@drjessc.bsky.social
academia | the #humanities | popular culture | other whims. Literally wrote the book on #Eurovision & Australia. I teach politics, IR, and pop culture but still identify as cultural studies. Proud cat lady. Views are her own. https://linktr.ee/jesscarniel
So is this something people just do and not stop to think about? Has the technology made us this stupid? (Don't answer that.)
Today in the life of a feminist killjoy: suggesting to a colleague that maybe putting colleagues' photos into ChatGPT isn't actually cool, hey
To celebrate our 50th volume, JAS invites you to contribute to a special issue on (the Journal of) Australian Studies at 50.
Please see the CFP below for details - and please circulate it far and wide!
@intlausstudies.bsky.social
#CFP #OzStudies #OzLit #OzHist #auspol #AustralianStudies
I hope I find a good replacement (handsomeness optional). Doug made tax time hilariously good fun and he understood my weird tax needs. (I remember sending publications to the last one to prove that attending Eurovision was work.)
My accountant just broke up with me. I am devastated.
She's also very politically "safe". I'd welcome being informed otherwise, but I don't recall Delta ever piping up on a political issue.
People, go to Knowledge Commons instead! It's free too, but importantly it's open and non-commercial. As a basic example of what you can do with it, here's my page there hcommons.org/members/airm...
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
Personally, my highlight was that HASS disciplines were all Very High Risk. (Mind you, STEM disciplines were still High Risk.) There's just something about axing arts majors left, right, and centre that makes us feel just a tad precarious.
Sorry for your loss. 💜🌈
Third, this #BadBunny #superbowl #halftime #superbowl2026 was socially GENEROUS. There is give and take, there is gifting, there is joy. There is age inclusion. There is LIGHT. He got it all in there and people came along for the ride. It was so inclusive. So social. Wow.
Thank you!
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Question for the people who know more about American football than I do:
I think the 64 on Bad Bunny's jersey is for the Civil Rights Act - but is there a famous footballer with that number?
#BadBunny #SuperBowlLX
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
This is clickbait, right? Because American Idiot and Holiday are evergreen in their political commentary without changing the lyrics any further (although it's great when t hey do).
Although SEALs aren't Marines, they're Navy, so the joke's on you, Larry.
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Omg, I would love some Peter Coombe! I saw him at St Kilda festival years ago and we were all kids again.
On the one hand, yes, you are a joyless bore, but on the other, I am also a joyless bore whenever they use a song I hate.
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Thank goodness for state schools.
I'm less pleased to report that their morning tea song is the macarena.
If you live in Victoria, please
1. Fill your bath and sinks with cold water and get some towels
2. Be aware that the power grid may be damaged by fire and/or extreme peak demand (the grid could collapse).
3. Ensure your phone is charged and keep it on charge if possible.
I'm pleased to report that my local school's bell song* this year is "Golden" from K-Pop Demon Hunters.
*This is a song they play over the PA system instead of a bell.
This is my favourite bit: "When I contacted OpenAI’s support, the first responses came from an AI agent. Only after repeated enquiries did a human employee respond..."
(My least favourite bit was feeding in student exam responses - did they consent to that?)
All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.
I actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components:
1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction
