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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 · 26d

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.

aoir.org/2025nb_booka...

2025 Nancy Baym Book Award |

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 52m

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 · 1h

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

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 4h

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 ...

therecord.media

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 2h

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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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

One of the first things you learn in journalism school is “if it bleeds, it leads,” which essentially means that news media have a pro-violence bias because it gets eyeballs.

Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 2h

This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊

Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.

What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on.

4 stacked bar charts. showing in short that while heart diseases and cancer constitutes 55% of the causes of death, they receive about 7% of the media coverages. Homicide is under 1% but receives between 42% and 52%. Terrorisme barely registers in the causes of death, but gets between 11% and 18%.

The first stacked bar is causes of death in the US in 2023
Heart diseases 29%
Cancer 26%
Accidents 9.5%
Stroke 6.9%
Lower respiratory diseases (6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (2.4%)
Liver disease (2.2%)
Suicide (2.1%)
COVID-19 (2.1%)
Influenza/Pneumonia (1.9%)
Drug overdose (1.8%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)

Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in...
New York Times
Heart disease (2.8%)
Cancer (4.1%)
Accidents (9.7%)
Suicide (3.8%)
COVID-19 (5.3%)
Drug overdose (7.5%)
Homicide (42%)
Terrorism (18%)

Washington Post
Heart disease (2.9%)
Cancer (4.7%)
Accidents (5.9%)
Suicide (3.3%)
COVID-19 (7.9%)
Drug overdose (9.5%)
Homicide (46%)
Terrorism (12%)

Fox News
Heart disease (2.3%)
Cancer (3.8%)
Accidents (6.1%)
Suicide (4.1%)
COVID-19 (6.0%)
Drug overdose (9.8%)
Homicide (52%)
Terrorism (11%)

Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US.
A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e.g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "flu") least twice.
Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025); deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

I took it as such!

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

I am very happy with the life partner I have!

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

I am inordinately tickled by this Old Navy model with high shiksappeal sporting Happy Hanukkah pajamas.

A very blonde woman with very Northern European features modeling pajamas decorated with menorahs and the words “Happy Hanukkah"

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 3h

Pilot: (on intercom) There are no air traffic controllers today so everybody look out the window and holler if you see another plane

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 3h

“Privacy-preserving” isn’t as private as you might think. Our new brief, published in collab w @powerswitchaction.org & Coworker, exposes how so-called “privacy-preserving” technologies can actually enable *more* worker surveillance — and what we can do about it. datasociety.net/library/the-...

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 4h

a woman in a blue shirt with an exclamation point above her

ALT: a woman in a blue shirt with an exclamation point above her

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

Lucy from Peanuts holding a football and saying “it’s coming to an end guys."

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 5h

Someone’s at it again, signing me up for right wing email spam. The latest is from something called GunsAmerica Discover and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 6h

My students are feeling Haraway this year more than they ever have

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 6h

In a world of micropenny streams, diminishing gig opportunities, and stagnating tour wages, basic income for music artists sounds like a better and better idea.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 7h

3) The 3-year pilot has now been turned into a permanent feature in the Irish govt budget, opened up to another 2,000 entrants next year, with a view to increasing those yearly numbers sometime after:

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 6h

Read the room, The Economist

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 15

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...

www.ukri.org

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 23h

Farewell to a titan. Thank you Zabar's for my earliest, most joyous olfactory memories.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1d

Your good news of the day

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1d

Poe's former home was a Greenwich Village landmark for well over a century. Then NYU bought it, tore it down, and built a nondescript dorm in its place.

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #OTD #EdgarAllanPoe

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 1d

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world.” — @sivav.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched Robocop for the first time and uh

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1d

You break it, you buy it

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1d

I grow old, I grow old, I shall store my archived files rolled

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, I got a settlement from the class action suit against ParkMobile, amounting to $1… which I can only use in $0.25 increments. Definitely worth exposing my personal data to thieves forever.

Dear Customer,

We are reaching out regarding a recent class action settlement involving ParkMobile. If you are receiving this email, you are a member of the class. As part of the agreed resolution, you are entitled to receive a benefit in the form of a discount code for use within the ParkMobile app.

No court ever found ParkMobile liable for anything; rather, this settlement was reached to allow the company to continue focusing on providing excellent service to its customers.

You are eligible for up to a $1.00 credit to be applied to ParkMobile’s service fees. The code provides a $0.25 discount on ParkMobile’s service fees and may be used up to four times for a total discount of $1.00. The code will expire on October 8, 2026. For residents of California, the code will not expire. The code will only work for accounts associated with email addresses that are in the class.

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Ben Pettis @bpettis.bsky.social · 2d

Truly decentralized social media is an amazing an amazing system. Follow me at @[email protected]

But if you're not hosting, joining a server is easy and there are tons to choose from. AoIR members can all sign up on aoir.social. And you can transfer your profile to other servers if you wish

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