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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 4h

every single one of these linked processes stems from thinking of education in general, & higher ed in particular, as a resource frontier: a virgin territory or untapped resource of as-yet uncaptured potential wealth that now must be harvested / optimized / extracted. this mindset is our true target

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is amazing satire at a time when satire is becoming nearly impossible.

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you'd like to learn more about the book Bridging Design and Fandom and hear from some of the chapter authors, I will be holding a launch event on 20th October, in Lancaster and online. Please do come and join us! lancaster-uk.libcal.com/event/4574001

lancaster-uk.libcal.com

Book Launch: Bridging Design and Fandom, edited by Naomi Jacobs

With her new edited collection Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation, Naomi Jacobs (Design, School of Arts, Lancaster University) opens new...

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Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a great thread on the current AI hype cycle. Important for us to distinguish HEAVILY augmented LLMs from their so-called theoretical capabilities, esp regarding mathematics - these companies have a massive incentive to fudge and a history of doing so (see OpenAI’s Dota2 AI back in 2016!)

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Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The invisible labor (often performed by women and marginalized folks) that keeps organizations afloat remains hidden and uncompensated. But those musing about AI's "transformation" of work have probably always benefited from this kind of labor in all parts of their life and don't see it as work.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/09/2026

One can only hope! Give the people some particolored knavery!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Abstracts are due this week! October 1. We take a broad view of "publishing" and are very interested in non-traditional forms of publishing and accessibility. Please get in touch if you have questions or want to float an idea before submitting an abstract.

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Given Wizards' abandonment of D&D fiction, it's great to see Hachette Partworks bringing back 100 classic D&D novels—even better, all in a gorgeous HARDCOVER format. If they were more easily available in the US, I suspect I'd be looking for shelving to fit 100 books. 🧵1

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UK Publisher Brings Back Over 100 Classic D&D Novels

UK-based publisher Hachette Partworks has just unveiled its new Dungeons & Dragons Novels Collection, which features over 100 classic books from D&D history.

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 26/09/2026

Do you like reading *about* speculative fiction? Do you like revising and offering feedback? Do you have strong but civil opinions about comma placement? ARB could use your help!

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org

Call for Volunteer Editors!

The Ancillary Review of Books is looking to grow our editorial team! ARB is an online magazine that publishes reviews and critical essays, centered on speculative fiction and related non-fict…

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the time of enshittification of, well, everything the role of higher education is not to teach students how to enshittificate more efficiently. It is to provide them with hard skills like source criticism, languages, writing or critical reading that will allow them to survive all of this.

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.

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Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm so grateful to @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social for inviting me to join the line-up for the conference in October! And I'm especially thrilled to be joined by @ladylark.bsky.social @deanleetal.bsky.social and @julianeugarten.bsky.social to talk about all things disciplinary!

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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Update! @suzannerblack.bsky.social's book "Between Novel and Network" is actually published already! (Raise your hand if you want to form a #fanstudies book club after the conference!)

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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Calling all fan studies nerds! Want to know who our final headliner is?? ▫️▫️▫️ It's Dr. Suzanne Black!! @suzannerblack.bsky.social A researcher (U of Edinburgh) & author of "Between Novel & Network" (forthcoming), she'll be leading a roundtable Oct. 24 titled "Fan Studies as a Discipline?"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Men crying about not being about to project their desires onto an object because that constitutes having their "language policed" is a special category of farce we call "Nate."

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Ethan J. A. Schoonover @ethanschoonover.com · 24/09/2026

graffiti i'm drafting now so I'm ready to spray paint it on the walls of a decaying luxury bunker as I step over a gucci clad skeleton and loot the last can of fruit cocktail left on planet earth

“The cornerstone belief of the last techno-oligarchs was that they would be good guys as soon as they finished pillaging. Gambling addicts rolling the dice on societal destruction, they kept at it believing that just one more roll would solve everything and redeem them in the eyes of the world.”

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Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A new special issue of Persuasions On-Line on 'Jane Austen's Global Fan Cultures' has just gone live! The issue boasts articles on Chinese translation and reception, literary tourism, fanfiction, and digital humanities projects.

