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Also the pizza in this image isn’t necessarily an ultra processed food! It literally has vegetables on it! Pizza is very different across pizzas!

Really gives away the game that nutrition and health research is deeply fatphobic and obsessed with weight at the expense of useful findings.

Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar If smoking was the cancer villain of the 20th century, eating ultra-processed food may be its 21st-century counterpart, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinb...

“..the study above points to the growth in colorectal cancer in those of normal weight. Could it be that ultra-processed foods may be carcinogenic regardless of someone’s body mass index (BMI)?”

I don’t buy the UPF panic -but “could it be?” is enraging.

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“Oh so they’re making pancakes interesting….hmm…. never mind I have no clue what a flapjack is apparently.”

Screenshot of a google trend search for “flapjacks” showing a huge spike on the night of September 26th

American fans of Great British Bake Off be like:

oh no, everyone is talking about the fake rapture here too. I thought it was just a TikTok thing.

Variety calling Hacks "The Hacks"

The Hacks

(or - my new project for when I need a distraction from working on my old project on authenticity and gendered gatekeeping in comedy spaces)

I will be at this fun and welcoming conference talking about the intersection of digital body positivity, influencer labor, authenticity, and fat liberation! Or what the complex reactions to body positive influencers losing weight tells us about activist community building on social media.

Oh yeah, I mean—I don’t think the full push to streaming has turned out positively for anyone. They’re all losing money, and the audience is frustrated, and everyone working on the shows is making way less money than during the network era. Not great! 💀

To be fair, awards shows have never been an objective measure of quality, but a mechanism of marketing/a political process/dependent on the network or streamer’s campaign and the taste of the academy. To me, they’re fun to discuss and useful to analyze as a reflection of the TV landscape.

the Emmys need to give The Rehearsal a special award for outstanding achievement in prop design and best use of a needle drop at the very least.

this is bluesky pandering at the highest level, just shameless behavior

by which I mean “go birds”

Somebody, Somewhere has everything: nuanced friendship, queer found family, regular looking middle aged people, family trauma, cabaret singing, the Midwest, lots of jokes. You’ll cry once an episode, but in a nice way.

Jeff Hiller!! Literally crying! If you haven’t watched Somebody, Somewhere yet, do yourself a favor and fire it up.

Also, I learned this week from PCHH that Werner Herzog is now on Insta—for those who weren’t aware:

www.instagram.com/werner_herzog/

Tramell Tillman with a lesson to everyone in how to execute an awards speech- written, practiced, and delivered flawlessly under time.

Seth Rogen has broken The Bear’s hold on the Emmy’s! Comedy is back, baby!

Anyone have recs for folks researching doomscrolling/news burnout and mental health? There’s interest at my school for bringing in a speaker to do a workshop on the topic in the fall.

Anyone have recs for folks researching doomscrolling/news burnout and mental health? There’s interest at my school for bringing in a speaker to do a workshop on the topic in the fall.

Applied this week for the first time 🙌

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One of my sister’s and mine:

“You’re free cheesy bread, you’re free!”

The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed.

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I know that the point is to make all of our worlds and our worldviews smaller, and it’s infuriating to watch it working.

I would not be as strong of a writer or thinker without the wide array of humanities courses I took in college because I loved expanding my worldview and I wanted to learn as much as I possibly could. I think about a specific philosophy and a women’s lit class I took at IU at least once a week.

I don’t have anything smart to add to the chorus of smart things being said.

It’s just heartbreaking to watch my alma mater - that I chose because it was so strong in the Humanities - be forced to destroy the thing that makes it special.

Being involved with @scmspedagogy.bsky.social over the past several years and now working as co-chair with the amazing @stephbrown.bsky.social has been a professional highlight for me. Please consider joining us, as grad student rep, in advocating for transformative pedagogy in our field.

The full 2 part issue of
Teaching Media on Ungrading is out! Shepherded by @jennblaylock.bsky.social and @lisawj.bsky.social.

Check it out if you need an anti-dote to the New Yorker article discourse! (though, my entry in the issue *is* a little cranky).

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Oh also, I curated an In Media Res about it once: mediacommons.org/imr/content/...