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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one of the surprises of the age of AI is i love v awkward undergrad sentences and spelling errors now. give me all your dangling modifiers

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Structuralism lovers and haters: see you at Duke University 💎 “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Age of AI” conference, 22-23 Oct 2026. An outstanding line-up! Programme in the poster 🖼️ I will present my new publication, “Cave Machines” (Aksioma, 2026).

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

sometimes i think about how google launched these major "art and culture" partnerships with archives and museums all over the world, which supporting large scale scanning, digitization, cultural access. and then it all just got dumped into their proprietary ai chum bucket

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

for my post-tenure review, i have to write a self-evaluation. but because i am chair, i am required to evaluate my self-evaluation. this is a real process that i must follow

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Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ten years in the making, my new book traces how corporations successfully infiltrated the movies in the early 20th Century in spite of scandal and massive audience resistance. Out in December, but you can order it (with a discount!) now. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

A picture of the cover of Commercial Cinema: The History of the Advertising Film in the United States and the text "The development of a pervasive but little-known genre from 1910 through the 1940s." You can get a 30 percent discount on the book by using the promo code F26UIP.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"vertical storytelling" should be used to describe something more interesting than making advertisements with your dumbass phone

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am really sad to hear that Gaylyn Studlar died today. A towering figure in feminist film history, her work on gender, stardom & fan culture had an immeasurable impact on my own thinking. Way ahead of her time on masculinity and masochism. Also a kind & generous human, all too rare in this biz.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Taylor and Francis has a corporate AI partnership and has claimed fifty percent of the anthropic settlement for their books. You can't sell authors work away and then pretend to be harmed by AI. fuck you

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

get covered in poison ivy right before the first week of teaching A++ highly recommend

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

just thinking about how dolly parton, tim curry, paul reubens were all part of a v cool and weird 80s childhood. anyways, here is tim curry doing a video art homage to annabelle serpentine dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=K608...

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The Worst Witch (1986) "Halloween Song"

YouTube video by harrypottersdaddy

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 24/08/2026

If I was walking around a museum and came across this I would walk out immediately.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

it is that time of year again when i try to control the chaos of my life with new pens and stationary

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

shout out to the lady at the water company who wrote me a personal email to say *hey, your house is using a crazy amount of water you should check on it* and my water heater had broken down and she saved our house from so much damage. tricia, you are getting flowers, omg

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

lots of random weird people in charge of the whole world now

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

a friend was hired to replace a prof at cambridge who was charged with child pornography + allowed to quietly retire. when she took the job, one of her new colleagues told her that she would "have really big shoes to fill"

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yes + "Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy"

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The pointless National Guard deployment in Washington DC until January 2029 will cost approximately $1.4 billion. This amount could have funded the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities for almost 7 years.

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Guard Deployment To Washington Into 2029 Will Cost Roughly $1.4B

Hawai‘i will bring home its 27 members later this month after the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The summer issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on Marxism, Form & Futurity -- is live on @projectmuse.bsky.social!! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283 @uminnpress.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social 📚‼️

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"my teenagers had a good time" is just such a great line

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Back then we thought that these things would last forever.

Empty space where public telephones were installed in the metro in Toronto, Bathurst station.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

kids saw meshes of the afternoon in a museum today. they were totally enchanted but had a few notes for deren. shadow hands should have been able to pick up things (weirder). also, def more orbs

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

i know every field is on fire rn but conference reports, wow, what a great thing that used to get published regularly. reading them from conferences in the 80s and 90s. just a dream resource, also v fun and gossipy. tell us the truth, grad students of the past!

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

Screenshot of the website featuring a cubist image of three figures engaging in art experiments; title: Fall 2026: Public Study; text Our Fall course, “Public Study,” will examine the past, present, and future of popular, alternative, and radical education — particularly as they shape the intellectual, political, and cultural landscape of New York City; and as they’ve intersected with established cultural heritage and educational institutions. Applications are due August 7 at 11:59pm ET.

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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

a local family wants to donate dad's antique cameras from ~1920s-60s. they sent along his fastidiously maintained excel spreadsheet with details on each camera and scans of original owner's manuals. so, psa, yes, we accept donations from your lovely cinephile dads with home archives and spreadsheets

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Come and join us at UC Santa Cruz! We’re looking for an Asst Professor of Narrative Film and Media Production. We’ve got a great program on a spectacular campus in a beautiful part of the world. recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02112