Rusty Hatchell

stop normalizing things I don’t want to be normal

NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & ‪@lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!

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Adorno, "Late Capitalism or Industrial Society," 241

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

Screenshot of AP News blurb regarding Loni Anderson's death

Hey @apnews.com, it would have been nice if you had actually included Loni Anderson's name in the notification you just sent out.

a woman says " i 've never had the luxury of political opinions " in a dark room ALT: a woman says " i 've never had the luxury of political opinions " in a dark room

New #CFP! Seeking papers for a book about #StarWars & politics under #Disney, including #Rebels, #Andor, & #TheLastJedi. Coediting with @dilliwag.bsky.social. Deadline Sept 30. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

My pals at @vidiots.bsky.social created an interactive experience during the film breaking fakeout scene in their screening of Gremlins 2: The New Batch last weekend. It's even better than what I had hoped to do in 1990! 😁

WE COMPROMISED WITH THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR DECADES ALLOWING THEM TO MOVE THE OVERTON WINDOW ALL THE WAY TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS, ADAM

Yes! This was such a great conference for all the reasons @meesk.bsky.social mentions and more!

As more becomes known about individuals more and more data about learner journeys and the alignment of courses to skills and skills to careers, Instructure will become increasingly capable of providing optimal pathways for students. Moreover, by combining learning management system, student work repository, transcripts, and credentialling services through the integration of products such as Portfolium, Parchment, Scribbles, and Concentric Sky, Instructure will be able to provide students and prospective employers with deep longitudinal insight into capabilities and qualifications. Rather than just being able to provide information about course outcomes, as with the traditional transcript, Insturcture could make available the entire student data set leading to that outcome. This would make it possible to distinguish between the student earning a “B” in a course who started rough but was a solid “A” for the last month of the course, and the “B” student who started strong but grew progressively weaker as the course progressed. One struggles to diferentiate between such students when reviewing traditional academic records, but it will become clear as more data is available.

As the data set grows, developing AI-enhanced interfaces into the data will become increasingly important to help viewers find precisely what they are looking for. One can easily imagine a world where the degrees become less valuable than the incremental steps recorded en route to the degree. This would move the ultimate stamp of approval on the finished product (students) from the supplier’s (university) quality control staff (faculty, registrar) to that of the buyer (potential employer), who could use the AI to make find exactly what they are looking for independent of the grades assigned. As this happens, students may find themselves with many more choices on how to meet a prospective employer’s requirements than simply going to a name-brand university and majoring in a pre-approved subject. The ultimate democratization of education may reside not in its universal availability but in its deinstitutionalization. If this comes to pass, we may find that the fabric of our lives is Canvas.

Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students.

Oh.
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I just watched it a couple of weeks ago myself, and I was HOOKED the whole season!

Schedule of conference panel.

Call me biased, but this was the coolest panel at the Hollywood Conference yesterday! 😜 I had the immense pleasure of getting to connect with fellow media studies scholars looking at contemporary superhero media, all in brilliant ways.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

cringe and disturbing the degree to which american politics is currently influenced by grown ass adults who are still resentful about their SAT scores or something

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

It is SO satisfying when you stumble across someone's scholarship that ends up being the perfect fit for the gap in your own work! I'm really excited about this new project and can't wait to share it at the Hollywood conference on Friday.

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

I am *begging* media outlets to stop responding to Dean Cain on all things Superman (or anything else, tbh).

If you want to talk with former Supermen, there are over a dozen men who have played him across live-action film and TV, animation, and gaming whose voices can just simply flood out Cain's.

A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

A journalistic principle I’ve come to believe in quite strongly, thanks to experience of the Sony and Podesta hacks, is that bar for publishing stories based on *hacked* material should be quite high. It really should be unambiguously newsworthy to clear it.

Yay! Good to know; thanks!

Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I know I'm about five months late, but The Pitt is just amazing television! So good!

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

Maybe it’s not such a great idea that schools are partnering with these companies and embedding these systems into the structure of the university.

If you're on Academia[dot]edu, heads up that they've started making AI-generated "podcasts" of the work that's uploaded there. It's enabled by default. You have to opt out. Don't play the file. (It believe it's not actually generated until you play it). Just opt out. www.academia.edu/settings#ai-...

May anyone connected to this regime never eat saliva-free food again.