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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27d

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Hollywood Memories @hollywoodmemories.bsky.social · 15d

You like movies? 🎞️ Were born in the US? 🇺🇸 And really really like to talk about Hollywood and all things related? 🍿 Then we're looking for you! Our US case study is about to start, and we want to find out about your movie memories.

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Comparative Cinema @comparativecinema.bsky.social · 16d

📢 NEW CFP 📢

The next issue of Comparative Cinema invites contributors to reflect on hapticity (or "haptic visuality") in film and television from different perspectives (the affective turn, cinematography, queer studies, and more).

Deadline: January 30, 2026

More here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 18d

every time I see another story about AI taking over a creative job I think about this scene in YOU’VE GOT MAIL and weep

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 22d

Lizzie Borden's (@lizziela.bsky.social) New York Feminisms trilogy is now on Blu-ray thanks to the @Criterion Collection. Here’s an excerpt from my conversation with Borden about her films in my book “Cinema Her Way"

Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/celebratin...

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 23d

There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!

grossmjj @grossmjj.bsky.social · Aug 20

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx

To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 26d

The Consensus for Showdown № 220 is in 🗳️

Here are the top twenty remakes (revisited), as voted by the Letterboxd community 🔁

View the list: boxd.it/OJDEg

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 26d

“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to th...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 7

Linguistics lesson for the day: Accountability is crucial to interpreting language. We make sense of something based on who we believe said it. Synthetic text extruded by LLMs was not said by anyone -- so a crucial step in the chain is broken.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Sep 7

LLMs are not a suitable technology for information access. Here is a quick summary of why not:

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But to take the SIFT framework, LLMs cannot be a source. They are synthetic text extruding machines, that's all. Text without accountability.

Information literacy and chatbots as search

By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · Aug 31

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people

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Brunella Tedesco Barlocco @brunellatedesco.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Brunella Tedesco Barlocco @brunellatedesco.bsky.social · Aug 26

Joined forces w/one of my closest friends, the wonderful Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro. "Frontera" is one of my favorite poems, I hope to have done justice to its beauty. Special thanks to @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social for letting this be part of her "Moving Poems" collection!

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Brunella Tedesco Barlocco @brunellatedesco.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's a pleasure and an honor to be part of such a beautiful collection of video poems 🌟

Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social · Aug 26

New Moving Poem by @brunellatedesco.bsky.social!
"Frontier" beautifully hones in on the figure of the horse in mutliple canonical films and relates them to Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro's poetry. Please check out this marvelous piece here!
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Moving Poems on Vimeo

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Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social · Aug 26

New Moving Poem by @brunellatedesco.bsky.social!
"Frontier" beautifully hones in on the figure of the horse in mutliple canonical films and relates them to Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro's poetry. Please check out this marvelous piece here!
vimeo.com/showcase/957...

Moving Poems on Vimeo

Join the web’s most supportive community of creators and get high-quality tools for hosting, sharing, and streaming videos in gorgeous HD with no ads.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 24

hopefully of use in this time suck against-a-i.com

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Hollywood Memories @hollywoodmemories.bsky.social · Aug 23

Psst: Our US case study is about to start, and we are looking for people from the US who love to talk about everything Hollywood. 🤩
Sounds like you or someone you know? Then share this information and register on our website:
hollywood-memories.com/en/participa...

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Aug 17

Real talk (reel talk?):

BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

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Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 135+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI

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grossmjj @grossmjj.bsky.social · Aug 20

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx

To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · Aug 19

The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.

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Brunella Tedesco Barlocco @brunellatedesco.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some great insight here to remember as the school year is about to start. Really curious to know how university professors are rethinking their evaluation methods (and perhaps their whole teaching approach) to deal with this

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jun 2

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Aug 12

Colonisers hate libraries, they hate the dissemination and democratisation of information, they hate us knowing anything. Does anyone else get the feeling that this is in part a push to force those of us resisting genAI to use it b/c there is nothing else available? *dusts off Encarta CD-ROMS*

matt’s slutty lil halloween name @windows98support.bsky.social · Aug 11

The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act

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Brunella Tedesco Barlocco @brunellatedesco.bsky.social · Aug 12

Un honor contar con estos escritos de Christa Blümlinger en nuestro más reciente número de Comparative Cinema. Textos seleccionados por Blümlinger e Ignacio Albornoz, y traducidos por Albornoz.

Comparative Cinema @comparativecinema.bsky.social · Aug 12

Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Eli Lotar, Mark Lewis y más son analizadxs en una selección de textos de Christa Blümlinger, ahora traducidos al castellano.

Más información, en nuestro último número: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

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Comparative Cinema @comparativecinema.bsky.social · Aug 5

‼️ NEW ISSUE ‼️

"Echoes and Reverberations: Reflections on Film Trilogies", w/articles on: Ermanno Olmi, Wim Wenders, the Fear Street Trilogy, Eric Pauwels, Terence Davies & Lucrecia Martel. The issue includes a dossier w/Spanish translations of texts by Christa Blümlinger

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