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Dan Rosen
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Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)

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Here's a 1999 Wired Cover profile of Jeff Bezos calling the reader a loser
The cover of Wired Magazine from 1999 with a portrait of Jeff Bezos titled "Jeff Bezos Why Him (And Not You), the inside story of Amazon.com's Boy Billionaire The article spread for The Inner Bezos, with a portrait of Bezos laughing while pointing a toy laser gun. THE INNER BEZOS Amazon.com's founder figured out how to sell books on the Web, and now he wants to sell you everythin else. Simple, right? So is he so far ahead of the pack? By Chip Bayers
February 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Going through some mags on Internet Archive to find class material and found this Penthouse Guide to Cybsersex from 1995
A page in a 1995 Penthouse magazine describing an old software NeuroDancer: Journey Into the Neuronet The cover of the 1995 Penthouse Guide to Cybersex, feauting a torso of a white woman holding a CD Rom
February 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Tomorrow we're reading Winner's Do Artifacts Have Politics and I'm gonna open with this comic
A 4 panel webcomic The Little Submarine by Branson Reese. Panel 1: A cute little submarine with eyes and a mouth says "I'm the little submarine!" Panel 2: "I may be little, but I've got a big dream." Panel 3: "ah ha ha ha ha" shouts the little submarine as he shoots missiles / BOOM Panel 4: "That was the Earth's last sea turtle. My dream was to kill it! I'm an instrument of war and you were wrong to root for me!"
February 4, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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I'm excited to read this paper about transparency, harm, accountability with my class this semester digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-arti...
A Mulching Proposal: Analysing and Improving an Algorithmic System for Turning the Elderly into High-Nutrient Slurry by Os Keyes Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington Jevan Hutson School of Law University of Washington Meredith Durbin Department of Astronomy University of Washington
January 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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basically my theme for the semester
Simpsons still of Old man Yells at Cloud edited to say Man Yells at The Cloud
January 26, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Soon Britney and Bruno together again
MASS 130 (CRN:20852) SOCIAL MEDIA, TECHNOLOGIES, AND POLICY DANIEL ROSEN, PHD “Technology is society made durable.” – Bruno Latour “There’s only two types of people in the world / the ones that entertain and the ones that observe” – Britney Spears, “Circus” (Circus, 2008)
January 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Drafting an email to students in case we go virtual on the 1st day of class
David Lynch wearing sunglasses recording a video saying "not today, but tomorrow. I will have an announcement to make."
January 24, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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A photo of a JVC 3100 portable television video capsule shaped like a pyramid A photo of a JVC 3100 portable television video capsule shaped like a pyramid. The top is flipped open to display the screen
January 20, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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more evidence for my theory that genAI rhetoric is persuasive because it promises the confidence of skill without action. And so ofc this appeals to people who often lack confidence or experience, like students
An ad for Google's Gemini AI that offers to "draft emails confidently with Gemini"
January 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Bring back my favorite phone
A Samsung Alias 2 flip phone with dual hinges released in 2009
January 18, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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ok but hear me out, what if we could make more money from a flop than a hit??
Zero Mostel, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Wilder sit around a table in a shot from the 1967 movie The Producers
January 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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My culture is not your costume (or gambling ring)

"Until now, the gay men and pop-culture-obsessed women of the world have been marked safe from the sports-betting addiction that has taken over straight men on their phones. MoviePass would like to change that."
Highlighted Article excerpt: Until now, the gay men and pop-culture-obsessed women of the world have been marked safe from the sports-betting addiction that has taken over straight men on their phones. MoviePass would like to change that. MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes revealed to the Crowd Pleaser newsletter that the company has created and beta tested a new gambling platform for pop culture called Mogul. “We want to build the first true hub for entertainment speculation,” Spikes said.
