Nick Seaver

It’s insane how much better it is live lol

YouTube video by From The Basement Geese - Getting Killed | From The Basement

the album version does not hold a candle to the live one, but there’s at least a pro live recording here: youtu.be/qIol9hig2G4

YouTube video by L Ron Jesus GEESE “Trinidad" @ The Brooklyn Paramount NY USA 11.21.2025

my god, this RIPS youtu.be/IY3UyDxH6zs

I read Drive Your Plow and loved it (though I haven't done any others yet!)

tricked by a wizard

do not read the Amazon summary!!

oh man, On the Calculation of Volume III is out, hold my calls

fogo de chão is a beautiful name for a girl

hi I’d like to order approximately 300 extremely charismatic socialists

Lmao this introduction absolutely slaps

I was just reading Claire Bishop's intro to Disordered Attention, and I really love it, but that's mostly because it does a really good job of surveying a field I'm working in, I think.

had a dream where I was at a conference and saw snoop dogg during the coffee break and thought “this is like the kind of thing that would happen in a dream” but obviously snoop and I knew each other so it was not

I will be stepping back from my public commitments but I will continue being around teenagers all the time

people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna

Karikari!

www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/lawr...

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

I don’t think people were sufficiently amazed by this

It sounds very obvious now that I know what it is but I did not recognize it even as a human voice before

YouTube video by Strictly Rhythm Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman - I Like To Move It (Official 4K Video)

were you aware that the thing that sounds like a siren in “I Like to Move It” is actually a sample of Sylvester from “You Make Me Feel”?? youtu.be/vuo8kD5zF5I?...

I really dislike the whole experience, top to bottom, but we have scale problems (also, I could not handle writing 80 of them!!!)

where is ebirah, horror of the deep

6. Do artifacts have polities? (a) Yes. (b) No. Explain your answer:

if I’m going to give multiple choice in intro to STS, might as well lean in to the absurdity

oh man, I think I saw them in... 2004, and it was great

is that wider-than-usual cross a thing (it was thiiiiis big)

This looks great!

Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management Language technologies such as voice user interfaces, large language models and machine translation tools are embedded in an ever-growing range of digi…

🔔new paper alert🔔
I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The cover of Lev Manovich’s THE LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA

lev manovich laser eyes

I love these games. (And I know this isn’t how the Video Game Mind works, but these labels could be treated the way sociologists treat musical genres, as more about communities of production and consumption than specific formal features, despite being ostensibly organized around formal features.)