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Derek Kompare

@dkompare.bsky.social

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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 · 27d

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.

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 11h

Had a lovely dinner with my parents and some of their friends tonight. At 56, I was the youngest person there. Wine, great food, great talk, lore from NM and around the world, and Cypriot brandy.

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 15h

I saw this as well, and had no idea of the context. But I for one embrace being generationally out of the loop, and look forward to more inscrutability from Gen Z.

Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 17h

i feel so old because i have no idea what the hell any of this is

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 18h

Tenure committee is deadlocked.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 23h

* or metaphors, probably!

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 23h

I write only in a third-party notes app with minimal bells and whistles and copy-and-paste over to Word for formatting only when the text is “picture-locked” (to mix editing meatphors).

But man I still miss WP 5.1 because I am That Old.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 5d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf, it was a short 80 minute flight and longer would have frayed more. But still, I tip my hat to that feral energy.

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

An omen early on: when we taxied out, the flight attendant asked us to lower our shades and “enjoy the nap.” A sharp high-pitched voice a couple rows behind me declared “I don’t take naps.”

That’s damn right: Fight the power, girl, fight the power.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

Pure, distilled 8-10 year-old DGAF energy. Not quietly buried in screens, but loudly bouncing off each other. Glad to hear poopy and peepee material is still de rigeur in 3rd grade.

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

I say this with respect, admiration, and honestly only a little annoyance: those were the loudest fucking kids I’ve ever been around on a flight.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 1d

Off to a week in New Mexico in the fall. Looking forward to cooler days and nights, desert and mountain air, lots of crunchy leaves, and as always, fantastic food.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re lucky, your best local stations might actually do some solid work on occasion. But national broadcast news has been toxic for decades. Yes, this includes NPR.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

Every Doctor Who fan of a certain age has, upon their bookshelves, a dozen or so books published across four decades, each containing different essays on the virtues and vices of “The Hand of Fear” (and every other story broadcast since 1963).

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 2d

TBH, I went into this profession believing there would be a lot more overlap between "reading books" and "being an English professor" than there actually is. Sending emails, managing spreadsheets, handing tissues to weeping people: yes. Reading books, or substantial portions thereof, not so much.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 2d

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch A BETTER TOMORROW (1986) on our Hong Kong Action Classics collection! The box-office sensation that established director John Woo as the king of 1980s Hong Kong action cinema and set the standard for the heroic bloodshed genre.

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. And as I know you know, "fretting about other people's media consumption" goes way, way, way back further than the last 10 years. All the way back to the foundations of the field.

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Kliph Nesteroff @classicshowbiz.bsky.social · 2d

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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 2d

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A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social · 2d

So thrilled, my Nashville book has arrived! You can order it here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/nashville... It's still 2025, so not too late for 50 year anniversary screenings. Need a guest speaker? "Let me be the one!"

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

🎉 Congratulations! Great cover!

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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 2d

A sequel to 2009's TVpocalypse is coming, but this time looks to be gratuitously messy. www.pcworld.com/article/2935...

Broadcasters bungled free antenna TV. Now they want a bailout?

The FCC will consider rules to phase out ATSC 1.0 and mandate ATSC 3.0 adoption, but its use of DRM has alienated pretty much everyone.