Research and teaching.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

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A dog walker we know said it’s not fair to old dogs to get them puppies because not only do they have to put up with all that puppy energy, it’s making them train their replacement.

I don't think I've ever seen this guy break before. He's trying so hard not to laugh. www.tiktok.com/@huskistaken...

Dear @bostonglobe.com headline writers: I THINK you mean “when will the sky stop looking so ominous” but it SOUNDS like you mean when will the world end

Streetlights on at noon in Boston. Thick stinky yellow air. Downright dystopian. Hope folks closer to the Ontario fires are doing okay.

I want to go here and drink art and feel heal.

I once went through a book draft reversing every “it’s not that, it’s this” sentence I’d written into an “it’s this” sentence. The draft got immensely better. AI could learn a thing or two from me.

Excuse me, what?

“Convict leasing for agriculture – a system that allows states to sell prison labor to private farms – became infamous in the late 1800s for the brutal conditions it imposed on captive, mostly black workers…but the once-notorious practice is making a comeback.”

I was excited enough that the spambots have been trying to organize promotion for my ten year old book, and now they want to help me extend the reach of books I didn’t write and have never heard of. What infinite futures await?

I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge

Remote

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Remember how the US fought a war to illegalize owning humans for forced labor, and a whole bunch of the losers decided NOT TO TELL said humans so they could continue extracting from them for YEARS? A #Juneteenth lesson: the US has a long history of not letting human rights get in the way of profit.

folded the lawn chair down and had to crush this wasp‘s dream

I keep getting spam from people who “represent a private equity firm acquiring businesses in your vertical.” They want to acquire Microsoft.

Giving a “legacy” lecture this morning. As Mark Twain put it, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Yesterday I had some quiet time with a 25 month old sitting on a dock taking in the nature. She looked at a cluster of fallen maple seeds and said “this is beautiful.” She looked up and said “this is a beautiful day.” If you need me too bad I melted.

Turns out one weird trick to dramatically increase the length of your birding life list is to visit Costa Rica.

There are only 400 of these bell birds left in the world and we got to see one this morning.

Please enjoy these leaf cutter ants carrying pink flowers outside our hotel room door. If you don’t, it’s ok, I enjoyed them more than enough for both of us.

Shazam but for accents to help you place a speaker’s first language when they’re speaking yours.

Has anyone got a blocklist of people who use “*maxxing” even as a “joke”?

I know a lot of folks here who have been laid off from tech who would be great for this.

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The union data space is a mess but so is everything and honestly this is one of the most exciting messes to fix rn. Closest you can come to doing military logistics for the good guys. We also know we have trouble hiring from within for this skillset, so do-gooders running from tech/finance welcome

Tried figuring out dog anatomy online recently? Don’t. Too many images with LIIVRES and KIDNYYKS and other such “organs” flooding the sphere to find anything remotely credible.

PS - if you're interested in donating to a mutual aid fund to help out Hampshire workers losing their jobs, the link is here: www.helphampshireworkers.com

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#PlatformExtractivism is available for 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 (out Oct 20)! Thrilled to share what @geoplace.bsky.social has to say about the book: "A grounded and uncompromising account of the infrastructures and workers that sustain AI." 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: www.ucpress.edu/books/platfo... #BookRecommendation #Books

Some days you wake up, start a book, then it’s six hours later and you’ve binge read a whole novel.

Saturday afternoon may not be the ideal time to post this, but... it's fall book adoption time here in North America, so if you're teaching an undergraduate course about tech, society, culture gender, social history, don't forget about this little book I wrote 😉. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Gender and Technology: An Introduction

Gender and Technology: An Introduction, In this comprehensive text, Holly Kruse explores how notions of gender and technology have been socially constructed. Organized historically, the book provides ...

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Epic road trip done: 10 days. 2600 miles, mostly on backroads. 16 states. Camped in 7 we hadn’t before (TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, DE). We’ve now camped in 35 states since getting our campervan in 2020. Main thing I learned on this trip: Alabama and South Carolina are very beautiful.

My son and his partner graduated from Hampshire. Heartbreaking loss of a special place.

Jody Rosen@jodyrosen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic