Annie Boustead

@annieboustead.bsky.social

132

Followers

140

Following

149

Posts

Associate Professor, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona. I mostly study drugs, surveillance, and privacy - sometimes separately and sometimes together.

Posts Replies Media

Reply to

Kevin M. Kruse

This is why I really have no interest in ever being social media famous. It does not seem like a pleasant experience.

Reply to

Kendyl Hanks

My dog has a similar view on baths.

My goal in life is to be able to sleep like this.

I think a bunch of this is that AI is being discussed (and marketed) based on huge, shiny, expensive, and invasive (and flawed) use cases, but there's much less emphasis on where it is being used to add small but helpful function.

(On the consumer-facing side, at least) I think eventually the former uses will bust, but the latter uses will stay (and slowly be expanded upon).

Reply to

Michael Hobbes

I don't know that I'd use the words "Freud" and "psychological literature" in the same sentence.

I've gotten a couple of these postcards! They are really nice.

I've written hundreds of postcards through Postcards to Swing States. Very easy! No phone anxiety! www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

Reply to

Mirya Holman

Thanks! I was a bit alarmed.

After This Past Week, I would very much like a list of summer movies/books that are brilliant but not to be taken too seriously.

My votes - Midnight Mass (streaming on Netflix; it starts out slow but the fifth episode is literally the best hour of tv I’ve ever seen) and Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (the book I am most sad has not been made into a movie).

Reply to

Mirya Holman

Is wifehood a term that is actually used in your literature? (Just curious - it sounds odd to my ears but I don’t usually do gender)

I'm supposed to be grading papers...

Reply to

Daniel S. Goldberg

I'm sure it will be okay, as long as nothing bad happens that we might want to address through policymaking.

This can only end well.

Reply to

Daniel S. Goldberg

Look, all I want is someone, somewhere who is both willing and able to make policy. Is this too much to ask?

Reply to

Daniel S. Goldberg

Well, we can get explicit legislative policymaking to preempt local public health policies. So...go team?

I think this is my biggest takeaway from the end of this term. We don't have a functional Congress; the Court is not interested in letting us try to use other mechanisms to substitute for a functional Congress. This is likely to become problematic when we actually really need to make policy.

Reply to

Daniel S. Goldberg

It was an interesting moment.

I was very, very confused here for awhile until I figured out what Furries were.

BlueSky is the kind of website where you could post “no kink shaming” as a joke and get multiple responses yelling at you for 1.) joking about kink shaming; and 2.) that what you are joking about is actually a kink and don’t joke about that either.

Reply to

David M. Perry

This is now the plot of Homeward Bound.

Okay, yes to all of this, but I also want Star Wars: West Wing. [I also think it would be HYSTERICAL to have a Law & Order:Star Wars just because there has been every other type of L&O. Very straightfaced; produced by Dick Wolf]

Reply to

Micah

I don't usually have broad political conversations because they are outside the scope of the class, but it is really hard to make an argument for the importance of guardrails when "the other side" has been dancing on top of them without repercussions for years.

Reply to

Pwnallthethings

IMO, this is the biggest difference between my students' political expectations and mine. Much of their political memory is from the Trump Administration, so they assume Biden does not really mean the things he says because he has not unilaterally acted in a way that likely exceeds his authority.

I’m afraid of what will happen if this insight ever permeated seminar culture.

Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

I'm sure any attempts to achieve this will only end well.

A lot of this discussion has reminded me of encryption debate for reasons I haven't quite been able to put my finger on, and I think this is it.

Apparently, there's an entire other week left in June and I just...can't.

Reply to

Very Very Common Mike Dunford

Thanks! I'll definitely have to check out his work!!

This is an entire research agenda in a "tweet."

Yup. Your thoughts and money might be out in the vast nowhere of cyberspace, but your ass is firmly planted in the jurisdiction of someone's courts.

Reply to

Annie Boustead

When I sit on the couch she curls up at my side, and it is the sweetest thing.