Chanders

Chanders, 8 months ago to random

Pretty disgraceful behavior on the part of Horizon 2020.

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

Chanders, 8 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, 8 months ago to random

“That raises an awkward question. What if globalisation, far from promoting democracy in China, undermined democracy in the US? It would be an amusing historical irony — if we were not living with the consequences.”

https://on.ft.com/3t0QofP

Chanders, 8 months ago to random

“[Zadie Smith’s] two paths for the novel have become a perfect circle: What could be more avant-garde in an age of data harvesting and identity politics than a heartfelt 19th-century novel?” https://www.vulture.com/article/zadie-smith-the-fraud-review.html?ueid=b637f759312c7fe8bc635947e83b971b&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Cover%20Drop%20-%20September%2011%2C%202023&utm_term=NYMag%20-%20Paywall

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, 8 months ago to random

"X isn’t the old Twitter anymore. Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon don’t yet fill the old Twitter niche either. But at this point, staying on Twitter because there’s no replacement is a bit like saying “I still drive my old gas guzzler because I can’t afford a new car,” when the old gas guzzler is missing a tire and the steering wheel. …Dude, accept it. You just don’t have a car anymore."

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/does-anyone-think-twitter-gets-better?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=387131&post_id=136791650&isFreemail=true&r=15ki&utm_medium=email

Chanders, 8 months ago to random

Right, this is annoying.

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, 9 months ago to random

Definitely seeing a larger than usual number of academic follows in the past few days. Hi everyone!

A lot of them seem to be from folks who have joined for a while but who have been mostly quiet. Not sure if this is related to the "X" debacle, problems at other sites (BlueSky, Threads, etc) or just wanting to try again.

Anyway welcome to all.

#commodon #academicchatter

Chanders, 10 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 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 random

“reflexive contrarianism is, as the economist Adam Ozimek puts it, a “brain rotting drug.” Those who succumb to that drug “lose the ability to judge others they consider contrarian, become unable to tell good evidence from bad, a total unanchoring of belief that leads them to cling to low quality contrarian fads.””

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/robert-kennedy-jr-silicon-valley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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, 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, 10 months ago to random

Happy United States Independence Day to all my peeps.

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, 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, 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, 11 months ago to random

It’s not the AI, it’s the capitalism.

That’s it, that’s the root.

Chanders, 1 year 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, 1 year ago to random

The anxiety spike I’ve seen on this website since the Trump town hall is real. Solidarity from abroad.

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, 1 year ago to random

Man I didn't get the crypto spam everyone else is talking about, now I feel like a loser.

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, 1 year ago to random

"But this was an angle that I hadn’t thought of before. At some point in the future there will be somewhere in the universe where there will be a last sentient being. And a last thought. And that last word, no matter how profound or mundane, will vanish into silence along with the memory of Einstein, Elvis, Jesus, Buddha, Aretha, & Eve, while the remaining bits of the physical universe go on sailing apart for billions upon billions upon billions of lonely silent years."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/science/end-of-universe.html?campaign_id=51&emc=edit_mbe_20230503&instance_id=91636&nl=morning-briefing%3A-europe-edition&regi_id=60201592&segment_id=131964&te=1&user_id=b637f759312c7fe8bc635947e83b971b