I think that the president calling for a governor and a mayor to be jailed is a Very Bad Thing™

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on my way to talk about influencers and @sophiebishop's algorithmic gossip piece with my students and/or (depending on who you ask because I teach in America) brainwash students with a bunch of "woke" radical ideologies about labor and precarity

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

There's a learning curve with Mastodon/the Fediverse, and it takes time to find and build your community (I'm still working on that part myself), but it is all worthwhile.

Some more resources:

fedi.tips - a lot of really useful info + guides
fedi.garden - a pretty large catalog of servers to join

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

In other news, my new goal is to find a way to work this screenshot into either my book or a future journal article, because I want to bring something unexpected into a copyeditor's day by making them conform this image to their publisher's standards

I'm writing an Ace Attorney bot over on Mastodon (mastodon.benpettis.ninja/@objectionodon)

Earlier, I needed to find a thread to test it out on - and I gotta say, I think I found a really fitting example of the Very Healthy Discourse that exists surrounding a person's chosen social media platforms

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!

We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

I hate Illinois Nazis

This is apropos of a thread about what publications lose when they lose older culture writers and only have young ones. All I'll say about that is that learning about cultural history is a lifetime's work, and if you do this for a living, there's no shame in not knowing, only in not trying to learn.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Also it's been a while since my classes on the film industry, but wtf does a "tariff on movies" even mean?

because of this move, eggs are down more than anyone imagined. 1000% and some even 1500%. The other day a big grocery (this is a new word that I came up with) shopper came up to me with tears in his eyes and said "Sir, thank you for making the eggs affordable again!"

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“Liberals can accuse this agency of constitutional violations all they want. But we both know that seeing a man in tactical gear is far better than seeing a man without a face, staring deep into that empty chasm, and instantly going mad.”

The United States could easily become the world's top cheesecake exporter and dominate the "upscale casual restaurant chain" market if we just supported this important cornerstone of the American economy

Peter, you seem to have expressed a nuanced opinion that you've put time and thought into. Unfortunately, this is the internet, and we don't really do that sort of thing here

I’m studying what communication and media scholars think about Twitter/X and its recent whirlwind of changes. If this sounds like you (and you've ever used twitter), please take this survey and share your thoughts.

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ME: Men will literally make up imaginary interviews with Isaac Chotiner instead of going to therapy
CHOTINER: What a great point. And when was the last time you went to therapy?
ME: Well, now, hold on a second

Hmm yes! That phrasing completely slipped past me, which is… yes certainly something

Says a lot about how so many of us are primed to think about this part of US history, even among those of us who are trying to approach it critically

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen it as “incarceration camp”

It’s almost always “internment camp” (implies a legal process and downplays injustice)

The JA community generally prefers the direct language of “mass incarceration” & “concentration camps”

This is splitting the difference in an odd way