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Jason Archer

@jsnrchr.bsky.social
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Scholar of technology, touch, media and communication Asst Prof @ MTU: shorturl.at/n11An Human Machine Culture: shorturl.at/Q6TTL jasonearcher.com Wandering/Wondering

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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just watched The AI Doc. Definitely worth watching if you want an overview of the AI apocalypse vs. AI utopia debate from the mouths of its participants. The film itself can be annoying stylistically but is very useful when it lets its interviewees talk.
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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist - Wikipedia
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026
criminal laws that punish people for being poor in public are cruel, and cruel & unusual punishments are unconstitutional in 2024, the Supreme Court upheld such laws anyway since then, 350 cities, 11 states, & rising have passed laws criminalizing homelessness ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Unhoused People Are Paying the Price For the Supreme Court’s Cruelty
The Grants Pass decision allowed more cities and states to impose criminal penalties for the offense of being poor in public.
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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If there is real history in the future, historians will ask how we let the fascists take over US democracy when they were saying these kinds of things repeatedly and out loud.
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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Of course they are.
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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026
It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This whole thread is really important. Right wing billionaires have a vision for future society that is clear, coherent, & they’re investing. It’s extractive, surveilled & brutal for all but a few. They have the resources to move the needle & are. But their vision does not have to triumph.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Tl;dr start the thread here for my "solutions" to the right-wing media problem.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Folks, good news: The Onion is a hundred or so subs away from reaching the long-awaited number of 69,420 paid print subscribers. If you’re that one magic subscriber, we’ll send you a mystery gift box as a thanks. Sign up or regret it forever. We’re on sale for a week. Make sexweed number history.
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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Plug for our #SCMS26 panel Sunday @ 9a, Feeling the Virtual: Embodiment and Sensation in Games, Porn & Haptic Media, w/ Marilia Kaisar, Cecilia Chen & Teddy Pozo. Featuring extensive NSFW discussion of Kiiroo, at least one ref to @buttplug.engineer/teledildonic Rocket League & haptic navel-gazing.
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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons the Hard Way
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Taser Chess Teaches Valuable Lessons the Hard Way
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
There's been a lot of solid reporting from the latest Epstein dump but I think this is the smartest angle I've seen.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
His personal opposition is irrelevant - his actual job is to unite the House Dems. It ain't over til it's over - now's the time to push for a strategy shift. Call your rep and ask them to: 1) Publicly oppose ICE funding 2) Call on Jeffries to whip the vote prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
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Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
For the "data scientists" out there who are throwing things at machines (e.g., LLMs) and trying to extract "insights," I recommend (re)reading this piece: "Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it." qz.com/1664575/is-d...
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I’m a data scientist who is skeptical about data
After millennia of relying on anecdotes, instincts, and old wives’ tales as evidence of our opinions, most of us today demand that people use data to support their arguments and ideas. Whether it’s cu...
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I still remember Ma telling me five years ago that if these insurrectionists on January 6th were Black, then they would be dead. Five years later, they are almost all alive, out of jail, and their guy is back in the White House. If that’s not White privilege, then I don’t know what is.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I think this is why STS's focus on the non-teleological nature of technological change — and fields like media archaeology, which examine minor tools and history's losers — are so important in countering the "progress" and "inevitability" myths.
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Human-Machine Communication - ICA Division @ica-hmc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Join us for the 9th HMC Preconference 🤖🎉 We’d love to see your work! Submit by January 31, 2026 (12pm ET). Find more information at humanmachinecommunication.org/pre-post-con...
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PRE-CONFERENCE 2026 - Human-Machine Communication
Title: Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion and Inequal­i­ties: Contexts, Chal­lenges, and Oppor­tu­ni­tiesDate: Thurs­day, June 4, 2026 (Full day, 8:00am‑5:00pm)Venue: On-site at the ICA26 confer­ence venu...
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Last week, Jon Penney, Sarah Brayne, & I discussed the role of AI and surveillance in transforming and scaling restrictions on academic freedom & speech. @jessicapriest.bsky.social has an excellent story on how gen AI is being used to do so in Texas universities www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
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Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨 Five fully-funded PhD lines 🚨 open in Media, Technology & Democracy at @au-mtd.bsky.social. Full tuition, stipend, benefits. Work w/ @adriennemassanari.bsky.social, @benjaminstokes.net, @chbutkowski.bsky.social, @paufder.bsky.social, @rohangrover.bsky.social, me, and many more. #academia #commsky
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Jason Archer @jsnrchr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel
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a man in a yellow shirt is waving his hand at the camera
ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is waving his hand at the camera
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The comments to this article are also interesting
country. But I felt a dread I struggled to express until a colleague articulated the problem in stark terms: “Our students are about to turn subcognitive,” she said. That was it. At stake are not just specialized academic skills or refined habits of mind, but also the most basic form of cognitive fluency. To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought. This
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Or pre-order my book: www.amazon.com/Making-Liber...
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Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press
Amazon.com: Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press: 9780231218368: Bauer, A. J.: Books
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 18/10/2025
In a coordinated move, multiple federal agencies joined BlueSky yesterday and turned to trolling the opposition. Our Assessment on Democratic Decline warns of this autocratic practice: attacking the free press and narrowing the space in which factual reporting can safely operate without retaliation.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is an important video to watch, to understand the problems with "just arrest ICE". My only questions (really, for the law prof, not her) are about the legal foundations for all of this, and if they could ever possibly be changed in the future. (I'm thinking long term here.)
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/10/2025
I like this conception of “zombie knowledge”
Where previously the university administrator required academics to translate complex ideas into manageable metrics and reports, the LLM mediates this relationship differently (Burrows 2012). It generates the discourse of scholarship without the labour of thinking, creating what I call zombie knowledge through textual performances that simulate intellectual work whilst remaining empty of the judgement, interpretation, and critique that characterise real scholarship. This scholarslop seems to me to be a more serious threat to university scholarship and the internal coherence of the university, not to mention disciplinary boundaries, than historical attempts to impose managerial controls, such as through public management techniques.
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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Short interview with haptics inventor Bob Stone, gives a sober & pessimistic assessment of the tech's future: “Wearable haptics will never deliver,” he insists. “We knew this in the ’90s, and it’s still true today.” www.xrtoday.com/virtual-real...
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From NASA to the Metaverse – and Why Professor Bob Stone Still Isn’t Impressed - XR Today
XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025
this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
There’s a prominent biz prof — mentioned here! — at my former uni who’s been a long-time GenAI evangelist, sharing pedagogical applications, and 🎉 their 🤯success, via his Substack for yrs . Now all incoming students get executive ChatGPT licenses; he’s got a big new AI lab + degree programs… 🤔
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools
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Blair Matthews @blairteacher.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This looks amazing
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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 29/07/2025
Had to repost 😅 #noai
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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