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Destination: Toast! @destinationtoast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have been given a ✨🎁 gift link 🎁✨ to share with y'all -- read my article free for one week! But also support Fansplaining if you can, because they do great fandom journalism (like publishing me obvs 💅), and it's a bad economy for such things right now. fansplaining.com/crunching-th...

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Crunching the Fandom Numbers

In 2013, curiosity about Johnlock fic led me to pull my first fandom stats. Today, the world of fandom data analysis is thriving.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/09/2026

IMPORTANT: You can use the word 'autumnal' today.

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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's time to reveal our 2nd headliner for the 2026 FSNNA Conference. . . It's Dr. Divya Garg!! A research fellow (Curtin Uni) & author of "Decolonizing Media Fandom" (2026), she'll be leading a panel Oct. 23 on "Discomforting Fandom: Reflecting/Reshaping the Media & Cultural Landscape of Today"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...

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Thieves in the Temple

Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Jay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Author/artist grievance against AI, summarized

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 19/09/2026

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W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Words in the dictionary that describe things that aren’t real. 1. unicorn 2. centaur 3. apolitical

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is still the best metaphor

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Absolutely essential reporting from @mashazart.bsky.social at Fansplaining today for indie artists and the fans who want to support them. If you've been to a con in recent years, you've probably sensed that smaller artists were being pushed out. Here are the on-the-ground realities:

fansplaining.com

The Death of the Artist Alley?

For smaller artists, increased costs and outsized merchandise expectations are putting convention-selling out of reach.

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Wyatt Bonikowski @wbonikowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All English Departments, including mine, should do this

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

bu.edu

New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

speaking of which, as the editor of @journal.transformativeworks.org please somebody write me something about the HP fanfic to AI doomer pipeline going on here. you can throw in all the Tolkien references from the other side of tech bro meets fandom too.

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Dr Grace Khuri @gracekhuri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On September 15, 1977, what is arguably J.R.R. Tolkien's magnum opus was published (or at least the work of his heart). It turns 49 today. The earliest version of this work was the subject of my doctoral thesis -- the first on Tolkien at Oxford University. #Tolkien #Silmarillion

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Dr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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By prompting students to turn to AI instead of to their fellow students, TAs, or professors, these technologies offer the illusion that human interaction is inconsequential. But learning with and from other people simultaneously supports learning and builds the human skills that make the world go ’round.

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Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️🔥♥️ ITS HERE!!!!! This book is about how game design on a whole, counterintuitively, became less imaginative because of Dungeons & Dragons. We often talk about Dungeons & Dragons as the ultimate fantasy. A pure domain of imagination where absolutely anything is possible.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Describing the intention of something that doesn’t exist dos not summon it into being and instill it with that intention outside of the boundaries of the story. AI is not breaking out of boundaries. It is not a being. You’ve just all forgotten what the fuck reading feels like.

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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Come one, come all! Gather round as we announce our 1st FSNNA #FanStudies 2026 Conference headliner 🥁 🌟 DR. JINYING LI!! 🌟 An assistant prof (Brown University) & author of "Anime's Knowledge Cultures" (2024), she''ll be leading a roundtable Oct. 22nd titled "The Multitudes of Knowledge Cultures"

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Somehow it's already been a year since I wrote about using weird fiction as a metaphor for critically thinking about the fascist world we live in. The struggle continues!!!

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Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism

Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/09/2026

a) wikipedia creates, rather than destroys, context b) wikipedia is the result of people expressing *care* about both subjects in particular and having well ordered information in general slop is the opposite of care. it is indifference

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is not what slop refers to. I'm not being purely academic about this. The conflation does matter. Because this is a type of conglation that people do to make any reasonable critique of "A.I." seem overwrought. "Oh they said the same thing about the internet!" And it is not true.

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Seth Perlow @sethperlow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My book has a website! And a cover! And some very humbling blurbs! THE DIGITAL HAND: ELECTRONICS AND LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, coming April 2027 Several more posts about it coming before then . . . www.sup.org/books/litera...

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

*NEW ISSUE* *SEPTEMBER 2026* Analog Game Studies Vol. XIII, No. 3 is out! escholarship.org/uc/analoggam... -- featuring: Evan Torner, Alex Roberts & Stephen Shapiro, Cameron Kunzelman, Lucy Roach, & Kathryn Volz, and Helen Roche @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Jrnl #analoggamestudies #ags

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