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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D.

@zolides.bsky.social

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Associate Professor specializing in Digital Media Industries I live in The Medium Place (Cincinnati, OH) Everything I say is me saying it, not my employer… which should be obvious (Profile art by Angel Trazo)

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · Jan 15

Teen Vogue is now the paper of record, and the NYT is a fashion magazine. The transfer is complete.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jan 14

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AAUP @aaup.org · 17h

Judith Norman is a philosophy professor at Trinity University. In this interview, she shares her experience of being cleared of all allegations following two Title VI investigations into six complaints. She discusses how these policies and procedures can be weaponized to silence faculty voices.

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · 16d

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI alone have collectively announced $800b in commitments for new data centers in 2025. Meanwhile, US electricity prices are rising fast, up 35% since 2022

Electricity is AI's Achilles heel:

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 1d

Me every October:

a man with glasses and a red jacket says i gotta focus . i 'm shifting into soup mode .

Alt: a man with glasses and a red jacket says i gotta focus . i 'm shifting into soup mode .

media.tenor.com

Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the most depraved things this administration has said, which is certainly saying something.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 3d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 2d

What in the hell is a “public expression activity?”

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 3d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 3d

Both fun and helpful for describing *everything.*

Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 3d

That’s… not what he said at all. You shouldn’t misrepresent something just to score ‘points.’ It’s dangerous and unethical.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 7d

GOP policy or wonton ‘AI’ speculation: which will destroy the American economy first?

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 11d

honestly, there's no point in reconvening congress basically ever again if the executive branch claims unilateral authority over appropriated funds. democrats have nothing to gain by helping to obscure the fact that the republicans are trying to build a monarchy - let him have his rump parliament

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 7d

Every academic using ‘A.I.’

an older man is holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i .

Alt: an older man is holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i .

media.tenor.com

Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 8d

Is any mainstream media going to report on all the times Trump has called out his political opposition during a speech to the military? Seems important.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9d

this is what happens when people who have never been oppressed a second of their lives try to invent oppression

Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING:

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 10d

Remember this post from BlueSky CEO when they need to start monetizing… You aren’t wanted or needed here by those that “own” it.

Use it while it’s free and utile… but you don’t ‘owe’ this platform anything.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 10d

Trump has already declared a Civil War with the goal being one-party autocracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 11d

What’s more, this has been built to for years. Campuses have been bending over backwards to accommodate conservative complaints, stifling speech and processes all along.

I have seen scores more ‘progressive’ events cancelled/limited than I have ‘conservative,’ and frankly the ratio isn’t close.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11d

We are in for an era on campuses where if conservative activists don’t get their way, they’ll run crying to Twitter in the hopes of getting politicians to force schools to accommodate them. It’s not about free speech, it’s about the ability to exert their will over others.

Chron.com @chron.com · 11d

"This is how free speech dies."

Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 13d

“With the government shutdown and not funded, how will the President pay the troops he plans to have wage war on American cities?” is now a legitimate question for our political discourse.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13d

“.. OpenAI spent more on marketing and equity options for its employees than it made in revenue in the first half of 2025. That single fact sums up where we are in the AI cycle more neatly than anything we could ever write, so we’ll just end there.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/908d...

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 13d

Note the way he *holds* the box. It’s bizarre, like he has Spider-Man powers and it just sticks to his fingers and palm.

Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 13d

I see. I saw more retreat down in Southwest Ohio myself during the first Trump term, but that might be due to being in the Cincinnati region. Deeper rural shifts you’re describing are significant