Jason Archer
@jsnrchr.bsky.social
Scholar of technology, touch, media and communication
Asst Prof @ MTU: https://shorturl.at/n11An
Human Machine Culture: https://shorturl.at/Q6TTL
https://jasonearcher.com/
Wandering/Wondering
Asst Prof @ MTU: https://shorturl.at/n11An
Human Machine Culture: https://shorturl.at/Q6TTL
https://jasonearcher.com/
Wandering/Wondering
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His personal opposition is irrelevant - his actual job is to unite the House Dems. It ain't over til it's over - now's the time to push for a strategy shift. Call your rep and ask them to:
1) Publicly oppose ICE funding
2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
1) Publicly oppose ICE funding
2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
His personal opposition is irrelevant - his actual job is to unite the House Dems. It ain't over til it's over - now's the time to push for a strategy shift. Call your rep and ask them to:
1) Publicly oppose ICE funding
2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
1) Publicly oppose ICE funding
2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
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This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
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For the "data scientists" out there who are throwing things at machines (e.g., LLMs) and trying to extract "insights," I recommend (re)reading this piece:
"Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it."
qz.com/1664575/is-d...
"Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it."
qz.com/1664575/is-d...
I’m a data scientist who is skeptical about data
After millennia of relying on anecdotes, instincts, and old wives’ tales as evidence of our opinions, most of us today demand that people use data to support their arguments and ideas. Whether it’s cu...
qz.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:39 PM
For the "data scientists" out there who are throwing things at machines (e.g., LLMs) and trying to extract "insights," I recommend (re)reading this piece:
"Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it."
qz.com/1664575/is-d...
"Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it."
qz.com/1664575/is-d...
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I still remember Ma telling me five years ago that if these insurrectionists on January 6th were Black, then they would be dead. Five years later, they are almost all alive, out of jail, and their guy is back in the White House. If that’s not White privilege, then I don’t know what is.
January 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I still remember Ma telling me five years ago that if these insurrectionists on January 6th were Black, then they would be dead. Five years later, they are almost all alive, out of jail, and their guy is back in the White House. If that’s not White privilege, then I don’t know what is.
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I think this is why STS's focus on the non-teleological nature of technological change — and fields like media archaeology, which examine minor tools and history's losers — are so important in countering the "progress" and "inevitability" myths.
I find the idea that technology “evolves” via some sort of passive internal force of history extremely pernicious. The idea that things simply improve rather than very specific choices and efforts being made in targeted areas that then require new infrastructures to maintain is really dangerous.
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 AM
I think this is why STS's focus on the non-teleological nature of technological change — and fields like media archaeology, which examine minor tools and history's losers — are so important in countering the "progress" and "inevitability" myths.
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Join us for the 9th HMC Preconference 🤖🎉
We’d love to see your work!
Submit by January 31, 2026 (12pm ET).
Find more information at humanmachinecommunication.org/pre-post-con...
We’d love to see your work!
Submit by January 31, 2026 (12pm ET).
Find more information at humanmachinecommunication.org/pre-post-con...
PRE-CONFERENCE 2026 - Human-Machine Communication
Title: Human-Machine Communication and Inequalities: Contexts, Challenges, and OpportunitiesDate: Thursday, June 4, 2026 (Full day, 8:00am‑5:00pm)Venue: On-site at the ICA26 conference venu...
humanmachinecommunication.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Join us for the 9th HMC Preconference 🤖🎉
We’d love to see your work!
Submit by January 31, 2026 (12pm ET).
Find more information at humanmachinecommunication.org/pre-post-con...
We’d love to see your work!
Submit by January 31, 2026 (12pm ET).
Find more information at humanmachinecommunication.org/pre-post-con...
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Last week, Jon Penney, Sarah Brayne, & I discussed the role of AI and surveillance in transforming and scaling restrictions on academic freedom & speech. @jessicapriest.bsky.social has an excellent story on how gen AI is being used to do so in Texas universities
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Last week, Jon Penney, Sarah Brayne, & I discussed the role of AI and surveillance in transforming and scaling restrictions on academic freedom & speech. @jessicapriest.bsky.social has an excellent story on how gen AI is being used to do so in Texas universities
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🚨 Five fully-funded PhD lines 🚨 open in Media, Technology & Democracy at @au-mtd.bsky.social. Full tuition, stipend, benefits. Work w/ @adriennemassanari.bsky.social, @benjaminstokes.net, @chbutkowski.bsky.social, @paufder.bsky.social, @rohangrover.bsky.social, me, and many more.
