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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 8h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 10h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Have you seen 3D animations from the IDF showing secret Hamas hideouts?

According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets—sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently they're starting to release production photos of the HBO HP series, and while I will not be watching it, I do look forward to the new meme formats it is sure to produce for us

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 15h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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BAFTSS Adaptation SIG @adaptationsig.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that our first event - Adaptation and AI - with @huntressleine.bsky.social and Reece Goodall - is next Weds 15th at 2pm (online) - DM us for the link!

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 2d

I’m desperately sorry for staff at these institutions. I’m also sorry it wasn’t news when my institution did it to us two years in a row, 2020-2022.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 3d

I'm just saying that with the success of K-Pop Demon Hunters and in an era dominated by discussions around the impact of AI on the creative industries, now is the time for a Misfits-focused Jem and the Holograms reboot

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4d

Uk government reached the “harassing lawyers who win cases against us” stage of opression.

“Fahad is a senior solicitor specialising in cases involving national security and has a strong track record of holding the British government to account”

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Please sign this by 4PM.
Fahad is coming under increasing harassment from the British authorities and we are circulating this Statement of Solidarity after he was stopped by Welsh police on 6th August with his family coming back to the UK after a holiday in Ireland.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1srI...

Statement of Solidarity with Fahad Ansari

DEADLINE FOR SIGNATURE: SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2025, 4:00 PM We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, condemn the escalating campaign of harassment by the British authorities against Irish Musli...

docs.google.com

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13d

If you are an educator, here's our curated list of educational games to help improve your students' ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. deepfakestracker.org/digital-lite... More games will be added later this fall.

Digital Literacy Games – deepfakestracker.org

Digital Literacy Games – A curated list of educational games to test your ability to identify deepfakes and develop digital literacy skills. Creating Disinformation Games Cat Park Players are challen...

deepfakestracker.org

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Nina Heise @ninaheise.bsky.social · 14d

The CfP for the 1st themed issue of our journal Fandom | Cultures | Research is out & I'm especially excited for this one, since it combines two of the things I'm most interested in: #fanstudies & #memorystudies. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26.

journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...

Call for Abstracts - Themed Issue 2/26 & Accompanying Workshop: “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance” | Fandom | Cultures | Research

journals.uni-marburg.de

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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 13d

Okay, but counter-argument - Tony Blair really, really, really, REALLY, really wants them so...

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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 13d

Having studied #digitalID in depth for my PhD and written a book about this way before anyone had even flagged it as a problem - this a TERRIBLE idea. We have been warning the UK government about the dangers of digital ID for years. No one listened. #digitalidentity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 13d

Sovereign citizen shot shot two people only weeks ago, there’s Nazis mobilising and a Labor MP is touting a MAGA fash narrative

6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 13d

Labor MP Tom Koutsantonis, South Australia's new treasurer, has told The Australian he is "very worried about that type of woke agenda"

"Young men used to make up a big cohort of Labor voters...a lot feel as if they have no voice representing them from any party," he said

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 13d

COUNCILS DON'T NEED YOU TO PROVE YOUR IDENTITY IN ORDER TO REPORT A POTHOLE. THEY DON'T EVEN NEED YOU TO *REVEAL* YOUR IDENTITY.

Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes

Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 13d

Brilliant thread from @keyne-unable.bsky.social on why the introduction of digital ID (and the encoding of 'birth sex' in a single government record) has long been an objective of anti-trans campaigners in the UK 👇

Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 13d

Digital ID is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons: technical, political, economic. Especially with the involvement of far right tech oligarchs and it being explicitly sold as a way of surveilling people so as to imprison or deport immigrants.

But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...

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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 16d

Got to say, did not ever expect to be able to preface the name "Michael Eisner" with the phrase "I am pleasantly surprised by", but such is the world in which we are currently living...
www.businessinsider.com/disney-forme...

Ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner blasts the Kimmel suspension: 'Where has all the leadership gone?'

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner sounded off on ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show, in a thinly veiled shot at current leader Bob Iger.

www.businessinsider.com

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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 16d

Depressing that in the current cultural moment this headline feels like a gesture of radical empathy

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 20d

One day in the books, one more on the docket for To Be Continued...! Registration is still open: ubalt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
On tonight's program: panels on Franchises and Legacies...

Program text listing participants for the Franchises and Legacies panels of the fifth To Be Continued event.

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 20d

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/46ILa9z

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

on.ft.com

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Wolfcat 🥄 @wolfcat.bsky.social · 20d

Of course 5:30pm on a Friday is when you do your presser for a story you want to be gone...

"Optus’ network failed for triple-0 calls, contributing to three deaths, CEO says

Optus’s CEO, Stephen Rue, says the telecommunications company had an outage affecting triple-0 calls."

YIKES YIKES YIKES

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 21d

Happening 👏🏻 today 👏🏻

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...

docs.google.com

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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 21d

Sure, why not; an IP film about attempting to find fulfillment and self-determination only to be confronted with one's powerless in the face of forces you can neither comprehend nor imagine feels like as good a comment on the current cultural moment as any...
www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/th...

The Sims movie is still happening for some reason, and it's gonna be 'somewhere in-between both The Lego Movie and Barbie'

Great. Cool. Makes perfect sense.

www.pcgamer.com

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 21d

The fact that the UK is built on a class system that prioritises the high classes is not a secret.

The main issue is when they try to pretend social mobility exsists by forcing universities to measure 'graduate outcome' as if a university degree can erase hundreds of years of class advantage 🤷‍♀️

The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Britain’s most powerful people are still 5x more likely to have been privately educated than the general population.

Our brand-new research reveals that jobs in the media, business, charity, creative and public sectors remain dominated by those from private schools ⤵️🧵

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21d

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 21d

"These submarines will lock us into the warlike activities of nuclear weapon states.

"It is a complete repudiation of decades of Australian anti-nuclear weapons policy."

- The Hon. Doug Cameron, former Senator for NSW
#auspol @dncameron.bsky.social

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