Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 28/09/2026still recruiting for our MA and PhD programs! and for the record, prospective international students are very much welcome to apply--- 065
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 27/09/2026also how my heart soared when I saw this a few blocks from my house 1283
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 27/09/2026I love using the word “fancy” (always apoken with a certain face on) when I’m with someone I connect with. And sure enough, they know exactly everything I’m trying to communicate with that one word. 060
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 26/09/2026lovely Saturday afternoon spent listening to the radio and finishing up construction of the very human, intentionally rough zine @rose-alibi.interferencer.com and I made for the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social: "How to spend ten years repairing a computer and why you should too" #othernetworks 3187
Reposted by Lori EmersonRyan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 25/09/2026Click "Download Full Zip" at the bottom of this page before Flock gets it way. flocksurveillance.org 38052
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/09/2026Pope Leo on #AI: "while 'intelligence' is attributed to computational systems, we struggle to recognize the inalienable dignity of human persons, whose lives are judged according to the criterion of efficiency &, when deemed no longer productive, are rejected & discarded" apnews.com/article/pope...apnews.comPope warns a ‘paradise of machines’ could undermine humanity as he opens France tripPope Leo XIV has warned that a "paradise of machines" could undermine humanity. He raises concerns about artificial intelligence, nuclear arms, and human rights during his visit to France. 13212
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/09/2026other than reading about radio in 1930s Berlin, so far the highlight of the day: a performatively sincere & actually sincere conversation with the vet about how all the animals we take care of are enthusiastic, frequent users of swear words followed by an extensive list of examples. #othernetworks 150
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 24/09/2026Squirrel Communicology update: Québécois squirrel techniques for transmitting culture are predictably more sophisticated... 073
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 23/09/2026“I can’t seek out a spiritual advisor - because people are annoying” is something I said out loud today. 0140
Reposted by Lori EmersonLori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 02/06/2026in 1987 OMNI magazine asked Claude Shannon, "Can you imagine a robot President of the United States?" and Shannon responds, "Could be! I think by then you wouldn't speak of the United States any more. It would be a totally different organization." uh huh. 34711
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 18/09/2026just remembered walking down a street in Warsaw last week, with a friend, looking up, doing my usual half conscious clocking of surveillance cameras that are now ubiquitous across all US cities (on every pole, at every intersection, along every street and path) and suddenly realized I only saw…one. 191
Reposted by Lori EmersonDavid C. Brock @dcbrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There is an open curator position here at the Computer History Museum! computerhistory.org/jobs/curator/computerhistory.orgCuratorDetails Classification: Exempt, Regular, Fulltime Location: Mountain View, CA The Computer History Museum (CHM) is the world’s leading institution exploring the history and ongoing impact of computing... 078
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 17/09/2026on my way to teach this morning, in front of the very building my class meets in, a hawk and I surprised each other, made eye contact, and he or she said quite plainly to me, “don’t even think about fucking with me.” And continued to decimate a long dead baby bunny. the end. 0160
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/09/2026I am puzzled by the big surges, big declines, returning surges that have taken place in my reading life over the last...let's say 45 years. from when I was about 5 to 15, I read truly voraciously--quickly, impatiently, imprecisely. probably even sloppily. 1/5 170
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 14/09/2026here to report I just received an invitation to be a manuscript reviewer that offers a 25% discount on classified advertisements in exchange for my labor... 1101
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 11/09/2026Canadian pals, every once in awhile I remember the Tragically Hip don’t exist any more and it’s strange to be in permanent low level mourning for a band— 260
Reposted by Lori EmersonCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 10/09/2026oh the bubble popping is gonna be BAD bad then 48712
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 10/09/2026what a day in Krakow...I got to explore many feet and many layers of cultural history beneath a medieval square which also introduced me to 11th century vampire prevention burial techniques! ("information that might come in handy one day" sorry, bad joke, etc.) and a stunning illuminated manuscript 1173
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 10/09/2026I don't know...it'd be nice if I could be comforted while finding out that upper/middle-class white man entitlement is just as alive and well in Poland as it is in the US and Canada thank you very much over, out, etc. 050
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 10/09/2026just learned about the existence of geophones and am being swept off my feet at the thought of finally being able to place call to the most important entity in my life #othernetworks 1293
Reposted by Lori EmersonBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Really useful paper on the ways tech companies approach people with disabilities as "design problems." "Disability Dongle rhetoric instills in students the value of a quick fix over structural change, thus preventing them from seeking out, participating in, and contributing to existing inquiry." 04528
Reposted by Lori EmersonMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I do a lot of reading for work but I got out of the habit of posting about it—here’s a few recent reads I really enjoyed: 912720
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 02/09/2026ziiing! "There is a recurring masculinist posture in critical theory that adopts the language of combat, resistance, intervention and victory, while actually retaining a very weak efficacy beyond its own intellectual constituency." --Joanna Zylisnka diffractionscollective.com/2026/08/22/3...diffractionscollective.comThe Media-Dirty Sublime: AI, Loser Images, and the Ethics of Embracing the Void // Joanna ZylinskaThis is an interview with Joanna Zylinska. Joanna Zylinska is a writer, artist, curator and Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London, where she direc… 053
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 31/08/2026if you or someone you know are invested in higher ed opportunities to nurture deep thinking (and practice!) about alternative approaches to the past, present, future of media technologies, pls share/apply! our Media Studies Dept is once again recruiting grad students docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comCU Boulder Media Studies Grad Program Recruitment!University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students to begin Fall 2027! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applicatio... 12313
