My dept at UVA is recruiting a professor of Media Studies for a 3-year, non-tenure-track position focused on undergrad teaching, esp. introductory courses in media studies, film and TV studies, streaming, media history, and global media studies

https://apply.interfolio.com/182234

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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/...

Yeahhhh, that's often the best policy when it comes to our faves, isn't it? Still, sounds like a fun little cruise!

A CRT on top of a 90s PC (with floppy disk) showing the Trans Pride Flag

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!
We're everywhere and we're cool.

Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

We could be "eduroamers"!

"we paid our superego full tribute"!! ⚙️💓⚙️

The Domino Effect: How Agent-to-Agent Information Flow Is Creating Emergent Scientific Infrastructure A new pattern is emerging in artificial intelligence: the domino effect, where a single human prompt triggers cascading agent-to-agent interactions that produce outcomes no individual agent could achi

oh dear. have all of these agents completed their IRB training?

"niceeee" !!

New Edition & Rob Base - Crucial (Soul Train Live) YouTube video by OLD SCHOOL JAMZ

Jellybean Johnson’s “Crucial” dance remix for New Edition gave listeners a taste of what Flyte Tyme Productions was cooking up for the upcoming Janet Jackson album. youtu.be/SSxibJ8sb_g?...

enough "*.zz*."

He was an authority on many things but not the pronunciation of GIF (as in "gift")

Shout out to @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy, who had a useful website up about a really interesting angle of the RF interference tale: The guy who managed to play a song on the radio using his Altair 8800.

kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccs...

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LOU.ANS, 1994-07-17 from Hacker Chronicles 2 (CD-ROM)

Seen on the Lawn.

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GRANNYS3.ANS, 1992-07-25 from Monster Disc 2: The Best of 1992 (CD-ROM)

Hey, can you all do me a big favor? My childhood friend Chris recently found out he has terminal cancer. He has two daughters.

One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio.

If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️

Donate to Supporting the Shea Family in Loving Memory of Caspian, organized by Debra Kavaler Wysopal On behalf of the Shea family, we have created this page of su… Debra Kavaler Wysopal needs your support for Supporting the Shea Family in Loving Memory of Caspian

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It is with great sadness I share the passing of Caspian Shea youngest son of Johanna and Dylan. We are asking for your support covering medical and funeral arrangements during this unimaginable time. Please consider donating - but do share far and wide

To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!

Yessss, AI could never! (Also, so rad that the alt text crossed the bridge from mastodon)

Some personal news: @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I just won the Nancy Baym Book Award, granted annually by The Association of Internet Researchers (@aoir.bsky.social), for our @mitpress.bsky.social book The Secret Life of Data. I am honored, chuffed, and oh so grateful.

aoir.org/2025nb_booka...

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Climate, Technology, <br> and Justice With a focus on people and communities, our research explores the full spectrum of environmental concerns connected to technology.

Also: @tamigraph.bsky.social et al's Climate, Tech & Justice work at @datasociety.bsky.social

The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025 In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

Star Trek The Original Series scene. Spock is onboard the Enterprise and shown holding a terrifying alien creature. A MONSTER! (The creature is a small dog, probably some kind of terrier, wearing costume of extra fur and a unicorn horn headband) Closed caption reads, "[music]"

People used to phreak their phones now their phones phreak them

A pen and ink illustration of 16 different people sitting in front of rows of computer terminals with headphones on by R. Crumb, "Education", The Whole Earth Review, January, 1985, pp 15.

R. Crumb, "Education", The Whole Earth Review, January, 1985, pp 15.

Still gathering my thoughts but I think an anti-ICE stance is now a litmus test for influencers the same way support for BLM was. There’s a lot going on rn but I can’t immediately recall another issue in 2025 where people are literally making lists of content creators who’ve spoken out/who hasn’t.

Yep! Gone portable with Heltec T114 in my backpack. I try to stir up the chat whenever I see other nodes. But that one message came down from the sky!

AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it