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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.

New book from https://mastodon.mit.edu/@themitpress: THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA

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aram, to random
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How to be a creative professional:

  1. Learn to make a thing
  2. Make a thing
  3. Find someone who wants to sell the thing
  4. Negotiate a contract
  5. Read contract
  6. Think "Hey, I'm gonna get screwed here"
  7. Sign contract
  8. Get screwed
  9. Be thankful
  10. Repeat
aram, to random
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Somebody with several mutuals asked me to connect on LinkedIn. This is their most recent post.

What?!?

No.

Eww.

aram, to scifi
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Just finished reading Ancillary Justice by @ann_leckie. I'd meant to read it for years, and boy was it worth the wait. What masterful worldbuilding and character development. Already downloaded book 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_Justice

aram, to random
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I published empirical research back in the year 2000 showing that if you give consumers a safe, easy way to access a giant library of content without ads, they'll happily pay a fair market price.

The streaming successes of 2013-2020 proved this to be true.

Now, siloization, surveillance, advertising, price-gouging, and shitty algorithms are going to send everyone back to "piracy."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29

aram, to random
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Text-to-image generative non-AI model, with shades of James Thurber: https://www.delcan.co/promptbrush

MoRmEnGiL, to random
aram,
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@MoRmEnGiL Now do Texas and Florida

aram, to random
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Gonna tell my grandkids this was Kanye West.

aram, to threads
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Getting a lot of DM all of a sudden. Probably has nothing whatsoever to do with joining the .

aram, to random
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Not all heroes wear capes https://metro.co.uk/video/brian-cox-tells-bbc-viewers-f-bizarre-newsnight-ending-3083203/

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon As we approach the end of 2023, I would love to know about the very best books you read this year. (They don't have to have been published in 2023 for your "best of" list.)

aram,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon for your consideration... https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Sinn/9781786188274

aram,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Thanks! FWIW it got a starred review in Publishers Weekly and made the Scientific American Best of 2023 list. Hope you get a chance to read it!

aram, to academia
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I hate that I have to send emails like this. But that's what it's come to, isn't it.

@academicchatter

aram, to scifi
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I was interviewed with @rachelcleves about our new novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY (written jointly as @RASinn) in the new American University Magazine. Love the kicker. https://www.american.edu/magazine/article/biblio-file-a-second-chance-for-yesterday.cfm @bookstodon @sciencefiction

aram, to random
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Who could be sending me these unsolicited job recruiting emails for positions that I have neither the credentials nor the interest to pursue?

[reads the recruiter's bio]

Ohhhhhh.

Oh. No.

No.

aram,
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@lori have you been reading my new pre-print with Laywine & Simon?

aram,
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@lori Not at all! AI = golem. It's delightful to see other folks making the same connection.

atomicpoet, to random

I asked DALL-E to create a grittier, more realistic version of Froot Loops. This was the result.

aram,
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@atomicpoet love the Disney logo and the radioactivity badge

aram, to scifi
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📚🎄🎁 Holiday gift alert 🎁🎄📚

For the nerd in your life: Buy them the book that @Locusmag called a "provocative, assured, compelling debut novel," and that @publisherswkly gave a ⭐'d review: A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY by @RASinn: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Sinn/9781786188274 @bookstodon

aram, to television
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Ok Fedi hive mind, hit me up:

I need some smart, fun recommendations, in any language or genre, that don't involve:

  1. Serial killers/Grisly murders
  2. Monochromatic casts
  3. Jump scares
  4. Billionaires
  5. "Real" dating
  6. Cops
  7. Conspiracy theories
  8. Evil tech
  9. Prolonged illnesses
  10. Christmas
  11. Creative/cultural competition
aram,
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@jpaskaruk Yeahhhhh I keep hearing good things but if I don't like sports or the myth of the genial American, will I still like it? I watched about 10 minutes of the pilot episode and gave up...

aram,
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@clive ohhh! I heard that was great, and then forgot about it. Thanks for the heads up!

aram, to random
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I said some things about the X guy to Forbes. I pulled no punches. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/12/01/elon-musk-offered-f-u-to-advertisers-they-wont-be-coming-back/?sh=4ca33b2d22b9

aram, to privacy
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New article from me & @jesse in @RollingStone:

We Spied on Trump’s ‘Southern White House’ From Our Couches

(a preview of our forthcoming @themitpress book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-brokers-trump-tech-spying-privacy-threat-1234897098/

#data #privacy #surveillance #commodon #bookstodon @bookstodon @commodon @jkehoe

aram, to academia
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Writing customized questions for my student evals this semester.

@academicchatter @commodon

actasociologica, to academicchatter Danish
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NEW DATA POLICY
In the future, quantitative studies must provide public access to data and code for replication purposes to be accepted for publication in Acta Sociologica. This initiative aims to increase transparency and quality of quantitative sociology. 1/3

https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/ASJ#OpenAccess

@sociology
@academicchatter

aram,
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@actasociologica @sociology @academicchatter That's great. What steps are you taking to ensure that human subjects data won't be deanonymized, either through new forensic techniques or through integration between disparate public data sets?

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