Notices by Aram Sinnreich (aram@aoir.social)

Nazis should not be tolerated in Madison Square Garden, New York City, The United States of America, or Planet Earth.

I have owned an iPhone since 2008 yet somehow it still tries to Anglicize my name. Maybe fix this before cramming AI into every digital orifice. #apple #fail

The people of #Israel have been on the streets for over a year, double digit percentages of the population, week after week, demanding Netanyahu's resignation and raging against his #Gaza policy, but you wouldn't know it by looking at US media. All we get to see is how the war is bad for Biden.

Just got an email from a dear old friend who is smart, educated, kind, thoughtful, and the child of a Holocaust survivor.

He just asked me whether Josh Kushner buying LIFE Magazine could reunify America.

Fortunately, I could point him to my friend @susca's new book HEDGED to explain why billionaires are the problem, not the solution.

Your daily reminder that it’s not immigrants who leech resources from American workers — it’s the ultra wealthy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/29/tax-returns-irs-millionaires/

Wow! After spending most of the past 17 years working as a university professor, my remaining student loans have officially been forgiven under the #PSLF program.

THANK YOU JOE BIDEN!!!

@rysiek It feels soooo goooood

It's time for us professors who study #data #surveillance #infosec #internetgovernance #privacy to start hassling our university IT departments whenever they integrate extractive platforms into our professional workflow.

Feel free to repurpose my verbiage in your own emails.

#academia #academicchatter #commodon @academicchatter @academicsunite @commodon

I hate that I have to send emails like this. But that's what it's come to, isn't it.

#academia #academicchatter @academicchatter

New article from me & @jesse in @RollingStone:

We Spied on Trump’s ‘Southern White House’ From Our Couches

(a preview of our forthcoming @themitpress book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-brokers-trump-tech-spying-privacy-threat-1234897098/

#data #privacy #surveillance #commodon #bookstodon @bookstodon @commodon @jkehoe

I've had a number of non-Jewish friends reach out to me over the past week to see if I'm okay.

No, I'm not okay. But neither is anyone.

Tribes are bullshit. Race is bullshit. Religion is bullshit if you kill in the name of God. Murder is murder. Cruelty is cruelty. Injustice is injustice. Dead children are dead children.

The planet is being devoured by the insatiable greed of a handful of people and the rest of us are fighting over scraps. It only gets worse from here unless we learn to love.

In previous years, I've invited undergrads to post to Tw*tter during my class sessions, as an alternate way to participate & as a shared (public) backchannel adding extra digital materials to our conversations.

This year, for obvious reasons, that's impossible, so I'm asking them to do so via Mastodon (which none of my students have used before).

It'll be a little experiement. Let's see whether #SOCccc23 gets any use from my #copyright students.

#commodon @commodon @academicchatter @tstruett

@aral thanks for letting me know. I replaced the news link with a different source.

The US government assassinated or imprisoned every leader of the Black Panther party for [checks notes] giving out free breakfasts but these wannabe Nazi terrorists actively prepare for American genocide in plain sight, with no consequences. https://wgme.com/news/local/neo-nazi-leader-establishes-training-site-in-maine-former-us-marine-christopher-pohlhaus-springfield-white-supremacists-camp-moores-road-bluttstamm-blood-tribe-physical-fitness-drills-weapons-training

@aral Thanks, Aral! You can find A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY wherever fine books are purveyed. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Sinn/9781786188274

I published my first nonfiction book 13 years ago.

Today, for the first time, and for the rest of my life, I am a published novelist.

Dreams do come true.

Before you install the new #ChatGPT app on iOS, ask yourself: what's the worst thing the maker of the world's greatest bullshit machine could do with this kind of information, and why are they requesting it?

What if we classified excessive wealth hoarding as a psychosocial pathology instead of celebrating it as evidence of inherent superiority

Massive thanks to @oddletters and @aral for speaking with my Media Law & Policy students at American University today! I can't believe I get paid to facilitate such great conversations.

@aral Aral, thank you so much! My @SOCphd students had such a great time chatting with you! Can't wait to use small tech tools when they're available. Please come back next year.