Web-trained, generative AI is: 1) Fundamentally unreliable. 2) Built on the theft of data on an enormous scale. 3) Such a commercial failure that it has never made a profit. 4) Disastrous for the environment. But sure, hand your nation’s data over to these private companies and kiss their asses.

New in @popcommjournal.bsky.social Proctor, J. (2025). “This one’s for the sapphics”: Mamamoo, “girl crush,” and transcultural networks through queer fan labor. Popular Communication, 1–15. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1540...

#USCensusBureau is now providing guidance on how to cite its #data #datacitation www.census.gov/newsroom/blo...

now WHO was going to tell me less than jake released a new album

I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.

For once my top 5 artists actually does a perfect job of encapsulating all my different tastes, this is so cool this never happens

Joining Evan in the shameless self-promotion to say that you should check out my book on Mediatized Fan Play. It includes a chapter on how the QAnon conspiracy theory grew out of playful fan/anti-fan practices on 4Chan and beyond. It’s riveting, I promise you.

Thrilled to see published the special dossier on Horror Fans and Audiences (that I co-edited with @kte75.bsky.social) as part of the New Review of Film and Television Studies' new issue on Transnational Horror Media. You can read our introduction here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

well.... hey everybody i'm a sociology PhD candidate who likes art, video games, and books

holy hell i haven't logged into this account in like a month, where did all of you come from

closing the survey in a couple hours!!!!! get your last responses in :)

Still recruiting participants for my dissertation research! if you consider yourself a fan &/or active in #fandom communities, can speak/read English & are 18+, consider participating in a study re: fandom & generative AI (& share with your friends)!! More⬇️ #fanstudies #academicresearch #ai

people who routinely collect their own data i am in awe of you how do you do it i am being Continuously Perceived and my stress levels are so high lol

i'm slightly late (i'm still way more active on twitter than here), but I have an article in here!!! my first peer-reviewed pub🥰 all of these articles look so great, so excited to dive in!

Still recruiting participants for my dissertation research! if you consider yourself a fan &/or active in #fandom communities, can speak/read English & are 18+, consider participating in a study re: fandom & generative AI (& share with your friends)!! More⬇️ #fanstudies #academicresearch #ai

FYI: the survey isn’t active currently since I had to pause to make some adjustments. I’ll let you know once it’s open again!!! So sorry for the confusion, turns out I’ve fallen into the “only discovering problems on launch day” trap😅

fixed one small error; if you filled out the survey in the last hour and responded "yes" to being contacted for an interview but there was no option to put your email in, please email the research team directly if you'd like to schedule an interview! This has been corrected now.

✨I'm starting data collection for my PhD and looking for participants!✨ if you consider yourself a fan &/or active in #fandom communities, have opinions about generative AI, can speak/read English & are 18+, consider participating (& share with your friends)!! More⬇️

🚨 Preprint 🚨 with @nerdyphd.bsky.social LGBTQ Visibility Online Measured Consistently and Persistently from 2015 through 2023 osf.io/mcax8/downlo...

CFP Reminder Special Issue of Rock Music Studies: Courtney Love and Hole www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

I'm no Shakespeare but there are a fair number of people who think they can write what I do, with the implication that what I do doesn't require much skill. My response is always the same: "Okay. Do it." Strangely, they rarely do. I am left to pursue my lonely occupation.

Keep seeing posts that start if you're upset about x you should also/actually/really be upset about y and I just want them to know, do not worry! I am absolutely without question upset about everything.

Feels real good to add this to the CV🥰

Are we ever going to make anything, anymore? Is this something we can recover from, or are we too hooked on the "easy money" of just strip-mining all the capital built up by our institutions and people over centuries? How does a nation grow (or survive) when it's cannibalizing itself?

Slave Knight Gael - Dark Souls 3 (2019)

man... i love Storygraph with all my heart, but their database is so lacking in nonfiction/academic books... every time i go to input something i have to manually input it myself, it's so annoying😭

God ive been looking at this article revision for so long that the my whole brain is turning to mush

How do you do, Twitter’s slightly weirder and hopefully less nazi-filled younger cousin