Reposted by Dave ParisiTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4hThe White House is bragging about reducing immigration (including refugees) from Muslim-majority countries to near 0. The U.S. is a nation of 340 million or so people. It was letting in just 18,000 people or less per month from these same countries prior to Jan 2025. Obvious anti-Muslim bigotry. 415446
Reposted by Dave ParisiMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 4hI imagine it would probably be different if the money was on the table for me in a real way but I really do think I'd walk away from a pretty large amount of money not to have to go along with something as fucking stupid as this renaming 3184
Reposted by Dave ParisiBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 13hI hear it's Silent Film Day, so here's a thread of my silent film posts and threads if you're looking for inspiration: 12713
Reposted by Dave ParisiKen Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 10hand we're back! COMICS DISCOURSE LOOP: No, It Is You Who Failed Superman Why Doesn't Batman Simply Buy Crime? <--- YOU ARE HERE Alan Moore: Threat or Menace? Writers Vs. Artists What If The Big Two Released Monthly Anthologies Instead Everyone (Except You) Knew Outed Monster Was Monster 519258
Reposted by Dave ParisiNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13hMy cab driver to Coachella was an Obama-Romney-Trump-Biden-Trump voter who had on a channel that played AI-generated music. He said that if Democrats vote to restrict data centers, they'll lose his vote forever. 1031828
Reposted by Dave ParisiSari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026It's real! Too many people to thank, but I'm feeling so very grateful for the years of conversation, learning, and generosity that made this book possible. More about the book below -- 1012743
Reposted by Dave Parisicait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17hthis is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women 92467518
Reposted by Dave ParisiAlix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 16hDo you know about Joeri's article on it? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comTuning the office sound masking and the architectonics of office workThis paper examines the emergence and development of a new soundscape of work in the open-plan office. To understand the persistent tension between public social interaction and private undisturbed... 142
Reposted by Dave ParisiLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists. 91748473
Reposted by Dave ParisiJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i was really happy to go on @onthemedia.bsky.social to discuss how brands and politicians are manipulating AI chatbots by spamming reddit, spinning up low-effort websites, and otherwise deploying Generative Engine Optimization strategies www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...wnycstudios.orgHow Extinction Entered the AI Debate | On the Media | WNYC StudiosAI researchers are warning that the technology they’re creating could kill us all. On this week’s On the Media, unpacking the feverish debate over the dangers of artificial intelligen... 05416
Reposted by Dave Parisinick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 3646991830
Reposted by Dave Parisijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83124291867
Reposted by Dave ParisiDr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s alive! Unwrapping my author copy of Horror and Disability. Published by @uniwalespress.bsky.social #HorrorSky #Books #Disability #academia #horroranddisability 2216
Reposted by Dave Parisimtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026everyone's like "the 90s ended on sept 11" or whatever, but for web design, the 90s ended in like 2007? 131088
Reposted by Dave ParisiDan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Apple should sue Trump for stealing the “Big Brother” segment of their 1984 Macintosh ad. 021
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Some art/culture just isn't for you and that's ok. 1110
Reposted by Dave ParisiErika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We welcome book proposals to this new series of peer-reviewed books - Early Modern Visual & Material Cultures Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown Univ Publisher: @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/page/forthco... Pls contact me with any q's - by DM or email (Erika.Gaffney@degruyterbrill.com)! 01810
Reposted by Dave ParisiSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.coautonomynews.coNew Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to LifeLawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense. 12444824
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026RIP youtu.be/osPT21Extkc?...youtu.beThe Mighty Sparrow - Drunk & Disorderly [1972]YouTube video by Soca IsYours 020
Reposted by Dave ParisiGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Would you bring an iced coffee to releasing thr Batgirl movie? 242199
Reposted by Dave Parisicmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student! 29481474
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026By NYC standards, Deckard's apartment is pretty spacious 230
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026V happy I tuned into this final Mets game of the season #300 from Lindor. 030
Reposted by Dave ParisiBruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026*Neal Stephenson making his extensive case for hand-writing fiction with pen and paper. nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writi…nealstephenson.substack.comWriting by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do itBecause I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing. 71224
Reposted by Dave ParisiDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And you can directly walk this back to Gamergate and before. The argument that women "invaded" male gaming spaces (like D&D and video games), that women only game for male attention, are all derived from the same mentality that got us Ready Player One, The Manosphere, and Palantir. 010526
Reposted by Dave ParisiLisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026has anyone written about pre-print culture in the snail mail era? What were the norms? At what point was a pre-print considered 'good enough' to send to colleagues? maybe @mbarany.com might have a lead here? 461
