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Jeremy Littau

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I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · Jul 4

Reminder I have this starter pack created months ago for MassComm/Jour academics. I added anyone who fit the category and asked to be added until it was full.

I trimmed it to drop some people who haven't posted in months, so if you're in JMC academia and are posting regularly, DM me to be added.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7h

Lost a bunch of labor-intensive manuscript edits on a crash and would like to launch Word 365 into the sun thx.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 14h

Last speed run of the training program, ladder workout. Five-minute warmup jog followed by the following intervals (with 1:00 walk recover after each):

1:00 at 5K pace
2:00 at 10K pace
5:00 at half marathon pace
2:00 at 10K pace
1:00 at 5K pace

5 days until my first half. #hmtraining #runsky

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Jays seem like a fun team full of my kind of fools, but I am completely Marinerpilled.

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SABR Baseball Cards @sabrbbcards.bsky.social · 1d

HIGHEST CAREER BATTING AVERAGE, LAST NAME BARGER:

.229 - Addison
.227 - Cy

That’s the list!

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Baseball royalty

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Sandy Alomar Sr., an All-Star infielder during his playing days in the 1960s and ’70s who went on to coach in the majors and manage in his native Puerto Rico, has died. He was 81.

Sandy Alomar Sr., the former White Sox infielder and Cubs coach, dies at 81

Sandy Alomar Sr. managed both of his sons, All-Star catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. and Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar, in winter ball and the minors.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

(I’ll show myself out)

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Hemingway writes like a food blogger.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

Adding to the thread - one thing missing from making knowledge creation visible is media coverage.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

One of the challenges of understanding McLuhan's work in 2025 is recognizing ways in which the Internet has replaced television's role in creating shared cultural experience - but also what is fundamentally changed due to the internet's tendency to subvert gatekeeper hierarchy.

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Go to the No Kings website and try to find something that looks and feels like the generic stereotype the right has created about Antifa.

Interfaith alliance pages and tips on how to de-escalate. And yet this is where the GOP is sending people by freaking out about it.

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Not quite Streisand Effect, but it's a similar process. People who've studied misinformation amplification point out that the goal of conspiracy theorists and extremists is to use content channels to create publicity for search terms, and the GOP is just doing this work for them.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

It's also funny that instead of just ignoring the protests like they did 6 mos ago they are agenda-setting this thing hard by constant repetition. The public that is casually paying attention but keeps hearing No Kings is going to google it and learn about it outside of the right wing filter bubble.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

Just once I’d like to see the follow-up: If you don’t know who’s funding it, what evidence do you have exactly to suggest the protesters are paid

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I’m glad, but make no mistake: rerouting funding to an organization means they are washing their hands of administering this.

Meaning if there’s abuse, they will not be investigating. Meaning this is yet another step towards privatization of education, particularly for disabled students.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

Education Dept. Reverses Decision to Halt Funds for Deafblind Student Programs

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

www.propublica.org

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

They’re solid. There are a couple menu items there I really like. Their burritos and quesadillas are a lot better than their tacos. I’d say the flavor is more Baja than California but it’s still a proper burrito compared to some of the joints around here.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

That would be Cali Burrito? They moved down the road to a bigger location.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

And hordes of unsupervised teenagers!

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 2d

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

What a dichotomy. Chicago Marathon happening while we keep seeing continuous reports of ICE detaining people throughout our immigrant strongholds. A community alert also indicated tear gas deployed in Albany Park.

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