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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 · 23d

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.

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Dallas Observer @dallasobserver.com · 9h

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.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 10h

Maybe today. Maybe.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 11h

Thanks!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 16h

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 · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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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 · 15h

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...

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 17h

Happy birthday! 🎉

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

I’m most familiar with the West, West Coast, and Midwest as indicated on this map (and especially CA, NV, AZ, NM, CO, TX, WI, IL, and MI), so I have very little on the ground experience outside of major cities elsewhere. Like any map, YMMV! 🙂

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

This is a fascinating map, and rings pretty true from my travels. Each of these heavy black lines is almost tangible when you cross them at almost any point. The differences between the shaded sub-regions are more subtle but certainly discernible if you know what to look for.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

Every story is contextual and its own thing. That said, in general, skated-over questions >>>>>> boring-ass exposition scenes.

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

A sea change in the information ecosystem, and we're already well into it.

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d

My most optimistic opinion is that the combination of cheap AI-generated fake news and major legacy news orgs taking a torch to their reputations is going to create huge opportunities for independent journalists who maintain a reputation for honest, ethical reporting.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

it's hard to talk about this without sounding braggy but you can get pretty far as a business with sincerity and trust, mostly because so many goddamn businesses burn up that kind of intangible resource as soon as they get it, and everything is so dire right now that people are hungry for trust

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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 1d

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

Videodrome and, for similar obvious reasons, probably also eXistenZ.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

Bring back inscrutable security posters

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

Applications are now open for a TT faculty position in Art History (Medieval Art) here at Meadows. Apply or spread the word!

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Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · 2d

NYU-MCC is hiring! Asst. Prof in the area of “Media and Global Cities.” Please help us get the word out.
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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

DMB will always and forever only remind me of super-duper drunk undergrads on State Street in Madison circa 1995, when I was very much a grim, stressed and super not-drunk grad student doing prelims and getting a diss underway.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Tis a gift to be basic, tis a gift to be cringe

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Noir Haunted Shack🕸♬🎞🦇 @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · Aug 7

Good morning. ☕️

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

RIP CBS News (1930-2025).

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