Can any my folks in design theory (or other media fields) hypothesize what the hell Kirk might've been going for with this depiction of "dignity"?
Dr. Christine H. Tran
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✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she) ✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts ✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy ✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool ✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Can any my folks in design theory (or other media fields) hypothesize what the hell Kirk might've been going for with this depiction of "dignity"?
On Vancouver Island, where the streets are paved with gold (PC Games).
For research B-side reasons, here's some iconic Simpsons in bed.
Was gas /really/ once so cheap that GenX & Boomer parents would rock their babies to sleep with a drive around the block? Or is that from Big Commercial Imaginary?
Right as Canada needed their critical thinking & science literacy the most… they vanished…
Right as Canada needed their critical thinking & science literacy the most… they vanished…
What's the least painful way to write an entire journal article before the end of your ice cappuccino?
h-index grew a point last night & I felt nothing
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there should be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been." - Frank Wilhoit The gentry, y'all.
Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.
Incredible timely video about the historical food YouTube & the creator economy’s role in draining the class critique from our culinary past! 🥗
Kay And Skittles@kayandskittles.bsky.social · 2w agoNew video: There's A Problem With Historical Food YouTube youtu.be/rVrmWlrf838
the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold
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“deer type,” “bunny type,” “fox type,” … “ethereal vs. ingenue face”… 💄 Every viral beauty categorization girlie stands before a path forked between “eugenics” and “Pokémon.”
I've said this before: Scholar friends, if you read an essay, chapter, or book that you like please DO tell the author! I can't tell you how much these notes mean to someone who feels like they are alone and simply writing into the void.
Toby Ziegler's Intense Stare Down in The West Wing
ALT: Toby Ziegler's Intense Stare Down in The West Wing
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microsoft is in full damage control mode following last week's layoffs. its main strategy so far? namedrop sequels to popular series at every turn. but despite what execs like asha sharma might want you to think, those series were made by people, and now they'll never be the same
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3w agoFallout didn't make itself aftermath.site/fallout-5-beth...
everything that has ever been labeled "Millennial" was either an 80 year old hallucinating what they imagine a young person is like, a 50 year old badly imitating a young person, or a 20 year old that doesn't realise they are seconds away from midnight
