Kellen Hoxworth
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo. Transoceanic Blackface: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/ “Blackface Geographies”: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204325101172
A regime of legal liability functions as the de facto rule of law for big corporations, which means they will do anything to avoid taking risks. Which means they create spaces for the culture war without refereeing them. Now we have culture warlords like Riley and Sophie running amok.
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d agoriley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
Time to pack it in, folks. The literal Fun Police are here.
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3d agoThis may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.
The very people who accuse others of "staying silent" are SILENT THEMSELVES ON 1000 issues a day which is NORMAL because you are ONE PERSON & simply cannot have takes on every single thing.
one of the saddest ironies of higher ed's headlong embrace of AI is that the clearest and most thorough reporting on the subject has been done almost exclusively by student journalists
Sarah Osment@smosment.bsky.social · 6d agothose who work in University writing programs should pay close attention—developing AI-friendly teaching doesn't make you safe from layoff www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Covid exists in a superposition where it is simultaneously a hoax, an overblown flu, and a bioengineered super weapon, and you can only determine its position at any given moment by asking which version is the most politically convenient
What is AI hallucination if not motivated reasoning persevering?
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last wk.AI hallucinations are one of the ways it behaves *most* like human beings.
I just want to thank you all for your contributions to the Sophie Cunningham discourse today.
For someone whose biggest hit had “Karma” in its title, he’s really testing the concept. Ditto for someone whose second biggest hit asked, “Do you really want to hurt me?”
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Boy George says he created his new pro-Israel reggae song with AI
It’s increasingly clear that all future historians will need to have a sub-specialty in the 2020s because this is when we irrevocably infected our archival record with AI slop and the ability to parse the historical with the simulacral will hinge on knowing the bizarre discourses of this time.
The single most salient fact about AI is the investment bubble, not the technical characteristics of chatbots or recent advances in statistical inference. 9/
As expected, the Philadelphia 76ers spent the offseason turning a past-his-prime and low-key disgraced Paul George into Jaylen Brown and LeBron James.
Is the post- in “post-truth” the post- in “post-tenure”?
profchander@profchander.bsky.social · 2w agoi’m old enough to remember when appiah only misread du bois
It’s not true patriotism if it doesn’t have a switch-operated red, white, and blue light show projected on a cave wall to the tune of “America, the Beautiful.”
I didn’t think this required saying, but: You don’t get to call “oopsie” on your genocide.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit
People often talk about how parents in the US treat their children like property, but this just obliterates the analogy.
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w agoextremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.
Sophie Cunningham is about as edgy as a beach ball: defector.com/sophie-cunni...
Sophie Cunningham Is About As Edgy As A Beach Ball | Defector
There’s a type of public relations exercise that unfolds like a joke. In it, a notable figure who has chosen to sit for a longform profile, declined to answer a sensitive question through her…
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I got one of these yesterday and I went through the five stages of emotional enshittfication: Tentative Excitement, Apprehensive Doubt, Curiosity, Creeping Rage, Apathetic Numbness.
Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2w agoSince A Second Sight came out I've received about 2-3 of these scam emails a week. They are not only profoundly annoying but obviously prey on author's passions and attachment to their work. In some cases they impersonate real people at legit organizations.
One has to wonder why there were two men standing just offscreen with black burial shrouds.
badly drawn bee 🐝@soapachu.bsky.social · 2w agoperfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)
Humbled to receive an Honorable Mention for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s 2026 Outstanding Article Award for my essay “Alice Childress’s Troubling Method: Theatrical ‘Truth’ and the Cold War Politics of Rehearsing Racial Authenticity.” www.athe.org/page/article...
ATHE 2026 Outstanding Article Awardees - Association for Theatre in Higher Education
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The marketplace of bad ideas has spoken.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 2w ago"Furnari, despite no one having commissioned him...said he had expected unnamed wealthy figures to donate to him...but that has not come to pass. In desperation, Furnari set up an online fundraising campaign, hoping to raise an initial $150,000...As of Thursday, he had raised $1,400." sksksksssssks
Why are universities pushing AI when it's demonstrably terrible for education? Why is AI being integrated into everything when it's plainly error-riddled? Why are AI's malign social and environmental consequences being papered over even by people who should know better? Oh hey
