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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 21h

For sale: baby book, never read.

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 15h

Transformative work of the day

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UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social · 22h

#TBT to T&T faculty member @melstanfill.bsky.social's 2024 book, Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture nyupress.org/978147982496...

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Fandom Is Ugly

Winner, 2025 Diamond Anniversary Book Award, given by the National Communication AssociationHighlights the importance of considering contemporary public cult...

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i promise we do not have to act like these technologies are alive/intelligent/have intention to regulate them.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

www.politico.com/live-updates...

A meme pairing a news article with the "reaction guys" format. Top left: a screenshot of an article with a headline "Trahan unveils AI liability discussion draft" and the subhead "The legislation comes after multiple incidents of AI models going rogue." The text says Rep. Lori Trahan unveiled a draft bill on Wednesday that would make AI developers liable when their products cause harm. Top right: four young men in a dark room lean forward, pointing and cheering with fists raised. Bottom left: another excerpt explains the bill would stop developers from arguing their AI systems can't have intent; instead, highlighted in blue, courts "would presume an AI system acted with the state of mind a person taking the same actions would have had." Bottom right: the same group of men now sit still, staring ahead with serious, unsettled expressions, as the cheering gives way to disappointment.

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wizard of Oz was baby's first fandom but while the OG was safe for 3 year old me the sequel was definitely definitely not.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

hey y'all, when does registration close?

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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 Moorebidity @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 Monster 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 · 26/09/2026

i kind of thought you had already retired, TBH, since you were posting cool travel photos frequently. in a like "good for her!" kind of way. :-) but going rogue definitely is more badass.

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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

i do find it funny that they have to have the communist symbol on it because otherwise it's just an argument about voting that it's the opposite of their actual views.

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

as they say, where's the beef?

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

spoiler: they have lots of feels about the university that they are working out through being mad about how it's currently organized as (moderately, in a hand-wavy way) inclusive

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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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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is notoriously bad at facts!

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My theory is that they are not only having AI write them but also asking AI where to apply.

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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 · 17/09/2026

🤣 many such cases. let he who has not arrived on campus and then become banal cast the first stone.

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

there are all kinds of places AI should not be shoved in--typically, the places edtech and university admins most want to shove it. but "lol we'll just take the computers away problem solved" is so superficial that i can't believe it was published.

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

students absolutely need to spend time reading difficult texts (assuming anybody taught them to read in K-12, and not just three-cueing). writing, absolutely, is thinking. i believe in all of that as much as i also believe technological tools can let us do new cool stuff on top of that foundation.

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

but this? "Allow professors to require students to spend the time they are nominally already required to dedicate to the course outside the classroom in tech-free reading rooms; shut down the WiFi; scramble the cell signal; send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods." is just stupid

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

AI lets you do a thing faster, or less labor-intensive, or otherwise extending abilities that already exist. people have to have the foundations, at the same time that learning those foundations is where students want to take shortcuts. it's a hard problem to solve.

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

i think AI should not be taught in K-8, and i'd rather make that K-12 except that then the students who don't go to college are unprepared for the way this technology is reshaping the world in the current moment. even lower division undergrad, it's rarely a good idea.

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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

but will deans/provosts/etc. give anybody money for jobs that are not AI?

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

no, but send me an email and i can get you a copy. i'm googleable!

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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
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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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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

related: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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