Nick Seaver
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no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
Was showing a YouTube video for my intro STS class from the in-room desktop and got a pre-roll ad for a bible and NASA-inspired nail fungus solution. You know we had to watch it and analyze on the fly.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Was showing a YouTube video for my intro STS class from the in-room desktop and got a pre-roll ad for a bible and NASA-inspired nail fungus solution. You know we had to watch it and analyze on the fly.
students asking the pressing questions after last week’s discussion of manosphere discourse and attention
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
students asking the pressing questions after last week’s discussion of manosphere discourse and attention
honestly not sure if this follows the cryptic rules exactly, but I think it does
survived DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968), lost focus a bit, but came up with a cryptic clue:
Not all monsters attacked: Rodan and Titanosaurus, gutted, were left out (4)
Not all monsters attacked: Rodan and Titanosaurus, gutted, were left out (4)
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
honestly not sure if this follows the cryptic rules exactly, but I think it does
I’m a Japanese fishing boat captain and my boat just got replaced with a miniature, is that good
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I’m a Japanese fishing boat captain and my boat just got replaced with a miniature, is that good
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I am obligated to share with you that this track off of Autechre's INCUNABULA, at about 15 seconds in, sounds unmistakably like "What What in the Butt" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lArX...
Autechre - Maetl
YouTube video by Warp Records
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I am obligated to share with you that this track off of Autechre's INCUNABULA, at about 15 seconds in, sounds unmistakably like "What What in the Butt" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lArX...
chat, do not sleep on LEENALCHI: four singers, two bassists, a drummer, korean pansori style, does not sound like anything else out there right now
new LEENALCHI album!! youtu.be/PXM0W3BTmQ0?...
Pour and Pour Again
YouTube video by LEENALCHI - Topic
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
chat, do not sleep on LEENALCHI: four singers, two bassists, a drummer, korean pansori style, does not sound like anything else out there right now
hey that sucks
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
hey that sucks
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Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...
Hello, heist fans! This Sunday, Nov. 9, I’m teaching a virtual heist workshop! You can still register today, but you need to hurry!
I’ve done a terrible job promoting it because of book tour brain - so! If you are interested in writing heists, head on over & grab a seat:
www.eventbrite.com/e...
I’ve done a terrible job promoting it because of book tour brain - so! If you are interested in writing heists, head on over & grab a seat:
www.eventbrite.com/e...
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
going through these, it was very funny to read one and be like "this is nonsense" and to discover it's the one written by a university president
I participated in this @chronicle.com forum
on AI alongside many other excellent folks. It’s paywalled and I don’t have a gift link, but in the QT I’m attaching a screen grab of my piece which is about the technological but also the political realities of rupture. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
on AI alongside many other excellent folks. It’s paywalled and I don’t have a gift link, but in the QT I’m attaching a screen grab of my piece which is about the technological but also the political realities of rupture. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
www.chronicle.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
going through these, it was very funny to read one and be like "this is nonsense" and to discover it's the one written by a university president
returning to this for inspiration today
hey, so did you see the video of a Miss World Chile contestant singing death metal at the pageant youtu.be/MZXuK8bFJyg?...
MIss World Chile Contestant Sings Death Metal
YouTube video by REVOLVER
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
returning to this for inspiration today
hey, so did you see the video of a Miss World Chile contestant singing death metal at the pageant youtu.be/MZXuK8bFJyg?...
MIss World Chile Contestant Sings Death Metal
YouTube video by REVOLVER
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
hey, so did you see the video of a Miss World Chile contestant singing death metal at the pageant youtu.be/MZXuK8bFJyg?...
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Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
new LEENALCHI album!! youtu.be/PXM0W3BTmQ0?...
Pour and Pour Again
YouTube video by LEENALCHI - Topic
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
new LEENALCHI album!! youtu.be/PXM0W3BTmQ0?...
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
going to see Boris play all the way through PINK tonight 😸 youtu.be/avDfUvnlx7Q?...
BORIS - "Performing "PINK" in Its Entirety - Live at Shindaita Fever 20160924" [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
YouTube video by RelapseRecords
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
going to see Boris play all the way through PINK tonight 😸 youtu.be/avDfUvnlx7Q?...
got to drop a well-timed "by the way, that Mamdani in the reading is Zohran's dad" in lecture today
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
got to drop a well-timed "by the way, that Mamdani in the reading is Zohran's dad" in lecture today
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honestly this is what the Impossible/Beyond Meat guys should be working on. passably-goat-tasting-but-plant-based birria should be treated like the fucking Space Race
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
honestly this is what the Impossible/Beyond Meat guys should be working on. passably-goat-tasting-but-plant-based birria should be treated like the fucking Space Race
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No, I refuse to believe this and will continue to use it as a metaphor for all organisational life. If anything, I might do it more.
Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
No, I refuse to believe this and will continue to use it as a metaphor for all organisational life. If anything, I might do it more.
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This is slightly old news though isn't it...? We were definitely talking about this back in the early 2010s at least. And my PhD supervisor then wrote this: link.springer.com/book/10.1057... after I gave him a copy of Lurie's Imaginary Friends that I found in a secondhand bookstore
Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance
What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume ex...
link.springer.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This is slightly old news though isn't it...? We were definitely talking about this back in the early 2010s at least. And my PhD supervisor then wrote this: link.springer.com/book/10.1057... after I gave him a copy of Lurie's Imaginary Friends that I found in a secondhand bookstore
Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
twice as many stars as usual
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
twice as many stars as usual