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Aram Sinnreich

@aramsinn.bsky.social

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📚 Nonfiction Author 📚 SFF Author (.5 of R.A. Sinn) 🎓 Media Prof at AU in DC 💿 Bassist/Producer/Composer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) sinnreich.com tinyurl.com/tslodata tinyurl.com/ASCFYbook linktree.com/wassako

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 27d

Some personal news: @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I just won the Nancy Baym Book Award, granted annually by The Association of Internet Researchers (@aoir.bsky.social), for our @mitpress.bsky.social book The Secret Life of Data. I am honored, chuffed, and oh so grateful.

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2025 Nancy Baym Book Award |

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

Musk ownership of Twitter and Ellison ownership of TikTok is just the modern extension of that

tale as old of time

their ideas are shitty and unpopular so they have to take control of the information machinery and distort reality itself

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you for explaining

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

Ohhhh

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

What does this even mean

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

Why can't I be sitting in a snug library reading room with my feet up before a blazing hearth, nursing a glass of port and thumbing leisurely through its pages, from time to time muttering "hm!" or on rare occasion "so true."

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

No, ignorance is not a credible defense in this case

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

Too busy to read the new Pynchon novel is not the version of academia I signed up for

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 2h

guys guess what

Poster on utility box with comparison of Spotted Lanternfly and bloated fascist guy (with images of the insect and the president). Bottom reads “not welcome in DC”

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

Reification through equivalency bias is a helluva drug

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 4h

New free resource from the National Communication Association:

ADDRESSING AUTHORITARIANISM: A RESOURCE LIBRARY

www.natcom.org/addressing-a...

Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library - National Communication Association

Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library This resource library has been compiled by NCA members and others to provide public resources to teach, think, and write about the current rise of autho...

www.natcom.org

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 4h

I have never heard of this game but Garfield doesn't strike me as the type to mash up Marx and Dumas.

ana @totebug.bsky.social · 20h

playing important games

Screenshot of the Garfield 2 jrpg for J2ME. The picture depicts garfield looking at a doppelgänger cat with a crown. Blue Final Fantasy looking text dialogue reading. "Garfield: Cats of the world unite! All for one, and one for all"

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

Oh I see it's Substack. duh!

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Helen Marshall @manuscriptgal.bsky.social · 5h

Spotted at the Brisbane Writers Festival! #bwf #nounderstanding

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

Ooh fun. How do I get your newsletter?

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

Whaaa!?!

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

I brought my kids to see this production (both theater kids, neither familiar with Beckett) and they really loved the play — though my 21yo, who now works in theater tech, didn't approve of Jamie Lloyd's minimalist direction.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 19h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes you need to be realistic, and/or kind to yourself.

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

For your consideration duniaandaram.bandcamp.com/track/know-i...

Know I’m Gonna Win, by Dunia and Aram

track by Dunia and Aram

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

This was in LA so I'd guess the bird is with CAA.

Lucky feathered bastard. Here I am like a sucker, booking my own tours.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 6h

Jennie has entered the infrastructure phase of celebrity. Releasing a font on Hangeul Day—not new music, but new letters. From voice to typeface, she now commands the full stack of semiotics.

Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 6h

An article (in Korean) on Jennie of Blackpink and her agency releasing a Korean font to celebrate Hangeul Day. Quite neat to think about a pop star releasing a font! What what a Swift font would be like . . . .
www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2025...

제니, 소속사와 한글 글꼴 출시…"세계에 한글 아름다움 알린다" | 연합뉴스

(서울=연합뉴스) 최주성 기자 = 그룹 블랙핑크 제니가 한글날을 맞아 소속사와 함께 한글의 아름다움을 알리는 글꼴을 공개했다.

www.yna.co.kr

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

I used to have a mockingbird outside my window who had learned the entire car alarm song, all five movements.

Ersatz Haderach (spooky) @striderhlc.bsky.social · 6h

A couple years ago I lived in a neighborhood with a mockingbird who had learned to imitate the fire alarm low-battery chirp.

That was…. Fun.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 16h

Who would ever think that IBM would stoop so low as to profit from aiding a despotic regime in oppressing its own citizens

Dr. Keith Preble @poliscikeith.bsky.social · 16h

apnews.com/article/chin...

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 23h

The top promoted streaming app on the App Store is a disinfo channel specializing in hate speech against PoC.

But DeICER app, which helps PoC inform one another about potential kidnapping/assault by illegal gangs, gets blocked because ICE = a protected class. 🙃

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

screen shot of App Store listing Fox One as the “best streaming app"

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Germany, for standing up for #privacy via encryption.

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 1d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 1d

One of three lawmakers who drew national attention in 2023 when Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature moved to expel them following a gun control protest is running for Congress, he announced Wednesday. www.courthousenews.com/tennessee-th...

'Tennessee Three' Democrat announces bid for Congress against longtime representative from Memphis

Pearson worked as an environmental justice activist before he won a seat in the Tennessee House in 2023.

www.courthousenews.com

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