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Dan Rosen
@danrosen.xyz
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Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him) danrosen.xyz
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · Mar 16
Went to the Whitney and they had a painting of my dissertation defense
A picture of an oil painting. Edward Hopper’s Soir Bleu from 1914. In the paintings, a clown sits at a restaurant table smoking a cigarette
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 11h
Some of us even like to read
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 12h
People who say "you can't possibly read everything you cite" are saying a lot about themselves, IMO.

It doesn't have to be a heavy lift. I spend about half an hour a day processing new-to-me papers by organizing them in my reference managers & adding topical tags so I can create bibliographies.
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 12h
Stealing your girl by taking her to the magic lantern show
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d
Just thinking of this article I read about telephone operators in Germany, where if you felt like it, you could just give her an electric shock over the phone
rationalized spaces in which the rapid, precise motions of hundreds of operators had to be closely co-ordinated to minimize disruption or breakdown of service. Pressure to improve efficiency was so great that, between 1910 and 1921, the number of connections operators were expected to make increased from 150 to 500 per hour with little appreciable change in equipment. Working constantly at the limit of their capacities, operators were also kept under constant surveillance; their speed in answering calls was timed and monitored, as were their interactions with callers. Impatient callers (usually men) were equipped with buttons that, when pressed, sent a current through the line, drawing the operator’s attention with a sharp, unpleasant crackling noise or a slight shock. The following anecdote, which describes an incident that occurred in 1902 during the installation of a new switchboard at the Siemens company’s headquarters in Berlin, illustrates what might happen under such circumstances:
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d
Has anyone written about the relationship between pre-prints science publications and IG/TikTok science influencers? 👀
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d
Has anyone written about the relationship between pre-prints science publications and IG/TikTok science influencers? 👀
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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d
The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 4d
"We're doing the studies to make the proof" is too on the nose
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 4d
Modernism: Big, if true

Today: True, if big
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d
He's still got it
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · Jan 6
Everyone should watch Ways of Seeing and be John Berger-pilled www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE...
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d
He's still got it
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · Jan 6
Everyone should watch Ways of Seeing and be John Berger-pilled www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE...
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · Jan 6
Everyone should watch Ways of Seeing and be John Berger-pilled www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE...
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · Feb 23
I think many people need to believe eugenics must work because so many central beliefs rely on it being true
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · Feb 23
Seems like everyone is really into eugenics, which I once explained to my students as "pretty bad"
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 2d
but that's my emotional support requiem!
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d
For my diss research, I interviewed a virtual assistant, who was called an operator. This article made a great point of comparison
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 3d
Welcome to the party
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Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com · 3d
Lovely article on University of Cambridge's Future Nostalgia project - rescuing knowledge from old floppy disks! Much of it resonates with the preservation work we do at GTW:
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

via BBC_Future
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
www.bbc.com
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d
From this fascinating article by Andreas Killen: www.jstor.org/stable/3180655
From Shock to Schreck: Psychiatrists, Telephone Operators and Traumatic Neurosis in Germany, 1900-26 on JSTOR
Andreas Killen, From Shock to Schreck: Psychiatrists, Telephone Operators and Traumatic Neurosis in Germany, 1900-26, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 201-220
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d
Just thinking of this article I read about telephone operators in Germany, where if you felt like it, you could just give her an electric shock over the phone
rationalized spaces in which the rapid, precise motions of hundreds of operators had to be closely co-ordinated to minimize disruption or breakdown of service. Pressure to improve efficiency was so great that, between 1910 and 1921, the number of connections operators were expected to make increased from 150 to 500 per hour with little appreciable change in equipment. Working constantly at the limit of their capacities, operators were also kept under constant surveillance; their speed in answering calls was timed and monitored, as were their interactions with callers. Impatient callers (usually men) were equipped with buttons that, when pressed, sent a current through the line, drawing the operator’s attention with a sharp, unpleasant crackling noise or a slight shock. The following anecdote, which describes an incident that occurred in 1902 during the installation of a new switchboard at the Siemens company’s headquarters in Berlin, illustrates what might happen under such circumstances:
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 4d
Uh oh. My sudden onset clairvoyance is flaring up
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d
Treat tools like people so you can treat people like tools
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d
Meta executives are telling their workers they must use AI to "go 5x faster" and expect a "5x leap in productivity"

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...
Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d
Treat tools like people so you can treat people like tools
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d
Meta executives are telling their workers they must use AI to "go 5x faster" and expect a "5x leap in productivity"

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...
Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."
www.404media.co
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d
Wild movie
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𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 5d
Director Kathryn Bigelow’s cult future noir thriller ‘Strange Days’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, and Tom Sizemore premiered at the New York Film Festival 30 years ago this week. 💿🧠🚔 #OTD

"𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛."
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 3d
I've been having good luck with Raindrop
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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 4d
Uh oh. My sudden onset clairvoyance is flaring up
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