I was excited to learn from Alice that not only am I too a Grammarly expert, I am actually the one who coined the phrase “context collapse.” it’s funny because I thought that was danah and Alice, but turns out it was me all along! What a surprise!
Just saw someone use the phrase “this storm is a teacup” which is such an adorable way to mess up “tempest in a teapot” that it will now join my idiomatic repertoire.
Insta is sending me ads for houses for sale in New Zealand.
I hadn’t been considering this move, but, given all the horrors, maybe the algos are on to something.
I'm creating a series of short form videos about how language models work technically. The goal is to be something in between "you know it's next token prediction" and "now you've taken a machine learning class." I'd love your thoughts so here are the first few! 🧵
www.youtube.com/shorts/VZB8X...
This is a wild and sad story of a tiny town where no one can get along and as a result they’re about to run out of water. No one wants to help them and they don’t want help.
www.dailycamera.com/2026/03/08/h...
Thanks, Jill!
Introducing our 2026 interns @julienporquet.bsky.social and @spencerkaplan.bsky.social
Thank you everyone who applied.
socialmediacollective.org/2026/03/06/i...
Thank you, Dan.
An absolute banger of an article by @nancybaym.bsky.social out today in Social Media + Society. She astutely captures so much of what I've felt and observed about social media these days.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My brother and I remain deeply grateful to the U of I library for recognizing and honoring the value of our Mom’s work and giving her collection a worthy home.
I wrote a short reflection on the last decade of social media. Come for the use of “schmauthenticity,” stay for the delicate balance of hope and fury.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@stevenfrost.bsky.social gave me a tiny loom and some yarn and he didn’t even know it was my birthday ☺️ Amazing how many ways there are to do seemingly simple things badly! Happiness in the learning.
Did you know that there is a swiss AI called Apertus, nonprofit, developed and owned by public institutions, open source, GDPR compliant, available here?
publicai.co
Pleas save the date, Cambridge-Boston friends histsci.fas.harvard.edu/announcing-a...
huge +1
Static page to organize and make access to my publications easy, preferably easy for me to update myself. I have very outdated one, needs total refresh. Using Kirby.
Anyone got a good website maker to recommend? Human preferred.
Relatedly I did not start strength training until end of my 40s. It is never too late to get stronger.
My love language turns out to be my strength trainer telling me he’d put me against any woman my age and I’d “smoke them.”
Tough call when the latter uses the former
I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.
At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.
If ever there were a song that I wish would lose its relevance.
War! What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
m.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2...
If you have children, may you have the good fortune to get a child-in-law who says things like “We should all go to Costa Rica together and adore leaf cutter ants!”
the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status...
all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will
such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy
Appreciate that there is a small thing I can do to help our beloved trans siblings.
According to The Advertising Algorithms I am a man experiencing menopausal weight gain who suffers the kind of anxiety that would benefit from wearing weighted stuffed animals around the house and who should also become a meditation instructor.
Opportunities for funding and more from Microsoft's AI Economy Institute
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Posted an embroidery pic to an embroidery forum and someone said it’s like if Bob Ross did embroidery in a good way. Not sure whether to be pleased or mortified but I guess I’m no edgy artist.
My phone just autocorrected “wellbeing” to “well worn.” And there you have it.
