@jenniferpete

With full knowledge that “masterpiece” is a flawed category

Some “this is their masterpiece” films:

Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Claire Denis - Beau Travail
Chantal Ackerman - Jeanne Dielman (or News From Home, IMHO)
Ida Lupino - The Bigamist

—tag, you’re it, friends

I’ll grant the hairdo some points for this one

Buster Keaton for the fascist era.

Bedtime reading books aloud is a highlight of parenting! So fun.

In case you were in doubt, the rollout of abominable AI “performer” Tilly Norwood proves that AI is very much about the extraction & exploitation of workers’ labor.

Wow that is high praise indeed, nice ✨

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

Brilliant read of the dystopian merging of media and rw politics. On the monetization of “debate” as spectacle.

Gift link. “Mourn, or Else” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

I ran a global replace on Moby Dick changing ";" to "lol". It's much better now.

Fish and Wildlife Service instagram notice.

The dispassionate notices seem fine and the blamey ones seem likely to backfire?

Felt like Thursday

A better world is possible

Happy #SilentMovieDay to all who celebrate!! Five silent films just added to the "screening room" of the NFPF Website--including Clara Bow in POISONED PARADISE (1924), OAKLAND NEWSREELS (1914-1921), & a frozen north saga starring Corinne Griffith. 🎞️🎶🤩

www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2025/9/...

We can do both! New stories are needed. Heat pump stories can refer back to old radiator storytelling.

Been hearing this here and there for a few weeks now…

There’s also the great & pivotal home movie scene in Ozu’s I WAS BORN, BUT…

If only. Bucket list.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

New album!

2025-26 tour dates for The Dirty Three

The Dirty Three *are* actually touring now

Who are these people who post 300+ times per week?! That’s even too much to automate

I post most of my work on my website, for those without institutional access. Also happy to send upon request.

Deleted my academia.edu account yesterday. Should have done it years ago, but the “AI-generated podcast” they generated from my most recent essay was the last straw. Good riddance.

Chico to Fresno Jerry brown Memorial line 🔥

My rapture outfit.

Just bringing this back…

Honestly all parts of that video feel like AI 🤖

Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org

@uam-umd.bsky.social
www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

After many years of school drop-offs, I’m about to make the most impactful one yet: dropping my older kid off at college this weekend. 🥳😩

Take action to protect national forests

Forests may not be top of mind but this policy change (and attempt to repeal the endangerment finding) would affect many US forest ecosystems. Petitions do make some difference. THINK CARBON SINK.

Revoking the "Roadless Area Conservation Rule" would be devastating share.sierraclub.org/s/LQRpzjvv