joel
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
Re. the new Rosalia LP:
People are debating whether there’s a hidden Frank Ocean feat, but they can’t decide if it’s … actually Frank or a soundalike...
How is this … the most Frank situation imaginable? lol
People are debating whether there’s a hidden Frank Ocean feat, but they can’t decide if it’s … actually Frank or a soundalike...
How is this … the most Frank situation imaginable? lol
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Re. the new Rosalia LP:
People are debating whether there’s a hidden Frank Ocean feat, but they can’t decide if it’s … actually Frank or a soundalike...
How is this … the most Frank situation imaginable? lol
People are debating whether there’s a hidden Frank Ocean feat, but they can’t decide if it’s … actually Frank or a soundalike...
How is this … the most Frank situation imaginable? lol
New season of "Shell Game" (www.shellgame.co) debuting next week!
Looks like he's gonna be tackling "agentic" AI within the start-up space.
Can't wait, to be honest.
Looks like he's gonna be tackling "agentic" AI within the start-up space.
Can't wait, to be honest.
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New season of "Shell Game" (www.shellgame.co) debuting next week!
Looks like he's gonna be tackling "agentic" AI within the start-up space.
Can't wait, to be honest.
Looks like he's gonna be tackling "agentic" AI within the start-up space.
Can't wait, to be honest.
I think "citation faithfulness" is a rich heuristic for engaging students in good faith re. AI literacy (or whatever we're choosing to call it.)
1 thing I do find interesting about the concept is that what an assessment of it requires to some extent flies in face of the accelerated/ing logic of AI.
1 thing I do find interesting about the concept is that what an assessment of it requires to some extent flies in face of the accelerated/ing logic of AI.
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I think "citation faithfulness" is a rich heuristic for engaging students in good faith re. AI literacy (or whatever we're choosing to call it.)
1 thing I do find interesting about the concept is that what an assessment of it requires to some extent flies in face of the accelerated/ing logic of AI.
1 thing I do find interesting about the concept is that what an assessment of it requires to some extent flies in face of the accelerated/ing logic of AI.
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I have a piece in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today: With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again
Trying to consider the nature of the project and its vision of neutrality vs. @wikipedia.org's (without getting into e.g. article comparisons).
www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...
Trying to consider the nature of the project and its vision of neutrality vs. @wikipedia.org's (without getting into e.g. article comparisons).
www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...
With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again | TechPolicy.Press
Ryan McGrady asks, who is Grokipedia for, other than its owner?
www.techpolicy.press
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I have a piece in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today: With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again
Trying to consider the nature of the project and its vision of neutrality vs. @wikipedia.org's (without getting into e.g. article comparisons).
www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...
Trying to consider the nature of the project and its vision of neutrality vs. @wikipedia.org's (without getting into e.g. article comparisons).
www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...
I think the Jays actually lost because my partner and I became obsessed with this and played it too often over the past few days lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3QS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3QS...
OK Blue Jays (Metal Version) - Shatterpoint
YouTube video by shanerpoint
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I think the Jays actually lost because my partner and I became obsessed with this and played it too often over the past few days lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3QS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3QS...
I helped a student working on Jane Schoenbrun's work today - so awesome. Definitely my fav thing I've been asked to help with this semester.
Surprisingly, there is a bit more scholarly stuff on Jane's movies already published than I would've thought!
Tons of interviews also to dig into.
Surprisingly, there is a bit more scholarly stuff on Jane's movies already published than I would've thought!
Tons of interviews also to dig into.
October 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I helped a student working on Jane Schoenbrun's work today - so awesome. Definitely my fav thing I've been asked to help with this semester.
Surprisingly, there is a bit more scholarly stuff on Jane's movies already published than I would've thought!
Tons of interviews also to dig into.
Surprisingly, there is a bit more scholarly stuff on Jane's movies already published than I would've thought!
Tons of interviews also to dig into.
Tremendous post from Tom Krell on this idea of "AI-induced psychosis":
howtodresswell.substack.com/p/i-guess-il...
howtodresswell.substack.com/p/i-guess-il...
i guess i'll weigh in on ai psychosis
i saw a tweet #1: AI psychosis, noopolitics, and the collapse of care: can we reckon as a global society with what can only be described as “a psychological and social disaster whose overriding conseq...
howtodresswell.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Tremendous post from Tom Krell on this idea of "AI-induced psychosis":
howtodresswell.substack.com/p/i-guess-il...
howtodresswell.substack.com/p/i-guess-il...
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Should I pay close to $30 to see the bad Springsteen biopic in a ~luxury/VIP~ cineplex? lol
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Should I pay close to $30 to see the bad Springsteen biopic in a ~luxury/VIP~ cineplex? lol
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Bracing myself for, if the Jays can pull this off this weekend, "National Post" and "TGaM" style editorials ~meditating on nationalism~
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Bracing myself for, if the Jays can pull this off this weekend, "National Post" and "TGaM" style editorials ~meditating on nationalism~
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🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents - Communication and Change
Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents—chatbots—are increasingly integrated into telehealth platforms, employee wellness programs, and mobile applications to address structural gaps in me...
link.springer.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It's kind of wild how much harder the first edition cover of George Will's baseball book goes than the update lol
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's kind of wild how much harder the first edition cover of George Will's baseball book goes than the update lol
Bassitt is so solid!
Instills confidence like no other Jays pitcher these days lol
Instills confidence like no other Jays pitcher these days lol
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Bassitt is so solid!
Instills confidence like no other Jays pitcher these days lol
Instills confidence like no other Jays pitcher these days lol
Now officially into the part of the day where I'm paying for ... watching that accursed baseball game into the 16th inning lol
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Now officially into the part of the day where I'm paying for ... watching that accursed baseball game into the 16th inning lol
Grokipedia is sooo stupid and fascinating.
Really wish I had the capacity to write something about it, or maybe update this presentation (mru.arcabc.ca/university-l...) that I did on IL, Wikipedia, and GenAI, because Grokipedia really is at the nexus of ... all of that stuff lol
Really wish I had the capacity to write something about it, or maybe update this presentation (mru.arcabc.ca/university-l...) that I did on IL, Wikipedia, and GenAI, because Grokipedia really is at the nexus of ... all of that stuff lol
mru.arcabc.ca
October 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Grokipedia is sooo stupid and fascinating.
Really wish I had the capacity to write something about it, or maybe update this presentation (mru.arcabc.ca/university-l...) that I did on IL, Wikipedia, and GenAI, because Grokipedia really is at the nexus of ... all of that stuff lol
Really wish I had the capacity to write something about it, or maybe update this presentation (mru.arcabc.ca/university-l...) that I did on IL, Wikipedia, and GenAI, because Grokipedia really is at the nexus of ... all of that stuff lol
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Vladdy hit a home run I have to teach in the morning.
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Vladdy hit a home run I have to teach in the morning.