Said it before, and I’ll say it again, but for people like me, this would be transformative - it would stabilise our incomes, and allow us to plough more time into creative work and less into stuff anyone could be doing. AND it’s a net economic benefit to the country.

🌻 Varda mentioned 🌻

as I've been saying! and those amount to a LOT of asides!!

please listen as I enter my fourth decade of not shutting up about The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). RIP to a real one, long live Bernadette!

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

please listen as I enter my fourth decade of not shutting up about The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). RIP to a real one, long live Bernadette!

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I see what you did there, Le Monde

my feed is at least a dozen bad bunny halftime analyses that run a minimum five skeets deep and no one posting the score

free them all

Looking forward to AAS 2026 at Burman University, Canada & dreaming of what comes next... If your institution would like to host a future AAS conference, get in touch! Our Board considers applications throughout the year. Past conferences: www.adaptation.uk.com/category/aas...

gonna tell our students this is the 21st century's cinema of attractions (Gunning)

The French government raided the offices of X in Paris due to Grok's regular creation of CSAM. Musk claimed he was being persecuted & the official French Foreign Ministry responded with the following:

The Last Duel (2021) nailed this dynamic exactly. The rapist went into the duel entirely convinced he was blameless (and his opponent was more keen on defending himself than the actual victim).

NEW EPISODE on the classic British TV series The Avengers, featuring a *very* special guest you have to hear to believe... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

Happy Groundhog Day from a granddaughter of Punxsutawney ❄️ 🌱 🌞

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

How can a paper that was never written end up with 60+ citations in multiple journals and books with several different author and co-author credits? Maybe it started with human error/malpractice, but AI is clearly reproducing and amplifying the zombie infection.

🐋 finished 📖 🎉 🍻 in conclusion, if we take a spin on Melville's Wheel of Morality: - Bartleby = vet your employees - Moby Dick = vet your employers

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Last call, literary translators. It will only take you 5 minutes!

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Less than one week to submit pedagogical materials for our special issue on teaching adaptation, Adaptation and Comics! Deadline is February 1st, we want to heard from you! adaptationtoday.com/resources/pe...

Ms. Bond showing how it's done: "Where are those skills going to be built, if not here?" 👈

„It‘s not that bad“ www.newsweek.com/germany-issu...

“The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors.” This sentence from @adamserwer.bsky.social made me unexpectedly get choked up. It’s weird what does that these days. But still …

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19734

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

Some academic habits are maladaptive in wider society. But “cite your sources every time” — and information literacy habits more generally — deserves to be educational priority number one right now

A teacher literally shaking as she describes the threat from her own government to the children she teaches www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Whew

🐋 📖 recent chapters have been, um, a bit too familiar... [follow the thread...]

🐋 📖 Posting through the horrors with some new additions to my Moby Dick clothing thread. Not much to work with amidst the deluge of Whale Facts, but a few tidbits finally emerged...

'Researchers at SE Ranking, a search engine optimisation platform, found YouTube made up 4.43% of all AI Overview citations. No hospital network, government health portal, medical association or academic institution came close to that number, they said.' 1/2

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

"Police everywhere, justice nowhere," -Victor Hugo

One day, they're going to want to take them off and go to their little place on Nantucket.

While NYT sheepishly beats around the bush, the Germans call a spade a spade:

Adaptation studies folks - we are still accepting submissions for our website's pedagogical publication. Our current issue, Adaptation and Comics, calls for lesson plans and materials broadly related to comics, graphic novels, and, of course, adaptation! adaptationtoday.com/resources/pe...

No justice for the sex cardigan 😞

Veteran IP adapter Ryan Coogler making the list this year for Original Screenplay: we love to see it!

Our favorite category! 🫶 What was your favorite adaptation? Snubs welcome 👀

During stardom week last term I asked my students who the rising stars are. The only one everyone seemed to agree on was Jacob Elordi. You could also hear the sparkle in his name when the women said it: “✨Jacob Elordi ✨”

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

It starts 👀

Today's Poem:

Now accepting applications! Join me, @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, @jbinotto.bsky.social, @arielavissar.bsky.social, Alan O'Leary, and Danielle Hipkins for a intensive videographic exploration of Venice this summer. Deadline: Mar 31. See details here: www.univiu.org/study/summer...