Freshly returned from the excellent 2025 NECS conference "Discovering/Uncovering: Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media," hosted by Lusófona University in Lisbon. I greatly appreciate the productive engagement throughout the conference. #NECS2025 necs.org/conference/2...

A very useful read for those in the midst of (re)applying for a SSHRC grant, by Letitia Henville: "Peer reviewer’s perspectives: SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grant" #UniversityAffairs Happy to have contributed. Share widely! universityaffairs.ca/career-advic...

MAGA meltdown. #LeoXIV

Talk to students about the error rate, environmental costs, labour, surveillance, eugenics, techno-fascism, security, so they have a say in their future; don't leave it to the AI industry to define it. None of my students used bots last term. nymag.com/intelligence...

Re: Canadian federal election 2025

Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics. "Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Big welcome to Jason Stanley, @timothysnyder.bsky.social , and @marcishore.bsky.social, among likely others, to Toronto! Definitely Canada's gain, as evidence of a possible brain drain appears. dailynous.com/2025/03/25/s...

Enlightening analysis from anthropologist and FT columnist Gillian Tett. #GillianTett #KingsCollege #CambridgeU "Fourth, even if Trump’s actions are alienating allies, his advisers hope to force compliance with any accord through tariff shocks and other threats." www.ft.com/content/fba8...

Quite a busy week on the counter-tariffs front in Canada. Adieu to all spirits and wine from the US of A, among other actions. #trump #maga #tariffs #lcbo

Congrats to Bruce LaBruce, Kent Monkman, Clive Robertson, Thaddeus Hołownia, Sandra Rodriguez & Jin-me Yoon, all recipients of the #GGArts Award for 2025! canadacouncil.ca/press/2025/0...

Union Square rally.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Once more for the folks in the back www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Removes much that deals with foreign disinformation. And other important topics. This is deliberate state self-destruction under the pretext of removing DEI.

FYI "A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs" from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives #CCPA

Some things never change.

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Similar to Russia's anti-LGBT law, which seeks to suppress the portrayal of the LGBT community as a normal part of society, Meta is now reversing course and removing product features that provide visibility to LGBTQ+ users on its platforms. www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

Nice to see my piece "MM Serra's Living Legacy, her Films, Gardens, & Turtles," among all the impressive others, in the recent volume of Framework 65 (1&2), a Festschrift dedicated to NYC artist-filmmaker MM Serra, edited by Ronald Gregg and Drake Stutesman. DOI: lnkd.in/gRAFHDkp

Baudrillard could at least verify the simulation. These days, not even that.

Happy to see my chapter ‘Steps to a Greener Film Festival Studies’ in the open-access book Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World: Practice and Methods, edited with care by Tamara Falicov and Dorotka Ostrowska. OA Download at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

A scene from Santa Anita. Donors lined up for days, tons of volunteers, the biggest swap meet I've ever seen, and Ukrainian empanadas. I went to volunteer, ended up unloading stuff.

The introduction to an excellent special issue of the journal Studies in World Cinema on Queer World Cinema edited by my great friend James S Williams has just been published (in advance of the issue) and is free to access! doi.org/10.1163/2665...

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

I spoke w/ Esquire about the corrosive effects of AI images: "we [need to] develop the ability to discern...to pause and pose the question ‘Is this true?’ We’re...going to have to figure out how to take that pause...it’s do that or get duped...nobody wants to be a dupe" esquiresg.com/we-are-at-wa...

Alanis Obomsawin exhibition on at MACM till Jan 26, 2025. macm.org/en/exhibitio...

The call for papers for the Film & Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC/ACÉCM) is circulating now. Please consider joining us and share across your networks. Now with 100% less Congress! www.filmstudies.ca/2024/12/call...

Hello, bonjour, Montreal!

Discourse 46.1. There are a few typos to be corrected, but it's a fantastic issue.

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, now voted one of the most influential minds in the world… english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

K. Asp (@kaaspe.bsky.social) put together a great list on our website of the latest research on the ecological impacts of the digital world and AI: www.socialrobotfutures.com/resources/ec...

“The brain and a machine-learning model are only superficially analogous in their structure & function. In terms of what’s happening at the physical level, there’s a gulf of difference that we have every reason to think makes a difference.” “There’s no real kinship at all.” nautil.us/ai-is-the-bl...

My latest is a reflection on how people have responded to the killing of a health insurance CEO. "Rather than centering Thompson’s humanity, as scolding voices have demanded, they centered their own, and the humanity and suffering of others who were harmed by the insurance industry."

CfP Discovering/Uncovering. Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media, 2025 NECS conference, hosted by Lusófona University in Lisbon. Submit proposals by January 31, 2025. Details at website necs.org/conference

www.iuav.it/it/avviso?ft... Keynotes: - Neta Alexander, Yale - Francesco D’Isa, writer & artist, L’indiscreto magazine - Lev Manovich, City University, New York - Matteo Pasquinelli, Ca' Foscari, Venice - Antonio Somaini, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - Joanna Zylinska, King’s College, London

ACAB includes the YMCA cop

People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.

visualaids.org/blog/day-wit... on my way! #daywithoutart

Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Riley Walz randomises them for you. walzr.com/IMG_0001

It's that time of the year. Wound down the grad creative research methods seminar and its final symposium this evening. Great students, great projects on the go! #researchmethods #gradseminar #pizzapower

Saturday night lights of the city #cityscape #nightlife #toronto

Feels like a good day to share an earlier video of mine. vimeo.com/47245082

"Deepfakes, AI and the Battle for Democracy" short video to file in folder of sample cases of generative AI zeteo.com/p/deepfakes-...

My strategy in life is to be as addicted to social media as possible.