Despite the veneer of placid smiles and pastoral bliss, tradwives operate from a place of rage—forming a distorted “mirror world” response to many issues traditionally taken up by feminists. This and more in my latest publication with Sarah Banet-Weiser: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Some thoughts on the nature of “reality” in the gen AI age and a brief look into the booming genre of fake Christian worship music videos.

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My latest academic publication is out! After watching 3,000+ manifestation videos on TikTok, I dive into the ways platform features are shaping modern spirituality.

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Open access here: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

had to reboot the algorithm to make it more american

Meta may want to flood Facebook with AI, but FB Marketplace still remains very deeply human

Oh, and you'd think it would be embarrassing to post more chiseled and muscled replicas of yourself and not live up to the aesthetic ideals you promote...but I guess not.

I appreciate this ad for making the aspirational face filter -> cosmetic intervention desire explicit. We shall not rest until we all look like girlies generated by midjourney

Thinking a lot about how Elon Musk, formerly an avowed atheist, has started to describe himself as a "cultural Christian." This is very telling about both the strength of the white Christian nationalism movement as well as how warped "Christian values" are serving as a justification/haven.

Great piece by @cwarzel.bsky.social on the phenomenon and the wildly fractured media landscape www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...