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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 12d

Man I wish I’d known!! Would have loved to have seen you both!! Let’s go see something all three of us soon!!

Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 12d

Just to say, I thought it was fantastic. Genuinely fantastic. Terrific acting all around & the set is genius. I’m so so so glad I saw it.

Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 12d

What can I say? Made for me! Take my money! Gen X represent!

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 12d

What can I say? Made for me! Take my money! Gen X represent!

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 22d

Do you have experience copyediting or proofreading academic journals? Would you like to wrangle #AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Chinese or Italian to English? Do you have experience in managing or leading people? The #OTW is Recruiting! otw-news.org/w8thejrv

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 15d

I had a delightful conversation with the author of this. What I didn’t realize is that this sort of bot-making can be an art: there are better and worse ones, as in fic or art.

The Cut @thecut.com · 16d

Why have a regular chatbot boyfriend when you can have a celebrity one? AI bots and voice-cloning technology are remaking fan culture — one Pedro Pascal–voiced audio erotica at a time.

Why Have a Regular Chatbot Boyfriend When You Can Have a Celebrity One?

Why have a regular chatbot boyfriend when you can have a celebrity one? AI bots and voice-cloning technology are remaking fan culture — one Pedro Pascal–voiced audio erotica at a time.

www.thecut.com

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 21d

I had a great conversation with Precious Fondren for this article - check it out! typesetbrooklyn.com/articles/the...

The Show Was Cringe, but This Was the Summer We All Turned Pretty

How the teen drama became the most talked-about series of the last few months.

typesetbrooklyn.com

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 23d

“My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast,

and spend the rest of the day drawing."

Peter Falk #BOTD

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Book Notification @booknotification.com · 23d

#TheSummerWar by @naominovik.bsky.social
( #NewYorkTimesBestsellingAuthor; #Standalone)

A heartfelt story about a young witch who accidentally curses her brother to live without love and must find a way to undo the damage before it’s too late. (2/5)

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 24d

This is the absolute best ride in NYC.

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 24d

The issue looks amazing Mel!!! <3

Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 24d

Just got an email that they're doing a 2025 reprint of The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction, which now is also free to download! Essays by a lot of good people: mdpi.com/books/reprin... #mdpi via @MDPI

mdpi.com

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · 24d

Wow - banner day for fan studies really; I forgot that the latest TWC also just dropped. Issue 46!!! Few academic journals have ever run so consistently and well - and on time! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

TWC No. 46 released | Transformative Works and Cultures

journal.transformativeworks.org

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Huey @hueycallison.bsky.social · Sep 7

Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight? Buddy, I ain't got that kinda time. Pick one.

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · Sep 6

Transformative work of the day, 18th c edition!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 5

obsessed with this 21 savage/Amadeus edit

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · Sep 2

New Book on Open Access and Publishing: mailchi.mp/umich/now-av...

New Book on Open Access and Publishing

mailchi.mp

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 31

Look at this graph.

The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.

This is why we must build back union power.

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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · Sep 1

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 31

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks

www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers

Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.

www.axios.com

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Woke Jeff Dunham 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · Jan 8

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capital.

Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · Jan 8

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · May 21

Suddenly Last Summer!

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · May 19

Theatre Fandom is on the list of new theatre books for summer reading!

newyorktheater.me/2025/05/17/n...

New Theater Books for Summer Reading

Below is a manageable list of a dozen theater books — recently published or soon to be– that look to be good summer reads: five memoirs or biographies, four books of history or criticism, three nov…

newyorktheater.me

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · May 7

Transformative work of the day, mandatory repost edition

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · May 7

something to think about

What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management

Grab your umbrella and your tights.

neorsd.medium.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · May 5

Not weird, plus we've already seen the effects of people outsourcing their thinking to others. "AI" doesn't even think.

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · May 5

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · May 5

Today, U.S. Department of Education will resume collecting on defaulted student loans.

It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free.

This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)

The Real Story Behind Skyrocketing Student Debt | Robert Reich

Heather McGhee, Co-Chair of Color of Change, and Ian Haney Lopez, author of "Dog Whistle Politics", explain how racism h

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · May 5

Hot off the presses - Theatre Fandom, edited by me, @matt-hills.bsky.social & @kirstysedgman.bsky.social and featuring a collection of terrific essays. U Iowa Press 2025! (The two sides of my career have finally connected! \o/ Life makes sense now! :D)

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