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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 1h

I am not saying I am looking for a new job or anything like that (ahem). I just decided on a Friday to invest about 5 hours remaking it. That has nothing to do with promoting myself to other universities. Not at all. #academicsky #digitalsociology #cybercriminology #sociology roderickgraham.com

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Dr. Rod Graham

Associate Professor of Sociology

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 22h

A conversation that will happen in about 50 years or so. If not sooner.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A dream of mine is to start some type of center for platforming open source technologies. There's so many good products out there - including this one - that no one knows about. I use Graphene OS on an older Google pixel and it works beautifully.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Muncy to Betts to Rojas to Freeman. That's about a hundred and thirty years of baseball right there. Didn't realize how old the Dodgers lineup is.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The big question is *how* is there a Kike Hernandez?

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the best big game pitcher of his generation as the great Madison Bumgarner was in his. Truly outstanding, consistently so.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Okay so For All Mankind is now in my all time top 10 of television shows. An number 2 in science fiction behind the early 2000s Battlestar Galactica.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm a proud member of AAUP, and generally support the statements they make. Here...I don't know. Having some content come from an agreed upon corpus for gen ed courses makes sense. We want college grads to share common texts and understandings. The question is who chooses the common texts?

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm binge watching for All Mankind and by Season 4 it seems a lesson is "once you go to space you can never leave the place." Folks are either stranded because of a malfunction, exiled, bound by duty, forced to stay to save another, or inexplicably...want to go back. Like 10 times. For 50 years.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh! It's harebrained because hares are stupid and flighty.... Not hairbrained because a person with hair for brains is stupid and flighty.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happens every time. "Man this is a great actor. He must be from Baton Rouge or something with that accent and mannerisms." I go to Wikipedia. "What...he's from Staffordshire UK? Set to play King Arthur next year?" I mean I get that they are actors but wow so impressive.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Its not quite what everyone is saying about this, but I am always impressed at how this man can never just communicate on his own merits. And oh yeah, this seems corrupt, illegal...and unfortunately likely to be effective knowing the type of person who voted for him in the past.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes I know jumping the gun. But it is entirely possible that the White Sox could beat the Guardians, and then a Rays team that gets by a Judgeless Yankees team. Then I want them to loose to the Dodgers in 6. That would make my Fall semester.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2026

Hey Siri, how do I limit AI data access? In the latest EFFector newsletter and podcast, we're talking about the privacy complications of AI phone features like Apple's new Siri AI: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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📱 Hey Siri, How Do I Limit AI Data Access? | EFFector 38.17

With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to its familiar voice assistant, Siri. But how are AI tools like these handling our data? In our latest EFFector

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I want a lair. Maybe I can plot some things from there. People just don't have lairs anymore.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is what animates the Republican Party these days.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Joey Votto wore a polka dot suit on tonight's broadcast. Royal blue with white dots. Outstanding!

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just in general, I am so sick of these "look what you made me do" spousal abuse explanations for what MAGA reactionaries do. Even if you grant that people will react, people still choose their responses.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sonny Gray....especially the way he wears his hat...looks exactly like a guy whose name would be Sonny Gray.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hard to say Derek Jeter is underrated but he has 200 postseason hits - the most ever, and the next person has about 130? And he did this before the current playoff format.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can translate this into: If you don't see the world the way I see it, then you are partisan and committing treason.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If a professor creates an assignment with AI, students complete the assignment with AI, and then the professor grades it with AI... What is actually happening?

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Sandy @sanwil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think this was the first time I was present when an internet meme was born! I'm handing out bubblegum cigars!

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Nashoba Indivisible @nashobaindivisible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join the Hands Off Our Vote livestreamed event featuring Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro, and Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin on SUNDAY, October 4 at 7pm. Speakers will discuss the steps each of us can take to defend our democracy, protect the vote, and defend the midterms from Trump’s sabotage and…

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not winning the central division might work out better for the ChiSox. No reflection...just get out and play a team that is objectively equal or lesser to you in talent.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: OpenAI is scrapping the release of its next-generation AI model because it failed to meet safety standards, per WSJ

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's really hard for me to teach my classes the exact same way each semester. I don't know how others can do it so easily.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"The results of our survey are indeed disturbing. But they just serve to highlight the stakes of getting the next few years, indeed the next few election cycles, right." www.liberalcurrents.com/americans-ar...

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Americans Are Angry. The Democratic Base Is Furious.

We must channel our anger at current injustices into productive direct action.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wasn't he supposed to be a bad president? Finally, if that guy - with all his immorality and incompetence - would have been good at his job of being president, then whatever we thought about ability, merit, and doing things the right way would be thrown into question.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I am more capable of imagining someone pulling out a weapon called a 'phaser' and shooting an alien called a 'Klingon' than I can a world where everyone has their basic needs met..." rodgraham.substack.com/p/boldly-goi...

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Boldly Going Nowhere?

Why Star Trek Is Easier to Imagine Than a Four-Day Workweek

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The wheels are coming off yet Senate GOP can't quit Trump. A week of panic as well as paralysis. A THREAD.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw a headline saying AI will *increase* the value of the humanities. That makes sense. We may not need humans to learn established processes anymore (formulas, procedures, etc). Instead we can focus on what it means to be human. In this century we will need more poets than computer scientists.

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WIRED @wired.com · 26/09/2026

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Be as faithful to it as a scientist.” - From a letter Ernest Hemmingway wrote to Scott Fitzgerald when Fitzgerald doubted his own writing abilities.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MAGA supporter to Nazi party member on their death bed: I need to understand how you lived in the world after it was all over.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is how a human being looks when they are going to the playoffs.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I may recruit some well-worn sociological concepts to explain something... Conservatives treat bigotry like the violation of a folkway - not unlike wearing a black belt with brown shoes. Liberals treat it like the violation of a more - akin to theft or adultery.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

😆 I guess I just wanted spaghetti not the special thin version. It's like wanting a Coke and you have all these different Cokes but not a simple Coke.

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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I went into Aldi's today to get spaghetti. There was nothing labeled simply "spaghetti". But my sense is that *all* of this is..."spaghetti".

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