Aram Sinnreich
@aramsinn.bsky.social
📚 Nonfiction Author
📚 SFF Author (.5 of R.A. Sinn)
🎓 Media Prof at AU in DC
💿 Bassist/Producer/Composer
(jazz, reggae, worldbeat)
sinnreich.com
tinyurl.com/tslodata
tinyurl.com/ASCFYbook
linktree.com/wassako
📚 SFF Author (.5 of R.A. Sinn)
🎓 Media Prof at AU in DC
💿 Bassist/Producer/Composer
(jazz, reggae, worldbeat)
sinnreich.com
tinyurl.com/tslodata
tinyurl.com/ASCFYbook
linktree.com/wassako
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Aram Sinnreich
@aramsinn.bsky.social
· Sep 11
2025 Nancy Baym Book Award |
aoir.org
Some personal news: @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I just won the Nancy Baym Book Award, granted annually by The Association of Internet Researchers (@aoir.bsky.social), for our @mitpress.bsky.social book The Secret Life of Data. I am honored, chuffed, and oh so grateful.
aoir.org/2025nb_booka...
aoir.org/2025nb_booka...
I already canceled my subscription when they capitulated to Trump to gain regulatory approval to get bought by horrible Ellison. I'll just pay Apple for the next season of Star Trek or something.
Paramount Plus is getting a price hike in early 2026
Paramount Plus is getting a price hike in early 2026
Brace for another streaming price increase.
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I already canceled my subscription when they capitulated to Trump to gain regulatory approval to get bought by horrible Ellison. I'll just pay Apple for the next season of Star Trek or something.
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]
Tired: Bay Area dorks taking the wrong lesson from J.R.R. Tolkein
Wired: Bay Area dorks taking the wrong lesson from Philip Pullman
Wired: Bay Area dorks taking the wrong lesson from Philip Pullman
Bay Area 'public treasure' has been destroyed in an overnight theft
Volunteers were heartbroken and "quite discouraged."
www.sfgate.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Tired: Bay Area dorks taking the wrong lesson from J.R.R. Tolkein
Wired: Bay Area dorks taking the wrong lesson from Philip Pullman
Wired: Bay Area dorks taking the wrong lesson from Philip Pullman
Your good news of the day
Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Your good news of the day
Brooklyn, I'm home.
See y'all in a few hours.
See y'all in a few hours.
Sunday in Brooklyn! I'll be joining @jesgilbert.bsky.social & DJ SPooky at Pioneer Works in Red Hook to talk about our book and play bass while Spooky spins beats and Jesse provides visual projections. Check us out.
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Brooklyn, I'm home.
See y'all in a few hours.
See y'all in a few hours.
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I wrote a whole book on tshirts like this. Did not expect to see one for sale at Walmart. You can report it (as I have) by scrolling down on the item’s page and reporting it for offensive or prohibited content.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I wrote a whole book on tshirts like this. Did not expect to see one for sale at Walmart. You can report it (as I have) by scrolling down on the item’s page and reporting it for offensive or prohibited content.
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I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources
Hell yeah
Developing a fall back option of camping on Senator Foghorn Leghorn's front lawn when I get foreclosed on, I am a constituent after all
Developing a fall back option of camping on Senator Foghorn Leghorn's front lawn when I get foreclosed on, I am a constituent after all
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources
"In the production and reproduction of affects, in those networks of culture and communication, collective subjectivities are produced and sociality is produced—even if those subjectivities and that sociality are directly exploitable by capital."
- Michael Hardt,
"Affective Labor"
- Michael Hardt,
"Affective Labor"
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"In the production and reproduction of affects, in those networks of culture and communication, collective subjectivities are produced and sociality is produced—even if those subjectivities and that sociality are directly exploitable by capital."
- Michael Hardt,
"Affective Labor"
- Michael Hardt,
"Affective Labor"
All this pain and suffering because a loose affiliation of religious crazies, Nazi freaks, and wealthy creeps want to prevent an 80 year old sociopathic con artist from facing public retribution for raping some kids
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
All this pain and suffering because a loose affiliation of religious crazies, Nazi freaks, and wealthy creeps want to prevent an 80 year old sociopathic con artist from facing public retribution for raping some kids
Tolkien is turning in his grave
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Tolkien is turning in his grave
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November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Wow, this did not disappoint. The sheer brainpower on display was dazzling.
Really looking forward to speaking at this Silicon Flatiron event "AI and the Future of Copyright Politics” on Friday, with a bunch of my scholarly heroes including @mrose.ink @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social @annemariebridy.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social @cfiesler.bsky.social 🤖©️🎓🏔️
AI and the Future of Copyright Politics | Silicon Flatirons
siliconflatirons.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Wow, this did not disappoint. The sheer brainpower on display was dazzling.
