"goosebumps" written out using the NASA Your Name in Landsat tool

science.nasa.gov/mission/land...

soz to this cup of tea, i might not get to enjoy you the way you deserve

> settle in to finally tackle overdue writing
> get the phone call that completion has happened and when do i want to pick up the keys for the flat i've just bought
> aaaaah

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

keyword: book
blurb: it's a book
single phrase: boooook

the high of delivering a book MS brought back to reality by the publisher reasonably also asking for keywords, the blurb for the back cover, "single phrase to describe the book" 🥲

Happy @alcs.co.uk March Distribution Day to all who celebrate 🥳📚💰

it has been yeeted at my coeditors, let the weekend commence

Screenshot of Word's word count: 74561 words

[Friday afternoon victory screech]

The call is live! #videogames #academia #VGC2026 #conference #games

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

Sure, end of April should be workable! Do you have/need my BCU email?

iambic tetrameter ass stick

I'm available for indexing academic volumes. Areas of specialization include fan studies, media studies, gender studies, visual culture, art history. DM if interested!

Please share if you know someone who may need their monograph or edited collection indexed!

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

it happened to me: just responded to a long and articulate student email with "Sounds great!" and nothing else 😅

Screenshot from Researchgate showing a listing for an article by Isacco Turina titled "Echoes of Hesiod's Works and Days in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land" under a series of classifications reading: HOME > ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING > ENGINEERING > WASTE MANAGEMENT > WASTE

When you leave the classification part of the process to something lacking a human brain.
Am picturing some very confused waste management engineers 😂😬

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Nothing can prepare your soul for the first image ever transmitted onto a television

Douglas Sirk directed a submarine movie, he knew what was up

I didn't know what to expect, and supporting students through a new assessment brief with a class is always interesting, but it's been fun seeing the range of material, and the honesty in the reflections (i.e. "thought it would be an easy class, but now i understand the world differently" stuff)

Back in the summer I changed a fandoms module assessment from a research paper to a presentation about any one fannish object plus a reflection on key concepts in fan studies

Result? Currently marking "here's why fan studies is cool" reflections, and thoughtful videos on things student care about

the energy to bring into 2026

What Heated Rivalry’s success reveals about fan fiction’s cultural staying power With origins as a Wattpad hockey romance, the show relies on the imaginative extension that defines fan work

Happy Heated Rivalry season finale to all who celebrate!

Also, re: #FandomStudies...

Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use Fanvids, or vids, are short videos created in media fandom. Made from television and film sources, they are neither television episodes nor films; they resemble music videos but are non-commercial fan...

Apparently I'm out in paperback! And it looks to be on sale, so if you're looking for a £35 stocking stuffer, boy do I have a recommendation for you... #fanstudies

I have read the article in question (link in comments of the QT) and just want to point and laugh at this para, which implies with a straight face that men are being discriminated against, without acknowledging that men are statistically more likely to apply for jobs they are underqualified for.

If you want another look at the topics presented at VGC 2025, we've got good news: half of the contributions now include a full paper as part of our Online Proceedings 🥳A big thanks to all the authors!
Here's the link: videogamecultures.org/2025-abstrac...