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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 · 15m

I don't know about that. We are the ones who got the Jets in the custody arrangement.

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

Alt: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 21m

That whole game was a tariff.

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If BOTH people in these interactions are using AI to talk to one another, that means it's just bots courting one another and I have to say I find that incredibly funny.

Perhaps the real singularity is AI finding true love with another AI.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1h

We are actively trying to start a war with the Brits by making them watch the Jets.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 5h

Race week! I did today’s 15:00 recovery jog with all the gusto of the neighborhood squirrels who were carting acorns the size of their head across the road.

I am running the Bethlehem Running Festival 5K with my son on Saturday, then 13.1 on Sunday!

7 days until my first half. #hmtraining #runsky

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 7h

Students from Cheyfitz’s course speak out against his suspension and explain what happened in the classroom leading up to it. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

We Took Cheyfitz’s Class on Gaza. His Suspension Violates Academic Freedom.

Nine students who took the course on "Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance" contextualize the dispute that led to the suspension of Professor Eric Cheyfitz. They argue that his treatment by the University am...

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Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 7h

John Montefusco
Pitcher
Debut: 1974 - Retired: 1986
SFG - SDP - NYY - ATL

John Montefusco at baseball-reference.com

Career stats of John Montefusco

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Collect a claim from one side, collect a claim from the other, present them both to the reader with an awkward shrug and a "who can say?"

And the photo choice -- Noem's looking down ... on what? The reverse angle showed a small crowd and a quiet street. But can't show that, it's biased to one side!

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 20h

a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him

ALT: a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 22h

Mizzou football games don't officially start until they've ripped my heart out.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Somewhat related, I got the new iPhone and this is my first without the notch … really like the score bug feature on the dynamic island display!

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Today we find out how good Mizzou really is.

kermit the frog is covering his mouth with his hand and looking at the camera .

ALT: kermit the frog is covering his mouth with his hand and looking at the camera .

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

Hans Moleman from the Simpsons on the phone and saying "I need the biggest metaphor you have." Then "No, that's too big"

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 1d

In a world full of UT-Austins, be an MIT or a Dartmouth...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 1d

Three million years of cognitive evolution learning new ways to save our own asses, wasted by a guy with a golden toilet.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

I like to think of Ratto as blogging before the form was invented. It’s utterly perfect he landed at Defector.

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

A highlight of my first year in journalism was getting to cover a 49ers game he and all the other major Bay Area media were at. I grew up reading those folks and was in awe. He was holding court before the presser and was … exactly how you’d expect based on his writing. 😂 But a generous person.

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Last long run of the training program. Race is a week from tomorrow and I think I’m going to try for 2:15:00 as a goal, 2:10:00 as a stretch goal.

And I broke in new shoes in advance because … say it with me … nothing new on race day.

8 days until my first half. #hmtraining #runsky

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

MARINERS ❤️ 🔱

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

So we have a quarterback and a nickelback ... seems like we could cut costs and juice profits by just having two nickelbacks?

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Pope Leo DESTROYS clickbaiters with this one weird trick.

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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