I am so delighted to announce that my desktop documentary "Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation" has been published in issue 22 of Frames Cinema Journal. I want to thank Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng & Camila Contreras-Langlois for their work on this issue. framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...

There was someone very close to the mics coughing during this recording, it’s crazy.

I watched The Running Man for the first time and now I’m thinking I’d really like to teach a class on films set around filmed/broadcasted death games. TRM feels especially prescient with the media-military complex and even deepfakes!

Hi everyone! I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please DM. I recently submitted my PhD in Film Studies. I currently lecture in TCD, but seeking a teaching/post-doc role for 2026. orcid.org/0000-0002-06...

A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. www.wired.com/story/taylor...

The academic job search is really demoralising. I knew it would be bad, but not this bad …

The Cinémathèque has revealed a new photo booth that uses AI to generate images in various period styles. The comments are, unsurprisingly, largely negative.

The Cinémathèque has revealed a new photo booth that uses AI to generate images in various period styles. The comments are, unsurprisingly, largely negative.

The Department of Homeland Security using clips from Twin Peaks in their cringe and racist anti immigration edits….

I am so delighted to announce that my desktop documentary "Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation" has been published in issue 22 of Frames Cinema Journal. I want to thank Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng & Camila Contreras-Langlois for their work on this issue. framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...

Livestream of Global Sumud Flotilla as they approach Gaza. Watch & share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Italian unions call for strike over Israel's Sumud Flotilla attack - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-unions-call-strike-over-israels-sumud-flotilla-attack

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Last day at the Hub.

"I went into this with the intention of being a YouTuber. I don’t have a journalist visa. I don’t have a journalism degree.” New from me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-a-...

A famous Irish comedian is doing an ad campaign for Alexa’s new Irish accent feature. She has since removed the string of comments criticising her for shilling for Amazon (you can’t have a successful sponsored ad on Instagram with critiques embedded in it — defeats the purpose).

Applying for academic role after role.

It is over for the genocide deniers. Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide. Those who supported Israel's onslaught: You backed a genocide. You will never scrub the shame away.

"The tension between surveillance and self-improvement, between control and liberation, is a recurring theme in the history of wearable technology."

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

1300+ actors and filmmakers, including Javier Bardem and Olivia Colman, have signed a historic pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions for their complicity in Israel’s genocide. Read the pledge, and the full list of signatories, here: filmworkersforpalestine.org#endingcompli...

Preparing the intro lecture and hoping I don't reveal my age. I'm a young and thriving 21-year-old.

“The Dearth of a New Avant-Garde”

I submitted my PhD thesis today.

“Proponents claim this will protect children, but in practice, it restricts young people’s ability to learn, express themselves, and connect; creates a pretext for censoring political dissent; and concentrates more power in the tech industry.”

Asking this question, as real human beings suffer immeasurably and as The Guardian has manufactured consent for a genocide, seems a bit weird, no?

Committing repeated psychic damage to myself by rewatching annually.

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If you guys think I’m joking about being committed to this I tried to call those masked ice agents riding around in the back of an unmarked U-Haul and filming themselves jumping out on innocent people “absolute weirdo losers” in an Instagram comment last week and Zuck’s algorithm told me it was mean

Formatting the filmography for my thesis.

Israel murdered five al-Jazeera journalists, including Anas Al-Sharif. They did so because they're now liquidating Gaza City, and want to silence the remaining witnesses. To Western journalists silent about the slaughter of your colleagues: Their blood is on your hands, too.

Israel assassinates prominent Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kills-two-leading-gaza-journalists-suspected-prelude-assault

Leading global academics denounce UK's Palestine Action ban - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/leading-global-academics-denounce-uks-palestine-action-ban

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Israel's genocide is the terminal stage of a settler-colony in crisis - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-genocide-terminal-stage-settler-colony-crisis

These images must be read alongside the AI slopaganda for a post-war «Gaza Riviera». They too are part of the same operation bsky.app/profile/bild...

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive" www.404media.co/the-astronom...

Microsoft AI is telling me to caption this image as “Person with a pipe in his mouth”.

A very sweet dog looked on at the protest today.

Number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza rises to 229: Gaza Media Office - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/number-journalists-killed-israel-gaza-rises-229-gaza-media-office

The Shrouds finally made it to Irish cinemas. Is Cronenberg proposing that we are irredeemably kinocentric in a society of pervasive screens? Do we even exist if we are not seen/filmed/quantifiable as data?