Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his
@bowmanspartan.bsky.social
STL native, UM-St. Louis x Michigan State alum. (Full) Prof at Newhouse School (Syracuse U, USA) studying gaming + emerging media. Launch Editor, Global Perspectives of Communication (Oxford x ICA).
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It should be obvious to those without malintent, but views here represent my own as a unique human and not those of my employers.
When they talk about the Thin Blue Line, just remember that they don't really care about the Thin Blue Line.
They gleefully cheered as the Thin Blue Line was torn to shreds.
They gleefully cheered as the Thin Blue Line was torn to shreds.
The violent mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6 was not peaceful.
Stop lying to the American people.
Stop lying to the American people.
January 7, 2026 at 2:02 AM
When they talk about the Thin Blue Line, just remember that they don't really care about the Thin Blue Line.
They gleefully cheered as the Thin Blue Line was torn to shreds.
They gleefully cheered as the Thin Blue Line was torn to shreds.
Okay, y'all ... Let's get to work. Very eager to be part of three different #hicss presentations/publications, engaging media psychology in many different contexts - from social robots to love in video games. =)
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Okay, y'all ... Let's get to work. Very eager to be part of three different #hicss presentations/publications, engaging media psychology in many different contexts - from social robots to love in video games. =)
Things that I'll never do again in a rented Chevy Lumina? Oh y'know, drive on the edge of damned Creation with a gale wind reminding you that each inch forward is a steady progression towards your own demise.
Next time? Take the freakin' southern route. HI340 will eat your soul.
Next time? Take the freakin' southern route. HI340 will eat your soul.
January 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Things that I'll never do again in a rented Chevy Lumina? Oh y'know, drive on the edge of damned Creation with a gale wind reminding you that each inch forward is a steady progression towards your own demise.
Next time? Take the freakin' southern route. HI340 will eat your soul.
Next time? Take the freakin' southern route. HI340 will eat your soul.
This might be among my absolute best antique finds: an early 1980s-era physical Atari rom hack. I'm still doing some research on this one, but apparently it may have been built by an early stage Atari engineer as a side-project.
Found in Wailuki, HI.
Found in Wailuki, HI.
January 6, 2026 at 5:05 AM
This might be among my absolute best antique finds: an early 1980s-era physical Atari rom hack. I'm still doing some research on this one, but apparently it may have been built by an early stage Atari engineer as a side-project.
Found in Wailuki, HI.
Found in Wailuki, HI.
One of the absolute best examples of crap data is the assumption made by some arse somewhere that if I read one article about a thing, I truly and verily am now so interested in that thing that I'm flooded with news, ads, and notes about it for the rest of the week, month, and beyond.
January 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
One of the absolute best examples of crap data is the assumption made by some arse somewhere that if I read one article about a thing, I truly and verily am now so interested in that thing that I'm flooded with news, ads, and notes about it for the rest of the week, month, and beyond.
Damned blast to be part of this one. =)
Thanks to Kaushall Nathan Senthil, @bowmanspartan.bsky.social, @brenrooney.bsky.social, and @lennartnacke.com, my most favorite study is out <3
doi.org/10.1080/1044...
doi.org/10.1080/1044...
doi.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Damned blast to be part of this one. =)
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This is not making America healthy again. This is sheer lunacy.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is not making America healthy again. This is sheer lunacy.
Just a small handful of the people who keep @gpccomm.bsky.social running. =)
We're still building our Starter Pack for @gpccomm.bsky.social but here's a sampling of those folks on our board and part of our journal. =)
December 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just a small handful of the people who keep @gpccomm.bsky.social running. =)
I've read more and more claims that "AI has made the PhD redundant/outdated/worthless" and something dawns on me - it's a profound misunderstanding of what a Doctorate is.
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I've read more and more claims that "AI has made the PhD redundant/outdated/worthless" and something dawns on me - it's a profound misunderstanding of what a Doctorate is.
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In 2025 the United States ranked 57 world wide on press freedom. That is a pretty bad score. It was based on 2024 data, before Trump took office.
One can hardly imagine what the 2026 score and ranking will be like.
#pressfreedom
One can hardly imagine what the 2026 score and ranking will be like.
#pressfreedom
December 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In 2025 the United States ranked 57 world wide on press freedom. That is a pretty bad score. It was based on 2024 data, before Trump took office.
One can hardly imagine what the 2026 score and ranking will be like.
#pressfreedom
One can hardly imagine what the 2026 score and ranking will be like.
#pressfreedom
Media entertainment, circa 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Media entertainment, circa 2025.
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AI should be "useful, private and optional," contends DuckDuckGo founder @yegg13.bsky.social.
It's one reason @shiraovide.bsky.social declares the privacy-focused search engine "the best technology company of 2025" in her year-end column: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
It's one reason @shiraovide.bsky.social declares the privacy-focused search engine "the best technology company of 2025" in her year-end column: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Analysis | The best and worst technologies of 2025
Your Elon Musk-free guide to actually good things that happened in technology in 2025.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
AI should be "useful, private and optional," contends DuckDuckGo founder @yegg13.bsky.social.
It's one reason @shiraovide.bsky.social declares the privacy-focused search engine "the best technology company of 2025" in her year-end column: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
It's one reason @shiraovide.bsky.social declares the privacy-focused search engine "the best technology company of 2025" in her year-end column: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
In a few days - weather pending in Central New York, of course - a few of us are off to Maui to present our research findings at #HICSS59
Initial Validation of the Teleoperator-Avatar Robot Interaction Scale (TARX)
Extant work on human-machine relations indicates humans experience variably social relations with machines. However, there is yet no systematic framework for considering the potential sociality of rel...
scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
December 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In a few days - weather pending in Central New York, of course - a few of us are off to Maui to present our research findings at #HICSS59
And for sure (for those in the back), I'm an AI user - I'm even an "Emerging Tech Fellow" at my home Uni, on a year-long project to integrate AI into the advanced stats coursework.
