Buster’s last truly great film ❤️

This is why its so important for those of us who teach to refuse unnecessary uncritical use of AI to think, read, write, create.
Students are being lied to/fashioned into lifetime consumers of LLMs, and universities are letting it happen and abdicating their responsibilities.

Saw Emilie K. Sunde give a brilliant presentation yesterday at Artificial Visionaries symposium- definitely a scholar to watch!

Indie Film Community Calls Gutting of Academy Archive 'Disastrous' | Exclusive The independent filmmaking community is up in arms over the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ recent decision to gut its archive and library.

A petition started by Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, co-presidents of the ad hoc group of film professionals Missing Movies, is calling on Academy leadership, including president Janet Yang and Kramer, to rehire the 16 employees who were “summarily fired.” www.thewrap.com/academy-film...

Hey friends! I went and quickly put together a starter pack for those of us who research media technology history. It's got some glaring ommisions at the moment, so please send me more names.

Great pack! Please add me - I research and teach film, Tv, and digital media history

Hi Emily, I’ve just joined - please add me

Digital Victorians | Stanford University Press Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, the...

Today is publication day for my book DIGITAL VICTORIANS, part of @stanfordpress.bsky.social 's excellent series in Text Technologies www.sup.org/books/litera... (use code FYFE20 for a discount!)

Buster Keaton - The Cook (1918)

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