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m. r. sauter
@oddletters.bsky.social
politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press

writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch

i curse a lot

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hi new people! there are a lot of you! here are some linked threads re my work that you might be interested in:

1. maybe you're interested in ddos and digital activism? i wrote a book on that, which you can download for free!

bsky.app/profile/oddl...
apropos of nothing: ten years ago almost to the day i published a book on disruptive digital activism and ddos, and you can download the full pdf for free from my website oddletters.com/the-coming-s...
i love you all, friends, stay warm out there
January 25, 2026 at 4:03 AM
definitely my favorite thing about Canvas is the way it randomly re-distributes assignment due dates merrily across a twenty year span when i import existing course content. this is so fun. so whimsical.
January 23, 2026 at 1:18 AM
what the actual fuck
January 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM
i said no to something that would have been really cool to do but which i absolutley do not have time for right now please clap
January 21, 2026 at 12:50 PM
alright, im going to bed, someone wake me up if it happens or if the east coast enters a second ice age
January 21, 2026 at 4:08 AM
maybe air force one is also going to vienna, virginia now
January 21, 2026 at 3:56 AM
well i dont like that at all.
January 21, 2026 at 2:57 AM
oooo i have mapo tofu in the fridge
January 21, 2026 at 12:01 AM
im sorry what do you mean someone stole a bus and drove it to virginia

why would you want to steal a bus to go there
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 AM
now we're watching the star trek episode where tasha yar gets eaten by a mud puddle who is also an incel
January 20, 2026 at 2:09 AM
UGLY GIANT BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER is underrated as a star trek insult
January 18, 2026 at 11:44 PM
gonna displace all my Big Feelings about being forty onto tallulah being the cat equivalent of forty
January 18, 2026 at 7:51 PM
i hate having dreams about doing chores. you wake up and youre youre all like

whew glad that's out of the way--

oh goddammit.
January 18, 2026 at 6:27 PM
bringing physical qwerty keyboards for phones back would fix democracy
Jan 18th 2014 - Air Marshall Bill Marks gets a text demanding $150m or passengers on board his flight will die.

📽️📅 Non-Stop (2014)
January 18, 2026 at 2:31 PM
my brain really wants to get into film photography and i keep explaining that we dont have the money or the patience for that and my brain just doesnt care
January 18, 2026 at 2:09 PM
die a twink or live long enough to become your own dirtbag metal boyfriend
January 17, 2026 at 6:59 PM
im sorry about all the snow i keep dragging around with me
Main band of snow (or mix) will focus on the Interstate 95 corridor next hour to two. It seems this is mainly snow still despite temperatures in the mid-30s to near 40. Even at these temperatures could be a brief coating if heavy enough.

More details and updates at cwg.live.
January 17, 2026 at 2:45 PM
you needed someone to miss you

and i do
January 17, 2026 at 1:27 AM
in celebration of me being back in canada pearson made me get off my plane outside in the snow
January 14, 2026 at 11:28 PM
i am a solid week behind on 🐋 but i have a big travel day today so i am very psyched to catch up!!!
January 14, 2026 at 5:33 PM
today is the actual for real deadline for this! send us your cool ideas!!!! oddletters.com/tech-money/
hey!

hey!!!

if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!!

https//oddletters.com/tech-money/
January 14, 2026 at 4:55 PM
hell yeeeeeaaaaah
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
About the Conference
www.4sonline.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
look some people had the CATS (2019) that had the terrifying ghost cat and buttholes in it and some people had the bad version
i’m creating a new conspiracy theory that the reason that there’s so much film discourse with people not understanding what they watch is because there’s two versions of every film and they show different theaters a different version at random
January 14, 2026 at 2:15 AM
: lays down on the floor and stares at the ceiling in Reviewer #2 :
January 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
all the cool bsky kids are at @lifewinning.com 's dissertation defense
January 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM