It also makes a hefty contribution to the Finnish economy

I’m quite happy that this dystopian nonsense didn’t exist back when I was working my way through Uni in a call center

Infinite Patience Is Not Good for Education How many times does Sal Khan get to fail?

"Infinite patience" is not a quality ingredient for a good education, nor is it something we should continue to extend to the education "revolutions" of Sal Khan. biblioracle.substack.com/publish/post...

Congrats, Nathan! 🥳

And of course have given him a huge platform on legacy media

I am conflicted about that 60 minutes interview with Clavicular. I feel like by having the hot interviewer wipe his feet on the poor boi they went and validated the whole manosphere worldview of “genetically disadvantaged victim” for those who were on the fence about it

breaking: you do not need a university degree to open a beauty salon

Starting in 20 min! 🐦🐦

the right way to finish the day that started by watching that Clavicular 60minutes interview is to have your own press chat about pick-up artists and all things manosphere. Thanks for the tag @veronikakoller.bsky.social!

Even e-ink ones!

I got €5,85 from Benjamins, counting that as a big win

I hope all the authors sending me hate mail because we take too long to process their manuscripts will find some joy in the fact that my own submission has been languishing at New Media & Society without being assigned to an editor for a month now

This talk presents the first results from a study exploring how social media users take responsibility for their own contributions in order to manage potential conflicts and uphold civility in online interactions. While the prevalence of online conflicts and incivility has attracted significant scholarly attention, recent research has increasingly focused on the constructive and positive aspects of social media interactions (e.g., Tanskanen 2021; Canute et al. 2023; Biri & Tanskanen 2025). This investigation is part of that emerging trend. The talk specifically examines instances that can be labelled as self-condemnation, i.e. cases where users explicitly assume accountability for their contributions as potential transgressions. Users can, for instance, modify or edit their contributions or confess to having uttered an inaccuracy or untruth. These instances are particularly interesting because according to previous research, actual self-condemnation is very rare in interaction; people typically evaluate their own transgressions more leniently than those of others (Szabados 1979; Valdesolo & DeSteno 2007). From an interactional perspective, the reactions to self-condemnations are equally interesting, and, where possible, these have been analysed as well in order to shed light on the dynamics of accountability in online discourse.

Next talk in the OSSO + DDI online talk series is on April 17, 14 - 15 EEST. Join us for Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen's lecture "My bad: the metapragmatics of accountability on social media"

Join the Zoom room:
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@ylvabiri.bsky.social @lulind.bsky.social

Our results show that conversational agents can covertly redirect consumer choices at scale, most users cannot tell when it is happening, and existing transparency mechanisms are insufficient. We call for further regulatory scrutiny and structural safeguards.

Please share actionable tips on how to make exams vapeable

Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with."

— Ada Lovelace, 1843

That’s terrible. I wish there was something that Tolkien estate could do about this

INVISIBLE NETWORKS 2026
April 1st to 14th

Writing challenge: invent a speculative social network every day. Draw inspiration from our delicious prompts, guaranteed safe for human consumption!

invisible dot social
tag posts with #InvisibleNetworks

My iPhone autocorrects Is and sentence starts to the proper register so I would say nothing to do with anything. I guess some people go and disable autocorrect, which is very much a choice, but no one I know has done it

burn Teams

Very cool!

graduation ceremony pic in Namur

PhD and teaching job in English anyone? 🐦🐦 In Namur, with ME 🥹🥹 and wonderful colleagues 😊 (Working knowledge of French 🥖 is required, though.) Six-year contract (2 x 3). Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/417075 or in French here: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2026-...

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The cover is out pride and joy!

book with octopus tentacle cover held in front of other books

Manipulation, Influence and Deception (co-edited with @coocho.bsky.social) spotted by a friend at AAAL Chicago last week 🤩 (and even sporting a little 'reserved' sign)
still can't get enough of the octopus cover 🐙 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

there are so many things to be angry about but at the moment I really fucking hate the fact that I’m expected to be able to recognize AI generated slop text

Same here, but I don’t have time every single day to actually process 2-4 submissions. So, they do pile up and we have the aforementioned problem. It used to be 2-4 submissions weekly which was manageable. Realistically, now my only choice would be to desk reject sight unseen

Thank you! I honestly have no solution. I wondered if I should have the tech department temporarily close submissions on editorial manager half of every month; but then, people would just submit in bulk when the submissions are open…

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