BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫
@bostonjoan
I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University www.criticalinternet.org
Come to Gloucester MA, if you're into punk, darkness, horror, and wicked fun times.
FWIW, Punx not dead. We just go to bed just by 11pm. This is a one-night-only event celebrating C.H.U.D. and all the wonderful artful things my hometown of Gloucester brought to the world. The night will have amazing live music. Riley will be spinning 80s jams. Prizes for best 1984 vibes!
What happens after hyperscaler data centers become obsolete? Think about how far we’ve come in 20years from desktop to laptop to smart phone. Floppy disk to usb stick. Data centers will eventually become unnecessary as tech progresses and compresses data and memory into smaller containers.
I’ve been thinking a lot about CHUD because I’m booking this event dedicated to the screenwriter. C.H.U.D. LIVE. Has everything: punk/ska music, dancing DJ’d by Riley & Friends and a panel on CHUD’s impact on the culture. Best outfit giving “1984” vibes will get a prize.
The only shirt I’ll be wearing this summer. tee.pub/lic/7wde0K8q...
Party like it's the Apocalypse Friday July 31 at 7pm at The Cut (Gloucester) C.H.U.D L.I.V.E (Screenwriter Shep Abbott in discussion with Meme Wars co-author Joan Donovan) Music by Cigarette Camp (Boston Punks) and The Chip Rockers (Local 2-tone Ska). tix: thecutlive.com/pages/events...
I win the quote of the day. New from @washingtonpost.com on the anonymous account that has captured Musk’s attention and is begging for a job by lavishing Musk with lots of compliments. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
100/100 for the Gwar joke alone. My class today analyzed this AI generated image shared by Trump. None of us really knew what the top middle figure was. Holy Ghost? Archangel Gabriel? A new riff on 2016’s deplorables meme? Watch @jonstewartdaily.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkPfsCJr/
I spent the weekend talking to Wikipedians and the good folks of the Internet Archive, who opened their doors for a debate about AI & digital information reliability. Remarkable talks, kicked off by the only @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social (slide) Internet Archive needs your help. Read why:
I was searching google for a story about "Claude Anthropic" when I got hit with this nearly full page ad for ChatGPT.
#CHUDzuckerberg MUST RESIGN. After two jury trials in separate states, Meta’s liable for addictive design that harms kids’ mental health. Get creative by remixing these movie posters and share it as #CHUDzuckerberg on ALL platforms! Are you asking yourself why CHUD has been a meme lately?
Ken Burns is holding court at @bostonu.bsky.social at the College of Com. #powerofnarrative
How it started v. How it’s going Why did grok make her a playboy bunny and not an Easter bunny? What is skewed in the training data in this case?
Over on X there is an information warfare campaign playing out in plain sight. Meet Amelia, a cutesy purple haired AI- animated sock puppet, who wants to end immigration in the UK. This is AI and it's going to kill us all. When slopaganda is used to call for action, we have jumped the shark.
Like the waiters at TGIFridays, Jake Lang does not go anywhere without a pop of flair on his vest.
I wrote about how @mariaressa.bsky.social became a target in Duterte’s Meme Wars, where his public relations strategy involved paying to mobilize online audiences to swarm opponents/ critics with disinformation and criminal allegations, creating the pretext for arrest. archive.is/2024.09.13-1...
Remember when they said this was normal? Today is another horrifying example of political violence enacted by the state.
Patriot Front marching in DC today. Be safe out there. If you encounter a gang of men dressed like they work at Bestbuy, that’s them.
Also, ChatGPT will never be able to replicate prose like this. lol...
Nikema Levy Armstrong was arrested days after an activist group disrupted a Church service at a location where a Pastor doubles as an ICE agent. It appears that the White House has posted an AI manipulated image to make it seem like the protester is crying upon arrest, when compared to the original