I just checked to see how many episodes are left, oh wow, the first season of #ThePitt was fifteen episodes??? I feel like that never happens anymore. What a time to be alive!!!!!!

ICYMI I wrote about #ThePitt for #Emmys week @popjunctions.bsky.social henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...

ICYMI I wrote about #ThePitt for #Emmys week @popjunctions.bsky.social henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...

Got to write about my favorite new show For @popjunctions.bsky.social Emmys week!

Next up in #EmmysWatch2025 on Pop Junctions, @jackie-johns.bsky.social contextualizes #ThePitt within the long lineage of television soap operas.

Got to write about my favorite new show For @popjunctions.bsky.social Emmys week!

Got interviewed about my fall class on Teen Film for this :)

Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today I talk with @jackie-johns.bsky.social Gift 🔗

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

I have been researching seed-oil psychos for Maintenance Phase and I love how they occasionally show signs of self-awareness

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

"A lot of this infrastructure, billions of dollars of it, is being built just for a few customers and a few facilities and these happen to be the wealthiest companies in the world,” said Ari Peskoe, who directs the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University.

This upcoming semester I get to teach the class I have been training for all my life letterboxd.com/jackiejohns/...

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Is the theme of 2025 giving people things they never asked for, don’t want, and will make life just a little bit worse?

Philly’s own Jazmine Sullivan has CANCELLED her headlining set at today’s Welcome America concert in solidarity with striking DC 33 workers “until the city and union find a way to bring fair living wages to our working class. I love my city and believe in you” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainmen...

A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:

"Per the study, one glaring safety gap is the bots' inability to respond appropriately to users clearly at risk of self-harm or suicide." Trump's budget bill, currently in the Senate, would impose a 10-year moritorium on AI regulation. They have so little regard for human life.

We have this one a little twisted. Totally reasonable. But, folks have been pushing for this category for several years. Believe it or not, the idea is that traditional country would favor more women, people of color who are often pushed out of country and into Americana/folk country.

Making plans for the fall 😅

🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark? From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever. 🎧 Listen now ⤵️ www.kqed.org/news/1203198...

Ramell Ross really is a cinematic philosopher. I have to believe people will find and appreciate NICKEL BOYS in due time And I need him and André Holland to make something together in future

Anyway!

Justice for CHALLENGERS

Me to myself, at least once a day while reading social media:

The Pitt is television that doesn't just recognize but respects the possibilities of the medium. Long may it run.

Finally watched The Pitt, and we are so fucking back

YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?

Are music videos back?!?!?!?!

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

It’s getting real y’all. 97% of New York Magazine Union members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox Media. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

It's time to defend the laugh track 😈

Making my debut for @pastemagazine.bsky.social, I sat down with RaMell Ross for one of the most enriching conversations I’ve ever had. On a polytheistic lens, reaching into past lives via camera and SO much more. Really proud of this one: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/ramel...

I have long been obsessed with the manipulation of time in contemporary Black cinema. For @nytimes.com, I wrote about how NICKEL BOYS is leading a new wave of nonlinear Black storytelling.

Also infuriating that Nickel Boys didn't get a cinematography nomination or Challengers a score nomination.

No NICKEL BOYS in cinematography? It's really over

I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn't a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don't even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody's artwork!

Snubbed! 😡

Today in TV Analysis:

if you're an artist / art worker living in los angeles that has been impacted by the recent fires, applications for the LA arts community fire relief fund just went live. up to 10k in unrestricted funds (w/ proof of full time residency required); apps open until 2/18: www.cciarts.org/relief.html

Curated my Twitter within an inch of its life and now I just have to start over 🫠