i’m finding myself continuing to obsess over this idea of screen space and the interruptions that i endure as a user of things, this time with snapchat. i can’t say whether or not the app was actually capable of being aware that i was looking at my phone for the first time that day (my alarm had just gone off, i grabbed by phone and turned it off, saw the notification and took a screenshot). i was sleepy and not completely coherent so i’m having a hard time remembering how/why the interface looked the way it does, with the app zoomed out and the notification at the bottom? it’s like when you double-tap home to quit apps, but i haven’t been able to recreate or repeat the scenario exactly. i don’t really use snapchat that much these days, and now that they’ve changed the main screen to include stories it feels worse — too needy? desperate? inconsequential?. update: deleted snapchat from my phone

When playing doom I find myself more immersed than usual in a video game. I play the campaign mode, not the multiplayer so it’s just me playing. I often get bored of these types of games because the complicated story and such, but doom changed that for me. It is very fast paced with a lot of game, and basically no cut scenes. I feel that the reason that I get so into this game is because of the speed of it, all ur doing is running around at a very fast pace and killing monsters from hell… but it’s difficult and when there’s a lot going on it makes the experience more chaotic. In my opinion an entertaining gaming experience is something that throws a lot at you and really pulls you in with the diversity of the content. There’s different kind of enemies to kill and you have to mix up your strategy often. That keeps the game fresh and doesn’t get you bored of it.

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j('section.content.playlist span.tracklist-name').append('\", covered by Kidz Bop');
j('section.content.playlist span.artists-album.ellipsis-one-line').append(", ft. Kidz Bop");

j('article h2 a, div.item-list li div.views-field.views-field-title span.field-content a').append('...we think.');

j('div.fsl.fwb.fcb a').append(', Ph.D');

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j('div').css('border','0.1px solid red');

j('a:contains("Nazis")').prepend("(Content Warning)");

j('a:contains("ISIL")').prepend("(Content Warning)");

j('a:contains("Right")').prepend("(Content Warning)");

j('a:contains("violence")').prepend("(Content Warning)");

j('a').append('Blahblahblah');

j('a').append('&lt;img class="db" src="<a href="https://i.imgur.com/etjgJ2D.jpg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://i.imgur.com/etjgJ2D.jpg</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">"&gt;');



					

So recently I have been playing an online game called amq or anime music quiz. Basically, you can play with up to 8 other people and connect your myanimelist account (essentially like an imdb for anime) to the quiz. The quiz will then choose opening, ending, and/or insert songs from shows you and the other players have watched. Based on just the song alone you have to guess what series the song is from. There is a timer countdown that you can control, as well as how many songs per round, difficulty, etc. It’s a lot of fun to play with online friends cause you get to learn about their show preferences and also learn about new shows and some good music. It’s also competitive in that you get points for guessing correctly, though the only thing points get you is the ability to change your character avatar. The only major negative is that it can have some buffering and player issues, where a song will take too long to buffer or will be silent for some players. Or if you’re playing with someone with bad internet connection their game can check out and they’d be forced to leave the game which is what happens a lot below with some of the players from places like Australia.

replaced all privacy with tracking

messed with the line weight to make notifications unreadable

replaced all trump with BUTT! and all Trump’s with BUTT’S!

They saw me, and then they told me they saw me. We all know by now that all of our actions online are tracked, but this graphic seemed like they were mocking me. Yeah they see me, but what am I really going to do about it?

I don’t know if this is supposed to be a friendly gesture, like a friend shopping with you and giving you a nudge about a deal on something you saw, but it creeped me out. This is definitely making me rethink my browsing habits. All in all, they’re inadvertently causing me to not want to use the internet (read: their services) anymore.

 
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j('a').css('border','1px solid white');
j('a').append('  yo');

j('a:contains("sensei")').append(' for 100% losers');
j('a:contains("sensei")').css('background-color', 'red');
j('span:contains("Episode")').prepend('Nerd ');
j('li').prepend('weeb');
j('img').attr('src','https://a248.e.akamai.net/ib.huluim.com/show_key_art/27441?size=1600x600&region=US')

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j('a, product-link.js-product-link').prepend('Douchebag ');
j('h1').prepend('Extremely fucking skinny')
j('h1').css('border', '1px solid red');

j('h3:contains("GO")').append(' that nodody plays anymore');
j('span:contains("Trading")').prepend('Useless ');
j('span:contains("Games")').prepend('Amazing ');
j('span:contains("Pokédex")').append(' Of HELLA Pokemon');

j('img').attr('src','https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HUB2oNbwaEU/maxresdefault.jpg')
j('a').prepend('Apparently, ')

j(".headline").append(', says "What could go wrong?"')
j('a:contains("Fox News")').append(' runs on fear')
j('span:contains("Hot Topics")').prepend('Trump wears ')
j('span:contains("Hot Topics")').append(' new clothing line')

