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Pixar make this buddy movie

Don’t make me tap the sign

that's my student!

*waves from my pile of 2 book manuscripts, 6 journal articles (one twice), 2 book chapters, and a grant.* on top of everything that walks in the door at the journal i edit. it's important to have these conversations about how much reviewing work we do and how it gets apportioned.

does a draft of all the parts of this chapter exist? yes. does it look like this drawing? no comment.

I found out that the sea drone the Houthis used is called the Blowfish. Come on. Houthis and the Blowfish

reupping this as the syllabus deadline approaches. i am looking for a couple more #fanstudies articles by graduate students to round out the week of emerging scholars.

I think we might be onto a million-dollar idea here.

If you're worried about the environmental footprint of using AI, I can give you my dad's phone number, and you can text him random questions. He texts back answers. Comes with the same caveat that answers may or may not be correct.

have we considered that he doesn't consider anybody in those countries to be people?

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Rising from the humblest of origins to dominate the national news and challenge a President like this is a real Horatio Algae story

Let’s take a look at how Apple’s auto captioning is working on Elmo

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oh this is fun.

I wish we could hold two truths at once: some uses of copyrighted works as AI training data may be fair use—getting this right has tremendous implications for other things we like, like reporting and scholarship and education—and it’s tough to name a corporation doing it that doesn’t suck.

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this renewal notice reminds me that it's time to start building a panel for #scms27. i have two ideas: 1) computational methods in #fanstudies and/or fan fiction studies specifically, or 2) something platform studies related where i can talk about my work on AO3. anybody interested? it's in Canada!

dear journals, if you make me sign up for an account after you sent me a review request, i'm declining.

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Because @anasalter.bsky.social and I cannot have lunch without cooking up something to write, today we realized ai refusal is collective textual interpretation and feels, AKA anti fandom.

It seems overnight the White House has been replaced by a Monster Energy Drink branded UFC cage

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"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

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And the shirts say “This is not a jersey” on the back:

CONFIRMED: The Wonka Scotland Oompa Loompa girl has formerly withdrawn from President Trump's America 250 concert.

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Biggest comeback in history? 999: Icelanders convert to Christianity & ditch Norse myth↩️ 1200's: Snorri Sturluson uses the power of euhemerism to make Norse myth biblical↩️ 1930's: a very Catholic Norse scholar pilfers the edda for character names↩️ 2026: Pope quotes a character called Gandalf 🇮🇸👑

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the basic policy of "you slapped some LLM stuff in your paper and didn't check it, we can't trust you" is entirely sound, but the specific reactions (and the reactions to the reactions) really show how different norms are across disciplines. 1/

Sorbo, of course, is famous because he played a character from Greek mythology on a show filmed in New Zealand . . . and whose sister show Xena had Helen of Troy played by Galyn Görg. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galyn_G...

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

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Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

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this of course is because it's about feels and not a rational, considered position. see ch5 of: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

Bluesky comments coming to life for this…

Humanities kids graduating:

Shame Southwest Airlines stopped their "Wanna Get Away" ad campaign, because this would be a perfect addition.

of all the semesters to miss graduation, and not be there live for this!

Surely they've suffered enough?