i’d be curious to know whether any of the journalists who have taken to bluesky had prior experience in an earlier internet age with forums. for me at least, my acculturation into the social internet was by way of forums and so the lack of an algorithm seems natural to me.
June 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
i’d be curious to know whether any of the journalists who have taken to bluesky had prior experience in an earlier internet age with forums. for me at least, my acculturation into the social internet was by way of forums and so the lack of an algorithm seems natural to me.
Corso learns so many things from Maverick and Oriole. They provide a wonderful acculturation experience!
Maverick belongs to @nami955.bsky.social 🤍
Maverick belongs to @nami955.bsky.social 🤍
August 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Corso learns so many things from Maverick and Oriole. They provide a wonderful acculturation experience!
Maverick belongs to @nami955.bsky.social 🤍
Maverick belongs to @nami955.bsky.social 🤍
on my stream last night we discussing how acculturation into the legal world can sometimes be a hinderance to understanding the politics of the court and the relationship between law and democracy
This type of lawyer-brain is so, so bad and poisonous. The future of US democracy does *not* rest solely on whether Trump will defy court orders. It’s perfectly possible to destroy democracy without doing that, as long as you have a friendly court. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
March 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
on my stream last night we discussing how acculturation into the legal world can sometimes be a hinderance to understanding the politics of the court and the relationship between law and democracy
complete Alberta acculturation: French is whenever it sounds different and someone assures you it means the same thing
September 24, 2026 at 2:31 AM
complete Alberta acculturation: French is whenever it sounds different and someone assures you it means the same thing
I say this as someone pretty friendly to kink and play spaces: the idea of throwing a consensual non-consent *event* leaves me genuinely agog. I simply do not believe Aella and company are interested in constructing the kind of safeguards and acculturation you'd need to make that remotely safe
Let’s also remember that this is the same group of organizers in the Silicon Valley AI scene who are also involved with throwing “consensual non-consent” events - IE, simulated rape.
Which whistleblowers like Sonia Joseph have cited as creating a “coercive climate” for female AI researchers.
Which whistleblowers like Sonia Joseph have cited as creating a “coercive climate” for female AI researchers.
![I have seen people repeatedly get shut down for pointing out these problems.
Once, when trying to point out these problems, I had three OpenAl and Anthropic researchers debate whether I was mentally ill on a Google document.
thave no
history of mental illness; and this incident stuck with me as an example of blindspots/groupthink.
I am not writing this on the behalf of any interest group. Historically, much of OpenAl-adjacent shenanigans has been blamed on groups with weaker PR teams, like Effective Altruism and rationalists. I actually feel bad for the latter two groups for taking so many undeserved hits. There are good and bad apples in every faction. There are so many brilliant, kind, amazing people at OpenAl, and there are so many brilliant, kind, and amazing people in Anthropic/EA/Google/[insert whatever group]. I'm agnostic. My one loyalty is to the respect and dignity of human life.
I'm not under an NDA. I never worked for OpenAl. I just observed the surrounding Al culture through the community house scene in SF, as a fly-on-the-wall, hearing insider information and backroom deals, befriending dozens of women and allies and well-meaning parties, and watching many them get burned. It's likely these problems are not really on OpenAl but symptomatic of a much deeper rot in the Valley. I wish I could say more, but probably shouldn't.
I will not pretend that my time among these circles didn't do damage. I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends. I would like to devote my brain completely and totally to Al research finding the first principles of visual circuits, and collecting maximally activating images of CLIP SAEs to send to my collaborators for publication.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreif3sd7j56vpzwzakjpqwnd5zvtkcxv4ljfvgggt6y5e7p5qtunuh4)
September 27, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I say this as someone pretty friendly to kink and play spaces: the idea of throwing a consensual non-consent *event* leaves me genuinely agog. I simply do not believe Aella and company are interested in constructing the kind of safeguards and acculturation you'd need to make that remotely safe
I used to think getting your entire perception of queer history from Tumblr was the worst acculturation you could get, and then they invented TikTok queers
sometimes hanging out with other queer women is great but sometimes you run into people who get their entire conception of things from tiktok or insta and it shows
June 13, 2026 at 8:02 AM
I used to think getting your entire perception of queer history from Tumblr was the worst acculturation you could get, and then they invented TikTok queers
Perhaps I have responded too aggressively to identify as British. A case study in hyper acculturation
June 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Perhaps I have responded too aggressively to identify as British. A case study in hyper acculturation
basically among black Americans greater church attendance is associated with greater democratic party identification for reasons having to do with acculturation and notions of linked fate.
