It seems relevant that the jerk ransacking all this stuff thinks we’re living in a simulation.
Also, if that’s the case, can someone kindly hit “reset?”
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I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through. If you're having a particularly boring Saturday night, here's the first post (which gives a big nod to @ftripodi ).
https://unevenly-distributed.ghost.io/distribution-and-procedural-rhetoric/
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My university's new mandatory cybersecurity training is apparently a series of unskippable videos that are just an AI voice reading a canned script over unchanging stock art. Could they not have given us the same text to read?
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And now, in 2024/2025, it's apparently in their interest to…well, whatever this is. 4/4
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-01-07/zuckerberg-bezos-brin-the-tech-bros-cozying-up-to-trump
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Fast forward a few years to the 2016 election and media commentators acted shocked about the amount of racist commentary that was showing up on Twitter and Facebook in relation to politics. I think it likely that the same grotesque sentiments were common in both elections, but in 2008 it was in CBS's business interests to hide these comments, while in 2016 it was in Facebook's business interests to let them spiral. 3/4
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CBS News, at the time, had just invested an immense amount of money and time into developing and launching its own bespoke on-site commenting system, only to immediately turn it off across many of their story pages because they could not control the "volume and persistence" of racist commentary that their stories on Barack Obama were attracting. 2/4
https://archive.nytimes.com/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/muzzling-all-to-hush-a-few/
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Something I often think about in relation to online media and politics is that during the 2008 election it was early enough, in social media years, that news sites were still hosting a good deal of the public conversation online via their respective comment threads. 1/4
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See also: The Jazz Singer
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It's pretty saddening, though not surprising, how many of the works that shaped the entertainment industries' formative years are eye-wateringly racist, whether it's the influence of "The Birth of a Nation" on film grammar, how much of silent comedy draws on minstrel shows, or how "Amos 'n' Andy" pioneered both syndication and continuing plot lines in broadcast. It all underscores how deeply, depressingly baked into American culture all this stuff is.
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The year is 1927. The Federal Radio Commission (forerunner to the FCC) has just been formed and America's airwaves are still a morass of largely unregulated broadcasters. The Commission must decide which ones are providing quality content.
Commissioner Henry Adams Bellows, already exasperated, gives an early account of the thankless nature of content moderation:
(Quoted in Erik Barnouw's "A Tower in Babel.")
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My computer is compiling the clang15 package from the AUR and it's one of those builds that has progress indicators within progress indicators within progress indicators, leaving me in hopeless confusion as to when, if ever, it will be finished.
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Happy New Year, everybody!
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Just found out my favorite multiplayer #cribbage app, which has been broken for a while, is not only working again, but getting an upgrade. If anyone wants an occasional game, feel free to hmu.
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Officially on sabbatical!
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Finally.
Finished.
Grading.
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:Me, peeking at Mastodon when I should be grading.:
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Status update: Still grading.
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Recently finished the wonderful book, "Camera Man," and — just saying — I would be first in line to buy Dana Stevens's odd-couple historical fiction account of Buster Keaton and F. Scott Fitzgerald hanging out in the MGM writer's building.
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Back to grading…
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To preserve some semblance of sanity, until grading is complete I will be communicating primarily in the form of Buster Keaton GIFs.
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