What it's teaching me? The profound distinction between tool and replacement.
What it's teaching me? The profound distinction between tool and replacement.
Prediction: 2026 is going to be a year chock full of "AI mea culpas" as we start to come to terms with veracity being so much more important than volume.
I'm not a Luddite by any means, but the slop is real and it's not getting fixed by throwing money at it.
I'm not a Luddite by any means, but the slop is real and it's not getting fixed by throwing money at it.
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
And for sure (for those in the back), I'm an AI user - I'm even an "Emerging Tech Fellow" at my home Uni, on a year-long project to integrate AI into the advanced stats coursework.
What it's teaching me? The profound distinction between tool and replacement.
What it's teaching me? The profound distinction between tool and replacement.
Prediction: 2026 is going to be a year chock full of "AI mea culpas" as we start to come to terms with veracity being so much more important than volume.
I'm not a Luddite by any means, but the slop is real and it's not getting fixed by throwing money at it.
I'm not a Luddite by any means, but the slop is real and it's not getting fixed by throwing money at it.
December 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Prediction: 2026 is going to be a year chock full of "AI mea culpas" as we start to come to terms with veracity being so much more important than volume.
I'm not a Luddite by any means, but the slop is real and it's not getting fixed by throwing money at it.
I'm not a Luddite by any means, but the slop is real and it's not getting fixed by throwing money at it.
My first career and education was journalism, and we learned very, very, very early on something of a maxim: "no comment" is a comment.
Refusing to go on the record is going on the record.
This is basic stuff, folks. Its why reporters often note "[insert] did not reply to requests for comment."
Refusing to go on the record is going on the record.
This is basic stuff, folks. Its why reporters often note "[insert] did not reply to requests for comment."
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My first career and education was journalism, and we learned very, very, very early on something of a maxim: "no comment" is a comment.
Refusing to go on the record is going on the record.
This is basic stuff, folks. Its why reporters often note "[insert] did not reply to requests for comment."
Refusing to go on the record is going on the record.
This is basic stuff, folks. Its why reporters often note "[insert] did not reply to requests for comment."
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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In Hungary, Orban created a new model for authoritarians to gain control of the media without overt censorship.
He used regulatory and legal pressure to force media owners to sell their outlets to pro-regime allies.
In the US, Trump is using the same approach to consolidate media control.
He used regulatory and legal pressure to force media owners to sell their outlets to pro-regime allies.
In the US, Trump is using the same approach to consolidate media control.
During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi:
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
In Hungary, Orban created a new model for authoritarians to gain control of the media without overt censorship.
He used regulatory and legal pressure to force media owners to sell their outlets to pro-regime allies.
In the US, Trump is using the same approach to consolidate media control.
He used regulatory and legal pressure to force media owners to sell their outlets to pro-regime allies.
In the US, Trump is using the same approach to consolidate media control.
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Among its other stats for the year, C-SPAN found that retirements in the House are at an all-time high, with 33 lawmakers announcing their impending departures.
It also found that the number of public laws enacted by the House and by the Senate are at an all-time low.
It also found that the number of public laws enacted by the House and by the Senate are at an all-time low.
December 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Among its other stats for the year, C-SPAN found that retirements in the House are at an all-time high, with 33 lawmakers announcing their impending departures.
It also found that the number of public laws enacted by the House and by the Senate are at an all-time low.
It also found that the number of public laws enacted by the House and by the Senate are at an all-time low.
As we'll find out eventually, it was never, ever, ever about the lack of a quote. This was a hatchet job. There's no way that Weiss was waiting until the zero hour for "one last quote" to come in, y'all.
December 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
As we'll find out eventually, it was never, ever, ever about the lack of a quote. This was a hatchet job. There's no way that Weiss was waiting until the zero hour for "one last quote" to come in, y'all.
"The advantage to the government is avoiding the average cost of $17,121 to arrest, detain and remove immigrants, officials have said."
I can think of another way to avoid this cost.
I can think of another way to avoid this cost.
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"The advantage to the government is avoiding the average cost of $17,121 to arrest, detain and remove immigrants, officials have said."
I can think of another way to avoid this cost.
I can think of another way to avoid this cost.
So to be clear, *these* are the hallmarks of the next economic revolution? We've set a pretty low bar for ourselves, and our technology.
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
So to be clear, *these* are the hallmarks of the next economic revolution? We've set a pretty low bar for ourselves, and our technology.
Folks, he ain't wrong.
Maybe I'll get in trouble for saying this, but: If I saw as many bespoke, human-authored, moving/funny/insightful posts on here as I do irate ones about AI ending bespoke, moving/funny/insightful human authorship, it would be kind of neat.
December 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Folks, he ain't wrong.
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Maybe I'll get in trouble for saying this, but: If I saw as many bespoke, human-authored, moving/funny/insightful posts on here as I do irate ones about AI ending bespoke, moving/funny/insightful human authorship, it would be kind of neat.
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Maybe I'll get in trouble for saying this, but: If I saw as many bespoke, human-authored, moving/funny/insightful posts on here as I do irate ones about AI ending bespoke, moving/funny/insightful human authorship, it would be kind of neat.