Yeah, I saw that 'meme' but didn't connect it to the role at BlueSky until today. Just great!

A series of tweets from @why.bksy.team that makes him sound like a techbro edgelord.

OK so this is the one? This is your wizard? We're doomed.

Yeah, it really is shocking. I bought one from a liquidator in the USA and brought it with me to Perth. Expensive but it's outlasted a lot of my other furniture and, like, countries.

So that's... That'd be a ... a television program then?

OK - I feel like we could have signed up for blog update emails a long time ago? Not even including an RSS feed which I guess isn't really a thing people do anymore.

Just feeling a bit out of touch suddenly with this lingo!

Genuine question: is there a functional difference between what people are currently calling "newsletters" and what we used to call "blogs" ?

Or is it a monetisation thing (maybe with some technical boosting to that)?

Timely article as I have been tinkering with a project...

Sage Journal Cloudflare bot detector failing to recognise me as human.

Great way to start a Monday - thanks Sage and/or Cloudflare.

I've thought about this re: people vs. dogs all the time, then I see like Shaq next to Simone Biles and I realise people do come in a wide variety, I'm just a yellow lab usually surrounded by other labradors.

Gotta say I don't prefer learning esoteric (to me) historical religious type words in this way.

Very sketchy ad inviting me to apply now for an honorary doctorate so I can "Add Dr before your name"

Surveillance capitalism pervading everything yet I still get served this kind of thing:

Yeah this is right where I am after my break from internet/games culture teaching. I need to redevelop my historical timeline, teach stuff like GG as important but in fact history for my students, not current events!

Damn talk about a laser-precise tax. That's gotta be such a small number of people and such a LOT of dollarydoos.

baked BEENS holy shit. I guess man whatever eat beens, maybe they're vegan?

Man throw some baked beens in there and you're a cowboy eating well.

I read this and my brain said "I cleaned the combination bathroom floor worktable" and I'm sorry. >.<

Web nerds: Is there any newer, legit competitor in the space to Mediawiki?

I want to give students a *real* taste of collaborative resource development, so a wiki is ideal for my idea. MW is clunky, but that might be part of the experience. (unless it just isn't anymore)

Elon Musk is a white South African expat son of a precious gem mining magnate and caused this. Let's all have a real hard think about this and see if we can't connect any dots.

But more seriously, isn't it just SUBLIME how a woman's explicitly critical game gets stolen and morphs into commercial apologia for the exact thing she was critiquing?

Indubitably indeed, and post-structurally of course...
:: adjusts monacle and pontificates academically ::

When are we going to figure out that the people who built and maintain "social media" are deeply antisocial? Asocial, maybe.

Apart from my general revulsion to Tate and Substack, the idea of Tate writing a newsletter is very funny to me. Just envision him actually drafting and editing, poking at the keyboard to share his indefatigable perspicacity with he world.

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

Just read the phrase "this substitution of machine work for social work" and I just need a minute to recover.

(in Zuboff Surveillance Capitalism)

Mooooooooom the Australians are picking on me!

I think it was the two Australians who were annoyed first here...

That'll be the day-drinking ;)

What's the other W for?????!!!!

Yes Americans say it that way and I'll not hear any moaning from people who can't say all the letters in "rural Gloucester military."