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Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel
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A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?
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The comments to this article are also interesting
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The comments to this article are also interesting
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The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
futurism.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
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Or pre-order my book: www.amazon.com/Making-Liber...
Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press
Amazon.com: Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press: 9780231218368: Bauer, A. J.: Books
www.amazon.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Or pre-order my book: www.amazon.com/Making-Liber...
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In a coordinated move, multiple federal agencies joined BlueSky yesterday and turned to trolling the opposition. Our Assessment on Democratic Decline warns of this autocratic practice: attacking the free press and narrowing the space in which factual reporting can safely operate without retaliation.
October 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
In a coordinated move, multiple federal agencies joined BlueSky yesterday and turned to trolling the opposition. Our Assessment on Democratic Decline warns of this autocratic practice: attacking the free press and narrowing the space in which factual reporting can safely operate without retaliation.
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“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
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“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.
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This is an important video to watch, to understand the problems with "just arrest ICE".
My only questions (really, for the law prof, not her) are about the legal foundations for all of this, and if they could ever possibly be changed in the future. (I'm thinking long term here.)
My only questions (really, for the law prof, not her) are about the legal foundations for all of this, and if they could ever possibly be changed in the future. (I'm thinking long term here.)
NEW — Some TRiiBE readers, among many others on the internet, have been suggesting that the Chicago police arrest ICE agents for their misconduct.
TRiiBE publisher @morganelisej.thetriibe.com put out this explainer video, breaking down the legality for y’all.
youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...
TRiiBE publisher @morganelisej.thetriibe.com put out this explainer video, breaking down the legality for y’all.
youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...
Can local police arrest ICE?
YouTube video by The TRiiBE
youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is an important video to watch, to understand the problems with "just arrest ICE".
My only questions (really, for the law prof, not her) are about the legal foundations for all of this, and if they could ever possibly be changed in the future. (I'm thinking long term here.)
My only questions (really, for the law prof, not her) are about the legal foundations for all of this, and if they could ever possibly be changed in the future. (I'm thinking long term here.)
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I like this conception of “zombie knowledge”
October 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I like this conception of “zombie knowledge”
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Short interview with haptics inventor Bob Stone, gives a sober & pessimistic assessment of the tech's future:
“Wearable haptics will never deliver,” he insists. “We knew this in the ’90s, and it’s still true today.”
www.xrtoday.com/virtual-real...
“Wearable haptics will never deliver,” he insists. “We knew this in the ’90s, and it’s still true today.”
www.xrtoday.com/virtual-real...
From NASA to the Metaverse – and Why Professor Bob Stone Still Isn’t Impressed - XR Today
XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.
www.xrtoday.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Short interview with haptics inventor Bob Stone, gives a sober & pessimistic assessment of the tech's future:
“Wearable haptics will never deliver,” he insists. “We knew this in the ’90s, and it’s still true today.”
www.xrtoday.com/virtual-real...
“Wearable haptics will never deliver,” he insists. “We knew this in the ’90s, and it’s still true today.”
www.xrtoday.com/virtual-real...
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this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life
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As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
September 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
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There’s a prominent biz prof — mentioned here! — at my former uni who’s been a long-time GenAI evangelist, sharing pedagogical applications, and 🎉 their 🤯success, via his Substack for yrs . Now all incoming students get executive ChatGPT licenses; he’s got a big new AI lab + degree programs… 🤔
First, OpenAI got keen, hand-picked educators on board with advance models to hype up its pedagogic possibilities. This was step one in educator habituation - revealing exemplar prompts and techniques for other educators to emulate and experiment with
openai.com/index/teachi...
openai.com/index/teachi...
Teaching with AI
We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.
openai.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
There’s a prominent biz prof — mentioned here! — at my former uni who’s been a long-time GenAI evangelist, sharing pedagogical applications, and 🎉 their 🤯success, via his Substack for yrs . Now all incoming students get executive ChatGPT licenses; he’s got a big new AI lab + degree programs… 🤔
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I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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www.theatlantic.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
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This looks amazing
September 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This looks amazing