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Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him) danrosen.xyz

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · Mar 16

Went to the Whitney and they had a painting of my dissertation defense

A picture of an oil painting. Edward Hopper’s Soir Bleu from 1914. In the paintings, a clown sits at a restaurant table smoking a cigarette

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 7m

but that's my emotional support requiem!

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 18h

Just thinking of this article I read about telephone operators in Germany, where if you felt like it, you could just give her an electric shock over the phone

rationalized spaces in which the rapid, precise motions of hundreds of operators had to be closely co-ordinated to minimize disruption or breakdown of service. Pressure to improve efficiency was so great that, between 1910 and 1921, the number of connections operators were expected to make increased from 150 to 500 per hour with little appreciable change in equipment. Working constantly at the limit of their capacities, operators were also kept under constant surveillance; their speed in answering calls was timed and monitored, as were their interactions with callers. Impatient callers (usually men) were equipped with buttons that, when pressed, sent a current through the line, drawing the operator’s attention with a sharp, unpleasant crackling noise or a slight shock. The following anecdote, which describes an incident
that occurred in 1902 during the installation of a new switchboard at the
Siemens company’s headquarters in Berlin, illustrates what might happen
under such circumstances:

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 18h

For my diss research, I interviewed a virtual assistant, who was called an operator. This article made a great point of comparison

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 20h

Welcome to the party

Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com · 1d

Lovely article on University of Cambridge's Future Nostalgia project - rescuing knowledge from old floppy disks! Much of it resonates with the preservation work we do at GTW:
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

via BBC_Future

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 18h

From this fascinating article by Andreas Killen: www.jstor.org/stable/3180655

From Shock to Schreck: Psychiatrists, Telephone Operators and Traumatic Neurosis in Germany, 1900-26 on JSTOR

Andreas Killen, From Shock to Schreck: Psychiatrists, Telephone Operators and Traumatic Neurosis in Germany, 1900-26, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 201-220

www.jstor.org

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 18h

Just thinking of this article I read about telephone operators in Germany, where if you felt like it, you could just give her an electric shock over the phone

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Uh oh. My sudden onset clairvoyance is flaring up

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 23h

Treat tools like people so you can treat people like tools

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

Meta executives are telling their workers they must use AI to "go 5x faster" and expect a "5x leap in productivity"

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 23h

Treat tools like people so you can treat people like tools

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

Meta executives are telling their workers they must use AI to "go 5x faster" and expect a "5x leap in productivity"

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Wild movie

𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 2d

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s cult future noir thriller ‘Strange Days’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, and Tom Sizemore premiered at the New York Film Festival 30 years ago this week. 💿🧠🚔 #OTD

"𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛."

Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

I've been having good luck with Raindrop

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

"We're doing the studies to make the proof" is too on the nose

Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Modernism: Big, if true

Today: True, if big

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Uh oh. My sudden onset clairvoyance is flaring up

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Modernism: Big, if true

Today: True, if big

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

"We're doing the studies to make the proof" is too on the nose

Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Modernism: Big, if true

Today: True, if big

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Modernism: Big, if true

Today: True, if big

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I learned during my interviews with Nintendo of America employees was that they weren't sure of which creatures were going to be breakout stars. Yes, they knew they had something with Pikachu, the "starters," the box art 'mons like Charizard and Blastoise, and big timers like Mewtwo...

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Fellas, is it gay to ponder your orb?

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Fellas, is it gay to ponder your orb?

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d

Incredible work! You see some of this visual language in some Israeli TV too, with this interest in crime reenactment

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d

when I was writing about livestreaming and social reproduction…

Polygon @polygon.com · 2d

Twitch streamer Fandy gave a live birth in front of thousands of viewers who witnessed everything from contractions to the head crowning.

Twitch streamer gives birth in front 29,000 viewers, and chat was unhinged

Twitch streamer Fandy gave a live birth in front of thousands of viewers who witnessed everything from contractions to the head crowning.

www.polygon.com

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 5d

"This back-and-forth between builders and critics makes neither happy, but ultimately leads to compromises...The adoption of new technological forms does not erase the interest in technosocial purposes to which it might be directed."

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 6d

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?

I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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