Aram Sinnreich

Making and eating chocolate chip cookies is a good way of coping with grief. Especially if you brown the butter. 🍪

@jqheywood Thanks, yes it’s fucking tragic.

Aram Sinnreich and Neil Perry in Dublin, enjoying some whiskey and good company

I will miss Neil terribly, as will the whole
@AU_MTD community. He left behind a wife and daughter, and a large network of dedicated friends, colleagues, and collaborators. The world is richer for his life, and poorer for his loss.

Neil was a vital team member on
@dunia's & my "Out of Our Shells” and "Out of Our Cells” projects, lending his expertise and brilliance to help amplify the voices of incarcerated & under-resourced musicians in the DC area.

https://archive.org/details/outofourshells

Prior to his time at AU, Neil was an audio engineer at the legendary Hit Factory in NYC, where he worked on Grammy-nominated records with artists like Prince, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, and Mariah Carey.

Neil was a brilliant scholar, a great musician, and a wonderful human being. He was nearly done with a fantastic doctoral dissertation on data privacy policy, and he and I were just getting started writing a book together for Polity Press. His academic future was bright.

Dunia Best, Aram Sinnreich, and Neil Perry standing in front of the Humanities truck on a sunny day

I am beyond devastated to share the news that Neil W. Perry, my
@AU_MTD PhD advisee and dear friend, died yesterday in a car accident.

Our institution hasn’t yet posted the news, but Methodist University, where he worked, has a nice memorial for him […]

[Original post on aoir.social]

Innocent people do not behave this way

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/republican-pressure-trump-epstein-files

As soon as he dies all the pedo stuff will finally come out and then the Ezra Kleins of the world will shake their heads and cluck "what's done is done, the important thing is that we move forward and heal as a nation," and it will be considered gauche to mention it ever again

I’m old enough to remember when the GOP hounded Bill Clinton out of office for having oral sex with a grown woman

Mike Fleming Jr: Peacock Folds On ‘Poker Face’ Season 3; Rian Johnson Wants 2-Season Deal With Peter Dinklage As Lie Detector Sleuth Charlie Cale EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has decided not to renew Poker Face for a third season. Natasha Lyonne exits as star, but series creator Rian Johnson, his T-Street partner Ram Bergman, MRC and Lyonne thinks there are many mysteries ahead for the show’s signature character to solve. Last night, they began an effort to shop the show to other broadcasters […]

Well, this sucks
https://deadline.com/2025/11/peacock-ends-poker-face-3-rian-johnson-shops-peter-dinklage-1236616464/

A Help Stop #ChatControl! Poster, the post includes a map of the EU member states and whether or not they are opposing, undecided or infavour of the legislation.

🚨 Attention EU Citizens 🚨

💬 Chat Control could mandate all services to scan all private digital communications of everyone residing in the European Union, and it's currently waiting to be green-lit by the EU Parliament tomorrow.

According to Dr […]

[Original post on mastodon.neat.computer]

“West End Girl” is Lily Allen’s “Here, My Dear” and I am HERE FOR IT

RE: https://mstdn.social/@heymarkreeves/115542945710378556

The fruits of telecom deregulation are rotten to the core

If/when that happens, I will be reaching out to #classAction attorneys to initiate a suit against Verizon. I’ll keep this thread up in case any other potential class actors have experienced the same scam.

8/8

I said this is so clearly fraudulent, there’s probably going to be a class action lawsuit over it.

The manager put me back on hold w/o asking me. I hung up.

I fully anticipate receiving “upgraded” tech from Verizon in the mail next week, and a new bill with a $60 price hike & a $25 "discount"

7/8

The manager told me it wasn’t fraudulent or false advertising because Verizon didn’t realize that I had the old technology that needed to be upgraded.

I said, that’s preposterous, because Verizon is the one that sent me the email “discount” offer & of course the company knows what tech I have

6/8

The manager got on. He tried to tell me why my account needed to be “upgraded” for my benefit.

I told him that it was fraudulent, and false advertising for Verizon to offer me a “discount” with “no strings attached” and then present me with this requirement to “upgrade” at a steep cost hike.

5/8

They told me the new account with the new digital TV box would cost SIXTY DOLLARS PER MONTH MORE than my current account costs me.

In order to get a $25/month discount for 12 months, "no strings attached."

I said absolutely positively under no circumstances may you change my account.

4/8

Ultimately, they told me there was an “error on my account” and they’d have to call me back.

They called me back.

The “error” is that I have an older account with an older digital TV box (I don’t ever watch live TV) and they can only offer me the discount if I upgrade my digital TV box

3/8

I called (it was the authentic Verizon number). A message said there would be a 4 hour wait to speak to a rep, but they could call me back two days later.

This morning they called back. I asked for the discount to be applied to my account. Then spent 20 minutes intermittently being on hold...

2/8

COMMERCIAL FRAUD ALERT

I got an email from VERIZON, which provides my internet service, saying they would take $25 off my monthly bill for a year, “no strings attached,” and all I had to do was call the Customer Service Rep.

1/8

RE: https://hci.social/@bwaber/115539961229980360

I gave a talk at @StanfordCyber on Tuesday about my book "The Secret Life of Data" (written with @jesse). Check it out here:

Devastated to discover that Daniel Craig's not Jewish

@aburka also true

Let a thousand OSINTs bloom

https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-flock-surveillance-images-are-public-records-that-can-be-requested-by-anyone/

I went out clubbing in Moscow with some gay Russians in 2011, and let me tell ya, the scene was amazing. It’s so depressing to think that Putin has driven it all underground and send people fleeing across the globe since then […]

Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth”

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/115537799518093712

I just want to recognize for a moment how amazing it is that this image can appear before us unbidden in the comfort of our own homes

Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds Democrats say that’s a nonstarter, arguing there are already limits on abortion access. The dispute could torpedo a deal, leading to higher health insurance premiums for millions.

Suckas

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-demand-tougher-abortion-restrictions-extend-obamacare-fund-rcna243206