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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen)

@clberner.bsky.social

phd candidate, theatre artist, flop collector. i write about commercial failure(s), megamusicals, and neoliberalism. ask me about the 1986 musical RAGS. she/her/hers

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casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen)@clberner.bsky.social · 4d ago

the amount of ai “art” all over edinburgh honestly made me anxious. why should i come see your show if you couldn’t bother to tell me about it yourself???? why should i spend money in your tourist shop on prints of ugly ai-generated cows?????

PleasantKenobi@pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 6d ago

To be abundantly clear - if you are generating thumbnails for your videos or art for your projects using AI, why should I assume that any of your writing, opinions, work or design are not just shite spat out by an LLM? Won't click. Won't buy. Won't work with. Fuck Off. Get. In. The. Bin.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last wk.

the trap in which JKR has placed herself is that she cannot simply say “Dolly was a good person” because Dolly said out loud that she loved trans people, and that is wholly incompatible with goodness in JKR’s moral calculus. but she ALSO can’t just say “Dolly was wrong,” because she is a coward

Alison@alicemerray.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes, Rowling must know that, while I'm sure Dolly would have been civil to her if they met, she completely disagreed with Rowling's attitudes. And it's Dolly who is receiving pretty much unanimous adulation.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last wk.

JKR had her chance at a future where she would be remembered forever for getting kids to fall in love with reading, and instead she will be remembered as a stochastic terrorist on the wrong side of one of 21st century history’s foremost civil rights battles, and I do think that’s somewhat sinking in

SEIU Local 925@seiu925.bsky.social · last wk.

We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.

Tribute-style portrait of a Dolly Parton performing in a ruffled light purple blouse, arm raised and singing into a microphone, overlaid with the lyric: "You're just a step on the bossman's ladder / But you've got dreams he'll never take away."
Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · last wk.

(3/3) Dolly called and asked if there was any way to help with this tragedy. Abumrad replied she was on a vaccine research team but it was expensive and they were still seeking grants. When Dolly heard this she replied "Well I have money" and donated $1m. Abumrad's team produced the Moderna vaccine.

casey (RAGS IS FUCKING BACK flop queen)@clberner.bsky.social · 2w ago

omg this article by david hollingshead in @defector.com fucking rules. i will be printing a zillion copies and leaving them in the grad student lounge once im home defector.com/humanists-ha...

Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

defector.com

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3w ago

not a conspiracy and other researchers are documenting and developing www.theamericanvandal.com/p/against-te...

Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

theamericanvandal.com

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 3w ago

My sounds-like-conspiracy-theory-but-is-probably-true take is slopAI firms are deliberately targeting education sector; it’s underfunded & weakly protected & by becoming standard there they create generations of dependent users which is only thing that can stop inevitable financial bubble bursting

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 3w ago

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.