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In order to keep track of participation in class, today I tried giving out a paper ticket to everyone who participates and they hand it back with their name on it. So many hands today!

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No we are not bringing back the double, triple, quadruple popped collar. I refuse

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 29/09/2026

When I make a great post

Magnus Zeller's painting "The Orator," Oil painting of a man in a mint-green suit with both arms raised, surrounded by a dense crowd of figures reaching toward him with outstretched hands

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 29/09/2026

When I make a great post

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 28/09/2026

Some things are valuable in and of themselves

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 27/09/2026

Joanne the Scammer was a prophet

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 27/09/2026

Joanne the Scammer was a prophet

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 25/09/2026

No iced coffee at an interview? That's homophobia

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 15/09/2026

"Toon killed his brother" "Dropped a piano on his head"

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Dolores says to the men at the bar "a toon killed his brother." "What?"

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Dolores says to the men at the bar "dropped a piano on his head."

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 22/09/2026

Going on the vaudeville circuit to promote a new academic book

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 13/09/2026

Doing some research for a new paper idea and came across this Mae West tidbit. Truly the GOAT "Mae West has the most famous bedroom in the film colony. The ceiling is completely covered with mirrors which gives an unusual effect to the entire room"

A picture of Mae West writing a letter in bed in Screen Book 1937, with the caption "Mae West has the most famous bedroom in the film colony"

Screen Book 1937: "Mae West has the most famous bedroom in the film colony. The ceiling is completely covered with mirrors which gives an unusual effect to the entire room, decorated sumptuously in white. Mae’s entire day centers about her bed when she is not at the studio. Not only does she have her meals served in bed, but she does all of her writing there while reclining amid lace pillows in Westian opulence,"

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 18/09/2026

Working on a cool book anthology that will answer the question, "Where is video games' Jeanne Dielman?"

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 18/09/2026

harm vs risk is a great way to frame it

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/09/2026

a pretty good way to gauge the conversation is whether people are talking about harm or risk harm is about what's happening now already risk is about what could maybe happen in the future and basically the whole ai cult scene is in agreement that possible risks are more important than current harm

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 14/09/2026

Perhaps some AI folks are asking for regulation so that they can make someone else responsible for their own actions. If regulation passes, they’ll have prestige. If it fails, they are exonerated

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 17/09/2026

Piker and his audience are unruly. Streaming is raucous. If Piker was white everyone would be falling all over their libidinal selves to talk about how much of an iconoclast he is to harness this energy

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 28/08/2026

I think the impulse to protect Hasan Piker by diminishing his fame or reach doesn't reflect reality - right now he has 25,000 live viewers. Livestreaming is a place for political formation now. It's not only video games. I think it's worth taking seriously

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?

AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.

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Joel Neville Anderson @joelnanderson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A reminder that the Scholars of Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine (SCMSSP) has extended the call to boycott SCMS in 2027 and is organizing a promising alternate conference, CFP due Oct. 9 sites.google.com/view/scmssp/... #SCMS27 #SCMS

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SCMSSP Alternative Conference - 2027 Boycott Pledge

2027 Boycott Pledge

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 17/09/2026

This plan should include the NEH!

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hi! This is out today and it’s awesome! And I am proud to be connected to it! SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!! WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!

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What Happened at Aleister Crowley’s Boleskine House? | #WITCHYAF

YouTube video by Etch

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 15/09/2026

Just saw the new AI documentary Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social. Well done feminist history and critique of AI. Also a real who’s who of critical theorists, AI scholars. Cool uses of sound and images to stimulate the uncanniness of both AI and its creators

A panel of people leading a Q&A for a screening of Ghost in the Machine, with the filmmaker Valerie Veatch

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 15/09/2026

"Toon killed his brother" "Dropped a piano on his head"

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 14/09/2026

Perhaps some AI folks are asking for regulation so that they can make someone else responsible for their own actions. If regulation passes, they’ll have prestige. If it fails, they are exonerated

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 14/09/2026

He gets that Digimon isn’t the poor man’s Pokémon

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 13/09/2026

RIP Mae West you would've loved OnlyFans

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 12/09/2026

We're your closest analogues. We share common goals. We have more in common with each other than other professions. We're the nearest thing to scientists you'll ever know

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

To put a finer point on it: he is right.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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We're your closest analogues. We share common goals. We have more in common with each other than other professions. We're the nearest thing to scientists you'll ever know

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 04/02/2025

This attack on the sciences is horrifying. But I also want to observe that many scientists are now being treated like the humanists and qual social scientists, colleagues whose concerns have been dismissed for years b/c we aren't viewed as scientists pursuing a common endeavor (knowledge!)

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 10/09/2026

The interfaces convince users that they are using judgment and logic to solve problems when in reality they are using probability

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 11/09/2026

Sorry but many of the programmers were cooked when they freely admitted to their bosses a machine can do their job better than they can. Not an ounce of self-preservation

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

👁️ Researchers found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, & feeding it to LG's ad arm Unplug the internet and it saves files until network restored. LG says its TVs don't record conversations. Evidence begs to differ. 216 million in homes /Braiinsforge

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 29/01/2026

Why should I waste my time reading what someone clearly thought was a waste of their time to write?

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Or, put it this way: imagine that you are an observer in a telephonic conference in federal court, and you put an AI on your phone and have it transcribe the audio as it occurs. No audio recording is stored. How confident would you be about standing before the judge and saying "well technically..."

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 09/09/2026

you would not believe how much tokens are burned on simply trying to solve CAPTCHAS. It's like 95% of the transcript.

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 09/09/2026

Too many straight people are comfortable with talking about Grindr

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 09/09/2026

Later this semester, we’re boyd’s parasocial media (QTd) alongside Hofstadter’s paranoid style harpers.org/archive/1964...

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstadter

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

politics? in MY artifacts?

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 09/09/2026

Today in class we’re looksmaxxing. Gaze and aura maxxing.

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 09/09/2026

“The collective market capitalization of such [AI] ventures would suffice to fund 200 math PhDs—the number lost this year in the United States due to cuts to graduate programs—every year for the next 500 years.”

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Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thanks so much, Sonja. This summer I heard nurse after nurse talk about these scores, and so we included it in the story: Elena "tried to scan the code [at the hospital] more than seven minutes before her start time, which dinged her score by half a point." dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...

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Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

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