if you, an academic, are using assistive-AI in any capacity to write journal articles, you are a joke & deserve to have your phd revoked!!! like what is HAPPENING? i feel like i’m in an alternate hell universe

it is true that higher ed let AI use go unchecked for too long but i Do Not think it is true that we just have to acquiesce to it now that it has been adopted en masse by students - as with most things in higher ed there is no solidarity between departments to effectively curb its usage

The mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi, told TMZ that Warner Bros. is bringing a special screening of “Sinners” to the small town

i've never worked on a project where i needed to interview someone - do i have to get IRB approval to talk to someone about a historical event they were involved in that will then likely be quoted in an article i'm writing?

What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.

"Most of the country" has never been able to "walk to a multiplex." They're a product of the suburbs!

Target calling Al Sharpton is the most hilarious development of this boycott.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

has anyone ever looked at FCC files at the national archives in college park?

WWII vet Medgar Evers, assassinated for desegregation and voting rights work, erased from the Arlington National Cemetery website. mississippitoday.org/2025/03/17/w...

Find someone who loves you the way David Zaslav loves hating everything about film and television.

NEW: Columbia expelled & fired the president of its student workers’ union today, a day before contract negotiations were set to begin, per UAW The union is calling it “part of a wave of crackdowns on free speech against students and workers who have spoken out…against the war on Gaza”

linda williams has remained, from my 1st semester of grad school, to now, an incomparable influence - i have a hard copy of “something else besides a mother” that has traveled with me from apartment to apartment, from state to state - her work on melodrama is my bedrock, thank you linda

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tony todd & olivia hussey snubbed from the oscars in memoriam …

Everyone puts things like "Loving husband and father" on their gravestone. What a sad way to sum up an entire life. What about "Hard working employee"

does anyone have a digital storytelling syllabus they’d be willing to share with me for inspiration?

"Vinyl sounds better than CDs" oh wow I'm at the edge of my seat stop right now i might die of interest

the minnesotan accents in love is blind are triggering me

now that i live adjacent to king cake country, i have the need to try every variety available

wish i could afford dot’s pretzels

grammy award winner jimmy carter

no more christian music in secular spaces please

i think we as a people need to let go of the mockumentary sitcom format

what’s your fav network sitcom that aired/is airing between approx 2014-present?

i can’t believe laurie metcalf hasn’t been nominated for the connors - she kept the continuity between roseanne & the connors!

It’s okay to be rude to people who want you to die

i have an urgent need a book chapter favor: does anyone have access to jane feuer’s chapter “the concept of live television: ontology & ideology” from the edited collection regarding television? you’d be saving my life!

teaching my southern media studies course this semester (in jackson, mississippi) & my students listed these as the “core” southern states - all others are suspect lol

I realize I am preaching to the choir here but FUCK I am so tired of 'AI' poisoning everything I touch. I really resent having this shit crammed down my throat every time I turn around.

Another 70 people were killed while waiting for the ceasefire deal to be ratified by Israel's cabinet.

i’m getting almost exclusively OCD related content pushed to me on tiktok which reminded me how thankful i am for my celex, love you girl

no … shit

If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television

Toasting this news with a nice glass of orange juice www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...

Streaming in 2010: You can watch an entire catalog of amazing movies and TV shows for a reasonable monthly fee Streaming in 2025: our library is Batman movies and 28 seasons of a Tim Allen sitcom, it costs $159/month. We just destroyed the last piece of evidence that Mister Rogers ever existed

can i put together syllabi & course sites for 3 new preps in 6 days lol

fun’s over boys, start scheduling those emails

I really do believe AI is inherently fascist. Both the resources it takes to generate and the soullessness of its output render it entirely irredeemable, but it also hollows out any meaning we can get from communication and art and reduces human life to an aesthetic it wears like a skinsuit.

Gonna be real with you there is no way i can afford to buy you a big house way up in the west hills

griffith got pigeonholed by CBS with the success of the andy griffith show & had to adopt the hapless, hard working hillbilly persona outside of the role for continuity

I remember everybody talking about A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) predicting Trump in 2016 but honestly it's straightforwardly the Reagan story. Hayseed doofus uses a cornfed radio gig to become a camera cowboy, hawks hair gel and cigars to horny housewives with a smile, becomes a right-wing demagogue

The wording here got me all excited that they found new evidence that smoking is good for you

i feel like despite being only one year out from the phd i’m already an expired, geriatric candidate

netflix isn’t a streaming “library,” it is a content mill for ugly films & television that no one will be able to recall in 3 years time

[opens Disney+] ok sweetie do you want to watch the Lion King, Mary Poppins or Night Bitch

every time i complain about being cold in the house now joe brings this up

robert eggers must have been watching what we do in the shadows while making nosferatu bc count sounded a lot like nandor lol