This new #openAccess book looks interesting:
Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies by Rodney H. Jones
#commsky
Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies by Rodney H. Jones
#commsky
Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies | Literacies of Repai
Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies questions whether the current theoretical frameworks and pedagogical practices around digital literacies are
www.taylorfrancis.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This new #openAccess book looks interesting:
Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies by Rodney H. Jones
#commsky
Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies by Rodney H. Jones
#commsky
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2 in 3 Americans are “one paycheck away from homelessness”
And in Utah they’re building a concentration camp for unhoused people
Modeled after Alligator Auschwitz and serving as a test case for the criminalization and disappearance of poverty
Caused by the very same government that ended SNAP.
And in Utah they’re building a concentration camp for unhoused people
Modeled after Alligator Auschwitz and serving as a test case for the criminalization and disappearance of poverty
Caused by the very same government that ended SNAP.
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
2 in 3 Americans are “one paycheck away from homelessness”
And in Utah they’re building a concentration camp for unhoused people
Modeled after Alligator Auschwitz and serving as a test case for the criminalization and disappearance of poverty
Caused by the very same government that ended SNAP.
And in Utah they’re building a concentration camp for unhoused people
Modeled after Alligator Auschwitz and serving as a test case for the criminalization and disappearance of poverty
Caused by the very same government that ended SNAP.
Reposted by Aram Sinnreich
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Obscenity
Musk gets his $1 trillion compensation package approved by Tesla shareholders.
Shareholders in the room chant "Elon, Elon, Elon!"
Shareholders in the room chant "Elon, Elon, Elon!"
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Obscenity
Today is a great day to support artists by buying our music on @bandcamp.com.
Here’s where you can find a lot of my work:
duniaandaram.bandcamp.com
Here’s where you can find a lot of my work:
duniaandaram.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Today is a great day to support artists by buying our music on @bandcamp.com.
Here’s where you can find a lot of my work:
duniaandaram.bandcamp.com
Here’s where you can find a lot of my work:
duniaandaram.bandcamp.com
If we’re outsourcing racism to robots can we please deskill all the racists
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If we’re outsourcing racism to robots can we please deskill all the racists
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The scope of Big Tech’s surveillance, and its harms, is kept secret. That’s why I appreciate “The Secret Life of Data” by @aramsinn.bsky.social & @jesgilbert.bsky.social - and why in my own work I’m trying to raise awareness.
New from me – What data does in secret:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
New from me – What data does in secret:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
What data does in secret
Lee Schmidt was creeped out. A retired Navy veteran living in Norfolk, Virginia, Schmidt was unhappy that 176 license plate readers had been installed...
buttondown.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The scope of Big Tech’s surveillance, and its harms, is kept secret. That’s why I appreciate “The Secret Life of Data” by @aramsinn.bsky.social & @jesgilbert.bsky.social - and why in my own work I’m trying to raise awareness.
New from me – What data does in secret:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
New from me – What data does in secret:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
The only way to stop a bad guy with a sandwich is a good guy with a sandwich
You can pull this sandwich from my cold, dead hand.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The only way to stop a bad guy with a sandwich is a good guy with a sandwich
Selfie in the Lyft en route to the selfsame conference
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Selfie in the Lyft en route to the selfsame conference
Too little too late
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Too little too late
Cannot wait to meet with the Stanford folks to discuss “The Secret Life of Data"
Join us on Tuesday, November 11 for a seminar with @aramsinn.bsky.social, co-author of "The Secret Life of Data," to explore the unpredictable and often surprising ways in which data surveillance, #AI, and algorithms impact our culture and society.
🎟️ RSVP: stanford.io/3X6b8hM
🎟️ RSVP: stanford.io/3X6b8hM
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Cannot wait to meet with the Stanford folks to discuss “The Secret Life of Data"
Really looking forward to speaking at this Silicon Flatiron event "AI and the Future of Copyright Politics” on Friday, with a bunch of my scholarly heroes including @mrose.ink @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social @annemariebridy.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social @cfiesler.bsky.social 🤖©️🎓🏔️
AI and the Future of Copyright Politics | Silicon Flatirons
siliconflatirons.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Really looking forward to speaking at this Silicon Flatiron event "AI and the Future of Copyright Politics” on Friday, with a bunch of my scholarly heroes including @mrose.ink @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social @annemariebridy.bsky.social @sarahjeong.bsky.social @cfiesler.bsky.social 🤖©️🎓🏔️