Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

This is a great metaphor!

Said it before, and I’ll say it again, but for people like me, this would be transformative - it would stabilise our incomes, and allow us to plough more time into creative work and less into stuff anyone could be doing.

AND it’s a net economic benefit to the country.

absolutely an inspired glow-up

🌻 Varda mentioned 🌻

as I've been saying!
and those amount to a LOT of asides!!

please listen as I enter my fourth decade of not shutting up about The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). RIP to a real one, long live Bernadette!

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

please listen as I enter my fourth decade of not shutting up about The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). RIP to a real one, long live Bernadette!

...qui parle pour nous tous 🎸

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.

I see what you did there, Le Monde

second best feeling to watching the Steelers win the SB is knowing the Patriots lost BUT following very closely on that is seeing so many people gleefully deep dive into halftime close reading 🫶🏻

my feed is at least a dozen bad bunny halftime analyses that run a minimum five skeets deep
and no one posting the score

free them all

Looking forward to AAS 2026 at Burman University, Canada & dreaming of what comes next...

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gonna tell our students this is the 21st century's cinema of attractions (Gunning)

yep! 🌞 ❄️

The French government raided the offices of X in Paris due to Grok's regular creation of CSAM. Musk claimed he was being persecuted & the official French Foreign Ministry responded with the following:

A digital illustration of a groundhog all dressed up in fancy morning dress: big shiny top hat, cutaway coat with tails, bow tie, waistcoat with watch chain, pinstriped pants and shoes with spats. He’s standing on a hillside covered in yellowish green grass. It’ The sky is gray and hazy and there’s a bare tree in the distance. There are patches of snow on the ground and crocuses coming up. He’s casting a long shadow forward within which is lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

😑

Rightly or wrongly I credit Nicole Holofcener for conveying this so clearly in the film's screenplay, and casting it so plausibly in the distant past only shows how little has changed.

The Last Duel (2021) nailed this dynamic exactly. The rapist went into the duel entirely convinced he was blameless (and his opponent was more keen on defending himself than the actual victim).

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wondered aloud to my parents yesterday whether the prognostication this year will mention ICE and they said fat chance 👀 👀 👀

Happy Groundhog Day from a granddaughter of Punxsutawney ❄️ 🌱 🌞

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

I had hopes for Starbuck as a crossover character (alas)

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Screenshot of a list of "zombie citations" with corresponding texts citing them.

How can a paper that was never written end up with 60+ citations in multiple journals and books with several different author and co-author credits? Maybe it started with human error/malpractice, but AI is clearly reproducing and amplifying the zombie infection.

sincere thanks to the whole crew, especially @jacobharr.is for sorting the schedule & the Big Posters in the A Month of Dick 🐋 feed, which offered surprisingly effective motivation to keep up & stick with it!