Michael D. Dwyer
@michaelddwyer.bsky.social
film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
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Well, my author copies came this week, which means it is really real.
If you want to review it for a journal or a podcast, if you want me to talk to your class about deindustrialization or hollywood's perpetual search for lower production costs, or if you just think it's neat, please @ me!
If you want to review it for a journal or a podcast, if you want me to talk to your class about deindustrialization or hollywood's perpetual search for lower production costs, or if you just think it's neat, please @ me!
moss is so cool man :)
They shot moss into space, stuck it on the outside of the International Space Station for nine months, and then brought it back down to Earth to see how it was doing. It was basically fine! defector.com/one-small-st...
One Small Step For A Moss, One Giant Leap For Mosskind | Defector
Imagine that you are moss. (Thank you for subscribing to Defector, moss!) You are one of the most ancient types of land plants—older than flowers, older than grass, older than trees, older even than…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
moss is so cool man :)
eyyy our #scms26 roundtable "Media, Place, and Space: An Interactive Roundtable on Methodology" was accepted, looking forward to catching up with some pals and meeting some new ones there!
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
eyyy our #scms26 roundtable "Media, Place, and Space: An Interactive Roundtable on Methodology" was accepted, looking forward to catching up with some pals and meeting some new ones there!
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A few days after Cristiano Ronaldo was at the White House, FIFA says it has suspended the remaining two games of Cristiano Ronaldo's three-game ban for violent conduct, meaning he can play in Portugal's first two World Cup games.
Coincidence or not, it's certainly timing.
Coincidence or not, it's certainly timing.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A few days after Cristiano Ronaldo was at the White House, FIFA says it has suspended the remaining two games of Cristiano Ronaldo's three-game ban for violent conduct, meaning he can play in Portugal's first two World Cup games.
Coincidence or not, it's certainly timing.
Coincidence or not, it's certainly timing.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
I just listened to this and man, I have so much respect for the work it takes to center the things that really matter, *and* to identify the venality and dishonesty of these awful grifters
PTFO collaborated with @msjpauly.bsky.social and @motherjones.com on an investigation into Riley Gaines.
Riley’s messaging about trans athletes involves “predatory men” and “sexual assault.”
But there’s an important story multiple ex-teammates at Kentucky want you to know: youtu.be/iKUl8lkuGOc?...
Riley’s messaging about trans athletes involves “predatory men” and “sexual assault.”
But there’s an important story multiple ex-teammates at Kentucky want you to know: youtu.be/iKUl8lkuGOc?...
Riley Gaines Investigated: The Lia Thomas Race, the Coach & Why She "Doesn't Even Like" Trump | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I just listened to this and man, I have so much respect for the work it takes to center the things that really matter, *and* to identify the venality and dishonesty of these awful grifters
also: filming location for THE BREAKFAST CLUB
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
also: filming location for THE BREAKFAST CLUB
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TEEN: you’re the only one who understands me danny. my stupid dad won’t let me go see billie eilish with gretchen
AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies
AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies
December 30, 2024 at 10:46 PM
TEEN: you’re the only one who understands me danny. my stupid dad won’t let me go see billie eilish with gretchen
AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies
AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies
the nfl: still bad
the Monday Night Football sideline reporter just casually described a player getting concussed to the point of vomiting and then returning to the field
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
the nfl: still bad
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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The first real turning point for me after Obama's election was the refusal to prosecute those involved in the Bush era torture program
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The first real turning point for me after Obama's election was the refusal to prosecute those involved in the Bush era torture program
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
rose lavelle has been a difference-maker her whole career. what a ballplayer.
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
rose lavelle has been a difference-maker her whole career. what a ballplayer.
it rules that the semipro team that my best high school teammates went to play for in a worse high school stadium, are now USL champs! HOUNDS!!!
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
it rules that the semipro team that my best high school teammates went to play for in a worse high school stadium, are now USL champs! HOUNDS!!!
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
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It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
1) it is good and cool that this place is continuing to things like this without any hesitation or controversy
2) so sad that in this age of austerity they needed to consolidate trans day of remembrance and trans day of pizza
2) so sad that in this age of austerity they needed to consolidate trans day of remembrance and trans day of pizza
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
1) it is good and cool that this place is continuing to things like this without any hesitation or controversy
2) so sad that in this age of austerity they needed to consolidate trans day of remembrance and trans day of pizza
2) so sad that in this age of austerity they needed to consolidate trans day of remembrance and trans day of pizza
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when the fuck is this gonna end
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
when the fuck is this gonna end
i was at a warped tour in pgh circa 2000 that dropkick was supposed to headline and they refused to play because the venue stopped hiring unionized electricians, they played out in the parking lot by the picket instead
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
i was at a warped tour in pgh circa 2000 that dropkick was supposed to headline and they refused to play because the venue stopped hiring unionized electricians, they played out in the parking lot by the picket instead
i think it's 25.
it was amazing being in the westfalonstadion and the emirates, but to be honest i think providence park in portland was my favorite *stadium* experience
it was amazing being in the westfalonstadion and the emirates, but to be honest i think providence park in portland was my favorite *stadium* experience
WAIT
Stop doomscrolling and answer this fun question
How many soccer stadiums have you been to and whats your favorite one?
Stop doomscrolling and answer this fun question
How many soccer stadiums have you been to and whats your favorite one?
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
i think it's 25.
it was amazing being in the westfalonstadion and the emirates, but to be honest i think providence park in portland was my favorite *stadium* experience
it was amazing being in the westfalonstadion and the emirates, but to be honest i think providence park in portland was my favorite *stadium* experience
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This is the type of scandal that should not just get Tanner fired but force a sale of the team if MLS is a serious league. You can not have an ownership team that does cover for this AND works to mold the minds of children with a school.
NEW: Ernst Tanner has built a powerhouse at the Philadelphia Union.
But my @us.theguardian.com investigation has shown wide-ranging allegations of misbehavior throughout his 7-year tenure.
Tanner denies the allegations, and was investigated by MLS this year.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
But my @us.theguardian.com investigation has shown wide-ranging allegations of misbehavior throughout his 7-year tenure.
Tanner denies the allegations, and was investigated by MLS this year.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
MLS executive who built a powerhouse faced allegations of sexist, racist and homophobic behavior
Philadelphia Union sporting director Ernst Tanner denies the allegations, which prompted a recently-concluded MLS investigation that could not corroborate them
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is the type of scandal that should not just get Tanner fired but force a sale of the team if MLS is a serious league. You can not have an ownership team that does cover for this AND works to mold the minds of children with a school.
Get this guy out of my club, people have known that he's a shit for years
NEW: Ernst Tanner has built a powerhouse at the Philadelphia Union.
But my @us.theguardian.com investigation has shown wide-ranging allegations of misbehavior throughout his 7-year tenure.
Tanner denies the allegations, and was investigated by MLS this year.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
But my @us.theguardian.com investigation has shown wide-ranging allegations of misbehavior throughout his 7-year tenure.
Tanner denies the allegations, and was investigated by MLS this year.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
MLS executive who built a powerhouse faced allegations of sexist, racist and homophobic behavior
Philadelphia Union sporting director Ernst Tanner denies the allegations, which prompted a recently-concluded MLS investigation that could not corroborate them
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Get this guy out of my club, people have known that he's a shit for years
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I know it's hardly the top priority, but could is there any way we could add "mandatory headphone jack on every smartphone" to the Woke 2 agenda?
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I know it's hardly the top priority, but could is there any way we could add "mandatory headphone jack on every smartphone" to the Woke 2 agenda?