AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself

The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...

the-independent.com

"the story of a woman’s relationship to death is the story of the world, of then, of now, of always, of still." Michele Aaron sets the scene for our new issue in her foreword to MAI 16: Dead Women and Gendered Death in Visual Culture. www.maifeminism.com/dead-women-a...

Dead Women and Gendered Death in Visual Culture: Foreword

Looking at a broader context, Aaron praises our authors for interrogating how women's deaths are currently conceptualised in visual culture.

maifeminism.com

"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings." www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

404media.co

'The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.' 2/3

What Matters Most? 20 years of the student experience - HEPI

Half of students miss one-third of their lectures. 20 years of data show undergraduates are struggling to access the high-quality teaching, in-person interactions and satisfying student experience the...

hepi.ac.uk

Listening to a podcast interview with David Lynch from a couple of years ago, and I think I might need to set this excerpt as my phone alarm and/or ring tone:

nobody wants this except the handful of billionaires who will profit by it; dunno how you'll get pay anyone to pay tuition to view AI slop

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

A complaint I keep seeing (mostly in the Bad Place) is that critics should be reviewing MICHAEL for what it is, rather than what they think it ought to be. But sometimes critics have a moral obligation to reject the terms a movie sets for itself, or at the very least to interrogate those terms.

Comparative Cinema is now part of the Diamond Discovery Hub! ddh.edch.eu/en/journals/... Open access, no fees, and Creative Commons! We strive for an open academia that encourages the advancement of learning, and that breaks down the barriers to knowledge!

‼️ NEW ISSUE ‼️ Our latest issue is out now! "The Body Without Limits. The Monstrous Feminine in Spanish Cinema", with an exclusive interview with Barbara Creed! More here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

The deadline for our latest CFP ends on January 30! If you have a contribution in mind, don't hesitate to write to us at comparativecinema@upf.edu More info here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

Comparative Cinema@comparativecinema.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢 NEW CFP 📢 The next issue of Comparative Cinema invites contributors to reflect on hapticity (or "haptic visuality") in film and television from different perspectives (the affective turn, cinematography, queer studies, and more). Deadline: January 30, 2026 More here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

If you're a scholar interested in haptic cinema, don't forget to send us your article proposal at comparativecinema@upf.edu Deadline for full articles is January 30. MORE HERE: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

Comparative Cinema@comparativecinema.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢 NEW CFP 📢 The next issue of Comparative Cinema invites contributors to reflect on hapticity (or "haptic visuality") in film and television from different perspectives (the affective turn, cinematography, queer studies, and more). Deadline: January 30, 2026 More here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

Recordatorio de que Diane Keaton, además de todo lo que hizo en su carrera como actriz, también dirigió un episodio de Twin Peaks y el rarísimo clip de Heaven is a place on Earth

What would the ending of The Godfather be without her face?

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

ru.nl

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last yr.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

You like movies? 🎞️ Were born in the US? 🇺🇸 And really really like to talk about Hollywood and all things related? 🍿 Then we're looking for you! Our US case study is about to start, and we want to find out about your movie memories. Register now! hollywood-memories.com/en/participa...

📢 NEW CFP 📢 The next issue of Comparative Cinema invites contributors to reflect on hapticity (or "haptic visuality") in film and television from different perspectives (the affective turn, cinematography, queer studies, and more). Deadline: January 30, 2026 More here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

every time I see another story about AI taking over a creative job I think about this scene in YOU’VE GOT MAIL and weep

Lizzie Borden's (@lizziela.bsky.social) New York Feminisms trilogy is now on Blu-ray thanks to the @Criterion Collection. Here’s an excerpt from my conversation with Borden about her films in my book “Cinema Her Way" Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/celebratin...

There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!

grossmjj@grossmjj.bsky.social · last yr.

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Consensus for Showdown № 220 is in 🗳️ Here are the top twenty remakes (revisited), as voted by the Letterboxd community 🔁 View the list: boxd.it/OJDEg

“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to th...

theguardian.com

Linguistics lesson for the day: Accountability is crucial to interpreting language. We make sense of something based on who we believe said it. Synthetic text extruded by LLMs was not said by anyone -- so a crucial step in the chain is broken. >>

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last yr.

LLMs are not a suitable technology for information access. Here is a quick summary of why not: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... But to take the SIFT framework, LLMs cannot be a source. They are synthetic text extruding machines, that's all. Text without accountability.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people

Joined forces w/one of my closest friends, the wonderful Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro. "Frontera" is one of my favorite poems, I hope to have done justice to its beauty. Special thanks to @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social for letting this be part of her "Moving Poems" collection! vimeo.com/1111622865

It's a pleasure and an honor to be part of such a beautiful collection of video poems 🌟

Evelyn Kreutzer@evelynkreutzer.bsky.social · last yr.

New Moving Poem by @brunellatedesco.bsky.social! "Frontier" beautifully hones in on the figure of the horse in mutliple canonical films and relates them to Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro's poetry. Please check out this marvelous piece here! vimeo.com/showcase/957...

New Moving Poem by @brunellatedesco.bsky.social! "Frontier" beautifully hones in on the figure of the horse in mutliple canonical films and relates them to Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro's poetry. Please check out this marvelous piece here! vimeo.com/showcase/957...

hopefully of use in this time suck against-a-i.com

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.

Similarly, the AI boom has forced teachers who actually care about student learning to radically reconfigure their classes in order to disincentivize students from using the cheating machines they now have easy access to and which systemically undermine student learning. No one asked for this.