@dkiesow@Chanders I literally think it is partly down to how uncool academics were as young people and how Bsky's invite-only aspect plucks the strings of ego, whereas Mdon seems like being over in the nerd lane. Uncharitable? sure. Wrong? you tell me.
Anyway. I'm here. Bsky gave me the absolute super-creeps when I tried it last summer. Plus I was always ambivalent abt academic Twitter.
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.”
“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.”
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.
“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.”
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.
@CatherineFlick our nearly four year old spent the whole school week being woken up at 7am by me when sound asleep before I left for work. Today she chose to wake up at 6:30. 🤷🏻♂️
“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.”
“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.”
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
@dankennedy_nu Many thanks Dan. This will be a largely synthetic work, rather than based on new empirical research, so your books will be key to telling the story.