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Chanders

@Chanders@sciences.social

Professor of Sociology. Interests include publics, assemblages, middlebrow culture, where Europe & the new world meet. Mann, Bolano, Charlie Parker, Virginia Woolf.

Associate Editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics and Sociologica.

(he/him).

I’m from New York, live in Bologna, Italy, and work in Milan. There’s a lot of stuff I miss about the USA and a lot I don’t. I miss cornmeal and Mexican food primarily.

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inquiline, to random
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Oh I see the blah ranch house in my neighborhood that sold for $2M in June 2022 and was relisted after they "upgraded" it into vulgar fanciness for $3.9M in April 2023 has still not sold and they've had to successively drop the ask price down to $2.8M now.

Very normal housing market. (I rent)

Chanders,
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@inquiline it’s a good thing that salary in California’s public and private university system is keeping pace … 😒

Chanders, to random
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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, to journalism
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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.

Chanders, to random
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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,
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@VCP it was a real mindf**c

Chanders,
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@VCP honest to god though this makes no sense. Biden and Trump are EVEN amongst younger voters?!?

Chanders,
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@Jonathanglick @VCP say more 😬

vicgrinberg, to books
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Bought some books - mostly again with Daunt Books Marylebone (@DauntBooksPub) 📚

(And yes, asking about whether I read out the ones I bought before would be extremely impolite 🙃)

Chanders,
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@vicgrinberg @DauntBooksPub such beautifully designed books.

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

Chanders,
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Anyway whatever, here til the end with you lovely weirdos.

Chanders,
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@aram people know but don’t care. It’s like expecting media scholars to make well informed media consumption choices which we all know we don’t do.

I just don’t see how they can put up with the performative nonsense and algorithmically generated outrage all over again. It’s possible people just had a very different experience of twitter I did as a power user who tends to take things personally. But I don’t know. I so don’t miss that crap.

Chanders,
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@aram like -by the time I left Twitter I had been angry (periodically, nothing permanent [i think]) with multiple real life friends. I had one or two honest colleagues tell me my Twitter personality drove them crazy. And now people want to do it all over again!?

Chanders,
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@MediaLawProf @aram where I’ve landed - after a year of the multiple stages of grief- is that twitter was bad for me* …. But everyone is different and is in a different situation so I’m not gonna judge.

*(it was also bad for the world but that claim violates the second part of the above thesis) 😉

Chanders,
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@inquiline @dkiesow

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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

MediaLawProf, to random

I’ve been off here awhile while tending to a bunch of other stuff but yeah, as y’all may remember from my #immaculategrid antics, I’m kind of a nutso Texas Rangers fan. A very happy one tonight!

Adolis Garcia bobblehead

Chanders,
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@MediaLawProf congrats on the Rangers.

dankennedy_nu, to random
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When Tom Friedman writes about Israel and the Middle East, he's worth reading. Here's a free link. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/opinion/biden-speech-israel-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4kw.0RYp.F5DXzAJyd1k1&smid=url-share

Chanders,
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@dankennedy_nu it’s kind of amazing how inane he sounds about almost everything else and how worth it he is on this one topic.

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“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

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    Chanders, (edited )
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    @inquiline @mediageek @seachanger now don’t you get any onya / you sloppy pig

    Chanders, to random
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    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

    RobynCaplan, to random

    Also if you can’t tell I have given up on Twitter (she says for the 3rd time).

    Chanders,
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    @RobynCaplan @cyberlyra kill the account. Delete it. That’s all that works.

    seachanger, to random
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    as much as I wanted the twitter after party to land on mastodon tbh im thankful people have choices and that we have space to be weirdos over here. My brain is not the same since I decamped for this strange galaxy, and in the best way

    Chanders,
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    @seachanger same.

    Chanders, to random
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    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, to random
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    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, to random
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    “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

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