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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16h

As a person who cares about reading and human thinking, I’d like to share the simmering rage I feel knowing that opening a 4+ page essay in Adobe Acrobat automatically prompts this message: “This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant."

Text that appears when opening a PDF document in Acrobat: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant” appears.

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 5d

SNL made a sketch comedy adaptation of episode 91 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW9Q...

KPop Demon Hunters - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 22h

NEW EPISODE! 🔆 Just in time for spooky season, Wickham, Ada @sailorjello.bsky.social and Colleen discuss this summer's horror films in ep. 92, available here & wherever you get podcasts 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

ep. 92 | Summer Horror: 28 Years Later (2025), Weapons (2025) & Together (2025)

Podcast Episode · You Made Me Watch That?! · 10/12/2025 · 1h 4m

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 22h

[in the executive suite] hey fellas is it "authentic" to consider your European set a character in your heavily co-produced project

The Streaming Movie Project @vodmovies.bsky.social · 22h

Methinks the global streaming platform's executive doth protest too much. (2)

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 22h

looking forward to crying buckets at this

Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I quoted @bilgeebiri.bsky.social in my introduction to Hamnet tonight, warning everyone that this was going to be an emotional experience but I don't remember the last time I was sobbing so hard with 180 other people. Hamnet is an incredible film. Go see it when it opens in January.

Agnes and Will (played by Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal) stand looking at each other intensely in a clearing in the forest.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 22h

I only watched WEAPONS for this, but it's nice to know Ralph Fiennes can get dirty once in a while

You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 22h

NEW EPISODE! 🔆 Just in time for spooky season, Wickham, Ada @sailorjello.bsky.social and Colleen discuss this summer's horror films in ep. 92, available here & wherever you get podcasts 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

ep. 92 | Summer Horror: 28 Years Later (2025), Weapons (2025) & Together (2025)

Podcast Episode · You Made Me Watch That?! · 10/12/2025 · 1h 4m

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 1d

AI logic applied to weight loss. The pleasure (of art/writing/food) should be what innovation is offering, not what it takes away

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 1d

Angelica Jade Bastién argued this as well www.rogerebert.com/features/bri...

Bright Wall/Dark Room February 2016: "The Grace of Keanu Reeves" by Angelica Jade Bastién | Features | Roger Ebert

An excerpt from the February 2016 issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room about Keanu Reeves.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 1d

whole 🧵 but this summary is 💯

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2d

AI in education is unaccountable, opaque, and increasingly impervious to critique - you can't challenge it, you can't know what it does, you can't say it's wrong because it responsibilizes the user for its faults.

AI in education is something to avoid as much as you can.

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

Maybe if we rescind his Oscar it will reset our entire timeline

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Philip Morris to provide free cases of cigarettes to area schools amid debates over effects of tobacco on health.

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning

Microsoft Elevate Washington is a sweeping new initiative that will provide free access to AI-powered software and training for all 295 public school districts and 34 community and technical colleges ...

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International Media and Nostalgia Network @medianostalgia.bsky.social · 2d

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CfP: Technostalgia. Afterlives of 80s-90s’ Digital Technologies

Call for papers for the Technostalgia conference taking place on 19 June 2026 in Luxembourg City.

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Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 6d

I was on NPR Morning Edition to talk about the deeply troubling ethical issue of faculty using AI to grade student assignments. I'm glad this issue is getting more attention, but it is also one I don't see clear a path forward. www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

More college students are using AI for class. Their professors aren't far behind

More college students are using AI chatbots to help them with their studies. But data recently released by an AI company shows they're aren't the only ones using the technology.

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 5d

I bet the dog in Superman and Derpy Tiger go out for coffee together on weekends

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

Podcast Episode · You Made Me Watch That?! · 09/29/2025 · 1h 9m

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Hollywood Memories @hollywoodmemories.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 7d

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
open.spotify.com/episode/1NGR...

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