Office Space! Backrooms touching grass

Today was hottest day ever recorded in France, breaking yesterday's record! 60,000+ people died suddenly in European heatwaves in 2022. Heat dangerous for elderly ppl living alone (over 70,000 died in 2003!). 21stC state capacity requires cooling & social care phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

Werner Herzog didn't drag a 30-ton steamship up a hill so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"

Look out: there’s a new tsunami of anger in town now

The environmental damages caused by the top 10% of consumers outweigh global climate + biodiversity funding gaps. A stark reminder of where impact and opportunity lie. By I. Schrijver, R. Hoekstra & @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social 🌍 @natureportfolio.nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I sure am grateful that Monoskop is still alive and well--we finally created a page that links to almost everything the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social has published (recent technical reports, zines, articles, books) along with media coverage over the years 💚 monoskop.org/Media_Archae...

Summertime: the season of more time to read. This does not mean I can keep up, only that I have more time to register the overwhelming, impossible firehose of content.

New edition just published, want to read!

BREAKING: the algae have left the reflecting pool and are marching on Congress

My feed is 100% scaffolding content rn

90k concurrent live viewers is a massive livestream event.

Cinematic staging from 126 years ago in this three-shot film. Sort of a nonfiction-fiction-nonfiction sandwich. DIVING FOR TREASURE (Robert W. Paul, 1900) rediscovered, restored, and recently digitized: vimeopro.com/cinematheque... For more on the film see: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

Speaking of flowers, here's one of the beautiful stencil-colored rotating flower films from the collection of the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Veldbloemen (Gaumont, 1912) Watch to the end for a magical transformation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc2I...

"If our descendants are still around in 100 million years, I predict they will be flower people. They will have figured out how to work in deep cooperation with flowering plants so that they and the rest of the ecosystem can thrive." e360.yale.edu/features/dav...

LA Bluesky lining up to make Spencer Pratt jokes:

Sad to hear that Marjane Satrapi has died. Just screened PERSEPOLIS in my Directed by Women class this spring. A political, fierce, and uncompromising artist.

In "California Futures," Daniel Lanza Rivers examines histories of environmental speculation and extraction in California, thinking beyond the colonial Anthropocene to articulate opportunities of land return and environmental justice under climate change. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/qzn0f6a

Full fathom five / the Florsheims fit fine

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

Robert Ryan and Mary Astor in the brilliant noir ACT OF VIOLENCE (Fred Zinnemann, 1948).

MarxGPT, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim chatbots in this story are funny but a distraction. More important: AI is extracting public resources for private profit. “All of these companies need to show revenue, and where is better for that than public school systems?” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Just an extraordinary — and largely unsung — contribution to New American Cinema.

Look at this amazing baobab tree sacred, and dying “Tsitakakantsa is a member of one of the largest species of baobab (its name in a local dialect of Malagasy roughly means, ‘If you sing on one side of the trunk, your singing cannot be heard from the other side’)” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...

While the new movie BACKROOMS is not based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," A24 is capitalizing on the thematic & color resonance between the two by selling yellow wallpaper. I'm not a big horror fan but this gimmick makes me want to see it. shop.a24films.com/products/bac...?

Worth reading this in full. I like how the author draws out the analogy between AI data centers and the building of the transcontinental railroads, which crashed the economy multiple times, and also transformed the land

The next administration should just wipe the student loans from the databases and burn the servers and when people complain laugh at them and move on.

This film is a knockout and I can’t wait to show the new restoration to my students 🎞️

The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television has issued a call for an Editorial Assistant. Great opportunity for a PhD Candidate! Interested candidates should contact the journal co-editors at hjfrt.1981[at]gmail[dot]com before 25 May. See visuals (with alt text) for more details!

The Biden-era rule, which is being cancelled before it has had any effect, would have “‘restored some balance to a bureau that [conservationists] used to call the Bureau of Logging and Mining or the Bureau of Leasing and Minerals.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/c...

Last year, bees died in droves. The US Department of Agriculture said that it was due to beekeepers misusing a single pesticide, which lead to an explosion of bee-killing mites that were resistant. However, researchers have found that a cocktail of pesticides likely weakened overall bee health.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Everything is f***ed but at least we have three brand new metro stations opening in LA today ✨ #ridetheD

The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

This looks amazing and so helpful. An opportunity to make new communities using @blackskyweb.xyz’s Acorn system. I hope there’s a media studies person who will set one up 🎥 🎞️ 📺 💻 📱 📰 📚 🖼️ 📸

landscape <—> hunger :: mountain <—> Hulk

Happy birthday to experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, born in Ukraine on 29 April 1917. Interesting to watch your reputation growing half a century after your death.

Some partially good news here, also interesting to see the scientific use of photography to visualize the recovery timeline. "Rainforests Can Bounce Back Much Faster Than Thought, Researchers Say." Gift Link. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/c...

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Here's some amazing Miles Brothers footage of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Found at a flea market and restored in 2018 with a new score by Stephen Horne. I never get tired of watching these. Streaming now @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social. filmpreserve.org/restoration/...?

Please listen to my conversation about ARCHIVING THE PAST @ucpress.bsky.social with @alixbeeston.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! 🥳🥰 newbooksnetwork.com/archiving-th...

Obsessed with the doghouse duplex in Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice.

If Bluesky's got a hangover or whatever the least they can do is wheel in the TV cart and put on an episode of NOVA for us or something.

Congratulations! 🎉

The old media regime dominated by TV and newspapers has perished, and the social media "revolution" has demonstrated its inability to fill the void left behind...now is the time for serious folks to be imagining the shape of what might come next.

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

Tapping my new favorite sign

California poppies #wildflowerhour

Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Dún Laoghaire. #wildflowerhour

Dandelion #wildflowerhour