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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10h

The drug addled sociopath trillionaire thinks we're all NPCs in his personal Sim Earth. These dollar figures mean nothing to him.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day from CDMX 🎶

Closeup of a Diego Rivera mural ahowing a musician in indigenous attire playing a stringed instrument

Photo of a musician with indigenous heritage playing a bass guitarròn at Cafe Tacuba

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 13h

The Secret Life of Data, wait til someone uses this tool on @pornhub.com videos edition

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We were also talking about this. bsky.app/profile/caro...

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

1. It's corrupt af 2. It is both the product of, and a certain contributor to, creeping fascism in the US 3. Billionaires should not exist in a democratic society

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: Catch-22 Fish

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Email me. Aram ar American edu

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lol! You're welcome to sit in any time (sometimes folks do that). I'd say it's a bit more evidence- and theory-based than the typical Bsky feed but thematically related.

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Fathers, monitor your sons' online media consumption and teach them why it's so clogged with anti-Semitism and racism. Force it out of their lives as much as possible. Tell them why it's destructive to society as well as self-destructive.

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Ally (in Euroskyland) @allybfraz.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

The sooner we can get the general public to understand *everything online is being pushed to sow division and make money* right now, the sooner we have a chance at doing something about it.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I wish it wouldn't fall on so many deaf ears

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Robin Givhan remains one of our keenest cultural critics. Her take on Vice President Harris is no less incisive or persuasive than her best work.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Authors: make sure your contract gives you veto power over packaging

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is there also a sus4 because then he can start right into A Hard Days Night

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It takes real stones to admit point blank that a hot take was wrong, while reposting said hot take. An impeccable mark of credibility. Wish it were commonplace among the punditry.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have some very intelligent Indian friends who are in OPT. Some 420,000, or roughly one-third, of international students participated in OPT in 2025–26, making it the largest pipeline of global talent into the US workforce. This will hamper academic research. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

anyone out there looking for part time remote work? need some support with scheduling and email, being chicago based would be a plus :)

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes, though possibly also a plausibly deniable trial balloon

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Betsy Cazden @betsy-cazden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reportedly the National Guard has apologized and issued orders to troops to stay away from drop boxes and voting sites. Sounds like this may have been informal not per commander orders. I'm grateful for the swift pushback.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026

"Fuck everybody who believes that this is what's supposed to be happening. There is nothing happening here that has to do with public safety AT ALL." @jumaane.bsky.social @advocate.nyc.gov

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wind-up monkey figurines created by FunCo, acting on their own, played percussively on tiny cymbals and walked off the edge of a coffee table

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today's @nytimes.com crossword has more than the standard share of Black culture and I love to see it

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dr. Benjamin has been one of the most insightful and reliable voices on race and tech for a decade. I teach her work most semesters. This is shameful behavior from the @apapsychiatric.bsky.social.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I just had a fantastic conversation with @brianlfrye.bsky.social for his Ipse Dixit podcast about hip-hop, sampling, copyright, racism, and AI. Check it out.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

“Elgin Community College staff notified Flock in October 2025 that they wanted to cancel their contract and have the cameras taken down. Within a day, Heinrich said, Flock rejected the request and refused to uninstall the equipment on the basis that the company had not breached their agreement.”

wbez.org

To protect immigrant students, a Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused.

Elgin Community College resorted to covering the surveillance cameras with trash bags and zip ties. Public records show that federal immigration authorities have accessed Flock data at other Illinois ...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We got the bodycam and in-car footage related to the Flock search that a judge ruled was "indiscriminate mass surveillance" and unconstitutional. Ton of wild stuff in here More here: www.404media.co/watch-footag...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you know talented law students who would be interested in spending a summer working on the most important and interesting First Amendment cases, please send them our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...

knightcolumbia.org

| Knight First Amendment Institute

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are you an unpublished* writer with ideas about why music, and music criticism, matter? New Voices is a competition for aspiring music critics being launched by The Wire... www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

thewire.co.uk

Introducing The Wire New Voices - The Wire

New Voices is a new competition for aspiring music critics being launched by The Wire

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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When I’m listening to intense music

Blurry image of the creature from the black lagoon with subtitle “intense music”

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great question. Short answer: no. The most a rights holder can make/stream = ~70% of the total revenue associated w that stream. So if a fraudster paid $15/mo for a bot account and streamed a fake artist 1M times, they'd still only net about $11. Ads don't pay well enough to make up the difference.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When crypto gets cracked, either by "AI" or quantum computers, there's going to be a lot more than money at stake. For instance, all of those crypto-based dark money transactions that put Nazis in power around the globe will be laid bare for the world to see.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I shared some thoughts with Inc. Mag about AI-driven streaming fraud. TLDR: If Spotify etc adopted an artist-centric royalty model, the problem would go away overnight.

inc.com

A Musician Made $8 Million From Fake Streams. An Expert Says 1 Fix Is Surprisingly Simple

Experts say the conviction highlights the flaws in streaming economics rather than the dangers of AI.

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Rep. Jerry Nadler @nadler.house.gov · 08/10/2026

We now know that officials like Giuliani intentionally ignored our claims and lied to New Yorkers about the dangers they were facing. The mishandling of these cleanup efforts exposed thousands of New Yorkers and rescue workers to toxins that are still impacting their health.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

All well and good but the real question is who's gonna get the FIFA prize in literature this year

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The GOP is floundering in the midterms, but it is awash in dark money. A CNBC analysis shows that the GOP has a new donor base, radically different from before: it consists almost exclusively of the tech bros and shadowy crypto billionaires. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/2...

cnbc.com

Republican megadonors dominate 2026 midterm election as crypto and AI money surges, CNBC analysis finds

Fourteen of the 20 biggest donor groups CNBC analyzed are Republican-aligned as crypto, AI and betting money reshapes 2026 midterm spending.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The leading "thinker" of the MAGA movement, proclaiming his Nazism for all the world to see. They're no longer hiding behind plausibly deniable memes and euphemisms. Which means they think they've won.

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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant computer scientist whose contributions to software for the Apollo Guidance Computer were absolutely crucial to the Apollo Moon landings. She also helped shape the discipline of computer engineering while at MIT's Instrumentation Lab: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

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