Katherine Connor Martin
@kconnormartin.bsky.social
Former lexicographer and Brooklynite. Current product director and UK-based USian.
Neologisms have always been memes in the original Richard Dawkins sense; now they can also become memes in the specific social media sense. But the dynamics of (un)natural selection driving propagation are different in the algorithmically driven latter than in the purely human-mediated former.
September 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Neologisms have always been memes in the original Richard Dawkins sense; now they can also become memes in the specific social media sense. But the dynamics of (un)natural selection driving propagation are different in the algorithmically driven latter than in the purely human-mediated former.
Reposted by Katherine Connor Martin
The Language of Memes is coming soon now. In the meantime, here's a post on Fifteen Eighty Four, the blog of Cambridge University Press 🤓
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August 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Reposted by Katherine Connor Martin
For folks who enjoy archival photos, Texas Highways did a nice #Juneteenth piece documenting celebrations over the past 160 years. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #BlackTexasHistory
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The History of Juneteenth in Photos
Junteenth commemorates the issuance of General Order No. 3 in Galveston, informing enslaved people of their freedom and the end of the Civil War.
texashighways.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
For folks who enjoy archival photos, Texas Highways did a nice #Juneteenth piece documenting celebrations over the past 160 years. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #BlackTexasHistory
texashighways.com/travel-news/...
texashighways.com/travel-news/...