Paula Harper
@pch9857.bsky.social
Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet
Assistant prof @ UChicago
She/her
Assistant prof @ UChicago
She/her
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dude lol
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
dude lol
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Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
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Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.
one of my fun new old man yellings at cloud is "click on websites! for the love of god CLICK ON WEBSITES!!!"
Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
one of my fun new old man yellings at cloud is "click on websites! for the love of god CLICK ON WEBSITES!!!"
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i haven't noticed the cloudflare outage because i've only been visiting morally pure websites today
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
i haven't noticed the cloudflare outage because i've only been visiting morally pure websites today
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As has been said, do not voluntarily hand your phone to the police. Or give them consent to just look at or formally consent to a search.
Starting Wednesday, Illinois residents can securely add their Illinois driver’s license or state ID to their Apple Wallet. Brenden Moore reports. https://loom.ly/E-n2fpo
Illinois licenses, IDs to enter digital realm
Article Summary Illinois residents can now add their driver’s licenses and IDs to Apple Wallet, with Google and Samsung wallet
capitolnewsillinois.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As has been said, do not voluntarily hand your phone to the police. Or give them consent to just look at or formally consent to a search.
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in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
AMS Accountability Archive
Grassroots membership response to a professional society in crisis
amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
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Unless they’ve relocated to the ninth circle of hell, it isn’t far enough.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security closed its command center Friday afternoon at Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/h...](www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/h...)
Immigration agents have reportedly left naval station: ‘A sigh of relief’
Gregory Jackson said he learned from an official at the naval base that DHS was leaving the building it has used as its command center since Sept. 5.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Unless they’ve relocated to the ninth circle of hell, it isn’t far enough.
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests
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Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
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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.
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welp, I asked
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
welp, I asked
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Ellis says she is "ordering complete relief to the plaintiffs."
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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libraries are closer to what the early internet was all about than what it is today. unsurprising, given the web's academic origins.
they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.
they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.
What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
libraries are closer to what the early internet was all about than what it is today. unsurprising, given the web's academic origins.
they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.
they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.
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Hell is not hot enough. If you’re not yet tapped into your local mutual aid or rapid response group, today is as good a day as any to plug in.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hell is not hot enough. If you’re not yet tapped into your local mutual aid or rapid response group, today is as good a day as any to plug in.
In my professional capacity I do need to point out that this is in fact by some of the ogs of this genre - schmoyoho/Gregory Brothers/AutoTune the News.
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In my professional capacity I do need to point out that this is in fact by some of the ogs of this genre - schmoyoho/Gregory Brothers/AutoTune the News.
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walking out to DHOOM MACHALE ♥️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...
Dhoom Machale Song | DHOOM, Esha Deol, John Abraham, Abhishek, Uday, Sunidhi Chauhan, Pritam, Sameer
YouTube video by YRF
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
walking out to DHOOM MACHALE ♥️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...
starting with a Eugene Debs shoutout, excellent.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
starting with a Eugene Debs shoutout, excellent.
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whoever is DJing at the Zohran HQ is crushing it. playing A Milli when it says he’s reached over a million votes? top tier! drop the election night playlist!
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
whoever is DJing at the Zohran HQ is crushing it. playing A Milli when it says he’s reached over a million votes? top tier! drop the election night playlist!
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The GOP has governed like elections don't matter, taking unpopular stand after unpopular stand. Captured by their far right base or led by far right assholes or both, they have moved so far from the center of the political system that they really suck at elections.
this is genuinely wild
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The GOP has governed like elections don't matter, taking unpopular stand after unpopular stand. Captured by their far right base or led by far right assholes or both, they have moved so far from the center of the political system that they really suck at elections.
you truly love to see it.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
you truly love to see it.