James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
human scholar with phd (digital archives) • www.jameshodges.net
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Pinned
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Oct 9
🌊 New article out now in Social Studies of Science
🌊 How do common web development frameworks shape our experience of coastal pollution?
🌊 Two case studies from NYC's beaches
Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
🌊 How do common web development frameworks shape our experience of coastal pollution?
🌊 Two case studies from NYC's beaches
Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
New blog post! Not going to link it. Just wanted to let you know that it exists
I love seeing people go hysterical over our new mayor from 5,000 miles away. Just another 4 years of this, I’m sure it will be great 👍🏻
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Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 12d
i treat blue denim as blue too 😅
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 14d
19-Year-Old Rutgers Student Dies After Passing Out at DKE Fraternity House - New Brunswick Today | New Brunswick, NJ Local News
UPDATE (11:21 am): This article has been updated to include statements issued by the Rutgers President and the DKE International Fraternity. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ--A 19-year-old Rutgers sophomore died i...
newbrunswicktoday.com
I'm getting flashbacks to when a different RU frat KILLED someone by spiking her drink in 2015.
Is this what Greek life is like everywhere, or is it just a Rutgers thing? newbrunswicktoday.com/2014/09/19-y...
Is this what Greek life is like everywhere, or is it just a Rutgers thing? newbrunswicktoday.com/2014/09/19-y...
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 14d
Rutgers frat shuttered after hazing incident involving electric wires, water
The Rutgers chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi has been permanently shut down after a hazing incident critically injured a 19-year-old student earlier this month.
www.nydailynews.com
My alma mater is in the news! But not for good reasons.
Seems like bad wiring in a decrepit frat house got someone ELECTROCUTED while tied to a metal chair for hazing. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/25/r...
Seems like bad wiring in a decrepit frat house got someone ELECTROCUTED while tied to a metal chair for hazing. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/25/r...
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 17d
Most people don't know this, but Eddington is actually a prequel to Wall-E
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Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
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James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 26d
occupied
YouTube video by sabotageonline
youtu.be
I've aways found this LOVE Park clip fascinating, from a time when it was mostly off-limits for skateboarding. When an Occupy encampment went up, skaters seized the opportunity.
Nicely articulates the sport's apolitical individualist anti-authoritarianism. So very American youtu.be/luusm0mGkMg?...
Nicely articulates the sport's apolitical individualist anti-authoritarianism. So very American youtu.be/luusm0mGkMg?...
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 26d
002: Built Environment Inertia
Why skate parks are the way they are.
davidcaddo.substack.com
Most city councils don't understand this. Popular images of a "skatepark" usually involve pools & half-pipes, which take a lot of room & money to build, but are way less popular w/ users than curbs and ledges
Former pro Dave Caddo covers this nicely davidcaddo.substack.com/p/built-envi...
Former pro Dave Caddo covers this nicely davidcaddo.substack.com/p/built-envi...
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 26d
"many of the most enticing spots, to me anyway, were nothing more than simple granite benches, about 14 inches tall, placed in areas with nice smooth ground and ample space...It takes a skateboarder to know that you don’t need a big, expensive park to make skaters happy."
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 26d
The Ultimate Pilgrimage for the Middle-Aged Skateboarder
www.nytimes.com
Scene report from Malmo following "reconstruction of one of the most iconic spots in skateboarding history, imported, piece by piece, from Philadelphia"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/m...
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· 27d
FUN FACT: Bladee's hit song "Missing Person," from the "Eversince" album, is actually about about Thomas Pynchon
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Oct 10
*management voice*
Remember the labor market after Covid? Workers suddenly had more bargaining power. AI fixes that
Remember the labor market after Covid? Workers suddenly had more bargaining power. AI fixes that
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Oct 9
"Much as liquids assume the shape of their containers, so too does knowledge assume the shape of the practices, objects, and systems within which it is embodied and transmitted"
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Oct 7
Adjacent and sometimes overlapping with the Pizza Belt (New Jersey to Connecticut)
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Oct 3
I heard that in Park Slope your dog needs to be at least 40% poodle or it will get repossessed
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Sep 30
Anyone submitting garbage like that for publication should be banished
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As @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social president of @californialabor.bsky.social says, now that #AB288 is law, "California workers will no longer be forced to rely on a failing federal agency when they join together to unionize." This is a LANDMARK WIN!
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Sep 30
i'm still boycotting disney. it's got nothing to do with jinmmy kimmel i just dont like them
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Sep 30
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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This is why it pays to have a union. You want someone with infrastructure to fight on your behalf.
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
www.courtlistener.com
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Sep 30
Update: I’ve placed a new entry in the “embarrassing” tier (but he does at least have the right footwear)
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Sep 26
I have been taking surfing lessons. Still in the beginner kook trenches, but celebrating my last time on a foam board 😎
Graduating to a hard top next session.
It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽♀️
Graduating to a hard top next session.
It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽♀️
Adding AOC to my "Politician Action Sport Ranking Index"
Current standings:
1. Tulsi surfing (sorry but she seems pretty good)
2. John Kerry snowboarding (also pretty good but an easier sport)
3. Obama body surfing
4. AOC surfing
Embarrassment tier: JD Vance skiing & Beto O'Rourke skateboarding
Current standings:
1. Tulsi surfing (sorry but she seems pretty good)
2. John Kerry snowboarding (also pretty good but an easier sport)
3. Obama body surfing
4. AOC surfing
Embarrassment tier: JD Vance skiing & Beto O'Rourke skateboarding
James Hodges
@jameshodges.net
· Sep 26
“Return to office” is mostly about commercial real estate, right?
If that’s the case, I’m calling it now: once values get high enough, the ownership class will sell their buildings, go back to remote, and pat themselves on the back for being business geniuses
If that’s the case, I’m calling it now: once values get high enough, the ownership class will sell their buildings, go back to remote, and pat themselves on the back for being business geniuses
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@aoc.bsky.social
· Sep 26
I have been taking surfing lessons. Still in the beginner kook trenches, but celebrating my last time on a foam board 😎
Graduating to a hard top next session.
It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽♀️
Graduating to a hard top next session.
It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽♀️
Reposted by James A. Hodges
Dave Parisi
@daveparisi.bsky.social
· Sep 24
The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media
This second edition of the groundbreaking Routledge Companion to Mobile Media brings together newly commissioned essays and cutting-edge research alongside updated essays from the original volume to c...
www.routledge.com
New edition of the Routledge Companion to Mobile Media is out, skillfully edited by @micronarrative.bsky.social & Gerard Goggin. A lot of uni libraries have the individual chapters available to download, super useful for mixing and matching @ syllabus time.
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...