Puzzles, Contraptions and the Highly Elaborate Moment: The Inevitability of Death in the Grand Slasher Narratives of the Final Destination and Saw Series of Films Chapter pp 106–117 Cite this chapter Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film Ian Conrich

I am not happy that I have to read this for professional reasons

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We're off to a good start here
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Ripples of the Universe Ask a random American what springs to mind about Sedona, Arizona, and they will almost certainly mention New Age spirituality. Nestled among stunning sandstone formations, Sedona has built an identity...

I'm reading @suscrockford.bsky.social's excellent *Ripples of the Universe* with graduate students this week and never miss a chance to recommend it. I'm looking forward to her next book, which Chicago is publishing this summer.

Everything lies in a space: cultural data and spatial reality This essay examines the use of spatializing techniques for analysing cultural data, drawing on fieldwork with developers of music recommender systems in the United States. Comparing these practices w...

we're set up for an all-JRAI "everything" day in an anthro of AI class rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

yes! more evidence that people should be listening to linguistic anthropologists when talking about how AI works

playing wingspan and thinking about this dice tower again

computer ENHANCE

this script kiddie grew up to be a script dad

they're probably thinking about getting that NAS finally working

Surgeon live at SUPERBOOTH25 YouTube video by Superbooth Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PCj...

current dad level: listening to techno while doing sysadmin bullshit on the home network

this is what I mean by the kindergarten soccer model of higher ed goal setting

R2D2 looking down on us, “[Beep Beep]”

I love subtitles

he's great, a couple of really excellent studying up methodological articles as well

Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive debt taking, private equity investment helped normali...

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happy birthday, bicycle head!

never been quished

Social Engineering Threats Explained Phishing, Smishing, Vishing & Quishing

they have to be stopped

report smishing

ICE peed on a library???

also, my favorite detail, in Maine it’s Patriot’s Day instead of Patriots’ Day (which i evidently just typoed in my first post)

Observed by Massachusetts Maine Florida (on April 19) Wisconsin (on April 19) Connecticut North Dakota Tennessee (on April 19) Utah (on April 19)

someone needs to write an article about the baffling set of states that observe Patriot’s Day (and the fact that ~half of them only started doing so in the last decade)

I really do not have enough executive function to loan some of it to students

Social Media in the Scam Age - Lana Swartz, 2026 This essay examines scams as a central organizing logic of contemporary social media rather than peripheral criminal activity. Drawing on research in cryptocurr...

new piece, Social Media in the Scam Age, for the 10th anniversary of @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social

thank you to @zizip.bsky.social for inviting me

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

a D20 with the MIT press logo on one face

omg

I brought a paring knife to a food fight

oh yes—loved the translator's note!

a list of many crossed-off Godzilla movies

omg yes, I didn’t realize you were on the completist train, too! Been keeping my own local listing, but we’re much less systematic in sequencing.

a tiktok ad for ozempic with Justin long and John hodgman, standing like they did in the old I’m a Mac I’m a pc ads

the demographic targeting 😭

oh wait, obviously this one is in english lol