Our team's paper, "Dialing for Videos: A Random Sample of YouTube," is out now in @journalqd.bsky.social. We analyzed 10,000 random YouTube videos through metadata analysis, a spoken language identification model, and hand-coding. Here are our 5 main takeaways:

view from mt. tom in easthampton, ma. i love western mass!!

VERY excited to delve into: loud men talking loudly report on exclusionary cultures of internet governance – corinne cath. https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf

waking up and checking bluesky immediately

went to gay church (muna show) last night 🤠

last night on the drive back from rebecca black (she was so so good 🤩), we were talking about how the virality she experienced in 2011 would never be possible today. with the quantity of content we view now and algorithmic recs, could we ever have as widespread of a cultural moment again?

this past weekend in dc, i learned that the smithsonian was named after some british guy named smithson??? and he’s entombed in this castle???

This morning, I ground some roasted beans then irrigated them with water. I drank the resulting liquid. And you won’t guess what happened next. I experienced higher levels of energy and productivity. And I want to share this experience with you. Are you ready to join me on this journey?

april 5x5!

me and my best friend (my roommate’s dog Bourbon) love to look wistfully out the window