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Cory Barker 🆗

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Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger. Book 📖: SOCIAL TV: MULTI-SCREEN CONTENT AND EPHEMERAL CULTURE Newsletter 📰: TV PLUS

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Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 10h

IU at the bleeding edge of cowardice. Just sign the Trump compact already

Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid dispute over student newspaper's content

The director of student media was fired after he pushed back against a university directive over what gets printed in the Indiana Daily Student.

www.indystar.com

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 15h

shut! the! fuck! up!

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 5d

I read this a few years ago! mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Cinema Year Zero: TikTok and the Grammar of Silent Film

The forms and formulations of the social-media juggernaut TikTok are rooted in the earliest of all films.

mubi.com

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 7d

woke

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 7d

let's do the fucking news is the most libbed out thing anyone can say

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 8d

heh

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 10d

On the other hand, private equity in the B1G sounds pretty good

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 11d

basketball

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 11d

you know people are just using AI to do that (poorly) now

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 12d

You simply are not allowed to express negative thoughts about Taylor Alison! Thought crime

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12d

taylor, come on, you gotta chill out. you cannot be writing about charli like that. this is less a diss track and more you seething for several minutes. oh my god.

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 14d

Napheesa rocks, obv

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 14d

Cathy Englebert is a psy-op to distract us from how bad Adam Silver is, and it's simply time for them both to go

Daniel Thompson @dr-thompson.bsky.social · 14d

Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.

She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky

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Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 16d

The Kansas City Chiefs

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 19d

Honored that Penn State and ESPN have selected me to be the guest picker on GameDay this weekend

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 20d

Reading brief assignments where students reflect on *just reading news*, it's fascinating to see how effective "bias" discourse has been. Student after student claiming they can "just see" or "sense" a story's bias—with no evidence. Attacks on journalists work!

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 21d

HYFR

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 22d

TJ McConnell

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 22d

Who do you think should win the 2025 Ballon d'Or?

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 23d

Indianapolis is beautiful in January

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 25d

they're trapped in here with me, not the other way around.

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Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 25d

getting into political arguments on the Bill Simmons subreddit, again

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 25d

Look, it’s not open mic night in America

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25d

Really incredible stuff from Bill Simmons, who of all the possible angles chose “this isn’t so bad because famous people can make their OWN platforms and don’t need networks anymore,” and then hit us with a “brought to you by FanDuel” outro. No one’s doing it like him.

It's not a late night show that Jimmy is lucky enough to host, even though he is lucky. He can still have that platform wherever he wants, because he's the platform. And that's the difference in this.
And that's why I don't think this is quite as scary and terrible as maybe it felt this week. Yeah, we're going to have censorship.
Yeah, stupid shit like this apparently is going to keep happening for the next three years.
Yeah, the discourse is the ugliest that's ever been. But I still feel like if somebody's good enough to have a platform, they can find it.
So I hope Jimmy Show sticks around, and I hope ABC sticks by him.

And I think if they don't, I think it would be pretty cowardly. I don't think that's a crazy thing to say.
But if they don't stick by him and this is the end, I think he's going to be fine.
He'll find another platform somewhere, and he'll figure out how to get all his content out in the right ways. And I would not bet against that, dude. So, this situation sucked.
I kind of can't believe it didn't happen. It had to be the lowest threshold ever for an overreaction like this. But ultimately, maybe the way everybody rallied around the show the last 24 hours and just rallied around the concept of free speech, maybe we needed it.
So, stay tuned. We're going to take a break, talk football. The Bill Simmons Podcast is brought to you by Fandl.

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 26d

Vanity Fair swooped in before CBS could make a max offer, I assume

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 26d

Inbox: Jennifer Pastore, Olivia Nuzzi, Lindsey Underwood, Aidan McLaughlin to join Vanity Fair

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 26d

A bleak "positive note" about The Paper's performance on Peacock

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 27d

The Morning Show makes me believe in dead internet theory

Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 28d

A favorite poster type is the "account not actively monitored" bio guy who posts every single day