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foss old man, baby academic | Northwestern University School of Communication | Creative Interfaces Research and Design Studio | they is preferred, her is accepted

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Skagerock seems like a missed opportunity

11.03.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Design thought of the day

06.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A single candle burns in the forefront and a multitude of blurred lights are in the background. Text: Disability Day of Mourning March 1st.

A single candle burns in the forefront and a multitude of blurred lights are in the background. Text: Disability Day of Mourning March 1st.

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Today is the Disability Day of Mourning. The disability community will gather to remember disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. https://ow.ly/Y9oG50Yn6ar

#DDofM2026 Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)

01.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

23.02.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 317 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 6

As a child, the library was the only space I felt like I belonged. They're magic.

22.02.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My CFP experience has gotten much better since I started thinking of the talks I propose as "offerings" rather than "proposals" or "submissions".

19.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's never too late to learn about free software :)

19.02.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Art is resistance

17.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maaaaaaaaybe

10.02.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my takes on codes of conduct is that communities will eventually need to decide whether reacting to bad things after they happened is enough. Apparently paleontologists are breaking ground on that one

10.02.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

09.02.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 3011 πŸ” 609 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 86

A bunch of people have sent me a screenshot of this post without any additional context. Conveniently, @esqueer.net, who is very legit, provided receipts in the thread

05.02.2026 13:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If someone is taking a work zoom meeting in a cafe: 1) other people should be allowed to participate and 2) they should get paid for their participation and time

04.02.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Right-wing media figures are furious at activists for using whistles during ICE activity Right-wing media figures are lashing out at community members in Minnesota for using whistles to alert others of federal immigration enforcement in the area, asserting that whistles should be β€œconside...

When your enemies tell you not to do something, you know you are being effective. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

03.02.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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The New Way Colleges Are Wooing Athletes In an NIL world, university athletic departments are creating in-house studios to win recruits and donor dollars.

curious that a university that laid off over 1000 staff members due to financial crisis scrounged up nearly $10M to spend on ... social media posting to appeal to athletic recruits?
frontofficesports.com/college-athl...

02.02.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Brightness in my day: reorganizing my books and deciding to classify The Locked Tomb as romantasy

02.02.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

31.01.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 8859 πŸ” 2866 πŸ’¬ 76 πŸ“Œ 149
A beginner's guide to improving your digital security This 8 item to-do list will help you improve your security, understand why you should do each task, the limitations of these tools, and what not to do.

This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! hashman.ca/security-101/

27.01.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

25.01.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 28792 πŸ” 10724 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 980

I'm trying to tease out something from "knackered." I also want to reference "Autofac" or that Asimov story where the supercomputers shut themselves down for the good of humanity, but those feel like too deep cuts

21.01.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Internet Archive also has a great collection! archive.org/details/movies

18.01.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

AI is part of what’s killing adobe but not in this sense. You can’t open Acrobat without it bugging you to use its AI. You can’t toggle it off. Everybody hates that shit. Nobody wants it. This will be the fate of every company trying to force AI

17.01.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 1216 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 19

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

16.01.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Heavy security presence’ in Tehran amid lingering US-Iran tension Tensions are rising in the region after the US began to withdraw some personnel from an airbase in Qatar.

If you're an academic, you might have Iranian colleagues, coworkers, and friends who are struggling with the violence and internet blackout in Iran. Check in with them and use your citizenship privilege if they aren't getting support they need from your university www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

15.01.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Waiting to hear back about a paper is like waiting for your situationship to text you back

12.01.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unhoused populations in cities and public health and hygiene, "fiber is the new protein"

07.01.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread

31.12.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 1824 πŸ” 237 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 8

It's almost like you can show people that you'll take care of them by taking care of them

27.12.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

omg doxxed

26.12.2025 22:41 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0