Stuart Geiger
just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they
- Android users, I want to only get app-level notifications from mentions, not likes. Does the Bluesky app really only give me the option of likes+mentions from everyone, likes+mentions from people I follow, or nothing? Am I missing something or did they really go all in on the dopamine machine here?
- Looks like @apnews.com is using AI to summarize articles without even checking for basic facts... Or are they really this ignorant about Canada? Either way, shameful.
- If I am remembering 20th c history right, when the fascists take power and start making illegal, unconscionable demands, all you have to do is appease them a little. Just give in to their initial demands, ignore how they call you the enemy of the people, and they will leave you alone. 🙄🙄🙄🤔🤨🙃🤥
- Since AGI is in the news again (thanks Kevin), a reminder of my handy single serving site you can use to check if AGI has arrived: hasAGIarrived.com
- This flowchart just broke me. End. End. End. Of course it all makes me furious, but also I can't get over how bad this flowchart is on flowchart terms. Just unnecessary abstract formalization and complexity for absolutely no reason, other than trappings of technocracy. bsky.app/profile/darb...
- status: this is The Bad Place
- status: overtaken by events
- The last time it rained in San Diego (more than 0.1 in / 0.25 cm in a day) was in March 2024. It finally started raining this morning and I realized I had forgotten what rain sounds like.
- Back in the last AI hype news cycle, when the grifters kept claiming they'd built Artificial General Intelligence, I made a single serving site so you can easily check if AGI has indeed arrived or not (spoiler alert: lol no): hasAGIarrived.com
- Looks like it is San Diego's turn for the wildfires. UCSD was so close from having to evacuate yesterday, with a fire that got a few blocks from campus. Now the border is literally on fire.
- What a week to be teaching Goffman
- Hello world! FYI it has been years since I've had a public profile on any social media platform. I'm out of practice, I'm already feeling the familiar context collapse anxiety, and I don't want to start a new app addiction. Not sure how much I'll be on here, but let's give it a go!