Reposted by Dave ParisiDave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Whoa...iirc Immersion Corp already sued Apple over the same tech: "Taction argued that Apple’s “Taptic Engine,” which is embedded in its Apple Watches and iPhones, uses its inventions without proper license or authority." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/26/a...cnbc.comApple faces $5.7 billion patent infringement verdict over iPhone and Apple Watch hapticsA federal jury awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion after finding Apple infringed claims from two haptics patents. Apple plans to appeal. 141
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Watching Ed Sheeran load a gun and fire it directly into the head of his career has been kinda fun. 030
Reposted by Dave Parisiscreaming until the void tells me to shut up @mutedscreaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'll never forget the student journalists at Columbia who continued to cover the university bringing in an army of cops to dismantle the Pro-Palestine student encampments. Even when the folks at the SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM were prohibited from covering it, they stayed and kept covering. Amazing kids 5721120
Reposted by Dave ParisiMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 27/09/2026Sorry, I broke with my whole family over this. Absolutely cannot be 'friends' with anyone who wants to harm others I mean you do you but I think people should have moral standards for friendship 3362
Reposted by Dave ParisiMelissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“All watched over by machines of loving grace” by Richard Brautigan, written in 1967. 12010
Reposted by Dave ParisiI Die: You Die @idieyoudie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026RIP Bruno Kramm of Das Ich. A great songwriter and performer, political activist, and by all accounts a warm and compassionate person. youtu.be/4Betp2RYgbw?...youtu.beCoeurYouTube video by Kramm - Topic 24012
Reposted by Dave ParisiChica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just remembered that I was going on job interviews in 2000-2003 all over and getting no offers. I actually got coaching in how to be interviewed. Pretty sure that when I showed up at Lang College for my interview I was carrying an emotional support latte. 2313
Reposted by Dave ParisiLaine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is such an unbelievably, historically unserious bad take from Steven Levy, the light from bad takes would take a million billion years to reach it. www.wired.com/story/war-br...wired.comWar Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon ValleySome say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument. 515143
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Whoa...iirc Immersion Corp already sued Apple over the same tech: "Taction argued that Apple’s “Taptic Engine,” which is embedded in its Apple Watches and iPhones, uses its inventions without proper license or authority." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/26/a...cnbc.comApple faces $5.7 billion patent infringement verdict over iPhone and Apple Watch hapticsA federal jury awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion after finding Apple infringed claims from two haptics patents. Apple plans to appeal. 141
Reposted by Dave ParisiSam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026⚠️JOB OPPORTUNITY! The LSU Department of Sociology 🐯 is seeking applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position, at any rank, specializing in Environment and Community. Please share widely! Link: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0110... 057
Reposted by Dave ParisiThe Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 26/09/20261859. 𝐒𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐒: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐙𝐙𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐒 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/soviet-... This new book sets out to explore the geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetris. @mitpress.bsky.social #Gaming #Tetris #Booksky 0235
Reposted by Dave ParisiRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5 14470248
Reposted by Dave ParisiYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026finally, howard the duck gets his moment 1023617
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We lost Chuck Varga (Sexicutioner from Gwar) and Bruno Kramm (Das Ich) on the same day, RIP to two legends. 130
Reposted by Dave Parisiryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever 381295250
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮 nyunews.com/news/2026/09...nyunews.comMills attends Trump’s state dinner for Xi Jinping - Washington Square NewsNYU President Linda Mills attended President Donald Trump’s state dinner honoring China’s leader Xi Jinping on Thursday — constituting a “vital opportunity” to highlight NYU Shanghai to U.S. and Chine... 031
Reposted by Dave ParisiJason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 26/09/2026They shouldn't have wasted the name Skye Rizzy on some drug that does whatever it does. That was meant to be the name of a teen celebrity who's famous for reasons I understand as little as I understand that drug 1556460
Reposted by Dave ParisiSEGA-16 @sega-16.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Demolition Man really nailed what life in the 21st century would be like. I ask myself the same thing every morning. 1202
Reposted by Dave ParisiPatrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The hist of tech series I co-edit for @hopkinspress.bsky.social has three new volumes coming out soon!!! 163
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I may be old fashioned but I still think you need an actual physiological system with all the pain sensing bits to feel pain, the same way Samantha didn't really experience a climax in Her. 2294
Reposted by Dave ParisiCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5742871168
Reposted by Dave ParisiSara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He imposed Shania Law 14975181444
Reposted by Dave ParisiRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026DoesAIfeelpainhaveconsciousnesscallitsparentsenoughlikefoiegraslistentoyachtrockeatallitsvegetablessaygiforjiflikelongwalksonthebeachgotochurchonsundayvoterepublicanhelplittleoldladiescrossthestreet, a recent un-peer-reviewed study for clickbait 🤬 4204