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joel @jblechinger.ca · 1d

I think the Jays actually lost because my partner and I became obsessed with this and played it too often over the past few days lol

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OK Blue Jays (Metal Version) - Shatterpoint

YouTube video by shanerpoint

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 2d

Kyle in Listowel - instantly iconic lol

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 3d

I helped a student working on Jane Schoenbrun's work today - so awesome. Definitely my fav thing I've been asked to help with this semester.

Surprisingly, there is a bit more scholarly stuff on Jane's movies already published than I would've thought!

Tons of interviews also to dig into.

joel @jblechinger.ca · 3d

Tremendous post from Tom Krell on this idea of "AI-induced psychosis":

howtodresswell.substack.com/p/i-guess-il...

i guess i'll weigh in on ai psychosis

i saw a tweet #1: AI psychosis, noopolitics, and the collapse of care: can we reckon as a global society with what can only be described as “a psychological and social disaster whose overriding conseq...

howtodresswell.substack.com

joel @jblechinger.ca · 3d

My off the dome take: it's because Wallen and HARDY have so successfully ingested Drake's aesthetics, so, if you count those, there are still rap songs on the top 40, just not "rap" songs ... if that makes sense???

joel @jblechinger.ca · 3d

Seated for "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 3d

This is actually a contender for my fav song of this year lol

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Nightcore - Honey (Taylor Swift)

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 3d

lol

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4d

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down

Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

www.404media.co

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 4d

Should I pay close to $30 to see the bad Springsteen biopic in a ~luxury/VIP~ cineplex? lol

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Dr. Ruth is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 4d

THIS! 👇
With the wonderful @annieknk.bsky.social

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 4d

New issue of "The Baffler" looks SO GOOD:

thebaffler.com/issues/no-81

no. 81—After Words

The history of literacy is a list of complaints. Critics reliably decry each new technological development as an attention-stealing toy. Before recent grousing about ChatGPT…

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 4d

The Stephen Marche, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley chattering classes will be ACTIVATED lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 4d

Bracing myself for, if the Jays can pull this off this weekend, "National Post" and "TGaM" style editorials ~meditating on nationalism~

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 4d

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

Mind exploding stuff

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Body And Soul

YouTube video by Rafael Toral - Topic

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 5d

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents - Communication and Change

Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents—chatbots—are increasingly integrated into telehealth platforms, employee wellness programs, and mobile applications to address structural gaps in me...

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

It's kind of wild how much harder the first edition cover of George Will's baseball book goes than the update lol

George Will - "Men at Work" modern cover showing standard photo of baseball diamond

George Will - "Men at Work" first edition cover where he is crouching in a suit against the backdrop of a baseball diamond looking incredibly swagged out

joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

So novel for this game to ... end on time lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 5d

Bassitt is so solid!

Instills confidence like no other Jays pitcher these days lol

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 6d

Now officially into the part of the day where I'm paying for ... watching that accursed baseball game into the 16th inning lol

joel @jblechinger.ca · 6d

Grokipedia is sooo stupid and fascinating.

Really wish I had the capacity to write something about it, or maybe update this presentation (mru.arcabc.ca/university-l...) that I did on IL, Wikipedia, and GenAI, because Grokipedia really is at the nexus of ... all of that stuff lol

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 6d

Vladdy hit a home run I have to teach in the morning.

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joel @jblechinger.ca · 6d

Please Vlad release us lol