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Dan Rosen
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Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)

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Went to the Whitney and they had a painting of my dissertation defense
Uncle we must go to the sea for the healing air
My niece has taken to calling me just uncle but she manages to say it like some Victorian child
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A drag queen named Donna Summer Sanders
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Get Outlook for iOS
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They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Bethany Klein's book about this was pretty good www.bloomsbury.com/us/selling-o...
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A fun birthday gift membership to @filmforumnyc.bsky.social from my siblings
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Sent from my iPad
They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sent from my iPad
They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Fellas, is it gay to ponder your cube?
Fellas, is it gay to ponder your orb?
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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*email sent from LG Smart Refrigerator*
like damn mfer you were “mr. science philanthropy” and you don’t even use pgp
They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Now that our edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'" is (finally!) printed, bound, packed, & with campus mail, on its way to folks, we’re making approximately 60 of the internal poster available separately

If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
*email sent from LG Smart Refrigerator*
like damn mfer you were “mr. science philanthropy” and you don’t even use pgp
They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
They really be writing emails about the criminal conspiracy
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Gamergate never ended unfortunately
I think it’s super weird that Americans normalized spotlighting individual social media posts as “news” and then responding by harassing and doxxing people because of them

Gamergate should have been a show stopper, not a starter
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Some 2020s wisdom in Hades II - "Compromising to achieve consensus is one thing; but compromising on beliefs or principles...on ideals? Such reasoning is how wars often start, not merely end."
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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James Bond is a fictional character
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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i'm gonna lose my mind
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I think one of the things that makes it convenient for the companies that make these models to mystify them is that they know their models are fundamentally non-deterministic, and mystification is a good way to obscure that design. it's not just putting out something random, it's *profound*
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Cool thread. Have many questions about how algorithmic and platform logics characterize this newer spiritualism
I think it's important to situate a lot of this nascent AI spiritualism alongside historical antecedents; spiral cults are just the new incarnation of the "spiritual telegraph", a mode of coming to terms with technology that feels alien or disembodied
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
James Bond is a fictional character
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Some 2020s wisdom in Hades II - "Compromising to achieve consensus is one thing; but compromising on beliefs or principles...on ideals? Such reasoning is how wars often start, not merely end."
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Getting into sports not for the love of the game but for the sweet mix of betting scam dramas and platform political economy
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM