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Aram Sinnreich

@aramsinn.bsky.social

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📚 Nonfiction Author 📚 SFF Author (.5 of R.A. Sinn) 🎓 Media Prof at AU in DC 💿 Bassist/Producer/Composer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) sinnreich.com tinyurl.com/tslodata tinyurl.com/ASCFYbook linktree.com/wassako

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · Sep 11

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.

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2025 Nancy Baym Book Award |

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1h

Don't knock it til you've tried it

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

Now do DC

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

The three major airports near New York City have joined Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

Newark, JFK, LaGuardia will decline to play Kristi Noem’s politicized TSA video - New Jersey Globe

Three major airports in the New York City area – Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport –

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 4h

Rest in power to the absolute greatest that my generation had to offer, #DAngelo. Thank you fo your music, your soul, your wisdom, your brilliance, your humanity. I will treasure the memory of hearing you sing.

Also #FuckCancer so very much.

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D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 10h

📢 Grant Opportunity for Investigative Journalists

Stringer Journalism is offering support for investigative reporting.

🗓️ Deadline: Dec. 31, 2025
Apply here: https://twp.ai/9PXNRS

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 21h

For many years, I've loved the song "Ponta de Areia" by Wayne Shorter and Milton Nascimiento. Today I actually laid eyes on the song's namesake, right here in Niteroi, Brazil. Now I can't get it out of my head. 🇧🇷🎶⛰️

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A grassy, rocky atoll with buildings clustered around the bottom, with about a mile of open sea in front of it

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1d

I was wrong

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2d

Unfounded arrogance is the hallmark of fascism

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d

"Bari Weiss’s first major move as CBS News chief has staffers on edge—ordering every journalist to submit a written memo justifying their work, in an apparent Elon Musk-style loyalty test." via @status.news

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2d

At least we're in good company

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2d

Hm, interesting take.

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2d

You are on 🔥 tonight

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2d

12 years ago I visited Brazil for the first time. I was so blown away by its beauty & musicality that I wrote this song for @duniabest.bsky.social, a promise that one day I'd return & bring her with me

Right now, we're en route to the airport headed to Rio for #AoIR25

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I Want to Take You to Brazil

YouTube video by Brave New Girl - Topic

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch

The Economist @economist.com · 2d

Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s

Why Gen X is the real loser generation

Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 3d

Forget Annie Hall and The Godfather.

For some top tier Diane Keaton comedy, watch Love and Death.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3d

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of “Annie Hall,” “The Godfather” films and “Father of the Bride,” whose quirky, vibrant manner and depth made her one of the most singular actors of a generation, has died. She was 79.
https://to.pbs.org/490XOlZ

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 79

People Magazine reported Saturday that Keaton died in California with loved ones, citing a family spokesperson. The unexpected news was met with shock around the world.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 3d

"Provocative" is a pretty sad euphemism for "bigoted."

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 3d

My wife hired me 30 years ago, and we still work together

Big Mama, RN👩🏽‍⚕️♊️ @unproblematicaj.bsky.social · 3d

Would you date someone from work?

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 3d

Y not, Tony?

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 3d

Not only is it the Jackpot in substance, it's also the Jackpot in that it's an engineered outcome by sociopathic, deluded accelerationists.

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 3d

This is (thankfully) true of every musical tradition *except* mainstream pop. And pop needs to keep changing, which limits the utility of algorithmically generated work.

It's a summative technology, not an innovative one.

And human ears and communities are *very* sensitive to nuance in sound.

dankcello-ween @danielketter.com · 3d

I still suspect the people doing machine learning with classical music don’t understand it well enough to train the machines, it doesn’t work like text, has a different topology, even within individual styles of music but especially across. Nothing against them, people generally don’t understand it

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

‘I’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 3d

And pandemics and economic depression and ethnic cleansing and graft-based governance

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 3d

more people should examine the FISA court’s opinions because you would see, even though it failed at the time, the DOJ’s goal is an AI exemption to the 4th amdt. it doesn’t matter who’s president. these things are well supported.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 3d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 4d

I wish she’d said this on the campaign trail

bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 5d

Kamala Harris should be president. Not that motherfucker in the White House!

WATCH:

#Resist

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