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Jamie Cohen

@jamesncohen.com
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Be Curious and Persist Assoc Prof Media Studies CUNY QC. Phd in memes and digital culture. Critical Internet Literacies out now!

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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 07/05/2026
It’s nearing the end of the semester which means I have to make sure to offer some hope to my students to help them through these “mid”-evil times. If anyone wants to hear what I’ve been covering in my classes, join me on my weekly live Office Hours on YouTube. Today at 1p et at newanddigital.com
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/04/2026
hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 07/04/2026
The absolute abandonment of the democrats in the face of this bullshit is astounding. Real black pill shit.
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 26/02/2026
I can finally say I've published my dissertation! .. Well, sort of. I'm honored to be included the Whole Earth Redux, a book of essays that offers "new perspectives on the legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog." My piece, "Corporate Corporeal," reconsiders a section of Summer 1989's Whole Earth Review
Whole Earth Redux: New Perspectives of the Whole Earth Legacy 
Though barely usable or even accessible at the time, virtual reality appeared to be an answer to a provocative question posed in the Summer 1989 issue of the Whole Earth Review: "is the body obsolete?" Mid-issue, Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand "stick their heads in cyberspace"; they recount trying on helmets, getting motion sick while looking at three-dimensional wireframes, and gawking at their digital digits ("Have you ever really, REALLY, looked at your own hand!!?"). In these early days of consumer VR, cyberpunks, cybernauts, and console-cowboys hoped to mass produce a machine that looked in and around our own brains, aiming to unlock a magical infinity of immersive media and second life.
Unfortunately, the most prescient part of the section isn't in the electrode brain implants (or "trodes") or the mind-visitation vacations enabled by autocerebroscope upgrades, but rather a vision oi the body merged with an office space represented by a listing for an "office treadmill." Three decades later, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Horizon, a workplace dystopia not derived from Gibsonian Cyberspace, but based on the corporate mafia Metaverse in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Zuckerberg may have solved VR motion sickness but thankfully has yet to make the body obsolete.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21/02/2026
Glad @jessgrose.bsky.social wrote this. Scott Galloway is very confidently wrong about parental leave messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
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New dads aren’t a “waste of time and space”
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 12/01/2026
What's missing from most reports on Minneapolis is the meta media observation. Fortunately we get a good take from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social: "The days of the hashtag and the Facebook Event are over" and public social media is now a tool of far-right propaganda and misinformation.
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We're all just content for ICE
Four days on the ground in Minneapolis
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Donald Trump is doing extrajudicial war the right way. by Ezra Klein
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 17/12/2025
Every ep of Posting Through It is a banger (except the 2025 ep bc it stressed me out lol). But their best stuff is their paywalled eps because they let their true feelings out.
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 05/12/2025
This crazy 441 page deck is oddly a summary what I've been teaching (see: preparing students for this future) for the last decade. docs.google.com/presentation...
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social signals 2025_v5
social media signals 2025_v5 WELCOME BACK
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 14/11/2025
Kirkification should be a warning for any of the influencers who think of themselves too iconic to meme. Wrote about it on New Media Homework
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The Memeing of a Media Martyr
What "Kirkification" means for the legacy of Charlie Kirk
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We are being ruled by absolute losers
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Ah fuck we got the Philip K Dick future 😞
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
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Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I’m still not over the fact that there was an extremely popular award-winning movie over a decade ago about the perils of falling in love with a chatbot and a company decided to make the chatbot in the image of the movie’s chatbot and now quite a few people have decided to date it
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 31/05/2025
These two revel in video game style militarism and remote death. Comically evil. WSJ: Look at this cute bro reunion 😍🥹
Wall street journal article with the headline Meta Fired Palmer Luckey Now they’re teaming up on a defense contract. Features an image of Palmer luckey who is wearing cargo shorts and Hawaiian shirt with an army jacket standing next to mark Zuckerberg who is westing a white shirt and jeans. Both are smiling thinking about all the people they’re gonna remotely detonate
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 30/05/2025
We’re at a point where the dems are so useless that Wall Street had to step in and help out
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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
In the latest episode of QAA, we interview @milesklee.bsky.social about his chilling article on ChatGPT encouraging religious psychosis in its users, and I explore how the Christians who claim AI is demonic are wrong, but not *wrong* wrong on.soundcloud.com/UmtjAVCbA3xk...
