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@jsnrchr.bsky.social

Scholar of technology, touch, media and communication Asst Prof @ MTU: https://shorturl.at/n11An Human Machine Culture: https://shorturl.at/Q6TTL https://jasonearcher.com/ Wandering/Wondering

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For an even deeper look at how private equity and hedge funds are destroying local news—and therefore American society—see my friend and colleague @margotsusca.bsky.social's book “Hedged”: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

25.07.2025 17:52 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Cornell University, Department of Communication Job #AJO30219, WDR-00053939 Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

We're hiring!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219

The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication!

Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

15.07.2025 17:21 — 👍 138    🔁 118    💬 1    📌 1
The study guide cover — white background, photo of a garage packed with tools, and the title

The study guide cover — white background, photo of a garage packed with tools, and the title

The Maintainers have released their “Maintainers Study Guide: A Guide to Ground Your Practice in Principles of Maintenance, Repair + Care” — a resource that “reflects nearly a decade of work” across The Maintainers’ conferences, fellowships, research networks, etc

themaintainers.org/study-guide/

10.07.2025 01:05 — 👍 116    🔁 47    💬 5    📌 2

Turns out when you invest in people not prisons, good things happen.

06.07.2025 21:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR ‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —

04.07.2025 01:38 — 👍 1276    🔁 572    💬 15    📌 16

Also: @jsnrchr.bsky.social !

02.07.2025 09:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Third Annual Conference: Sensing/Touching Virtuality (02.–04.07.2025) – Kunstmuseum Bochum, Kortumstraße 147 Blog

Cool conference with Zoom option — My colleague @jsnrchr.bsky.social will be discussing our thinking about haptic #holograms on Friday, July 4 at Sensing/Touching Virtuality @ Bochum, plus lots of intriguing sensory-studies stuff

27.06.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The plutocrats in the MAGA coalition want this because it redistributes even more wealth upwards towards them; for the MAGA ideologues, this is about entrenching hierarchies of race, gender, and wealth in service of what they call the “natural” order.

MAGA is at war with egalitarian democracy.

22.05.2025 12:26 — 👍 399    🔁 144    💬 14    📌 7

Oh my god - OH MY GOD! - this is a beautiful and necessary comic

16.05.2025 17:29 — 👍 128    🔁 54    💬 2    📌 1
What’s clear is that the GOP, AI executives, and Gulf State princes all have a common belief in AI—as a means of accumulating capital, undercutting labor, and concentrating power. And the terms of AI development and deployment are on the cusp of being set entirely by oligarchs, billionaires, and their allies in the ruling party. And those parties are intent removing any impediments—like the democratic process—from their pursuit of power and profit.

What’s clear is that the GOP, AI executives, and Gulf State princes all have a common belief in AI—as a means of accumulating capital, undercutting labor, and concentrating power. And the terms of AI development and deployment are on the cusp of being set entirely by oligarchs, billionaires, and their allies in the ruling party. And those parties are intent removing any impediments—like the democratic process—from their pursuit of power and profit.

I'm not sure how you read this paragraph from @bcmerchant.bsky.social today and reach the conclusion that AI/GenAI is something you should be welcoming into your teaching and asking students to embrace as ~the future of learning~ Read the post at: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/de-democra...

16.05.2025 13:36 — 👍 114    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 4

If you learn nothing else from the ongoing Grok AI "Kill the Boer" debacle, learn this: It is not a "calculator on steroids". It is an epistemic weapon designed to shape worldviews. If Gen AI is anything, it's the "culture industry on steroids".

15.05.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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