If I could expel fossil fuels on the journey? That’s just the friends i made along the way!

(Employment voice) Ever since I was little, I’ve dreamed of justifying an institution’s real estate investment.

Critical Data Center Studies Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; S...

This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back!

Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!)

CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

HBO should’ve done this for Game of Thrones

Presenting here this week on academics as influencers … and (gasp) influencers who position themselves as academics!? 😱

Just a little reminder that security experts routinely say that biometrics are actually do very poorly as a security measure.

Not just for technical reasons, either.

Imagine a password that you can't change after being informed it was compromised in a hack on a company that forgot to encrypt shit.

NYC is not the "5th character" of Sex and the City. The 5th character of Sex and the City is "Zutroy," the 180-year-old sewer-dwelling protocommunist who lives off their brunch scraps & sabotages all of their long-term romantic relationships via gluttony and cybercrimes.

NYC is not the "5th character" of Sex and the City. The 5th character of Sex and the City is "Zutroy," the 180-year-old sewer-dwelling protocommunist who lives off their brunch scraps & sabotages all of their long-term romantic relationships via gluttony and cybercrimes.

Who's written about "intimidating" as a gendered/racialized professional "compliment"?

“Chat, is this allowed!?” 😱🎥 I have new research in New Media & Society!

From IRL meetups to simulated nude streams, we mapped the oft-inconsistent application of “contextual exceptions” which permit Twitch content No-Nos... if context permits. Gendered consequences ensue!
doi.org/10.1177/1461...

I'd lay my life down for the Wayback Machine.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

"A kneecapped Wayback Machine isn’t just bad news for accountability journalism—it will also be a blow to the legal system, as pages archived by the tool are frequently cited as evidence in litigation across the United States."

NEW RESEARCH IN NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY: 2026 Contextual Governance & Androcentric Hegemony on Twitch.tv BRANDON C. HARRIS CHRISTINE H. TRAN CHRISTOPHER J. PERSAUD or how where platforms make exceptions for nudity, violence & "edgy" humour in livestreaming

"Chat, when/where is this allowed?" From chaotic IRL meetups, almost streaming in the nude, to wearing bathing suits on stream, 2023-24 was the year Twitch "needed more context" when moderating content Implicitly risque behaviors that are definitionally slippery became part of the spectacle on Twitch. Rather than becoming additional attractions to a streaming platform where "anything can happen" these incidents highlight gendered precarity and platform governance on Twitch.

In a rush? We also made an Instagram carousel of our findings & case studies:

(also DM if you need paper access :))

www.instagram.com/p/DXE58p0FGU...

“Chat, is this allowed!?” 😱🎥 I have new research in New Media & Society!

From IRL meetups to simulated nude streams, we mapped the oft-inconsistent application of “contextual exceptions” which permit Twitch content No-Nos... if context permits. Gendered consequences ensue!
doi.org/10.1177/1461...

In 2003, ten dollars was a comically out-of-touch assessment for how much a (large chocolate on a stick) banana should cost! 🍌

In 2003, ten dollars was a comically out-of-touch assessment for how much a (large chocolate on a stick) banana should cost! 🍌

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau at Coachella

Orbán Viktor @PM_ViktorOrban Had a great meeting today with @IDUAlliance Chairman @stephenharper. International cooperation between right-wing, conservative parties is more important than ever. Chairman Harper is a great ally in this respect. Thank you for your support, Mr. Chairman! Orbán Viktor

It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years

4S Toronto poster that says: Is the Only Winning Move Not To Play? Refusing & Resisting the Reactionary Technopolitics of Games. Open Panel. Submit your abstract by April 30. A Playstation 1 controller and a scene from wargames is also shown.