Reposted by Lori EmersonInternet Archive @archive.org · 29/08/2026🏛️ Government websites can change or disappear overnight, taking public records with them. 🕳️ Libraries have collaborated on the End of Term Web Archive since 2004 to preserve U.S. government websites at every presidential transition. blog.archive.org/2026/08/24/a... 🧵 9492118
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 29/08/2026waitaminute. did I just watch an ad on Peacock for ChatGPT featuring a woman in her 70s…am I right in doubting that the “young people” and “middle aged people” markets have not become so saturated they had to move on to baby boomers? 6142
Reposted by Lori EmersonAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...chicagomaroon.comSosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This FallAll social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students... 16908270
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 23/08/2026Arendt, writing about Benjamin writing about Proust, could be describing any number of people we love and wish dearly it were possible to reach into their lives and meaningfully help: "Like Proust, he was wholly incapable of changing 'his life's conditions even when they were about to crush him.'" 1160
Reposted by Lori EmersonDr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes. 242934873
Reposted by Lori EmersonJoseph Kohlmann @jkohlmann.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“We don’t take venture capital, we don’t use AI, we don’t sell ads, and we don’t sell your data” – Mastodon 4.7 release blog post blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mast... (Lots of problems in the Fediverse, but these choices stand out, IMO) 16110
Reposted by Lori EmersonAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…” 10064421369
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 15/08/2026oh stop it Ted Lasso you’re making me cry. Again. For Pete’s sake. 040
Reposted by Lori EmersonPhilly Community Wireless @phillywireless.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Since 2020, @alexwermercolan.bsky.social has led our work building community-controlled networks in North Philly. Alex’s dedication has turned PCW from a small, volunteer-led pilot, to a burgeoning organization that serves tens of thousands of Philadelphians with free internet. Thank you Alex! 022
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 13/08/2026get in touch for a tour of the Media Archaeology Lab for your class! 083
Reposted by Lori EmersonCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Greenland Energy has lost half of its share value in the last five days. Turns out investors are not bullish on companies that claim they can go into other nations and take their resources. 34861236
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 12/08/2026I am so excited (and nervous) that I get to teach #othernetworks to undergrads this semester! gulp. I hope they like geeking out abt semaphore, telegraph, radio, television, telephone etc. as much as I do...here's the schedule of readings if you'd like to follow along loriemerson.net/2026/08/12/s...loriemerson.netsyllabus for Other Media Histories: NetworksThis fall semester marks the first time in well over a decade that I have attempted to teach an undergraduate class that is exactly my research on what I fondly call “other networks.” I… 46014
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 10/08/2026so so happy and excited for my friend @elikaortega.bsky.social whose incredible cross-media book "Binding Media" won the 2026 N. Katherin Hayles Award! go Élika go! 💚 and oh hey here's a link if you'd like to check it out, as you should---> www.sup.org/books/litera... 1103
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 07/08/2026I wouldn't call my relationship to my book projects "responsibility" exactly but this is how it works for me and has since ~2020: "Responsibility means to hear a call, to have experienced a calling & follow this calling without a direction in mind. It is perhaps autonomy in the Sartrean sense." 1/2 150
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 07/08/2026"Knockaround and DuckDuckGo are introducing the world's most innovative anti-surveillance sunglasses. AKA Normal F***ing Sunglasses. No camera, no microphone, no AI, no battery, no electronics of any kind." knockaround.com/products/duc...knockaround.comDuckDuckGo Paso RoblesUpdate! Normal F***ing Sunglasses sold out in under a week! Apparently privacy looks good on everyone. Don’t fret, more are coming! Pre-order yours now before they disappear without a trace again. *Pr... 0100
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 06/08/2026reminded of a little something I learned en route to writing #othernetworks: that we need to shift from thinking in terms of one network/platform or another and instead to thinking in terms of building up a heterogeneous ecosystem consisting of many networks. not Mastodon vs Bluesky but both and 182
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 06/08/2026I was Without Computer (Friend) (WC(F)) for an entire month and oh the bliss in being reunited with my Zotero account and my beloved folders! not to mention doing email on a Big Girl Machine 💚 1100
Reposted by Lori EmersonJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I was interviewed by Colorado Public Radio about how the the current FCC Commissioner is working to eliminate diversity in media ownership, local reporting, and viewpoint by ignoring Congressional oversight.cpr.orgFCC expected to get rid of ownership caps for local TVThe FCC chair pushing the move says it will help local news, but others disagree. Vote will determine the future of television news across the country. 416269
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/08/2026I just like documenting beautiful empty swimming pools first thing in the morning set against blue sky and mountains—- 1220
Reposted by Lori EmersonBilly Jor-El @davehumbird.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Mom’s calendar 2uilt show Gang shit 223
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 31/07/2026Flusser says that “Culture is a device for inheriting acquired information” and he too would appreciate that three generations of squirrels have managed to pass on to each other that they can chew a hole in my screen window and safely head over to the nut container for a little snack—- 2234
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 30/07/2026Oh hello. My dear #othernetworks book is on sale through Mexican Summer for 20% off for one more day! shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...shop.mexicansummer.com 3135
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/07/2026Woah semaphore content during today’s #tdf broadcast! #othernetworks 050
Reposted by Lori EmersonTammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026🌳 The Tree Library in Sweden is a 217-volume collection of wooden books. 📖 Each volume is dedicated to a different tree species and bound in that tree's own bark. Its pages feature the tree's leaves, mosses, lichens, and other natural materials. A very cool way to document nature. 281400294