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
Getting into sports not for the love of the game but for the sweet mix of betting scam dramas and platform political economy
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Getting into sports not for the love of the game but for the sweet mix of betting scam dramas and platform political economy
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No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football
No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football
How long does it take before incompetence turns to malice? Asking for a friend
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
How long does it take before incompetence turns to malice? Asking for a friend
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
magnifique
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
magnifique
Chutzpah
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Chutzpah
It's like these experiments treat AI agents as unmediated subjects, instead of media objects? This seems both mistaken and needlessly complicated
I can’t be the only one who just straight up isn’t interested in incorporating anything we learn from synthetic “social” science experiments conducted on LLM facsimiles of human text because I simply don’t think the epistemology of it has any bearing on the world, regardless of any similarity
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It's like these experiments treat AI agents as unmediated subjects, instead of media objects? This seems both mistaken and needlessly complicated
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rosalia - lux
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
rosalia - lux
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Scientists failed to reckon that once we discover the gay gene, we'll turn it ON in everyone. Then we'll finally have our random sample
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Scientists failed to reckon that once we discover the gay gene, we'll turn it ON in everyone. Then we'll finally have our random sample
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Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
Scientists failed to reckon that once we discover the gay gene, we'll turn it ON in everyone. Then we'll finally have our random sample
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Scientists failed to reckon that once we discover the gay gene, we'll turn it ON in everyone. Then we'll finally have our random sample
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Grad students: My colleagues and I have organized an interdisciplinary conference! Come join us at Mcgill University in Montréal!
Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Grad students: My colleagues and I have organized an interdisciplinary conference! Come join us at Mcgill University in Montréal!
Chat has declared Shakira law
Piker talking about how Islamophobia has brought the campaign to him. Mahmoud Khalil then walks into frame. They’re playing Kendrick
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Chat has declared Shakira law
Watching Hasan Piker livestream Mamdani’s victory party and the energy seems electric. Chat losing it
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Watching Hasan Piker livestream Mamdani’s victory party and the energy seems electric. Chat losing it
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Interested in resources to help students learn what "counts" as an argument when interpreting a text. Because they're accustomed to more empirical modes of argument, they struggle with the difference between "interpret" and "just say your opinion." Any resources that outline this in a helpful way?
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Interested in resources to help students learn what "counts" as an argument when interpreting a text. Because they're accustomed to more empirical modes of argument, they struggle with the difference between "interpret" and "just say your opinion." Any resources that outline this in a helpful way?
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Making notes and taking film/tv recs for a heist cinema class
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Making notes and taking film/tv recs for a heist cinema class
Making notes and taking film/tv recs for a heist cinema class
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Making notes and taking film/tv recs for a heist cinema class
One of my early core political memories is when Dick Cheney received an apology for shooting someone else in the face
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One of my early core political memories is when Dick Cheney received an apology for shooting someone else in the face
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We all get to have an opinion about public technology
If you want me to accept that LLMs are a general use technology — an unavoidable one at that — you will have to give up your expertise domain when people talk about it colloquially.
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We all get to have an opinion about public technology
Someone else, a school or job or boss, signs the terms of service on our behalf
More to the point, we don’t get a lot of choice (in how it is being inflicted on society)
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Someone else, a school or job or boss, signs the terms of service on our behalf
We all get to have an opinion about public technology
If you want me to accept that LLMs are a general use technology — an unavoidable one at that — you will have to give up your expertise domain when people talk about it colloquially.
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We all get to have an opinion about public technology
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yes, many people on Bluesky do respond incredibly aggressively to any non-negative mention of AI.
if that upsets you, while I get it, there are people responsible for *why* so many Bluesky users are utterly enraged at AI, and they are not in fact those Bluesky users.
if that upsets you, while I get it, there are people responsible for *why* so many Bluesky users are utterly enraged at AI, and they are not in fact those Bluesky users.
November 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
yes, many people on Bluesky do respond incredibly aggressively to any non-negative mention of AI.
if that upsets you, while I get it, there are people responsible for *why* so many Bluesky users are utterly enraged at AI, and they are not in fact those Bluesky users.
if that upsets you, while I get it, there are people responsible for *why* so many Bluesky users are utterly enraged at AI, and they are not in fact those Bluesky users.
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“In their eagerness to dampen down the empathy that might restrain it, aspirational capitalists attest to the tenacity of that capacity, too…’Mr Clinton', Kissinger once famously (and rather unfairly) muttered into a cocktail, 'does not have the strength of character to be a war criminal.’ “
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“In their eagerness to dampen down the empathy that might restrain it, aspirational capitalists attest to the tenacity of that capacity, too…’Mr Clinton', Kissinger once famously (and rather unfairly) muttered into a cocktail, 'does not have the strength of character to be a war criminal.’ “
Every new detail is just *chef's kiss* parfait
November 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Every new detail is just *chef's kiss* parfait