Notices by Aram Sinnreich (aram@aoir.social), page 2

@quinn @mmasnick pledged

I'm pretty sure I've read this book, and it didn't end as well as folks hoped https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/scientists-say-sprinkling-diamond-dust-into-the-sky-could-offset-almost-all-of-climate-change-so-far-but-itll-cost-usd175-trillion

This is as close as you can get to pure evil. (Gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/business/pharmacy-benefit-managers-opioids.html

Fewer students of color @ elite law schools
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Fewer attorneys of color @ elite law firms
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Fewer lawmakers/jurists of color in federal agencies & courts
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Less justice for people of color

By design by SCOTUS

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/us/harvard-law-black-students-enrollment-decline.html

It's my favorite sister @rachelcleves's birthday! To help her celebrate, why don't you buy a copy of our coauthored #scifi novel "A Second Chance for Yesterday," now out in paperback?

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Sinn/9781837862047

Things are gonna get shitty, so I made myself a little reminder. Maybe you can use it, too.

What did reply guys do before the era social media?

About 20 members of my division at #ICA2025 totally failed to review the paper submissions assigned to them. I have just informed them all that their own papers will be desk-rejected unless they're willing to do this valuable service to the field ASAP.

#academia #academicchatter #commodon

Here's where you can change your #MacOS settings to prevent Siri from "learning from" (e.g. surveilling) your behaviors across all the apps on your laptop.
#privacy #surveillance

On one hand quantum computing is super cool and might be used to solve all kinds of entrenched challenges

OTOH do we really want Google & who knows who to decrypt everything ever sent on the open web & moneyball the future

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/technology/google-quantum-computing.html

1. Remember this the next time lawmakers push to outlaw or "backdoor" E2E encryption. (Which could be 2025)

2. If the federal government is engaging in a public awareness campaign about this, the extent of Chinese incursion into US comms infrastructure must be REALLY REALLY bad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/03/china-hack-salt-typhoon-telecom/ #salttyphoon

For anyone looking for worthy causes on #GivingTuesday, I humbly propose the scholarship that my siblings and I established to honor my stepmother, which goes to a student at Hofstra (her alma mater) who is studying law and is committed to justice & equality: https://hofstra.scalefunder.com/cfund/project/24434/donate #lawfedi #law #highered

This new proposed rule by the CFPB would treat #data brokers as de facto credit bureaus, holding them to the same standards of care, transparency, and liability.

Fantastic, long-needed #policy to protect Americans' #privacy and #security

Unfortunately, it'll never happen under Trump.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-proposes-rule-to-stop-data-brokers-from-selling-sensitive-personal-data-to-scammers-stalkers-and-spies/

I love how thoroughly Foucauldian theory has permeated our culture

Also I hate it

“For Apple employees, the Apple ecosystem is not a walled garden. It is a prison yard. A panopticon where employees, both on and off duty, are subject to Apple’s all-seeing eye"

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/02/2024/employee-lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-spying-on-its-workers

📣 New article from me, @tstruett, @paufder & @rwg, available free & #openaccess in the International Journal of Communication:

Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse

In this article we identify six potential pitfalls for federated social media:

1. Distributed governance
2. Commercial capture
3. Inclusive access
4. Moderation at scale
5. Reputational anti-halo
6. Technoromanticism

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/22254 #commodon #socialmedia #fediverse

Now is a really good time to start researching how #media #technology & #democracy intersect, and what it means for our shared future.

Thankfully, we have an amazing 1-year MA program on just this subject in Washington #DC. Check it out:

https://www.american.edu/soc/communication-studies/ma/ma-mtd.cfm #academia #academicchatter #highered #commodon @academicchatter @commodon

Fellow fediversians, marvelous Mastodonians, blocking all mentions of the Nazi rapist on your feed is a thing you can do right now in about 10 seconds. Future you will thank present you. #fediverse

“I don’t really care about pronouns any more. I want people to tell me their adjectives.”

- my brilliant 15yo

I'm teaching Media Law & Policy at AU in the Spring (PhD/MA students).

Many of my stalwart #DC class visitors are probably going to be out of a job come January. Who's interested in being a guest speaker for a class? You can talk about anything #policy / #media / #tech related...

DM me.

Please let this be true
Please let this be true
Please let this be true

https://www.status.news/p/the-onion-acquires-infowars