Short text from 2nd paragraph: digital workers, creators, and audiences alike are called to play games structured by capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and other oppressive systems that overdetermine who has real agency or power. These problematic playsites have also emerged as fields of contestation and alterity, from trans and queer speedrunning leagues (Brewer, 2023) to multiplatform networks for Black feminist resistance to toxic technoculture that provides its own grammar of play (Gray, 2020; Fletcher, 2022). Thus, we ask how we can use games to speculate on or build better futures separate from systems of validation, authentication, datafied/ commodified extraction and their patriarchal, colonial, and racialized epistemes. How does studying games as physical and rhetorical assemblages help us (or perhaps even hinder) us in this task? Perhaps the only winning move is not to play.

Our panel aims to encourage a multidisciplinary approach, and we will ask for contributions from STS, game studies, platform studies, media studies/media theory, political economy, creator studies, feminist media analysis, decolonizing play, and other critical approaches. Games are highly integrated into life, work, and leisure, and many are called upon, against their will, to become players. Rather than celebrating the masterful player/designer of games, our panel wants to aim to better critique how games move through, within, and are supported by technoscience and technopolitics. More questions? Reach out to Alexander Ross, University of British Columbia alexander.ross@ubc.ca or Christine H. Train Alberta University of The Arts, christine.tran@auarts.ca.

Hi everyone! For any academics who follow me here: @thechristinet.bsky.social and I are running an open panel on video games + technopower for the 4S conference in Toronto this year and we are looking for abstracts! Here is our call for abstracts below!

In 2026, I watch WALL-E and go “Put him back in the DUMP!”

What’s the AI design thinking reason that delivery robots & street drones are exactly short enough to look up your skirt?

A couple weeks ago, Nicholas Keung at the Toronto Star reported on how generative AI is being used to assess immigration applications in Canada...and how it's led to refusals because of stuff the AI tool added in, that humans (clearly) failed to check.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

When Did Luigi Get His Own Look? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games The other plumber stood in his brother’s shadow for longer than you’d think.

The touching story about how a plumber discovered his own face. Plus fun fact: Luigi did not actually debut in the arcade version of Mario Bros. He showed up before!

Why do my brilliant friends & mentees have imposter syndrome about their 1st drafts when this Hideo Kojima character here is like "Folks will pay for groceries in ideation and vibes!"?

Always time to throwback Altman (2024) on one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard in my fucking life:

I prefer my intelligence local and artisanal and situated in my own brain, thank you. No subscription required!

Why MAGA men actually loathe tradwives A new study shows submissive women aren't cherished but are held in contempt

“If you hate your wife, it’s a lot easier to justify exploiting her unpaid labor for your own personal gain." - my take, in this terrific piece from @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on why MAGA men want--but also loathe--"traditional" wives.

www.salon.com/2026/04/08/w...

If the liberals still renounce the “theory” of the class struggle, call it a mistake, etc., in face of these instructive facts, it only goes to show that the liberal conscience is not clear.

Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design 1 Panelists: Christine Tran, John Wihbey, Seo Eun "Sunny" Yang Description: Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the creator economy and influencer culture at lightning speed. From hyper-real virtual influencers to Al-generated video content that's populating TikTok and Instagram, Al influencers erase the distinction between human imagination, machine automation, and promotion. This webinar explores how synthetic content creators are redefining authenticity, labor, and identity online. With critical and creative lenses, we'll explore how these trends unveil deeper questions regarding gender, race, and power in the generative media era-who gets represented, who gets erased, and how algorithmic aesthetics are globalizing new forms of digital labor and desire. This event is part of the Center for Transformative Media's Al Webinar Series.

Register to watch cool people discuss the history and canceled future of automating creative influence (with a gamer's POV from me!) : camd.northeastern.edu/events/webin...

Webinar: AI Influencers and the Future of the Creator Economy DATE AND TIME Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026 2:00 - 3:00 pm LOCATION Online.

How fast a speculation bubble can change in between event descriptions... 🤖 I'm speaking (again!) about AI + the creator economy on April 15th at Northeasten University! 🔗 ⬇️

This is so fucking real and I love Kim Kelly for covering the labor angle inside of adult entertainment and sex work.

It's not surprising though, if you've read Fight Like Hell by the same author. If you haven't, I recommend it highly! You can get it and read it before May Day even!