6 months ago to random

These NYT Biden-Trump poll results are a living nightmare.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/politics/biden-trump-2024-poll.html

Chanders, 1 year ago to fediverse

I’m leery of the idea of piling on on this platform, so let me just say that this is in regard to the #mastodon vs #bluesky post that a lot of you are taking about today. Here’s what I think.

The problem with this critique in particular, and the idea of BlueSky in general, is that it is evidence that even the most thoughtful (and radical) thinkers, developers and workers in digital tech have internalized the ideology of SV digital capitalism over the past two decades.

What I mean is this:

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Chanders, 8 months ago to journalism

Some professional news:

I'm very happy to share the news that the book, "A History of Digital Journalism" and authored by myself, Eugenia Mitchelstein, and Danielle Brown, is now under contract with Polity Press! Beyond the actual work on the substance of the book, I am really excited to work with these brilliant scholars. 1/x

#journalism #commodon

Chanders, 10 months ago to bluesky

Is there a #Commodon community on #bluesky? Or are there other academic communities there?

Not planning on going there, just genuinely curious. These communities are not here in any great strength after the last few months of 2022. My hunch was always just that they stated on Twitter, but as #Twitter seems increasingly and genuinely non-functional, I do wonder what is going on.

Chanders, 9 months ago to random

Man Sinéad O’Connor really nailed it on the Catholic Church huh? Two decades ahead of her time.

Chanders, 11 months ago to random

“By comparison, every time I open up Bluesky what I immediately see is a bunch of jokes from my favorite twitter personalities. They’re having fun over there. The people who made Twitter good are all congregating on Bluesky. They’re relaxing and misbehaving. It’s awesome.” -@davekarpf

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/bluesky-is-just-twitter-without-the

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

For those who would like to deny the existence of a universal culture, I would just like to point out that children have been waking up reluctantly on weekdays and early on weekends across all cultures at all all times since the invention of childhood. Including my child today.

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

“It must be very complicated being George Lucas. On the one hand, you get to wake up inside a vast Scrooge McDuck money vault every morning. On the other, you have to live with the absolute mess Disney has made of your life’s work.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/07/oh-dear-george-lucas-why-the-star-wars-universe-is-going-from-bad-to-worse

Chanders, 10 months ago to twitter

Seriously though when people use this thing it is literally exactly the same as #twitter, like, 100%. I mean better, but basically the same.

The differences between Mastodon and Twitter are 98% due to the frequency of use.

Chanders, 1 year ago to bluesky

Just RTd a bunch of it, but the #bluesky protocol analysis by @sam is really worth a read.

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

I appreciate it when someone posts over here that “they are doing most of their posting at BlueSky these days so follow me there” so I can then unfollow them here.

Chanders, 1 year ago to random

Nice to spend my birthday trying to get university finance to pay for image bank images already funded with a grant before the deadline for the whole project explodes.

#PIlife

Chanders, 10 months ago to random

I’d hate to be the person at random news organization x trying to plan the social media platform strategy for 2024.

Chanders, 3 months ago to random

I’ve generally been pretty supportive/ forgiving of Biden. Even his support for Israel, not because I agree with the policy, but I can’t imagine him temperamentally or politically doing anything else.

But linking the border bill and Ukraine aid has been an utter debacle. Truly a failure of political skill and a massive strategic unforced error.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/ukraine-aid-border-bill-israel-senate

Chanders, 1 month ago to random

We live in strange times.

From: @zuck
https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C4yMa0Gxxph

Chanders, 9 months ago to random

There will be lot of folks reading- or pretending to read- “American Prometheus”- as Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” hits the big screen.

But let me also put in a plug for Richard Rhodes “Making of the Atomic Bomb,” one of the great non-fiction books of the 20th century, up there with “The Power Broker” and Taylor Branch’s books on MLK.

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/1451677618

Chanders, 10 months ago to fediverse

So here’s my typology of what academics will end up where:

#fediverse: shy people; people who bother to have social media principles & can afford to have social media principles

#bluesky slightly type-A nerds. The kind who cared about student government or the model UN. They also think they are slightly too cool for #mastodon

#threads the heavy hitter six-figure and over public intellectuals; folks who parlay social clout into media exposure

#twitter people who never log on.

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

Pretty disgraceful behavior on the part of Horizon 2020.

From: @glynmoody
https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/111104790611887686

Chanders, 9 months ago to random

It’s 29c at 10pm and I’m reading Joan Didion write about The Doors. #summer #68.

Chanders, 10 months ago to threads

Some #Threads #Fedi #fediverse questions that are probably obvious to everyone but not me.

1. If, at some point, threads adds ActivityPub integration, I will be able to follow Thread accounts just like I do Mastodon accounts?

2. There is a lot of fear about Threads, in part because it could end up sucking up all the Fediverse data?

1/2

Chanders, 6 months ago to random

In any pre-Trump era, this alone would be grounds for resignation.

“Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, apologized for accusing military and security officials of lapses that led to the Hamas massacre but declined to accept responsibility himself.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/middleeast/netanyahu-israel-gaza-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6kw.KXZN.vJcMNn0XW7sJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Chanders, 11 months ago to random

It’s not the AI, it’s the capitalism.

That’s it, that’s the root.

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

Never noticed this amazing tag on Elizabeth Eisenstein's NYT obit:

"This article is set in 8.7 point Imperial and was printed on one of several presses, including the Goss Colorliner. It is also published, permanently if intangibly, at nytimes.com/section/obituaries."

*cc *@jeffjarvis

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/books/elizabeth-eisenstein-historian-of-movable-type-dies-at-92.html

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

Thanksgiving week is definitely the hardest week to live abroad, even for a curmudgeonly American-skeptic like me.