Screen discourse has lost that "footage" once literally referred to a length of film, in feet Now when we ask "how long is the film?" we mean in time Nice to be reminded of the medium's materiality Runtime = the time to run that footage through a projector even digital films force co-presence

On the current hot issue of AI note-taking in medical settings The act of taking notes is an act of mindfully paying attention to you and thinking about your medical care When a machine pays the attention during the appointment, what are your HUGE specialist fees actually buying you?

“Players with many billions at stake have a vested interest in removing your agency, and reclaiming it hurts their bottom line.”

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

In a way I'm glad when the trash takes itself out like this I wonder how many other acclaimed authors are quietly slopping away without admitting to it

Antiques Roadshow might have gently poached a lot of people's brains so that they believe their stuff holds historical value, which they conflate with monetary value also, collecting a thing because "it is [or will be] worth a lot of money [someday]" is the wrong reason to collect it

maniacs are writing smut aren't they

My client wrote that the Nazis made "heads roll" but I said that's the wrong power dynamic to evoke Pondering a better Reichstötenwort I suggested "exterminate" then I went "haha, maybe I watched too much Doctor Who as a kid" but turns out Terry Nation invented the Daleks as a Nazi allegory

Noticed Chrome added this "Ask Gemini" shortcut to my tabs. Instantly sent it away.

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

A woman just pressed the bus “stop” button about a thousand times, then walked to another one to press that too. Lady, it’s gonna stop

some people still think the US is a democracy

I know I’ve been on the internet too long when I choose to sit on the side of the bus that reflects my mood in the meme

If you figure out what the thing that makes you happiest is, you will make it with such unparalleled enthusiasm that it will be impossible for people not to notice in a way that will be so much more memorable than treating yourself like a branded product before you figure out who you are.

Out on the road today I saw a Grogu sticker on a Cybertruck

I wish I were a baby & could express my needs directly by screaming & crying Every day I am screaming & crying on the inside but have to push it down inside & pretend to be calm & normal that’s adulthood

Making slight changes to tax settings (especially half-assed tinkering by grandfathering things) is not going to resolve our housing crisis. The market will not adequately create or distribute the things we need to survive.

Just thinking about Colin Thiele’s YA novel ‘February Dragon’ in which (spoilers for a 1966 novel) the only lovingly described pet animal to survive the titular bushfire is Puss’lldo, the cat that nobody cares enough about to give a proper name 😭

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Are Swarovski crystals really superior to other crystals, or do they just have the best marketing?

I studied Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in year 12, but I was just a baby then and I don't think it really sank in how shit it would've been that the war dragged on for 27 years

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

FACT: Film composer Hans Zimmer, who wrote the theme tune to daytime TV gameshow Going For Gold, has fiercely loyal fans who will defend his reputation at any cost.

imagine MC Skat Kat going to the vet

Yesssss Dan Andrews Colossus. Astride the heads of port phillip bay, staring out to bass strait with an expression of cold determination. North Face can pay half. Dan Andrews colossus. Dan Andrews colossus. [bashing clipboard] Dan Andrews colossus. Dan Andrews colossus.

The chad Guillermo Del Toro vs the virgin Peter Jackson.

I love how Briar is spiralling about this So relatable! I often get like this I once became convinced that Mitchell was a paradigmatic zillennial name and made insane graphs about it that made no sense because I don’t know maths

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

Christ, I've got the bland power ballad from 'Power Ballad' in my head It's like "We have 'With Or Without You' by U2 at home" but it does the job, hey

this is so cohesive. Just super cohesive well done fascists

What a book title: Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2017)

sorry to add to the discourse but I think the "everyone should have stayed on twitter" mindset is at least partially based on the misapprehension that 1) arguing on the internet is praxis and 2) leftists are obligated to spend their time doing this

May I suggest a "critical methodology" to whoever came up with the journal title Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies: get your hand off it

Q. What's a bisexual's favourite band? A. Erasure

Just said in despair, "Why do I have this creature, and not a normal cat?" but basically, all the infuriating stuff he does is just regular cat stuff

Back when it was founded in 1976, the Journal of Homosexuality was probably quite challengingly titled But now it just sounds to me like something a bunch of queer postgrads would jokingly call their group chat

There's some kind of fire alarm happening in my general area. Doesn't feel like a drill because I can also hear fire trucks I mean, truly

A budget detail many missed last night was how the Albanese Labor government is addressing what it calls social cohesion. It is cutting $9 million from the Australian Human Rights Commission, the independent body that protects and serves every community equally.

The picture Wikipedia uses of Jack Halberstam looks like someone absolutely bored out of their mind in a meeting that's going on forever

The infuriating thing is that everyone knows these subs are IMAGINARY and WILL NEVER EXIST We are really paying for US protection which ALSO WE WILL NEVER GET

In the Word doc when I was editing the last PhD I could see the supervisors’ comments: they were so engaged with the writing & would sometimes write comments like “Great!” & “Well put!” that made me feel so sad that not everyone gets such supportive supervision I certainly didn’t

Synapse Films have announced via their newsletter that Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark is getting a 4K UHD release with Dolby Vision from a recently discovered 35mm camera negative for its 40 anniversary. Will include new bonus features and a remastered Tangerine Dream CD soundtrack.

My friends and I went to see Truth or Dare (aka In Bed with Madonna) at the cinema but were worried our parents would be mad, so we lied & told them we’d seen… THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Just saw this on insta. Police brutality in Naarm yesterday at a peaceful 'No cuts to NDIS' rally. "Vulnerable people with disability, young people and the elderly were pushed to the ground, shoved, punched and injured. Police pushed people in front of a moving tram." #springst

Okay but seriously: it doesn't feel like an accident that it is the older, most comfortable higher-ups / wealthy comfortable freelancers who are getting caught for this. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Arguably Lincolnshire Live understands that “Pleasure Island Family Theme Park” is sort of a tainted & disreputable name these days, because it buries it three pars in Also, lol, its sex dungeon-sounding rides: “Hyperblaster, Obliterator, Pendulus, and Terror Rack.”

I'm always tragically seated for any story about remotely operated bodies just yesterday I was thinking sadly about how we'll never get another season of 'The Peripheral'

If you're the figurehead of an org that gets called "embattled" in the media, resigning is the least you should do

lmao, after awarding this fictitious medal to himself, he gave it to Noam Chomsky the next year who duly showed up to collect it in Paris in front of 200 people A Romanian online news outlet rumbled him a year later when he tried to award a Romanian academic, but they were too niche to get word out