@erobertlee.bsky.social
English PhD with work in American Studies and Classical Reception. African American Literature, American 19th/20th Century, Science Fiction, Du Bois.
I genuinely think it's important to teach internet history such that this is comprehensible. I don't think you can understand the world you live in without it
Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online · 18h agoThis image doesn’t exist so you can say that Something Awful is “largely unmoderated”
The reality is that studios can spend the next 10 years throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into AI-produced, algorithm-driven "content" and yet they'll never produce a work even a fraction as emotionally evocative as a 90 second Volkswagen ad from 1999 youtu.be/_-kqUkZnDcM?...
Volkswagen "Pink Moon"
YouTube video by Alan Pafenbach
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I could genuinely cry looking at this. I have a specific nostalgia for the packard bell 486 we got was in elementary school but also it's simple a relic from a time when we believed this could be wonderful
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING: The UK Government confirms that Bluesky will be INCLUDED in the ban on social media for under 16s. The government said it will be BANNED because it is a “user-to-user platform who purpose is to enable social interaction.”
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
![CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)
Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.
Kane: Absolutely not.
For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.
When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wk7ktvs3sld47pgfndy43gyp/bafkreid3oivudz5p3kmcuu6ss3gr2tmy73r3uqe3ljh6h5rxbeax2dcme4)
I have no regrets or shame in so saying. This is me.
Sitcom People@sitcompeople.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat TV characters most remind you of yourself? (As an example, these sad sacks are mine)
[P] quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap
Alan Sepinwall@sepinwall.bsky.social · 5mo ago[P] quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap
Journalists: "Are streamers like Hasan Piker a liability?" Leftists: "The shitlibs are out to smear Hasan Piker! It's an op! IT'S AN OP!" Literally every American who leaves their home more than three times a week:
i feel like rodney dangerfield would have a lot to work with these days. "guy sold me one of these self driving cars and it left without me. then he said he'd set me up with a model, turned out to be a computer! then my wife and the computer left me in the car"
Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 6mo ago
My AI work wife keeps hallucinating incorrect facts, like the idea that we aren’t meant for each other
I basically have a PhD in the history of UT women’s basketball (I’m not kidding even a little) so it was a real thrill to get to write about this particular team just weeks before the 40th anniversary of their championship.
Texas Monthly@texasmonthly.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe Longhorns are on the hunt for their second championship, but their first, in 1986, didn’t come easily. https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/texas-womens-basketball-march-madness-remembering-1986/
I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/josh...
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 7mo agoCrazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...
Karl Marx did not spend ten years living in the British Library for the modern Left to negatively polarize itself against the concept of graphs.
I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 7mo agoNow I've read the critiques of that figure. It's basically bullshit. But liberal apologists want us to think those graphs can tell us our lives are not in the fucking pits. Or they'll say that anyone suffering is an outlier. Which is insidious.
This is a wonderful concept and post, but I think we need some ways of distinguishing format from genre. What was so critical about The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity was that they represented a huge shift toward found footage as a technical shift in the genre of horror.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 7mo agowhat do we call this: a movie that launches a sub genre which never innovates or exceeds the original examples: blair witch, the exorcist
Love seeing accounts here trying to talk knowledgeably about American politics and they’re like “I am a membre of the Demoucratic Party!”
It's no coincidence that perhaps the worst era in discontinued food history lines up perfectly with the exact window in time when "She's So High" by Tal Bachman was popular...really makes you think
I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time
South Side. 1820 East Carson - Burger King. Yes, that one. Caller says a woman wearing cat ears is threatening to beat up and scratch employees. She has supposedly been kicked out once before.
I cannot explain properly how much sense this makes to me and how breathtaking I find it.
Oregon 🕎🎲@oregonthedm.bsky.social · 8mo agoBasic Land but make it actually nostalgic Made by Ron Lecher
