On February 24th, Agent Dale Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks for the first time.

On one hand, I'm glad that Criterion is publishing this on physical media when Netflix clearly doesn't care. On the other, Criterion's animation range is still tiny and more than half of it is from this century, in English. Publish these, yes, but more quantity and variety would be amazing.

Ooh a second arrest! Happy Monday to all!

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The AI doomer narrative (it’s going to wake up and kill us all) is, whether its adherents intend it or not, pure marketing for AI companies It’s one reason their CEOs have even, on occasion, leaned into it

In which £36m alone - THIRTY SIX MILLION POUNDS - is going to upgrade a supercomputer in Cambridge. When they tell you there's no funding for Arts and Humanities scholarship, remember it's a choice.

Peer review is not there for you to tell experts in the field how you'd prefer the style of the paper to be, or what method or analysis you have a clear bias for. Your job is to check for correctness, spot errors or gaps, protect the integrity of the scientific method, not piss on others.

Setting aside the fact that the arts and creative sectors bring ten of billions of pounds to the UK economy, and that the UK wields a huge amount of soft power through our creative output, the lack of jobs for young people (and actually for the rest of us too) has far more complex causes than this.

Higher Ed is not about job training! STEM has long benefitted from this rhetoric but we are all threatened by this concept. The University is meant to be broad and forward thinking, not something that follows the trends of the market which are inherently short-sighted and lacking imagination.

457) Mushroombot. Uses its big cap to create dank little corners in your garden to encourage the growth of mushrooms. Also just generally a good mushroom pal. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Really incisive and nuanced thread here regarding disability, John Davidson , Michael B Jordan , Delroy Lindo and the BAFTAs . Please watch Sinners , I Swear , and John’s Not Mad. Thank you @i-am-zagreus.bsky.social

Some further thoughts on this... The two major reasons my first eight books are inferior to my most recent eight: 1. During the first eight I had not yet learned, lived, written and read enough to find my flow. 2. During the most recent eight I have not been holding back on any weirdness. ...

Man known to loathe sweatless uncle goes to award ceremony

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

No matter how bad things are they're not "arrested on my birthday for misconduct in public office while the entire country celebrates like the ewoks at the end of Return of the Jedi" bad.

If you get the opportunity to see Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, do not hesitate. It is wonderfully heartfelt without being overly deferential. And there's some brilliant behind the scenes footage and images from the first cinema audiences.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

I am entranced and fascinated by Vanessa’s deep dives into pneumatic tubes—something I haven’t thought about since I was a kid in the 1980s and my dad would go through the bank drive-through and I’d love watching that cylinder shoot up into the air and arrive over inside the building. Subscribe!

Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.

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"I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody" is a mood. I want it embroidered on a banner to hang above my desk!

Ethan Stern, 37, was appointed to the position at the start of the year, after a lifetime of keeping up an ongoing bit because there are apparently no lengths he won’t go to for a punchline.

Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so) The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%) www.gbnews.com/news/video-n...

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AI generated Mpreg Merman video got me feeling inspired, ngl. (I am never opening tiktok again.)

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Very excited to be in Southampton for the launch of our South Cluster of the @britishacademy.bsky.social ECR network

I'm going to apply to be the new head. And my pitch would be that for all outputs you receive, in the post, an actual gold star sticker for each star rating you get.

What else do you need?

NEW: The government wants to boost employment among people who receive universal credit - but our analysis suggests a lack of good-quality jobs is making this near impossible. And, in some local authorities, there’s as few as 5 vacancies for every 100 people on universal credit…

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If you - like me - purchase music and want to do so through other outlets without touching Amazon, there are several ways to do so! - Bandcamp (best for indie/obscure artists) - 7Digital (good for major releases and back catalogs) - Ebay (physical media baby!) - Discogs (independent sellers, ymmv)

Yesssssssss! So excited for Dinosaur's return.

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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

He could easily live a life of joy, but he chose power instead.

the last two Popes went out of their way to call this man an immigrant hating freak and a fake Catholic. Bless his heart for going to Italy expecting to have a normal one❤️

Got a question about the new journal Creator and Influencer Studies? We have answers. As a friendly reminder, please do not DM me with submissions questions but email them to jessmaddox [at] uga [dot] edu

GOD a good piece about fic in a mainstream(ish) pub???? "How might we discuss fanfiction's influence on published fiction in a way that acknowledges that we get something out of fanfiction, and its related forms? Can we reach a healthier vision of the relationship between fiction and desire?"

FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

Once again, Routledge are having a sale, so you can get my book, No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech, at a discount. A few years old now, but provides a historical context to recent discourses on free speech on campus. www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

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A problem is that there are many of us who read about, research, and publish on AI (and have been doing so for years), but the university puts us on the same playing field of decision-making about it with those who have not.

Happy to see this article on virtual watch parties for films that were *in theaters* when COVID hit finally see the light of day in New Review of Film and TV Studies.

going out on a limb to argue that mandelson being a bully & a shit, his tantrums & threats when challenged, are *exactly* the behaviour those currently lamenting his fall from grace admired in him (in particular the ones that write for the times are always already all in on this way of being)