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Derek Kompare

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Media scholar/eulogist, higher ed administrator, teacher, spouse, parent, procrastinator, physical media stan, music omnivore, flâneur, short term skeptic, and disappointed with the internet since 1995. Posts do not reflect views of my employer.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 25d

A note (because it’s too long for the bio) that I don’t do hashtags, auto follow-backs, or redundant pile-ons.

Just random observations on media and gestures to cool stuff, with the occasional musings on HE and (if the glass has been broken) politics.

Bringing back Web 0.1.

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 7h

Every Doctor Who fan of a certain age has, upon their bookshelves, a dozen or so books published across four decades, each containing different essays on the virtues and vices of “The Hand of Fear” (and every other story broadcast since 1963).

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 15h

TBH, I went into this profession believing there would be a lot more overlap between "reading books" and "being an English professor" than there actually is. Sending emails, managing spreadsheets, handing tissues to weeping people: yes. Reading books, or substantial portions thereof, not so much.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 13h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 8h

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch A BETTER TOMORROW (1986) on our Hong Kong Action Classics collection! The box-office sensation that established director John Woo as the king of 1980s Hong Kong action cinema and set the standard for the heroic bloodshed genre.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 9h

Yep. And as I know you know, "fretting about other people's media consumption" goes way, way, way back further than the last 10 years. All the way back to the foundations of the field.

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Kliph Nesteroff @classicshowbiz.bsky.social · 10h

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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 11h

cc: @joshshepperd.bsky.social

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A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social · 12h

So thrilled, my Nashville book has arrived! You can order it here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/nashville... It's still 2025, so not too late for 50 year anniversary screenings. Need a guest speaker? "Let me be the one!"

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 12h

🎉 Congratulations! Great cover!

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 16h

A sequel to 2009's TVpocalypse is coming, but this time looks to be gratuitously messy. www.pcworld.com/article/2935...

Broadcasters bungled free antenna TV. Now they want a bailout?

The FCC will consider rules to phase out ATSC 1.0 and mandate ATSC 3.0 adoption, but its use of DRM has alienated pretty much everyone.

www.pcworld.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 18h

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 19h

Blissfully oblivi-Swift.

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

Another wistful piece from one of my favorite YouTube subgenres, 21st century southwestern ghost towns. youtu.be/BWA9dMtdiMY?...

What's REALLY Happening in Primm Nevada's Deserted Casinos

YouTube video by Vegas Exposed

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dallas Observer @dallasobserver.com · 2d

The installation at the historic Oak Cliff theater is taking us back to a time when things were simpler.

The Video Crypt Lives Again, Exhuming Nostalgia at the Texas Theatre

The installation at the historic Oak Cliff theater is taking us back to a time when things were simpler.

www.dallasobserver.com

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 2d

Maybe today. Maybe.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 3d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

Would love to hear this chat, though alas it's at the precise time I need to be heading home today.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

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And oftentimes PDs might actually have a relatively centrist Chief and leadership, but be relentlessly undermined and hounded from their own ranks.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d

when Sora was released, the entire app was people making Spongebob and Pikachu videos

Now there are guardrails preventing that, so the entire app is people complaining they cant make Spongebob and Pikachu videos

seems like an app with real staying power

www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday! 🎉