Message in a bottle for @sepinwall.bsky.social: a colleague of mine at GA Tech is looking for some of your HitFix recaps and interviews for a book on The Leftovers. Any chance you could help? Please DM me and I'll put you in touch 🤞🏻📬
Lisa Jacobson
@lisawj.bsky.social
Media scholar and educator living in Berlin. Always happy to talk about: TV, historical fiction, Cold War, seriality, ungrading, Bluey.
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree today. It landed with a thud, looked embarrassed, then scampered back up.
Roundtable includes: Stephanie Brown, Brianna J. Cox, Misty D. Fuller, Nicholaus Gutierrez, Amanda Konkle, Derritt Mason, Chelsea Wessels, and is moderated by Jennifer Blaylock and Lisa Jacobson.
More Fairuza Balk appreciation: there's something about how she moves her mouth that reminds me of Cole Escola. Now I really want to see them together in a stage production of The Craft—and maybe also Return to Oz! #spookyseason #Halloween #witchy
Just rewatched The Craft. Can we get Fairuza Balk on Yellowjackets ASAP? @emilystjams.bsky.social?
"Color Protocols," edited by Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social, explores how color intersects with problematic histories of racial encoding in linguistic, visual, and algorithmic media: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255350...
Pop Quiz: Is this a photo from The Guardian or a still from One Battle After Another? #PTA #OneBattleAfterAnother
When they said small government, I didn't think they meant autocracy.
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
My favorite thing about Georgia Tech students might be how they give each other feedback. There's a consistently high level of honesty, sincerity, and mutual respect. It gives me a much-needed spark of hope for the future. #teaching #peerreview #GATech
Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉
The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms
Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
If you had "deploying military forces against civilians in your own country" on your authoritarianism bingo card, well, go get your dauber. What's that, LA? You already marked that square in June? #WashingtonDC
Reading about Columbia's capitulation to the current regime....
a man wearing a hat and a suit is smiling and looking at the camera .
Alt: Lakeith Stanfield's smile starts to curdle in Get Out
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Now he's actually tilting at windmills. The absurdity would be funny, if it weren't coupled with egomaniacal cruelty.
Trump news at a glance: president tells Europe to ‘stop the windmills’ ahead of EU and UK trade talks
Donald Trump also criticises European leaders on immigration ahead of crunch meeting with Ursula von der Leyen. Key US politics stories from 26 July 2025
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An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
Serena is the undisputed GOAT, but never underestimate Venus, who continues to do things in her own time, on her own terms. I have been awed by her for 30 years and counting. #tennis #Venus #WilliamsSisters
Venus Williams becomes oldest WTA winner since Martina Navratilova
Seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams, 45, beats Peyton Stearns - 22 years her junior - in the first round of the Washington Open.
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For my fall course prep, I've been rereading our teaching dossier on ungrading. Let me shout out Part I again, edited primarily by @jennblaylock.bsky.social and secondarily by me. We really wanted to make something thoughtful, honest, and above all USEFUL—so please read and share with abandon!
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - Browse Volume/Issue
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Spending this 4th of July traveling between Germany and the Netherlands, two countries I once called home and gladly would again.
Still thinking about #NECS2025 in Lisbon last week. It was an honor to present on the panel "Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Geopolitics Beyond Europe" with @cheryldueck.bsky.social, Deniz Göktürk, and Balázs Varga. More in Montpellier? [Photo credit: @nwbaer.bsky.social]
After exploring the beautiful city of Lisbon with Maggie @hennefem.bsky.social, I'm ready for #NECS2025 to begin!
Watching #nokings from afar (East Germany) and sending all the love and solidarity 💗
This is a longshot, but: @inkookang.bsky.social, I'm a TV scholar writing about The Americans, and I'm trying to locate a terrific article you wrote in 2016 about the 4th season for the now defunct MTV News. Any chance you (or someone else) could send it to me?
This is outrageous, and we should be appropriately outraged. How can I tell my students it's not OK to copy-paste hallucinated AI slop when it appears to be MAHA's MO? #teaching #AI #plagiarism #ethics
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
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