Dr. Christine H. Tran

Have you ever spoken with somebody who's never been let down by an Institution™️ before & it's like 😵😵😵😵?

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

The I abandoned my boy scene from There Will Be Blood.

Sidney Crosby rn:

Kent Brockman before a mugshot of the Queen: “The queen will be held without bail until the samples are returned.”

Kent Brockman before a mugshot of the Queen: “The queen will be held without bail until the samples are returned.”

Oh, yes, let's reduce staff at an already chronically underfunded and understaffed critical institution for federal research and accountability. That's definitely where wasteful spending is happening in the government apparatus.

How it sounds when someone says they can do a PhD in an afternoon with the power of AI

YouTube video by 404 Media What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI

Data labeling is notoriously brutal and underpaid work. Workers sometimes earn as little as a few dollars a day, work under algorithmic management, and, because they’re sometimes trying to train AI what not to do or show, they are often shown graphic, violent, or sexual content for hours at a time.

Finishing the slides for next week. Meet the girls:

Homer Simpson’s with his brain poking out the back of his skull.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (1x05)

Gwin Ashford from A Knight of the Seven Kingdom, which everyone just calls Dunk & Egg.

She just wanted a Tayloress Swyft friendship bracelet weaving hangout for her birthday & her dad turned it into a province-bankrupting, three-person casualty networking event for his work colleagues.

Finishing the slides for next week. Meet the girls:

the computer storage freak has logged on

Critical Studies in Media Communication Games & Storage. Volume 42, Issue 5 of Critical Studies in Media Communication

💾The Games & Storage special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication is officially out!

📚Thanks to editors @nickttaylor.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, and Robyn Hope for putting this together.

📡Be sure to check out my article on Satellaview restoration, 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴!

Cute videos, but little evidence: Police say Amazon Ring isn't much of a crime fighter Hundreds of police departments have signed agreements with Ring to gain access to footage filmed on home surveillance cameras

From 2020, but @cfarivar.bsky.social did a great piece on the lack of evidence that these things cut down on crime. Note that this is what police said!

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

Anger is no longer working as a secondary emotion! There is only the incapacity of pain!! Oh noooooo

Trans people didn’t ask to get pulled into any of this | Xtra Magazine Charlie Kirk’s murder is the latest event in which trans people have suddenly, inexplicably, become main characters

And may I once again echo something I wrote back in September following the death of Charlie Kirk

"Nothing good will come of this ... We now have to live in fear that this violent incident will further galvanize the wrong people."

xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Headline: My Favorite Actress Is Not Human Tilly Norwood doesn't need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That's because she's Al. By Tyler Cowen 10.02.25 - Tyler Cowen Must Know

Still haunted by this:

Tilly Norwood the AI "actress."

Has anybody followed up on this "gamechanging" technology? After all those headlines? How many film & TV roles has she signed so far? Is it So Joever for women actors yet?

Tilly Norwood the AI "actress."

Has anybody followed up on this "gamechanging" technology? After all those headlines? How many film & TV roles has she signed so far? Is it So Joever for women actors yet?

Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan amid ongoing financial struggles The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the beleaguered Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its services ru...

The Liberals clearly want Canada Post to shrivel so private corps can take its place, that's why they won't replace the CEO who's overseen its nosedive over the last 7 years.

But they can't actually let it die, so instead they have to keep doing this.

It's a great system for losing public money.

Dr Janega's original post quoted the statement that Keir Starmer is in a 'dark place' over his decision to appoint Epstein buddie Peter Mandelson, with a use of the "I know writers who use subtlety and they're all cowards" meme, originally taken from Garth Marengi's Dark Place, directly below, courtesy of a timeline-based coincidence

Keir Starmer's Dark Place

The Uluburun shipwreck is one of the most fascinating archaeological finds of the Late Bronze Age world. But how was it made, who built it, and how long did it take? My paper represents a (tentative) step forward in answering these questions.

doi.org/10.71160/OWC...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

re: the "AI will level the playing field between those with talent and those without it" argument

having been in creative spaces for a hot minute "talent" is just a word for ppl who got through their 'i need to push through sucking at this' phase in their teens by people going through it later

First Monday @ 30 | First Monday

I am heartbroken to see that the journal First Monday is shutting down. I'm all the more grateful I got to check one off the bucket list and publish there last year. But it will be missed.

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Every reactionary movement is an effort to hallucinate Vivian “GamerGate” James back into being. But she’ll never happen again. There’s no level of compute that can alchemize this level psychic damage from the proto-egirl troll mascot eve again.