Nik John

And it’s raining

And Bluesky wants to make sure I’m an adult

In England, the GPS says please

Today I shall mostly be migrating

The even is free, but please sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/centre-for-digital-humanities-cultures-and-media-inaugural-lecture-tickets-1547361653359

Invitation to a public lecture titled "You've got a friend, until they block you: The management of personal ties in the digital age"

I'll be giving a talk titled "You've got a friend, until they block you: The management of personal ties in the digital age" hosted by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media, The University of Manchester, on 25/9/25 at 3pm. If you're in the area, please come!

Brilliant!

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!

journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

Add me please!

Your university will let you not use Canvas? (I’m about to join a university that is switching to Canvas right now.)

Last one?

Check out Ezra Klein’s podcast on this

Oh wow can't wait to read this!

Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards - Blake Hallinan, CJ Reynolds, Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief, Yehonatan Kuperberg, 2025 Platform governance is simultaneously a matter of public concern and a professional calling for Trust and Safety, the nascent field tasked with setting and enfo...

How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Somewhat late to the party, but I'm reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett and *loving* it. Half way through...

How to Disable Siri: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, AirPods Deactivate Siri on all your Apple devices If you're tired of Siri listening in or responding to your voice, you can easily turn the feature off. This process can be done on all Apple devices that are ...

I think you can!
www.wikihow.com/Disable-Siri....
services.pitt.edu/TDClient/33/...

then turn them off?

הכוונה כמובן לנאומים בהפגנות

עכשיו זה ״אנחנו ננצח כי אנחנו חייבים לנצח״. עוד טיעון בלתי ניתן להפרכה.

You can rationalize it however you want but staying on twitter is a terrible choice. It is not the “town square.” It is the world’s disease-ridden dump. You don’t need to be there to think critically or write relevantly or stay abreast of current events.

Having been lucky enough to get a sneak preview I'm looking forward to that too

The best time to quit X was two years ago, the second best time is now...

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