Dan Rosen
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Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
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Dan Rosen
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· Mar 16
Went to the Whitney and they had a painting of my dissertation defense
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Asking gen AI to explain itself is like asking your toaster if your food is cooked through
January 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Asking gen AI to explain itself is like asking your toaster if your food is cooked through
Asking gen AI to explain itself is like asking your toaster if your food is cooked through
January 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Asking gen AI to explain itself is like asking your toaster if your food is cooked through
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A machine whose primary functions include real time responsibility laundering! AI speaks in the exonerate tense I guess
Ooh look, we’re seeing the “let’s attempt to deflect blame to the artificial construct that is The Demon Machine instead of the actual, breathing, fallible humans who made the Demon Machine” maneuver play out in real time!
AI cannot take accountability. AI cannot be “sorry.”
You have no control over the outputs of AI if you did not make it yourself, train it on very specific data sets, and create extremely rigorous control methods. Even then the safeguards are limited.
The creators must be held accountable
You have no control over the outputs of AI if you did not make it yourself, train it on very specific data sets, and create extremely rigorous control methods. Even then the safeguards are limited.
The creators must be held accountable
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM
A machine whose primary functions include real time responsibility laundering! AI speaks in the exonerate tense I guess
A machine whose primary functions include real time responsibility laundering! AI speaks in the exonerate tense I guess
Ooh look, we’re seeing the “let’s attempt to deflect blame to the artificial construct that is The Demon Machine instead of the actual, breathing, fallible humans who made the Demon Machine” maneuver play out in real time!
AI cannot take accountability. AI cannot be “sorry.”
You have no control over the outputs of AI if you did not make it yourself, train it on very specific data sets, and create extremely rigorous control methods. Even then the safeguards are limited.
The creators must be held accountable
You have no control over the outputs of AI if you did not make it yourself, train it on very specific data sets, and create extremely rigorous control methods. Even then the safeguards are limited.
The creators must be held accountable
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM
A machine whose primary functions include real time responsibility laundering! AI speaks in the exonerate tense I guess
Listening to @karenhao.bsky.social special episode on Empire of AI on @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2026/1/1/emp...
“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
In this holiday special, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI compan...
www.democracynow.org
January 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Listening to @karenhao.bsky.social special episode on Empire of AI on @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2026/1/1/emp...
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My sister: why is the contact photo of me on your phone so terrible?
Me: to keep you humble
Me: to keep you humble
January 1, 2026 at 3:58 AM
My sister: why is the contact photo of me on your phone so terrible?
Me: to keep you humble
Me: to keep you humble
My sister: why is the contact photo of me on your phone so terrible?
Me: to keep you humble
Me: to keep you humble
January 1, 2026 at 3:58 AM
My sister: why is the contact photo of me on your phone so terrible?
Me: to keep you humble
Me: to keep you humble
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“other disciplines make use of films and games without speaking their visual or procedural rhetorics…Would our colleagues in archaeology cringe at our use of agora and complain how it prolongs some longstanding myth within or about their field? Probably. Maybe now we are all even.”
August 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“other disciplines make use of films and games without speaking their visual or procedural rhetorics…Would our colleagues in archaeology cringe at our use of agora and complain how it prolongs some longstanding myth within or about their field? Probably. Maybe now we are all even.”
Resharing this year's publication. I will have some new original research to share in the new year!
My review of Mark R. Johnson's book Twitch is out in the Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports! 🕹️📸
A solid reference for a decade of livestreaming research. Read for my hot takes on the utility of scholarly metaphors and whether archaeologists are mad at media scholars
doi.org/10.1123/jege...
A solid reference for a decade of livestreaming research. Read for my hot takes on the utility of scholarly metaphors and whether archaeologists are mad at media scholars
doi.org/10.1123/jege...
doi.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Resharing this year's publication. I will have some new original research to share in the new year!
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Very convenient framework for laundering responsibility for someone implicated with a company facing a wrongful death lawsuit
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Very convenient framework for laundering responsibility for someone implicated with a company facing a wrongful death lawsuit
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You can dissociate while reading this for an added fee
December 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
You can dissociate while reading this for an added fee
“I can’t stand these decanting videos” - my sister, referring to restocking videos
December 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“I can’t stand these decanting videos” - my sister, referring to restocking videos
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Each Christmas, I remember one of the most vivid moments of my life: giving a choking woman the heimlich maneuver during a Christmas Day showing of Les Miserables (2012) as Anne Hathaway sang I Dreamed a Dream
December 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Each Christmas, I remember one of the most vivid moments of my life: giving a choking woman the heimlich maneuver during a Christmas Day showing of Les Miserables (2012) as Anne Hathaway sang I Dreamed a Dream
This year’s Christmas movie is Top Hat @filmforumnyc.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This year’s Christmas movie is Top Hat @filmforumnyc.bsky.social
My doppelgänger has branched out into film reviews and this is just too much
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My doppelgänger has branched out into film reviews and this is just too much
Omw to the movies
Each Christmas, I remember one of the most vivid moments of my life: giving a choking woman the heimlich maneuver during a Christmas Day showing of Les Miserables (2012) as Anne Hathaway sang I Dreamed a Dream
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Omw to the movies
Each Christmas, I remember one of the most vivid moments of my life: giving a choking woman the heimlich maneuver during a Christmas Day showing of Les Miserables (2012) as Anne Hathaway sang I Dreamed a Dream
December 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Each Christmas, I remember one of the most vivid moments of my life: giving a choking woman the heimlich maneuver during a Christmas Day showing of Les Miserables (2012) as Anne Hathaway sang I Dreamed a Dream
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Uncut Gems is a Passover movie.
December 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Uncut Gems is a Passover movie.
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The most hilarious way someone has tried to learn if I was Jewish is when a woman recently asked me if I was a "Chanukah guy"
December 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The most hilarious way someone has tried to learn if I was Jewish is when a woman recently asked me if I was a "Chanukah guy"
The most hilarious way someone has tried to learn if I was Jewish is when a woman recently asked me if I was a "Chanukah guy"
December 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The most hilarious way someone has tried to learn if I was Jewish is when a woman recently asked me if I was a "Chanukah guy"
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All we want are indexed searches, good print to PDF, & export to excel spreadsheets
AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs”
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
December 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
All we want are indexed searches, good print to PDF, & export to excel spreadsheets
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the holy trinity
All we want are indexed searches, good print to PDF, & export to excel spreadsheets
AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs”
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
the holy trinity
Actively trying to defuse the tension between 4 1st graders as they negotiate who sits next to the birthday girl
December 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Actively trying to defuse the tension between 4 1st graders as they negotiate who sits next to the birthday girl
Thinking lately about doing an old fashioned close reading
Doing a fair amount of musing about our jobs and I'm a bit baffled that all the current goings on just keep pushing me further and further into the archives
December 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking lately about doing an old fashioned close reading
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that was my main way of posting here 😞
December 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
that was my main way of posting here 😞