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Nick Brody

@nbrody.bsky.social
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Comm Prof at The University of Puget Sound studying technology and relationships. www.pugetsound.edu/directory/nicholas-brody

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Colin Simmons is the first player in college football history with five sacks in a game he also got penalized in for pretending to whip it out at pee on the ground.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 16/09/2026
How deep do Bo French's ties to the University of Texas go? How about his dad having a room in the football facility named after him? And his noxious run for office is financed by prominent Longhorn boosters. That and A LOT more, in today's FOIAball. www.foiaball.com/p/texas-coll...
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Bo French insulted Texas fans. Longhorn boosters fund him.
The school even had a room named after his dad.
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 13/09/2026
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 13/09/2026
as called on ESPN Deportes:
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your pal uly @uscocksman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
FUUUUUUUCK YOU TED CRUZ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EAT FUCKING SHIT YOU PIECE OF SHIT
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your pal uly @uscocksman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
FUCKING TED CRUZ
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Came here to make a joke about Emily Wilson, peer review, and toxic academia but I’m about ten hours late!
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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Currently dying at the fact that the Washington State Department of Health department issued a warning to all visiting the state that our weed is VERY strong & not to be taken lightly. Be safe out there visiting soccer fans! (credit to @pgcornwell.bsky.social for sharing this hilarious nugget first)
A news update that reads:

Health department to visitors: Be careful with strong WA weed
The Washington State Department of Health is warning visitors that Washington's marijuana products may be stronger than they're used to.

Hospitals have seen an increase in emergency visits related to marijuana, according to the health department, as tens of thousands of tourists visit for the World Cup.

In its World Cup visitors guide, the health department says cannabis potency can vary and recommends starting with a low dose and going slow. Edibles can take up to three hours to feel the effects, which can last up to 24 hours.

- Paige Cornwell
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wrote a short essay about something that happens more than you might expect. medium.com/@nbrody_5108...
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OMG Someone Just Asked Me About The Anxious Generation Again
Let me describe a surprisingly semi-regular occurrence for scholars who study communication and technology. You’re at school pickup or…
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 06/05/2026
Other people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.
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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hey Folks who do social scientific research on language! I'm co-editing a special issue for Journal of Language and Social Psychology of registered reports. Please share! journals.sagepub.com/page/jls/cal... #commsky #psychsky
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It speaks well of my timeline that I got about a 50/50 split of Michael B. Jordan From FNL posts and Michael B. Jordan From The Wire posts
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/03/2026
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...
2. Our contract. Here is the relevant language:

The Department of War may use the AI System for all lawful purposes, consistent with applicable law, operational requirements, and well-established safety and oversight protocols. The AI System will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control, nor will it be used to assume other high-stakes decisions that require approval by a human decisionmaker under the same authorities. Per DoD Directive 3000.09 (dtd 25 January 2023), any use of AI in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems must undergo rigorous verification, validation, and testing to ensure they perform as intended in realistic environments before deployment.

For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose. The AI System shall not be used for unconstrained monitoring of U.S. persons’ private information as consistent with these authorities. The system shall also not be used for domestic law-enforcement activities except as permitted by the Posse Comitatus Act and other applicable law.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
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Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 26/01/2026
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is murder.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
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The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...
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Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
#Commsky Doctoral students! Consider applying for the Doctoral Consortium. Ideal timing is students at the proposal stage (does not need to be defended).
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
There's one foolproof way to gauge whether someone is a millennial or a zoomer: Ask them how they learned the difference between Iceland and Greenland. If the answer is from D2: The Mighty Ducks, you're talking to a millennial. Otherwise, zoomer.
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Really enjoyed this conversation with Nate about some issues that you might say are, uh, timely.
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Major in Comm.
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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
welp, maybe next year aggies
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Jacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 02/11/2025
If you're ever tempted to believe or cite Jonathan Haidt's moral panic crusade against social media, you should consider that he's now also part of Heritage's crusade to criminalize porn.
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Steve @iamtherealsteve.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Maybe legalizing gambling and then aggressively marketing it to every demographic possible, allowing them to buy sports networks, and putting it all on your phone was a bad idea I dunno
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Mark Zuckerberg thinks this is something people want.
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Believing that em dashes reveal LLM usage just reveals that you don't read.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/07/2025
The double standard here is stunning. Universities are losing grants, student aid, and endowments for being "too woke." But churches (which also receive federal funds, eg, for school vouchers, food banks, and marriage promotion programs) are now allowed to openly endorse political candidates.
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Articles like this should note that LAPD reported the fewest violent crimes since 2015, the fewest property crimes since 2014, and the fewest murders since 1966 through May.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Google's vision of tbr future if childhood is bleak AF
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Oh ok that’s why it all went down that way and I’ve just got to be ok with it lol
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It does not serve academics well to take a chicken little/luddite approach to the gen AI issue. College was never about learning how to write essays. It's about learning to think. It's about learning to relate to others.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I just *profoundly* object to the framing in that article linked to in the OP: that all the students are doing it and no one cares and it's time to give up because the lazy cheating students don't actually want to learn anything.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
ALL FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS THAT DO NOT FEATURE A STEVIE NICKS LEAD VOCAL ARE NOW TARIFFED AT 250%
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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people
Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans.

It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.
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Nick Brody @nbrody.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Really cool quiz in the NYT today put together by comm scholars Jeff Hall and Andy Merolla (neither on bluesky) based on their recent book. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Quiz: How Healthy Is Your Social Life? (Gift Article)
Research shows that our happiness depends on a complex web of relationships and interactions. Fifteen simple questions can assess yours.
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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I am really pleased to see our meta-analysis of media literacy interventions (160 studies!) has been published in HCR. Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of nuance. One piece of good news is that the interventions work longitudinally. Free download here: academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...
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Media literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of research
Abstract. We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 160 media literacy interventions from 1983 to 2023, finding overall positive effects. Effects were
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Comedy is legal again
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