Benjamin Woo

The front half of a seal-point cat dangling off the corner of a ledge of a cat tree.

Just hanging out.

One of the things about this strain of the Canadian right is they aren't original thinkers in anyway. They are derivative of the US and will echo whatever MAGA talking points or slogans.

A man with a noose around his neck saying "First time, huh?"

Humanities to STEM

Like, never mind “deep work,” you can’t get your bullshit work done for being constantly interrupted with urgent new bullshit. And I realize that, for some, that this kind of administrative slop is GenAI’s killer app, but could we give “less bullshit work” a try first?

Honestly, these kind of suggestions are.. if not openly academic misconduct, very much on the line.

I would be extremely insulted by this anyways

New coral reef just dropped.

I don’t love the use of “stupid” here, and I suspect many colleagues will bristle at the nostalgic invocation of a “monastic” mode of work, but by the end of time term in university middle management, email was actively triggering fight-or-flight panics—something’s gotta give!

Is Email Making Professors Stupid? It used to simplify crucial tasks. Now it’s strangling scholars’ ability to think.

“Distracted and interrupted professors produce less research and spend less time innovating in the classroom.”

www.chronicle.com/article/is-e...

AI Ethics & Policy News

The giant spreadsheet of AI ethics & policy news has officially hit 2,000 entries! bit.ly/ai-ethics-news

I have teaching plans & ideas for this so have been writing up curriculum in case it's useful for others--I know a few folks have told me they use this in their classes, can you tell me how? :)

Whale of a pickup truck parked perpendicular to the street, sticking out from a driveway so that it blocks both the sidewalk and the bike lane.

And it’s idling, too!

Buckaroo Banzai was supposed to battle the World Crime League, someone pulled the plug, now look where we are.

Love that post-themes/pre-franchises sweet spot.

Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.

People who experienced nuclear war say we shouldn’t have nuclear weapons. We should listen.

Merry, a chonky and handsome seal point cat sprawled on a yoga mat with his head cocked to the side and his paws dangling gently in the air. My hand is scratching his upturned belly.

Pippin, a handsome cross-eyed seal point cat sprawled on a woven rug with his head cocked to the side and his paws dangling gently in the air, hungry for pets.

Merry and Pippin just want belly rubs all the time

#Caturday #CatsOnMats

Throughout my entire career, I have never done a survey without realizing after the data was collected that I made some kind of mistake or at the very least should have done something slightly differently.

Surveys are HARD.

None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group The difference between the theater of work and actual work.

A great argument that even "office" work should be human-to-human work. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Medieval guy listening to a proclamation: this could have been a tapestry

Even if you don’t mask normally, please mask up when you’re flying or attending conferences. Something is far more than nothing

Looking for 2 or 3 more #SCMS26 panelists with these themes for a Superhero Media panel:
-superhero fatigue
-domestic/international box office numbers
-Superman (2025)
-recent Marvel films (including Fantastic 4)
-media industries & superheroes
-fan studies & superheroes

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space ! Alt: Tim Curry as a Russian officer in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 manically shouting, “Space!”

I’m escaping to the only place that hasn’t been corrupted by anti-nuclear sentiment.

My department @utexasrtf.bsky.social is hiring a TT faculty member in media studies. We are looking for faculty who conduct broad-based research in the following areas: media history and industries associated with film, television, and/or digital media.

More here: apply.interfolio.com/171261

Why be a product when you can be a platform, right?

Yeah, by god judge me for my own dumb-dumb ideas and over-long sentences with a bunch of MY OWN EM-DASHES.

are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl The shocking scene in Northern Ireland is the result of a decade spent militarising Europe’s fringes – and dismissing the human cost, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl

“Promising to solve societal problems through repressive migration policies and more borders, these ‘centrist’ or even ‘progressive’ political leaders are selling a dangerous fantasy.”

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

I'm notoriously bad in anatomy and even I can tell something's HORRIBLY wrong with that "woman".

I’m now being informed that this has two slightly different purples on it. That’s what you get when you plug the same hex code into two different programs and are too colourblind to see the difference.

A SKEALOTEN HOLDEN A COUPLE OF CEO REMOVERS AND DEMANDING : "BRING BACK RSS READER'S AND BLOG'S " !!!! REMEBER WHEN IT WAS FUN TO CLICK AROUND ON YOUR COMPUTER AND NOW WE GOT COMPUTER'S EVERY WHERE BUT THERE NOT FUN ANY MORE, SO WE SOULD AT LEAST TRY TO MAKE OUR LIFES NICE SINCE WERE STUCK HERE ON EARTH, DA BILLIONAIRS SEEM TO WANT TO GO TO MAR'S BUT THATS NOT A SOLUTION ITS MORE OF A WAY FOR THEM TO BUILD A PUNISHMENT PRISON WHERE EARTH LAWS DONT APPLY, THINK ABOUT IT, ALSO THERE BUILDING BUNKER'S IN HAWAII AND NEW ZELAND AND THEY REALLY THINK ONCE THERE LOCKED IN THERE WITH A BUNCH OF SECURITY GUARDS THAT THERE NOT GONNA GET EATEN ON DAY 2 LMAO , ANY WAY HOPE YOUR HAVIN A GOOD DAY AND KICKEN A$$ OUT THERE, - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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