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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d

"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 · 3d

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. ...

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2h

I don’t think any of this is surprising. I do think the CEO entering the chat is something

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2h

when I was writing about livestreaming and social reproduction…

Polygon @polygon.com · 5h

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 · 25d

"Without a historical perspective, such connoisseurship prepares the way for a curiously absentminded acceptance of propaganda for all sorts of destructive feelings-feelings whose implications people are refusing to take seriously."

Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 25d

Thinking of Sontag's essay on Riefenstahl: "It is not that Riefenstahl's Nazi past has suddenly become acceptable. It is simply that, with the turn of the cultural wheel, it no longer matters...a liberal society settles such questions by waiting for cycles of taste to distill out the controversy."

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

When he figures out that other people have interior lives too 🤯

Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d

God grant me the grace to deal with a grown-ass man who has only just discovered his interior life

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

I legit want to read a paper about the cottage industry of used fridges this will likely have effects on

David Wagner @dwagner.bsky.social · 1d

The days of L.A. landlords telling renters to bring their own fridge are numbered.

Here's my @laist.com story on the bill Gov. Newsom just signed requiring working refrigerators in California rental housing.

No fridge? No more. Newsom signs bill requiring apartment landlords to supply appliances

People moving to Los Angeles are regularly baffled by the region’s refrigerator-less apartments. They’ll soon be a thing of the past.

laist.com

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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 2d

I'm teaching the computer to smoke cigarettes

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Just willingly shared a copy of my dissertation. Please clap

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

When he figures out that other people have interior lives too 🤯

Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d

God grant me the grace to deal with a grown-ass man who has only just discovered his interior life

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Gave my website a little refresh

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d

God grant me the grace to deal with a grown-ass man who has only just discovered his interior life

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d

All of this could have been easily avoided if Taylor Swift had a sassy gay friend

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

New serenity prayer just dropped. 👇🏻

Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d

God grant me the grace to deal with a grown-ass man who has only just discovered his interior life

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 10d

Water and electricity are unlike other commodities. Data centers are fundamentally about the distribution of increasingly scarce resources that are themselves governed through natural monopolies. So they're also about local, regional, and global politics

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 10d

It isn't that data centers use too much water (though they can and do). It's that the water could be used for other, more worthwhile things! Water used in one place might return through the water cycle elsewhere. So, the costs and benefits are distributed geographically and unequally

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

the usual useful list:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d

God grant me the grace to deal with a grown-ass man who has only just discovered his interior life

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 8d

Gay I. Thanks, I hate it.

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d

"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 · 3d

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