Chanders

Chanders, 1 month ago to random

We live in strange times.

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

Chanders, 1 month ago to random

Nothing beats peer-reviewing an article and coming face-to-face with the fact that entire, sustained, years-long arguments that colleagues were having / making not even a decade ago have been entirely forgotten or where never noticed at all! This is why I am sanguine about the hurly-burly of academic life. Soon we will all be lost to time ...

Chanders, 2 months ago to random

An RPG set in the Westing Game Universe.

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, 3 months ago to random

“"Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs," Osgood said. "There's nothing that can't be improved by making it shorter and better."”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/charles-osgood-veteran-cbs-newsman-and-longtime-host-of-sunday-morning-dies-at-91/

Academics take note.

Chanders, 3 months ago to random

“My CD single reviews are no great loss to posterity – but vast swathes of 21st-century music criticism are now literally unreadable. Every dead link on the reviews’ aggregator Metacritic tells a story of neglect.”

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2024/01/the-pitchfork-years

Chanders, 4 months ago to random

A NYE tradition for me: posting Virginia Woolf’s NY resolutions for 1931. Always good.

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

“The user migration from Twitter to Mastodon that followed Elon Musk's purchase of the Blue Bird site represents one of the largest digital migrations in the history of the Social Web and it is one rare examples of collective behavioral change that is documented through large-scale digital traces.”

From: @lajello
https://datasci.social/@lajello/111561167426229265

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

Happy to celebrate my coming out as an official old by never having heard of the Oxford Word of the Year for the first time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/12/04/rizz-meaning-oxford-word-of-year/

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

I’ve now moved six times in 8 years and my advice is: never move.

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

/now/ Mastodon is awake.

Chanders, 5 months ago to random

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

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, 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, 6 months ago to journalism

An interesting and entirely unscientific data point today: my largely European journalism and political communication masters students today said they got most of their news from Instagram by following individual journalists directly.

#journalism #SocialMedia #postplatform

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, 6 months ago to bluesky

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

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, 6 months ago to random

“Here we report that four major commercial LLMs all had instances of promoting race-based medicine. Since these models are trained in an unsupervised fashion on large-scale corpuses from the internet and textbooks, they may incorporate older, biased, or inaccurate information since they do not assess research quality.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-023-00939-z

Chanders, 6 months ago to random

Big thanks to Marc Andreessen for once again proving the relevance of the entire class I teach on the manifesto as a discursive genre.

From: @bengrosser
https://mastodon.social/@bengrosser/111250622251309933

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

A social media app where one story- no matter how important- does not dominate the agenda to the exclusion of everything else is a far healthier way to live with media, and far closer to how human life is structured.

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

You’ve never done moderation for a decentralized network- I mean, never REALLY done it- til you’ve done it during an Israel/Palestine war.

Chanders, 7 months ago to random

“Google built a business around getting people off its site. The company grew and branched out, but I suspect you still use that core tool regularly, if not daily. It was perhaps the best encapsulation of a mantra I first heard from web pioneer Dave Winer: The more you send people away, the more they come back.”

https://wapo.st/46julPW

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

Kudos to AOIR for this.

https://aoir.org/aoir2023onmastodon/

“we will not be tweeting during the #AoIR2023 conference. Instead, we will be posting on AoIR’s Mastodon instance (aoir.social).”