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Assistant Professor
University of Richmond
Studying Internet culture & web histories.
So basically I get to look at memes and scroll through social media and call it "data collection" he/him 🦆 | 🐏 | 🦡
Boosts = 'hey check this thing out' and not always full endorsement/agreement.
https://www.henricocitizen.com/breaking-henrico-cancels-flock-safety-contract/
Don't love the "will review other options" that they throw in at the end, but this is still something!
There were/are 128+ cameras placed all over Henrico county -- I will be very glad to see them finally come down.
Shot, chaser
Ah yes, seems like all is well for the current state of academic publishing and the peer review process...
Separately, any suggestions on how I should celebrate the upcoming 1 year anniversary of this piece being under review?
Walked into the classroom where I teach to see that someone had left emergency contraceptives and Narcan for anyone to take if needed.
Some students in the room pointed it out and were laughing about it. I opted to play dumb:
- What's so funny? I don't get it.
- Well it's just weird
- Really, weird? Why?
- Well the narcan is just a little odd
- Why's that? It saves lives. Seems good to have around
- Well I just don't think it should be here
- Oh why not? Or where should it be?
- uhhh
The UW Foundation and the Wisconsin Alumni Association might want to rethinking how they introducing their fundraising campaign.
"Flock" is not exactly a term that has positive connotations in many people's minds.
I study this stuff for a living, and here’s my take:
Turning over enormous portions of the public sphere and sites for civic engagement to privately owned for-profit companies was a Bad Idea™
Can't wait to live in the opening credits to Futurama with flying shit clogging up the sky above me all the damn time.
What a stupid world we live in.
https://www.deq.virginia.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/5350/133
I'll take "secure in their masculinity" for 200, Alex
Ah, yes, "scheduled." I don't think that word means what you think it means...
Alternatively, this is why Trump didn't go to his son's wedding: he already had something else planned that day
https://abcnews.com/US/white-house-lawn-cleared-after-apparent-gunshots/story?id=133257965
Remember kids, crime doesn't pay. Except for all the times that it does pay...
I'm tired, boss
Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind deadly cruise ship outbreak | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-cut-funding-to-study-hantavirus-behind-deadly-cruise-ship-outbreak/
It's been nearly 10 years since Harambe was shot and killed by a worker at the Cincinnati Zoo.
How poetic would it be for our decade-long curse to be lifted by The News finally breaking that day -- you know, the obituary that will be on the front page of newspapers everywhere
babe wake up a new multi-lingual version of the text on https://example.com just* dropped
* This might be old news. I'm not sure when this change was made and it may very well have been several months ago
I have been running Debian (with KDE Plasma desktop) as the primary OS on my desktop computer for a while, and I'm *thrilled* that I have not needed to boot into my Windows partition at any point in the last several months.
9/10 -- would recommend. My university's IT has really locked down access to some services (i.e. won't allow direct IMAP syncing to Thunderbird) -- so I have to use the Web UI for a lot of things -- but honestly maybe that's better for my overall work-life balance anyway
