iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 4h

**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s up for preorder! Always an exciting day for an author….The bookstores just doesn’t seem to know I’m the author in question…. www.amazon.com/Conservative...

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Conservatively Queer TV: Masculinities in the Reagan Era (Television and Popular Culture)

Amazon.com: Conservatively Queer TV: Masculinities in the Reagan Era (Television and Popular Culture): 9780815612414: Unknown Author: Books

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Super intelligence” is so transparently nonsense that I bet it will force people to say what they mean: LLMs, agentic systems, etc. and actually spur a move away from the term “intelligence,” which was never more than marketing hype

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

probably fine that all these new ai agent rollouts are so cutesy and childish. probably a sign of innocuous, normal shit

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

They are shutting this down by the end of the day.

Can the president build a giant triumphal arch in Washington
DC without congressional authorization?

No. Not on federal park or public grounds in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress. I

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i also feel like they are getting dumber. today i got one about a "publishing opportunity" from a trade publisher about a book i already published. because that's how anything works.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm just impressed with the URL

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it seems fitting that it's a riff on a thing about LOTR from 2019.

Tweet asking where The Lord of the Rings should use its one PG-13 F-bomb, with a still of a smirking Frodo captioned "All right, then. Fuck your secrets," a twist on his line "Keep your secrets."

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Transformative work of the day, regulatory edition

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my article, "'AI is not a fan': media fan responses to generative AI between consent and callouts" is now officially published with like volume and issue and page numbers and stuff, for ease of citation: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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“AI is not a fan”: media fan responses to generative AI between consent and callouts

Through a survey of 2,627 media fans about generative AI, I find overwhelmingly negative sentiment despite nuanced distinctions across different AI applications and differences by demographic facto...

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

as they say, where's the beef?

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Periodic reminder that copyright law has, since the Statute of Anne, been primarily a form of industrial regulation for the creative industries. It has also largely been designed and drafted by the creative industries.

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 20/09/2026

#TWC's general issue 49 is out, including issues on #genderfuckery, Heated Rivalry, and Sailor Moon! Read more at: otw-news.org/2p8pcct5

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Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Granted, prospective grad student inquiries have always been a little scattershot, but they increasingly resemble the book club scam emails.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if people are interested in understanding the broader UATX project, I have a chapter about it in Professor Superstar. i read their website and all their press interviews so you don't have to. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

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Wack'd 🏳️‍⚧️ @wackd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"meryl streep cast as asian"???? in 2026? are we still fucking doing thi--*finger to ear* sorry what's that

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i 100% agree with the premise that people need to be able to think, read, and write without AI, both as a moral imperative and in the practical sense that people can't use anything that builds on a foundation without having a foundation. but that's not what this article actually says.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

my article with @rouselaurenc.bsky.social, "Quantifying fandom: Identity, romance, and platform preferences on archive of our own," which provides solid data on fan demographics and how groups differ, has now officially been published with page numbers and stuff: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You know what we really need right now? The opinions of two guys who don’t know anything about AI and who have been wrong about many or all of the most consequential events of the past quarter century. NYT: coming right up!

Opinion
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
It's Already Too Late to Stop the A.l.
Threat
7 MIN READ
BRET STEPHENS
Trump Might Not Be Entirely Wrong
About A.l.
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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trying to get a job at the FBI.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My big question is: how does Stanford not have good enough lawyers on retainer to shut this down for using their name?

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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · 15/09/2026

#TWC is excited to announce the publication of #TWC49, a our annual general issue edited by Poe Johnson and Mel Stanfill. Dive in at this link: rb.gy/pmxvrf

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TWC 49 Released | Transformative Works and Cultures

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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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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

dear prospective grad students: i would rather you write your query email yourself, but if you're going to use AI, please have it read our website first and tell it to be concise.

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

you know how one definition of "slop" is things that take less time to produce than consume? does that make those emails or reports you labor over to get just right and then nobody reads it carefully at all . . . anti-slop?

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UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you're in the UCF area and want to learn more about a PhD in T&T or our Digital Humanities in the Age of AI graduate certificate, come see us at the Grad Fair next Wednesday, 9/16 4-7pm graduate.ucf.edu/gradfair/

graduate.ucf.edu

2026 Grad Fair

Explore graduate study at UCF. Meet faculty, explore graduate programs, and get your admissions questions answered.

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University Strategic Plan Bot @uni-strategic-bot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In these challenging times, it is essential to innovate our principles.

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University Strategic Plan Bot @uni-strategic-bot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Together, we will innovate experts to strengthen our leadership team with more Deans.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This was a great read! My favorite part was Chapter 3: "Haters Gonna Tweet" and its invitation to reminisce about peak @timgill924.bsky.social on the Other Place. Highly recommended.

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

i feel like these book club scams are not even trying anymore

Email screenshot: subject 'Exploiting Fandom Was Recommended,' from JoAnne Moderator.

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

if any of my people at the intersection of #fanstudies and media industries are looking for something to study . . .

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this does track with trans women having the least negative view of AI in my survey of fans, which was statistically significant though the N was small, and i hope somebody out there is studying this intersection.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m helping @scmspedagogy.bsky.social crowd source some tips for grad students (and beyond) who struggle start writing a teaching statement. I’d love anyone’s thoughts, especially about biggest mistakes you see.

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Save the Date: Fan Studies at 35 After an 8 year hiatus the FSN conference is back! We’re thinking about the state of the field 35 years after the publication of Henry Jenkins’ Textual Poachers, Camille Bacon-Smith’s Enterprising Women, & Lisa the edited collection The Adoring Audience in 1992.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of my grad students said tonight “well you know when you go in your mom‘s closet and you get clothes from the 90s that are in style now” And I put my head in my hands and said “guys I was in high school in the 90s how is that your parents age”

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

But don’t worry, every platform that has to do age verification will do it in a really robust, privacy-protective way.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

putting my journal editor hat on: one of y'all #fanstudies people please write me something for @journal.transformativeworks.org about the apparently universal fandom of Dolly Parton.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i got another reminder of this, so here's your reminder: Fandom is Ugly is **50% off with code NYUP50 ** through August 31 (as are all NYU books, if you want to pickup any of their other awesome stuff).

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