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Hi all! It has been a few years since I did a big group follow of mastodon users. Do you all have some accounts you love, and want to shout out, and you'd recommend that I (or others) should follow? (Bonus points if they are academics, especially humanists, historians, STSers, or media studies. #askacademia ) (2026-01-16 ↗)

Got my first personalized invite to publish from a predatory journal today. Does that mean I've made it as a scholar? (2026-01-15 ↗)

I’ll end this thread with a question, which multiple conceptions of “Post American” makes possible: How can this idea of Post American address the logics of American imperial power? Or, more complexly, can a Post American internet be imagined outside the spatial-political logics of the colony? I ask these questions because I think questions of empire and colony linger in our arguments about technology and access, as well as the ways technologies are imagined and constructed in profit-seeking arenas. There may be space in those questions to think in ways that imagine more and different futures for our technologies, their infrastructures and their uses. (2026-01-08 ↗)

This problem is probably out of the scope of Doctorow’s work. He describes in his talk about how coalition building is often fraught and made with compromise. Again, I am otherwise an advocate for his work in general. My hope is more to say, “here is an issue that might be interesting to think about, especially in reference to this term Post American.” (2026-01-08 ↗)

I am partially exaggerating Doctorow’s claims to help underline what I am seeing once I started thinking of a “Post American Internet” in the context of the Dead Pioneers’ framing of “Po$t American”: There is a colonial logic of creating new lands for conquest, and seeing that creation as an opportunity to raid the land for the gains of competing manufacturers. (Of course these ‘lands’ to which I am referring to are ‘proprietary code created by monopolistic enshitifying fascists who have and will steal anything and everything they can’ so it is still very much in our interest to repeal those laws. My concern is much more philosophical: why do we have to see that code as ownable, minable, profitable in the first place?) (2026-01-08 ↗)