AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)

@agholdier

giant bag of mostly water ~*~ philosophy postdoc at Harvard (incoming) thinking about language, power, and technology ~*~ my spreadsheets are cooler than yours

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AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 1d

Meanwhile, the noobs:

Two panels from the Parks and Rec scene of Ben Wyatt, talking to Anne Perkins, saying:

“OK I don’t even have time to tell you how wrong you are.

Actually, it’s gonna bug me if I don’t.”

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 8d

Obi-Wan Kenobi, grimacing, surrounded by fire and lava from the screen in “Revenge of the Sith” where he shouts “You were supposed to defeat the Sith, not join them” to Anakin

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 11d

Photo of an Olympic torchbearer lighting the final cauldron

The cauldron is labeled “this years job market”

The torchbearer is labeled “Alex Rails”

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 11d

Me:

Bart Simpson holding a monkey’s paw with one finger curled up

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 14d

Screenshot of The Moon from “The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask”

“I…I shall consume. Consume… consume everything.”

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 15d

So, we have two dimensions: • MOTIVATION: Intentional/Unintentional • MOTION: Fusion/Fission And a four-fold taxonomy: • Collusion*: Intentional (Fusion) • Collision*: Unintentional (Fusion) • Shearing: Intentional (Fission) • Shedding: Unintentional (Fission) ___ * Davis & Jurgenson (2014) (🧵6/7)

A shaded table labeled "CONTEXT COLLAPSE" overall.

Horizontal dimension: "MOTIVATION" w/ 'Intentional' and 'Unintentional' columns

Vertical dimension: "MOTION" w/ 'Fusion' and 'Fission' rows

So, the four resulting categories are:
• Collusion: Intentional + Fusion
• Collision: Unintentional + Fusion
• Shearing: Intentional + Fission
• Shedding: Unintentional + Fission

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 15d

• danah boyd (@zephoria.bsky.social) coined the term • Jenny Davis & Nathan Jurgenson (@jenny-l-davis.bsky.social & @nathanjurgenson.com) distinguished Intentional and Unintentional forms ("collusion" vs. "collision") • But contexts can collapse by fusing together or by fissioning apart (🧵2/7)

Screenshot of two figures from a journal:

Two ovals (labeled E1 and E2) overlapping like a Venn diagram
"Figure 2: Context Collapse via Fusion"

Two ovals (labeled E3 and E4) not overlapping; a black star shape inside E3 has an arrow pointing towards a white star shape inside E4
"Figure 3: Context Collapse via Fission"

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 15d

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

Cover art variant for the Marvel comic “Man Without Fear” #3, illustrated by Luke Ross.
(across tops a church building, with its shadow cast against the apartment building behind it. Daredevil’s shadow, with glowing red eyes, hugs the shadow of the cross.)

Nightcrawler is seen in the background of a comic panel, kneeling, with one handover his heart, and the other, holding a sword, point touching the ground.
“Dear Lord, if I am truly here for a purpose, let me be true to my faith — — and the trust you place in me.”

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 17d

where do I put this on my CV?

Screenshot of a Balatro "Game Over" Screen:

Best Hand: 15,797,733,264 [HIGH SCORE!]
Most Played Hand: High Card (52)
Cards Played: 106
Cards Discarded: 427
Cards Purchased: 123
Times Rerolled: 37
New Discoveries: 5
Seed: 2R7FGDGH

Ante: 13 [HIGH SCORE!]
Round: 40 [HIGH SCORE!]

Defeated by: Small Blind

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· 20d

Two shots of character Ann Perkins from “Parks and Recreation” saying:

“Jogging is the worst, Chris.

I mean, I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?”

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Jul 9

A “ they don’t know…” meme with the guy standing in the corner at a party. Badly Photoshopped over the people dancing is a copy of the flower growing next to the sidewalk in the OP. The rest of the text reads. “…that’s us”

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Jul 8

A blank copy of the “ always has been” meme (with one astronaut pointing a gun at the back of another astronaut, a planet floating behind them)

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Jul 8

Four-paneled Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin is talking to Susie while they both sit in their school desks.

Calvin: What grade did you get?
Susie: I got an ‘A’

C: Really? Boy, I’d hate to be you. I got a ‘C’

S: Why on earth would you rather get a ‘C’ than an ‘A’?

C: I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone’s expectations.

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Jul 6

Before/After

Screenshot from the scene in ‘Office Space’ where three guys dressed in business casual destroy a printer in a field with a baseball bat

Screenshot of the title character from ‘The Brave Little Toaster’ raising the equivalent of his arm in the air, one eyebrow raised

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Jun 30

some kinda arΦiv.org?

Screenshot of Will Smith as Deadshot mid-sentence. No caption is on the photo, but the image is from the scene/meme where he says “some kinda suicide squad?”

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· May 17

A weirdly crisp 4k version of the Halo “wait. That’s illegal.” meme

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Apr 28

I’ve been at Notre Dame for nearly a year, but the lampposts still seem oddly…Dark

Screenshot of the Dark Lord, Sauron, dressed in battle armor, wearing his pointed helm, and holding his staff. Behind him, a pale light gleams, casting him in a pale glow.

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Apr 20

The Mark II Hand Ejector, a large-frame revolver developed by U.S. firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson, finished a fight in the streets of Cairo from a distance of 6 meters (20 feet) in a stunning <0.5 seconds, beating the human world record by more than 3 minutes.

Screenshot from ‘ Raiders of the Lost Ark’ showing Indiana Jones firing his gun at a threatening swordsman in the middle of a crowded marketplace. (it is the scene that was famously ad-libbed on set due to Harrison Ford’s intense need to use the bathroom)

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Apr 4

Screenshot of Gretchen Wieners from 'Mean Girls':

"I [] think my father, the [MARC SANDERS FOUNDATION] would be [] pleased to hear about this."

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Mar 25

March 25th, End of the Third Age: The One Ring is destroyed. March 25th, 2026: Baseball's Opening Night. Checkmate, atheists 🙏

Screenshot of Frodo from 'The Lord of the Rings' holding the Ring on a chain outstretched above the lava in Mount Doom. A cartoon baseball has been crudely photoshopped over the Ring.

AG Holdier (Academic Job Applicant Edition)@agholdier· Mar 16

I'm working on a paper about Ada Lovelace and, when I tell you she's *incredible*, it's because she was a brilliant mathematician who took herself roughly this seriously: