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@jessrauchberg.bsky.social

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Social media expert writing about labor/culture/inequalities in the creator economy. Repped by Aevitas Creative Management. Hot takes are my own! www.jessrauchberg.com

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · Jul 16

a very cool data viz from a talk I gave last week at McMaster University! thanks to Melanie Parlette-Stewart for bringing my presentation to life. ✨recorded lecture coming soon...

A visual note representing my invited talk at the 2025 McMaster Conference on Education & Cognition

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 3h

i'm really writing the coolest and scariest project I've worked on thus far need an etsy witch or a sympathetic reviewer

jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 3h

ha! i'm full of these. (but yes, the hole shirt is quite awesome)

jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 3h

courtney love would approve of this excellent outfit!

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 4h

stewing on some hot takes about pittsburgh's influencer market and whiteness

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not saying the US and Canada are the only places Nazis got eugenicist ideas. Of course Germany had eugenicists for decades ahead of the Nazis taking control. But they were communicating with and getting ideas from what countries like the US were doing to implement eugenics and eugenicist policy.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6h

sorry in advance for not being an empiricist :/

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 8h

My dad has been suffering his own losses – mom’s dementia, cancer, fire — the past 3yrs, but he’s also been a great support as I’ve been at my lowest. Last night we talked abt what I’ve learned: don’t “pay forward” any labor, don’t ever trust administrators, prestige is empty, you are expendable

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 1d

@jessmaddox.bsky.social the petekey project 👀👀

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Ryan D'Souza @brownmunda.bsky.social · 6d

The academic equivalent of the Instagram black square is organizing a conference panel.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 2d

the earliest form of gender affirming representation I saw in media was my chem's "I'm not okay (I promise)" video

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The DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 2d

ONE WEEK REMINDER 📅

Tune in for our VIRTUAL conversation on crip wisdom and critique, register by visiting the link in our bio or myumi.ch/jJN82

The DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 17d

Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐

This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social

Flier for "How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes: On Crip Wisdom and Critique" event at the University of Michigan with details, four speakers, and a QR code for registration. The background is a deep red close-up of wires and plugs, and there is a graphic of a charred hallway.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 2d

AI as cure, AI as rehabilitation, AI as erasure, AI as hygienics.

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 4d

Here's my live Techtonic interview with Luddite Club members - including Lucy Jackson, featured in the WSJ story:
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
(click "pop-up player")

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 6d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

they're talking about AI stigma on L*nkedIn... new oppression just dropped

jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

robophobia conference panels coming your way in 2026

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 6d

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 6d

If you want to understand propaganda you have to realize that what we call "reality" is really just mutually agreed upon hallucinations. Our sense of reality is easily manipulated by the creation of intersubjective hallucinations. They create "truth" that serves the interests of the propagandists.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

You can only publicly declare your love for the album, or risk social standing when you voice your opinion.

(Sound familiar?)

jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

Some of this also stems from fandom purity politics. even saying "this album wasn't for me" could result in doxxing and surveillance (vigilante shit indeed!).

Fandoms internalize surveillance mechanisms, removing nuanced "authenticity" from the cultural act of listening and engaging.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

even if the age of authenticity is over, viewers/audiences/fans are more skeptical of optimization and they still crave something real.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

The Internet is turning on Taylor Swift because we've reached an point of authenticity fatigue, a fair point during a political moment where truth and fiction are blurred into an unrecognizable form of entertainment.

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

Pittsburgh is the best city in America! (I'm biased as a part-time PGH resident. It's a special place, for sure.)

jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

there is nothing authentic about generative AI. no matter what you're trying to create.

jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 6d

oh SAME! feels like a phantasm/container for other political practices