Christopher Barrie

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 4h

Plot twist: it was a BMW

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4h

My kids, aged 10 and under, didn't get me anything for Christmas this year—which is totally fine, I don't need anything from them! But thinking they might enjoy wrapping up something for me, I gave them a small gift to give me. They lost it. Which I guess means they gave me -1 Christmas gifts.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4h

My kids, aged 10 and under, didn't get me anything for Christmas this year—which is totally fine, I don't need anything from them! But thinking they might enjoy wrapping up something for me, I gave them a small gift to give me. They lost it. Which I guess means they gave me -1 Christmas gifts.

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 3d

Cool idea! How fast do you want to fire the torpedo? Want me to set out an aggressive itinerary? I can also draft an email to the Chief of Naval Operations. Let me know.

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 4d

This my, year Christmas wish is to not have to review or read papers in the top journals of the discipline of sociology that promise code and data "upon request."

We are literally ten years behind on this. Why are editors not doing anything?

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 6d

So tiresome

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 8d

But the plaque is a tweet

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 8d

A literal shitting plaque with gold letters

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 8d

He made a shitting plaque

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 9d

@sophiaaknight.bsky.social could be of interest

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 9d

V interested. Our notion of what JRE content is like from ideological standpoint could well be artifact of curated headlines about notable utterances and guests... Actual content a lot more diverse

Melina Much @melinamuch.bsky.social · 9d

Is Joe Rogan really just a voice of the right? Our new @csmapnyu.org piece for @goodauth.bsky.social shows he’s just as much a space for the left and the center, too. A look inside today’s surprisingly complicated podcast information ecosystem. 🎙️

goodauthority.org/news/podcast...

Melina Much @melinamuch.bsky.social · 9d

Is Joe Rogan really just a voice of the right? Our new @csmapnyu.org piece for @goodauth.bsky.social shows he’s just as much a space for the left and the center, too. A look inside today’s surprisingly complicated podcast information ecosystem. 🎙️

goodauthority.org/news/podcast...

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 10d

Hold on to your openai credits, guys. George is coming for them

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 10d

Looking forward to launching the Rest is Social Science and for it to be the only one that doesn't top ten

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 10d

And the prize for best headline of 2025 goes to

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10d

The aim at first was simple: prevent murder on the seafloor.

But plans to use a deep-sea boom box to keep fish away from a coastal nuclear station have gone awry. DJing for marine life, it turns out, is a nightmare. on.wsj.com/4ahY40L

Britain Asked a Power Plant to Build a ‘Fish Disco.’ It’s Not Going Well.

Plans to use a deep-sea boom box to keep fish away from a coastal nuclear station have gone awry. DJing for marine life, it turns out, is a nightmare.

on.wsj.com

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10d

The aim at first was simple: prevent murder on the seafloor.

But plans to use a deep-sea boom box to keep fish away from a coastal nuclear station have gone awry. DJing for marine life, it turns out, is a nightmare. on.wsj.com/4ahY40L

Britain Asked a Power Plant to Build a ‘Fish Disco.’ It’s Not Going Well.

Plans to use a deep-sea boom box to keep fish away from a coastal nuclear station have gone awry. DJing for marine life, it turns out, is a nightmare.

on.wsj.com

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 11d

the days when this weird ritual--sending a card to someone you presumably last saw over 30 years ago--has become a thing of the past

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 11d

Every year when I go home to south London, I notice at my parents' house one or two Christmas cards addressed to 'The Honors'.

The Honors moved out in 1995 when we moved in.

When this happens, I feel a sort of pre-emptive nostalgia for...

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 16d

Hey am interested how this compares to chase sapphire?

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17d

Gonna be so many fingers clicking

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17d

In an unexpected turn of events, I will be on stage with Jennifer Egan and Rhett Miller talking about AI at the end of January

Please come if you're in NYC at the end of January!
publictheater.org/performances...

SongWriter: Jennifer Egan + Rhett Miller

A live recording of the SongWriter podcast featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, songwriter Rhett Miller (Old 97s), NYU's Dr. Chris Barrie and host Ben Arthur.

urldefense.proofpoint.com

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17d

ERCsome: A Longitudinal Study of Consolidator Acronyms and a Scottish Man's Reactions Thereto

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17d

This is high quality data journalism and also means you can scoff at your friend's sheeple Google suggestions and use this dashboard instead

Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 17d

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

open.substack.com

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17d

Hold my beer

Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 17d

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

open.substack.com

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17d

You can actually it's called sociology

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17d

Crazy to think

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17d

Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born

Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 19d

It would be cool if as a special service for next forever they actually employed people and made the subway not a literal failed state sorry for my Christmas spirit

Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 19d

My son was on the train platform and noticed this and decided to wait for the train

Festive subway sign reading “New York Transit Museum Holiday train”

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