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God, the Devil, and AI feat. Miles Klee (E323)
People use generative artificial intelligence to troubleshoot technical problems, churn out anime-inspired images based on their personal photos, and drive university professors who teach undergrad co
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The years long panic about this is about a couple people getting their feelings hurt in circumstances that likely didn’t even occur. It simply doesn’t matter. They’re throwing academics and students out of the country with masked thugs by force. Get some priorities.
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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 08/04/2025
Absolute cinema
Screenshot 
Says
danemers said
He died during the tutorial.
The tutorial.
Article is saying 
Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream
After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mo..
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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Reminder, don’t take advice from lottery winners
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 05/04/2025
A public school district is considering whether to ban my book on tech billionaires, Survival of the Richest, for violating Trump's order on ridding DEI from schools. (I do not argue for giving tech bros equity/inclusion, so I'm not sure what the fuss would be about...) patch.com/illinois/lag...
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Books On Race, Poor Before Lyons Township High Board
The list comes as Trump tries to ax DEI from schools. His administration threatens to stop the flow of money to violators.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This stock market crash thing is so confusing. On one hand you have every economist and bank in the free world freaking out. On the other, there are some blue check accounts on Twitter with ancient statues as their profile pics doing 20 part threads on why down is the new up. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 03/04/2025
I feel like I should be getting royalties that are backdated to the 17th century. That would put my earnings at nearly 3 figures. I want my back pay
screengrab from amazon showing versions of my book, 2020, 2015, and 1655
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The future history of now will include something along the lines of "social media put billions of people worldwide in the same room together for the first time in history and it drove them absolutely insane"
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“Yeah, but I'm saying that TruCoat. You don't get it, you get oxidation problems. It'll cost you a heck of a lot more than $500.”
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account
Welcome to the 4chan administration.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Another reason I think conservatives are leaning into such dramatic artificial-looking appearances via tanning, surgery, filler, etc is because it creates an engaging visual aesthetic for social media video content. It’s the same culture of influencers and reality TV. Attention over substance
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 22/03/2025
Easily some of the most important books to understand our era
Three books: character limit: how Elon musk destroyed twitter by Kate conger and Ryan Mac, men who hate women by Laura Bates and Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Was literally talking to a friend about this last night. The majority of what went viral before The Dress went viral because it reflected some kind of consensus — this is good, this is interesting, this is relatable. After The Dress, virality was permanently changed into a measurement of conflict.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 13/03/2025
the internet would be so cool if it wasn't evil
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 13/03/2025
It’s pretty fucked up that a guy from an island that gonna suffer massive climate change issues is the guy who is eager to usher in the collapse of his region
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Who knew Lee Zeldin would be the worst of Trump’s ghouls, become death, destroyer of this world? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...
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E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said he would revise or repeal dozens of air, water and climate protections to help industries.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"Lively vs. Baldoni: How Right-Wing Influencers Are Weaponizing the Fight to Take Down #MeToo" Taylor Lorenz writes that conservative commentators are leveraging the high-profile case to dismantle support for #MeToo and amass unprecedented audience growth.
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Lively vs. Baldoni: How Right-Wing Influencers Are Weaponizing the Fight to Take Down #MeToo
Taylor Lorenz writes that conservative commentators are leveraging the high-profile case to dismantle support for #MeToo and amass unprecedented audience growth.
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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The Tate brothers are just an updated viler version of those Pickup Artists that were so popular about a decade ago. This is what happens when a meaner, more violent woman hating misogynist takes the roadmap. That he is platformed by so many is a disgrace to every woman and girl in the nation
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 10/03/2025
Colin Robinson ass politician except less interesting and more monstrous
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The arc from “freedom fries” to “hitler fries” is a good encapsulation of how American conservatism has evolved in my lifetime
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
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Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species. What are we even doing here. 🎁 link: 🧪
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After Elon Musk Fired Her, She Kept Showing Up to Work—for Free
The billionaire and his followers are out to cull federal employees they think are lazy and overpaid. But without people like Bianca Sicich, the Attwater’s prairie chicken could go extinct.
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Jamie Cohen @jamesncohen.com · 04/03/2025
I think this too. It’s possible trump truly believes the country let him down by not reelecting him in 2020. We already knows he holds is own followers in contempt, imagine how he feels for the rest
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