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James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 9

🌊 New article out now in Social Studies of Science

🌊 How do common web development frameworks shape our experience of coastal pollution?

🌊 Two case studies from NYC's beaches

Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 1d

University leadership: “We love innovation!! 😇☺️🥳”

The innovation in question:

theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...

How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students

Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.

theintercept.com

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 5d

www.johnclilly.com

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 6d

Chomsky haters vindicated, Parenti stock on a bull run

Reposted by James A. Hodges

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 7d

It's 1999: "Unreal" is a solo FPS that's just released a multi-player version, in response to Quake 3. It all runs on GeForce 256 graphics cards by a company called "Nvidia."

It's 2025: Nvidia is a multi-trillion-dollar AI hardware company, & most 3D Anything is made in "Unreal" these days.

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 7d

Workslop is the post-literate office’s lingua franca

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 7d

Subway ads in NYC: “Hello diverse neighbors! Use our app to join unlimited polycules for only $7,955.99/mo!”

Metro ads in DC: “It’s mission-critical. This is Patriot AI. We kill people.”

Reposted by James A. Hodges

Isto Huvila @ihuvila.bsky.social · 8d

A little later today, a panel on Geographic information in information science research at #asist25 with @zlkatz.bsky.social @jameshodges.net Wade Bishop, Diana Marsch and Ia Bull. Paper free to read at asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Geographic Information in Information Science Research

asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 9d

With all due respect there are only like five people who live here, half of them are transient NPS tenants, and the other half probably voted for Sliwa

Map of New York City highlighting Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaway peninsula

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 9d

Arrived in DC for the annual ASIS&T conference 🚂

Speaking on this panel, which the Official Conference App says is a “session with big attendance!” 🥳

Come see for yourself in Conference Theater at 2pm tomorrow (Monday) 🌎

#ASIST #ASIST25

Flyer for “panel 16: geographic information in information science research” Monday November 17, 2pm-3:30pm. Session with big attendance

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 13d

Big congrats to Amelia, who was a wonderful mentor to me during my postdoc at UT Austin

Readers! Hit me up if you want to review this for Information & Culture

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 14d

Happy publishing day to my friend and colleague Amelia Acker!

It’s a pleasure to read her scholarship, knowing how much time and dedication she’s put into crafting it.

MITP30 for 30% off today at PenguinRandomHouse.com

Reposted by Nancy K. Baym, James A. Hodges

Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 14d

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 19d

New blog post! Not going to link it. Just wanted to let you know that it exists

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 20d

I love seeing people go hysterical over our new mayor from 5,000 miles away. Just another 4 years of this, I’m sure it will be great 👍🏻

Reposted by James A. Hodges

Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 21d

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!

Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 27d

i treat blue denim as blue too 😅

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 29d

I'm getting flashbacks to when a different RU frat KILLED someone by spiking her drink in 2015.

Is this what Greek life is like everywhere, or is it just a Rutgers thing? newbrunswicktoday.com/2014/09/19-y...

19-Year-Old Rutgers Student Dies After Passing Out at DKE Fraternity House - New Brunswick Today | New Brunswick, NJ Local News

UPDATE (11:21 am): This article has been updated to include statements issued by the Rutgers President and the DKE International Fraternity. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ--A 19-year-old Rutgers sophomore died i...

newbrunswicktoday.com

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · 29d

My alma mater is in the news! But not for good reasons.

Seems like bad wiring in a decrepit frat house got someone ELECTROCUTED while tied to a metal chair for hazing. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/25/r...

Rutgers frat shuttered after hazing incident involving electric wires, water

The Rutgers chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi has been permanently shut down after a hazing incident critically injured a 19-year-old student earlier this month.

www.nydailynews.com

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 24

Most people don't know this, but Eddington is actually a prequel to Wall-E

Reposted by James A. Hodges

Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social · Oct 16

Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...

Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk

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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · Oct 16

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 15

I've aways found this LOVE Park clip fascinating, from a time when it was mostly off-limits for skateboarding. When an Occupy encampment went up, skaters seized the opportunity.

Nicely articulates the sport's apolitical individualist anti-authoritarianism. So very American youtu.be/luusm0mGkMg?...

occupied

YouTube video by sabotageonline

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James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 15

Most city councils don't understand this. Popular images of a "skatepark" usually involve pools & half-pipes, which take a lot of room & money to build, but are way less popular w/ users than curbs and ledges

Former pro Dave Caddo covers this nicely davidcaddo.substack.com/p/built-envi...

002: Built Environment Inertia

Why skate parks are the way they are.

davidcaddo.substack.com

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 15

"many of the most enticing spots, to me anyway, were nothing more than simple granite benches, about 14 inches tall, placed in areas with nice smooth ground and ample space...It takes a skateboarder to know that you don’t need a big, expensive park to make skaters happy."

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 15

Scene report from Malmo following "reconstruction of one of the most iconic spots in skateboarding history, imported, piece by piece, from Philadelphia"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/m...

The Ultimate Pilgrimage for the Middle-Aged Skateboarder

www.nytimes.com

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 14

FUN FACT: Bladee's hit song "Missing Person," from the "Eversince" album, is actually about about Thomas Pynchon

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 10

*management voice*

Remember the labor market after Covid? Workers suddenly had more bargaining power. AI fixes that

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 9

"Much as liquids assume the shape of their containers, so too does knowledge assume the shape of the practices, objects, and systems within which it is embodied and transmitted"

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 7

Adjacent and sometimes overlapping with the Pizza Belt (New Jersey to Connecticut)

James Hodges @jameshodges.net · Oct 3

I heard that in Park Slope your dog needs to be at least 40% poodle or it will get repossessed

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