February 23, 2024 at 1:54 AM
basically among black Americans greater church attendance is associated with greater democratic party identification for reasons having to do with acculturation and notions of linked fate.
On the one hand, a complex sense of how race, ethnicity, nationalism, migration, bias, displacement, intermarriage and acculturation forge an identity and, on the other, puzzlement that decades of this history doesn’t fit cleanly in a five-item box.
The Mamdani Columbia story is an example of a microgenre where ethnic communities have had complex internal conversations about identity for generations and white people pratfall into them to go "what the fuck, why are you trying to trick me"
July 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
On the one hand, a complex sense of how race, ethnicity, nationalism, migration, bias, displacement, intermarriage and acculturation forge an identity and, on the other, puzzlement that decades of this history doesn’t fit cleanly in a five-item box.
the black church plays a different role and has a different impact re: the political and cultural acculturation of black americans than white churches do among white americans.
February 23, 2024 at 1:42 AM
the black church plays a different role and has a different impact re: the political and cultural acculturation of black americans than white churches do among white americans.
A non-trivial part of the issue here are the strong incentives within the academic legal culture to produce knowingly & facially absurd arguments as sorts of feats of cranial strength and very little acculturation pushing in the opposite direction.
The bad faith from Barnett & Wurman (in denying birthright citizenship) is revealed again by how they casually toss out distractions like admiralty law without grappling with the substance therein. They know the details don't support them, but they hope it's enough smoke to look like a fire.
I am utterly perplexed as to why anyone takes him seriously.
February 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A non-trivial part of the issue here are the strong incentives within the academic legal culture to produce knowingly & facially absurd arguments as sorts of feats of cranial strength and very little acculturation pushing in the opposite direction.
Power trumps acculturation every single time.
December 10, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Power trumps acculturation every single time.
The term “culturally Christian atheist” is slightly softer. But they usually object because they still haven’t worked through how Christianity is a sociological factor that impacts their acculturation and that acculturation doesn’t usually get deconstructed. “I dumped Jesus, I’m good” is the shtick.
January 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The term “culturally Christian atheist” is slightly softer. But they usually object because they still haven’t worked through how Christianity is a sociological factor that impacts their acculturation and that acculturation doesn’t usually get deconstructed. “I dumped Jesus, I’m good” is the shtick.
Every other country's families & govts invest to feed, nurture, & educate their kids for 18 years.
Then, we pick the best and brightest for free & we run them thru an intense acculturation & eval process.
Then, we pick the best & brightest of those to work & tax.
Amazing deal.
Being wrecked.
Then, we pick the best and brightest for free & we run them thru an intense acculturation & eval process.
Then, we pick the best & brightest of those to work & tax.
Amazing deal.
Being wrecked.
White House is planning to announce “a large new tax on international students who stay to work in the US after graduation”.
August 22, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Every other country's families & govts invest to feed, nurture, & educate their kids for 18 years.
Then, we pick the best and brightest for free & we run them thru an intense acculturation & eval process.
Then, we pick the best & brightest of those to work & tax.
Amazing deal.
Being wrecked.
Then, we pick the best and brightest for free & we run them thru an intense acculturation & eval process.
Then, we pick the best & brightest of those to work & tax.
Amazing deal.
Being wrecked.
junior male employees at financial institutions are deeply manosphered nowadays!!! their desire for cheddar no longer outstrips their acculturation
unbelievably funny that every major financial institution in the anglosphere refused to give a concretely negative financial projection for the united states economy because calling trump and the republican administration stupid was considered too politicized
Tough language from JPMorgan tonight:
“.. we view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts. .. these policies, if sustained, would likely push the US and global economy into recession this year.”
“.. we view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts. .. these policies, if sustained, would likely push the US and global economy into recession this year.”
April 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
junior male employees at financial institutions are deeply manosphered nowadays!!! their desire for cheddar no longer outstrips their acculturation
Some amount is reabsorption of aesthetics that are Jewish in origin, namely the fervor of the biblical prophets. Some is the aesthetic sterility and/or ill-suitedness of a lot of progressive Jewish rhetoric and imagery for the moment. Some is just Jewish acculturation in the multiracial lib-left.
