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Hollywood Memories @hollywoodmemories.bsky.social · 10h

This is your weekly reminder that we're looking for participants from the US 👀 Share, sign up, be part of our study!

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Hollywood Memories (@hollywoodmemories.bsky.social)

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…

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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 12h

Horse, Rider and Clown (Le Cheval, l'écuyère et le clown) (plate V, pages 34 and 35) from Jazz, 1943–47, published 1947
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1141685

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

There are so few people actually asking, “is this any good for what we do?” Instead people give lip service to “responsible use” while plowing ahead with punching “AI” into everything. This isn’t just about selling a product; it’s about co-opting humanities researchers to train “AI” models.

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 2d

Oh look at that. Who is surprised that all of the outrage is manufactured?

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 2d

I would get a notarized letter from the biology department classifying my human children as vanity primates for the purposes of campus visits

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Dear listeners: BIG THINGS ARE COMING for our One Battle After Another recording this week! Stay tuned 🎧
In the meantime, revisit ep. 3 for a reminder that PTA can really direct the hell out of a road sequence
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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · 3d

The film|minutes video|graphic workstation is a tool for reading AND writing minute-by-minute analyses of moving-image media. (Thread)

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 3d

100%. It would have been a better film if it was a short just about that.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 3d

Reminded myself that the truck driving sequence was the best part of Licorice Pizza (by a considerable margin)

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 3d

The play with depth and the blind hills, just wondrously effective filmmaking

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 3d

He is an Actors’ Director for SURE.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 3d

Cannot agree more with this

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 3d

Reminded myself that the truck driving sequence was the best part of Licorice Pizza (by a considerable margin)

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 3d

Not ready to crown it the best of the decade or anything but h o t d a m n PTA can film a road sequence 🤌🏻

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4d

"Duke University Press brings their catalog in the humanities and social sciences to [Direct to Open], offering 20 frontlist titles annually alongside the MIT Press’s 80 scholarly books each year. Goldsmiths Press... will contribute several works that cut across disciplinary boundaries..."

MIT Press expands Direct to Open (D2O) open access model in 2026 with publishing partners

Direct to Open, MIT Press’s diamond open access model for monographs, looks to grow even further in 2026 with publishing partners Duke University Press and Goldsmiths Press.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a great conversation!

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 7d

Academic people, search for your editors. My chapters were stolen but they aren't listed by my name.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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Submit a Claim

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 7d

Periodic reminder that we have a YouTube archive of talks, video essays, and other adaptation-adjacent academic content! www.youtube.com/@association...

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 8d

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 8d

NEW EPISODE! Taking stock of summer '25 with a superhero rundown, featuring our regular guest @sailorjello.bsky.social to discuss three summer blockbusters: Superman, Fantastic Four, and KPop Demon Hunters.

ep. 91 | Superhero Summer: Superman (2025) & The Fantastic Four (2025), KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 8d

you won't believe how the verdict split on KPop Demon Hunters

You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 8d

NEW EPISODE! Taking stock of summer '25 with a superhero rundown, featuring our regular guest @sailorjello.bsky.social to discuss three summer blockbusters: Superman, Fantastic Four, and KPop Demon Hunters.

ep. 91 | Superhero Summer: Superman (2025) & The Fantastic Four (2025), KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

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bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 9d

I interviewed Jim Jarmusch: www.vulture.com/article/jim-...

‘Protect Empathy at All Costs. And Live Groovy Lives.’

Jim Jarmusch on what’s paying his bills these days and the words he lives by.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 10d

hard to imagine a more ideal festival experience!!

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 11d

came away from #NYFF opening night reinvigorated, exhausted, and in possession of some juicy Agnès Varda gossip. 10/10 no notes.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11d

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11d

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.

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