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Lesley Willard

@lesleyawillard.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Emerson College. UT Austin alum. I spend my time yelling about platforms & capitalism. Unionize.

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This is all heinous but “inclusive pedagogy” is actively insane
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“
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Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee
What I learned serving on a university AI committee.
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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I’m tired of seeing takes claiming that educators who voice concerns about GenAI are burying our heads in the sand, or failing to adapt, or choosing to be misinformed about GenAI’s potential, or are ignorant of other technological shifts that have happened throughout history.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/04/2025
This is why treating schools like job centers where employers can externalize the cost of training will always be a disservice to the public and the economy's long-term health.
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Berlitz II. @vonmandelbrot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 14/04/2025
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10/04/2025
Lesson: Bending the knee just makes it easier for them to kick you in the ass.
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Special thanks to @swapnilrai.bsky.social and the PDC for organizing the extremely beneficial (and immensely packed) publishing & book proposal roundtable yesterday #scms25
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/04/2025
Breaking News: Senator Cory Booker’s speech criticizing President Trump has just become the longest speech in recorded Senate history.
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Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record
The New Jersey senator, who had spent much of his last 24 hours on the Senate floor assailing the Trump administration, surpassed Senator Strom Thurmond’s speech in 1957.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yep
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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Mary R Morrow @marymorrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This games industry bloodbath is because of corporate mismanagement and pure, unrestrained avarice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10/02/2025
An anarchist meme with the Flyers mascot Gritty inside a black circle with white letters reading "The Urge To Destroy / Is Also A Creative Urge"
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IATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE! Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This is why fan theorizing online is such an amazing, concerning development in contemporary TV
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I also hate aesthetic bookcases with reverse shelving and color coding but tbh the horizontal stacks always piss me off, too.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
What is the average professor afraid of? - mainly: „train delays“ - the projector in the class room not working again - being invited to things - explaining what they do again at parties that they were regrettably invited to after all - the continued destruction of their whole field - Eduroam
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Really delighted to see this new interview series from @scmstudies.bsky.social Media Archives Committee. The first edition focuses on key archives at the Academy — the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study & the Margaret Herrick Library. www.cmstudies.org/page/Convers...
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Conversations with the Archives
These interviews delve into the history and mission of notable archives while exploring the diverse array of moving images and documentation that they preserve, from collections that built our discipline's canon to hidden gems waiting to be unearthed. They discuss preservation efforts, access policies, the complexities of copyright, the adaptation to new technologies, the challenges of discoverability in new research trends, and how these institutions balance preserving the integrity of fragile materials and granting public access to their holdings.
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Shana @shayz0rz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Netflix and Comcast both donating a mere $10M of their billions of net worth, gained on the backs of industry workers — many of whom have been affected by this disaster — is…something. Slow clap. At least it’s better than Musk’s incendiary devices (cybertrucks).
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Feels like the modern equivalent of "the stars are blood red tonight -- an ill omen, my liege."
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Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
What’s your energy going into 2025? #FilmSky #NewYear #BusterKeaton #NewYearVibe
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 26/12/2024
“Haha can you believe McDonalds is doing a Squid Game promo” easily yes because capital subsumes all critiques of itself and no popular TV show or piece of art will ever threaten or unsettle it
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Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
For Lease Navidad.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20/12/2024
*Werner Herzog voice* now, the Jingle Hop has begun
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Remember on this day that, canonically, George Bailey’s re-discovery of the value of his life takes place at the same time as the failed hit attempt on Vito Corleone.
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Happy holidays from this belligerent demon
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I’m going to simply evaporate
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Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I made a gingerbread panopticon
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Bea🌺🌸🐢 @happilywickedb.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I posted this on twt but sharing here. There's a new-ish website that has AI-generated audiobooks. This includes popular fics from AO3. the covers are AI-generated as well and its pretty obvious they're not familiar with what they post. There are A LOT of wangxian fics there. word-stream.com
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/12/2024
As data centers cause America to run out of power, Arizona is emblematic of the sacrifices ordinary people face to fuel the boom.
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In the shadows of Arizona’s data center boom, thousands live without power
As data centers drain America’s power grids, a fierce battle is being waged for electricity. On Navajo Nation land, many are on the losing end.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Jacob Marley: Tonight you will be visited by 2 ghosts. Scrooge: I thought it was 3. Jacob Marley: LOL no it's 2024 there is no future.
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Hundreds of Beavers straight into Hot Frosty is a hell of a double feature
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a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat in front of an emergency exit sign
ALT: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat in front of an emergency exit sign
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 13/12/2024
Considering I got two notifications over the week from SVA and SCAD about Generative AI training workshops for faculty (these are both art colleges, mind you), I'm existentially tired of everything and everybody who says this is "inevitable" when inevitable is shorthand to mean "comply in advance".
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Increasingly, my media studies classes are focused around materiality. I get more worried every year. Reissuing hard-to-access films might be the only upside to conglomerate franchising, though-looking at you, Sony & 28 Days Later.
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Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Age yourself with a movie you saw in theater.
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an elderly woman in a green shirt says it 's been 84 years ...
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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