I kind of cheated on this one, but I was trying to find a way to change the button text and I couldn’t seem to do it with prepend

j('[name="btnK"]').val("Don't Google Search, It Hurts Me")
j('#gbqfbb').val("Google Roulette: I'm Feeling Lucky")
j('.sfibbbc').prepend(' please kill me ').css('font-size','26px').css('font-family','comic sans ms')

j('._58mv').append(' We reserve the right to change these terms at any time without notification and we will make opting out very very difficult.')
j('._58mt').append(" is a social construct ")

In an email sent out to the school grad, staff, and faculty populations, the current contract negotiations, and the threat of a strike were addressed. The graduate contact negotiations have been technically public record but many graduate student’s nor the union have shared weekly information until now. This has lead to a separation of knowns by parties occupying physical space together for many hours of the day. This has called to my attention the way Massmail is best way for admin to contact all parties on campus, but the infrastructure for other parties to send massmail takes much more labor and coordination. Lines of internet communication are there for limited even between individuals such as faculty, graduate students, and undergrad students who will interact in person on a daily basis.

This communication breakdown is not a recent phenomena but is exaggerated do to the contrasting speeds of person-to-person conversation and internet one-way communication. The internet communication resembles the authority of the news (one-way communication of facts). Its a complicated form of communication.

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j('.note_link_current').prepend("Holy shit there's ");
j('.username').prepend("WOW! ");

j('.js-stream-content-link').prepend("Oh FUCK: ");
j('.js-stream-content-link').css('font-weight','bold');

j('.TweetTextSize').prepend("👀 ");
j('.TweetTextSize').append(" 😜🤣💩💩💩👌💯💩💩💩💩");
j('.FullNameGroup').prepend("😒 ");

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j('.StationListItem__element').css('font-size','12px');
j('.StationListItem__element').css('margin','50px, 0px');

I was interested in snaphat over the weekend because it updated and changed how information was presented in a very major way that was surprising to me. The first thing I noticed was when updating the app it doesn’t have a good rating, which doesn’t cause us to act in any particular way, I just thought it was something really strange because it’s so popular and is even #1 in photo and video. Why do we all use it if we don’t appear to like it?

Onto the update functions I noticed, the first change I noticed was the screen to select who you want to send a snap to. It is broken into more clearly separated groups of people which are stories, best friends, recents, groups, and friends. This constructs the user by making it easier to send snaps to certain people. The way it’s organized makes it so you want to post a story or send it to the people you are already sending messages to because those are the top categories. It isn’t much different than before other than it looks nicer, but the group button was what really caught my attention. Because I don’t have any groups on snapchat I was presented with the message “You don’t have any groups yet! 🙃” The upside down smiley face always reads as really passive aggressive to me, so this constructs the user in a way that tries to make you feel bad for not using this function. It’s saying “oh you don’t have groups yet. ok it’s fine it’s whatever even though you should totally do it i’m not mad about it it’s cool your loss.”

Finally, the biggest change and the one I’m least happy with is in the way stories are presented. I follow Cr1tikal on snapchat who is a pretty popular youtuber, and he posted a story on snapchat. Later in the day when I got the update, I noticed that in the section where stories used to be, his looked like one of the weird articles that snapchat tries to push it’s users into reading. None of my other friends stories were there, his was only there because he is a popular person. It even says popular story on his image. I kept scrolling down to find people I knew in this section, only to see a bunch of random people’s stories or articles about something or I don’t even know what. Like who is the user “Chunky?” I don’t know her. I don’t want to see her story. To find my friend’s stories, they were moved to the list of friends. If you swipe left, they are now there and if you swipe right is where all the articles and random people are located. This constructs users by separating who you know into a private location and eveyone else into another location, which I guess makes it more organized? But it’s just confusing and unnecessary. I think it’s also pushing the idea that you should care about these people. They’re popular, so you should care. Your friends lives don’t matter as much and their stories are presented in a less obvious way now because of that.

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j('a:contains("Market")').prepend('Crashing ');

j('h2').prepend('As you should already know ');

j('a').prepend('Literally, ');

j('h2').append(' literally');

j('h3').append(' literally');