@davidarditi.bsky.social
Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Book Announcement:
I just published an OER textbook for Introduction to Popular Culture classes (or any other class that addresses popular culture) called "Keepin' Up with Popular Culture"
It is free, open-access. Please let me know what you think!
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Hunting dogs are something else. I thought my boxer was high energy until we adopted him
07.10.2025 21:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brittanys are ridiculous dogs. Mine (finally) caught a gecko, and was so proud to bring it to me πΆ
07.10.2025 21:39 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
It would have made more sense to put this in Fort Worth, where Texas' largest "stock exchange" was
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Book Announcement:
I just published an OER textbook for Introduction to Popular Culture classes (or any other class that addresses popular culture) called "Keepin' Up with Popular Culture"
It is free, open-access. Please let me know what you think!
uta.pressbooks.pub/keepinupwith...
"The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics."
-Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
Proud of this challah, it was off the chain
26.09.2025 13:21 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0So many great insights, just in the preface!
25.09.2025 15:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"What we set out to do was nothing less than to explain why humanity instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism"
- Horkheimer and Adorno 1947
Just put on new running shoes that make my feet feel better than barefoot
24.09.2025 22:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Giving myself a crash course on the American dream literature
Folks in this area come up with some great titles!
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22.09.2025 02:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My son is listening to "Bye, bye, Bye" on repeat. This is day 3 of it. I may need help
22.09.2025 00:58 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Bought a 1918 cylinder Edison Phonograph and records for $140!
12.07.2025 22:00 β π 22 π 1 π¬ 4 π 0Woke up to the shear joy of my son learning about the new Mario releases
I needed that
Why didn't I know about Archive.today until last week? Get the Archive Page extension and be done with paywalls!
12.09.2025 22:13 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Book files submitted!!!
π€it is on schedule to publish in February 2026
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Anyone 35-55 should know!
06.09.2025 19:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How old are your colleagues?
06.09.2025 19:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Today was 103, the hottest day of a mild summer in Arlington, Texas. But when it's hot in September, it feels brutal. I'm guessing it has to do with the position of the sun. But it is really awful
04.09.2025 22:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Been reading 18th Brumaire
01.09.2025 21:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I answered some questions about Jaws
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Even if they settle for 10% and lawyers take 50%, that would be like $7500 per case. I don't know if that is optimistic or not. I also don't know what distinctions they will make for books, articles, chapters, short stories, etc
28.08.2025 13:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Anthropic settled and they've said if they have to pay every author, it would effectively kill Generative AI!!!
28.08.2025 12:00 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Two kites lived in my tree all summer. Several days ago, I saw some hawks doing battle with them. Now 3 hawks live in my tree
18.08.2025 13:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Much better than my boxer who caught one and tried to play keep away. Brittany was actually stopping the boxer from getting it
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