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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GenAI be like
A screenshot of a tweet: seriously stanning the Gravemind in... v @alexqarbuckle I can't stand small talk Let's have a deep conversation Tell me your hopes Tell me your fears Tell me your vulnerabilities So I can put them in my S P R E A D SHE E5 12:41 AM • 8/14/19 • Twitter for iPhone
January 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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From Ashley Mears' Very Important People. fascinating ethnographic work
The cover for the book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears (2020)
January 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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This year’s Christmas movie is Top Hat @filmforumnyc.bsky.social
A poster card for the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 1935 movie Top Hat A poster for Film Forum’s screen deco film series
December 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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My doppelgänger has branched out into film reviews and this is just too much
A screenshot from the JNS: David' is a Goliath of a film The Jewish story is not one of continuous power, but of improbable victory and survival. A scene from the animated feature film "David" (2025). Credit: Courtesy of Angel Studios DANIEL ROSEN (who is NOT the OP) READ FULL BIO +
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Gender is fake but intersexuality? That’s real
A screenshot of a video podcast on instagram with Judith Butler, Ally Beardsley, and the podcast host discussing their relationship to gender
December 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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This John Wayne doll is creepy but the boot table that makes it work
A rather creepy John Wayne puppet on a stand sitting on a glass table A glass table styled as a cowboy boot and cactus
December 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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My favorite of my grandma’s pieces and maybe the only one I’d steal
A photo of a painting hanging on wall. The painting is of a fabulous women in slightly impressionistic pinks and purples, wearing a hat tipped over one eye and strong red lip
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Almost that time of year where I'm gifted bad chocolate and have to say thank you
stacks of shining gold Chanukah gelt, or chocolate coins covered in gold foil
December 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Millennial marketing tactics
A photo of an oat milk box: BEFORE WE WROTE THIS SENTENCE, THERE WAS A LOT OF EMPTY SPACE ON THE SIDE OF THIS PACKAGE AND WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT REALLY SO WE JUST STARTED WRITING THIS SENTENCE AND THEN CONTINUED WRITING MORE UNTIL WE HAD WRITTEN ENOUGH WORDS IN THIS SPACE THAT THERE WAS NO MORE SPACE LEFT TO WRITE ANY MORE AND NOW IT LOOKS LIKE A MUCH BETTER PACKAGE BUT UNFORTUNATELY YOU HAVE BEEN GRANTED NOTHING OF VALUE TO READ. TIME TO OPEN THIS PACKAGE AND TRY WHAT'S INSIDE I GUESS.
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Reading about the many categories in the ImageNet dataset. Tag yourself - I’m the melancholic closet queen
An excerpt from Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI “ImageNet also contains categories that make no sense whatsoever for image classification such as Debtor, Boss, Ac-quaintance, Brother, and Color-Blind Person. These are all non-visual concepts that describe a relationship, be it to other people, to a financial system, or to the visual field itself. The dataset rei-fies these categories and connects them to images, so that similar images can be "recognized" by future systems. Many truly offensive and harmful categories hid in the depths of ImageNet's Person categories. Some classifications were misogynist, racist, ageist, and ableist. The list includes Bad Person, Call Girl, Closet Queen, Codger, Convict, Crazy, Dead-eye, Drug Addict, Failure, Flop, Fucker, Hypocrite, Tezebel, Kleptomaniac, Loser, Melancholic, Nonperson, Pervert, Prima Donna, Schizophrenic, Second-Rater, Slut, Spastic, Spinster, Streetwalker, Stud, Tosser, Unskilled Person, Wanton,Waverer, and Wimp. Insults, racist slurs, and moral judgments abound. These offensive terms remained in ImageNet for ten years. Because ImageNet was typically used for object recognition — with "object" broadly defined-the specific Person category was rarely discussed at technical conferences, nor did it receive”
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Spotted Glinda, Elphaba, Fiyeroooooo at my grandma’s house
A hanging shelf of wizard of oz figurines. On top is a porcelain figure spelling the word “Laugh”
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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It’s a whole production
A TikTok screenshot of a black and white chandelier in a Lego production of phantom of the opera A color shot of the chandelier a Lego production of phantom of the opera on TikTok A TikTok screenshot of the title card for. Lego production of phantom of the opera
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Rude
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November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM