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aram

@aram@aoir.social

Writer, professor, musician.

The lesser ½ of Dunia & Aram.
The lesser ½ of https://zirk.us/@RASinn.
The lesser ⅛ of Comm Studies @ AU.

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aram, to random
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So proud of my brother-in-law for sticking to his guns and sharing his truth in this @nytimes profile. I love you, brother! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/jar-jar-binks-actor-star-wars-ahmed-best.html

aram, to books
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🥳 After five years of dreaming, listening, writing, editing, and hustling, our book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA is finally available to the public!!!

Happy launch day to my dear friend and coauthor @jesse and thanks to the @themitpress team for all the support.

Buy it here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/the-secret-life-of-data/

aram, to random
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Trump is on trial while he's running for president again and somehow that's not the biggest story in the nation. Strange.

aram, to books
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My book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA comes out tomorrow (4/30) from @themitpress. Please help us launch with a splash by preordering today:

https://a.co/d/gLsDG1c

@commodon @bookstodon

aram, to random
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Hi, I'm a US Jewish professor & Columbia University graduate and I'm here to say:

  1. Killing civilians is evil whether Hamas or Israel does it.

  2. Students should be able to say anything they want, short of threatening/inciting violence or harrassment.

  3. Protesting the mass killing of Gazans is not anti-Semitic.

  4. Anti-Semites are part of the protests, which makes them dangerous for Jews.

  5. Israel = less colonialist than US, China or UK. Heal thyself.

aram, to random
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Wut

aram, to random
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O RLY

Secret Russian document, 2023:

"escalate the situation in the Middle East around Israel, Iran and Syria to distract the U.S. with the problems of this region."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/

aram,
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O RLY
O RLY

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-says-its-working-major-new-agreement-with-iran-2023-12-12/

kfury, to random
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Twitter has plunged in value by 71.5% since Elon bought it.

aram,
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@kfury

economically, yes.

Socially, it's plunged 100% in value.

aram, to random
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I miss being able to teach my students about the Comstock Act as a cautionary tale from ancient history https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/us/politics/trump-allies-abortion-restrictions.html

aram, to ai
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What fresh hell

@academicchatter

aram, to Israel
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The people of have been on the streets for over a year, double digit percentages of the population, week after week, demanding Netanyahu's resignation and raging against his policy, but you wouldn't know it by looking at US media. All we get to see is how the war is bad for Biden.

Screenshot of a Washington Post article headline reading: "MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT - Six months into Gaza war, Biden confronts the limits of U.S. leverage," by Karen DeYoung.

aram,
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I attended some of the early anti-Netanyahu rallies in Tel Aviv when I was there last Spring. Seven months before Oct 7, and the Israeli people, including Palestinians, were already up in arms, calling him a white supremacist and a fascist and demanding his ouster.

https://aoir.social/@aram/110034949732959147

https://aoir.social/@aram/110006695175553125

aram,
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And they're still out there today, facing increased police violence and worse, including murderous nut jobs ramming cars into the peaceful protesters, just to voice their opposition to that monster.

https://m.ai6yr.org/@exador23/112227666904104818

aram, to random
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Rest in Power to the real deal ✌️✊🌴 https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/04/02/john-sinclair-detroit-poet-cannabis-activist-and-counterculture-icon-dead-at-82/73179306007/

aram, to random
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Rest in Power 🎻 https://apnews.com/article/louis-gossett-jr-dies-1e86e1441ec8b614a282f3de22490a07

aram, to books
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I had a really fun conversation with @jesse and the hosts of KPCW's "Cool Science Radio" about our forthcoming book "The Secret Life of Data" from @themitpress. Check it out here:

https://www.kpcw.org/show/cool-science-radio/2024-03-28/how-our-data-is-really-being-used

@commodon @bookstodon

aram, to random
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Just got an email from a dear old friend who is smart, educated, kind, thoughtful, and the child of a Holocaust survivor.

He just asked me whether Josh Kushner buying LIFE Magazine could reunify America.

Fortunately, I could point him to my friend @susca's new book HEDGED to explain why billionaires are the problem, not the solution.

bookish, to random
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How many others OH have used "archival ink" to write their shopping list?

aram,
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@clive @bookish ephemeralia have a small but passionate following in the archive and info science world

aram, to random
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Dear Wealthy People,

We don't need any more buildings. We need endowments so we can give faculty above-COLA raises (which they rarely get), give deserving students more financial aid, and develop innovative research that benefits the world.

Please adjust your donations accordingly.

Sincerely,

Universities

aram, to random
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Apple is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

aram, to random
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There are few more wonderful feelings than opening a box and taking out the book you've spent the past five years on... the only thing better is getting to share it with your friend who wrote it with you. ❤️ @jesse @themitpress

video/mp4

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aram,
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@indivisibleteam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw

NicoleCRust, to random
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How do you pack a 95K word (nonfiction) book into a 40 minute talk?

How many words are in 40 minutes? My estimate is 4-5K. That's ~20-fold compression. Something like half of 1 (of 10) chapters in the book.

Obviously you don't just read off the first half of the first chapter. But an outline of all of it is also super unsatisfying; it needs more depth than that. Clearly you present the central thesis and why it matters. But what to support it? This is a problem I've never encountered before. Not yet sure how to wrap my head around it.

Any advice? Any pointers to book talks you love?

aram,
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@NicoleCRust Don't try to represent the entire book. Choose at most five key points you'd like people to remember. Set each up with an anecdote/example, and explain what they have to do with your key premise.

ernie, to random
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I made Ben Folds trend on Bluesky, which is kind of a weird feeling

aram,
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@ernie that is the humblest of brags

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