January 22, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Some amount is reabsorption of aesthetics that are Jewish in origin, namely the fervor of the biblical prophets. Some is the aesthetic sterility and/or ill-suitedness of a lot of progressive Jewish rhetoric and imagery for the moment. Some is just Jewish acculturation in the multiracial lib-left.
There's a common notion that acculturation harms immigrant health, but acculturation is multidimensional (e.g., linguistic, residential, social). My new work shows it's the *mismatch* between dimensions - not acculturation itself - that explains immigrants' health decline:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Is Acculturation the Culprit? Acculturative Discordance and Immigrants’ Later-Life Health - Leafia Zi Ye, 2026
Immigrants have similar or higher disability levels than the U.S.-born in later life, which is puzzling given they have a health advantage upon arrival. A popul...
doi.org
June 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
There's a common notion that acculturation harms immigrant health, but acculturation is multidimensional (e.g., linguistic, residential, social). My new work shows it's the *mismatch* between dimensions - not acculturation itself - that explains immigrants' health decline:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Eh, ultimately I think it gets back to the point Tarek Masoud made about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Right-wing political acculturation is embedded in institutions (most importantly, churches) that are structurally advantaged in drawing on society's subsidization and weathering state crackdowns
Right-wing political acculturation is embedded in institutions (most importantly, churches) that are structurally advantaged in drawing on society's subsidization and weathering state crackdowns
"Why has the US right since the 1970s been more effective than the left at grassroots community organizing? Part of the answer is that our side has no events with bouncy castles."
read theory damn it
www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...
read theory damn it
www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...
Why is the Left No Fun?
Bouncy Castle Communism is the Solution
www.laborpolitics.com
May 27, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Eh, ultimately I think it gets back to the point Tarek Masoud made about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Right-wing political acculturation is embedded in institutions (most importantly, churches) that are structurally advantaged in drawing on society's subsidization and weathering state crackdowns
Right-wing political acculturation is embedded in institutions (most importantly, churches) that are structurally advantaged in drawing on society's subsidization and weathering state crackdowns
New paper by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & Mesoudi on acculturation.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
A must read!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
A must read!
April 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
New paper by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & Mesoudi on acculturation.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
A must read!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
A must read!
Global acculturation via American AI slop—a huge win for the Empire which has gone unheralded.
January 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Global acculturation via American AI slop—a huge win for the Empire which has gone unheralded.
Writing about assimilation, acculturation, and Superman for a podcast episode, and wondering how deep in the weeds of history I need to go.
January 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Writing about assimilation, acculturation, and Superman for a podcast episode, and wondering how deep in the weeds of history I need to go.
cringe is based. kill the voice in your head that says that you're being cringe. cringe is society trying to control you through your acculturation.
I was about to post some art from late high school early college and then I was like....the youth today can't escape the cringe they post. I don't have to post mine.
...I can make NEW cringe. Wait.
...I can make NEW cringe. Wait.
June 9, 2024 at 2:23 AM
cringe is based. kill the voice in your head that says that you're being cringe. cringe is society trying to control you through your acculturation.
Il y a un énorme souci à parler de "démocratisation de l'IA" pour désigner ce processus de violente acculturation orchestré par des intérêts économiques et politiques profondément antidémocratiques.
Comment la démocratisation de l’IA a chamboulé notre rapport au vrai et au faux
Comment la démocratisation de l’IA a chamboulé notre rapport au vrai et au faux
Vidéos bluffantes avec Sora, information personnalisée via ChatGPT, factchecking à la volée avec Grok… En un an, l’intelligence artificielle générative a bouleversé notre écosystème informatif, ouvrant une nouvelle ère d’immédiateté, d’abondance, mais aussi de doute permanent.
www.lemonde.fr
February 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Il y a un énorme souci à parler de "démocratisation de l'IA" pour désigner ce processus de violente acculturation orchestré par des intérêts économiques et politiques profondément antidémocratiques.
Today’s Worldcon look: acculturation!
August 8, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Today’s Worldcon look: acculturation!
You've got the timeline all wrong. MW2 lobbies were really the only thing keeping kids who didn't have a playground normal. Everything collapses fast after that acculturation lifeboat sinks.
May 22, 2026 at 7:18 PM
You've got the timeline all wrong. MW2 lobbies were really the only thing keeping kids who didn't have a playground normal. Everything collapses fast after that acculturation lifeboat sinks.