What kids are watching Oppenheimer?! Also, it is so telling that CEO of OpenAI thinks blowing up the world is inspiring just because there's science involved... Bodes really well for us all

I keep reading these hot takes about how the little girls smashing their baby dolls at the beginning of Barbie is some sort of shockingly subversive image but all it tells me is that you never paid attention to how little girls play. They wreck shit when they feel like it

I guess X is equal to -44 billion, now to solve for Y

imagine screwing up so bad that every muppet on sesame street takes turns dunking on your idea

As Hollywood executives claim they can't afford to pay actors better wages, they're also spending lavishly on AI, with Netflix offering $900,000 for a single AI product manager. 87% of actors earn under $26k — the cutoff to qualify for health insurance theintercept.com/2023/07/25/str…

🧵on my #DigitalFutures #ChildRights #PlayfulByDesign research with Kruakae Pothong 5Rights Foundation

"I'm not sure he has enough trust from his user base to get people to actually exchange money or attach any type of financial institution to his app," says @newhousesu communications associate professor J.M. Grygiel 🐀, about Elon Musk's social media app, X. npr.org/2023/07/29/119…

Hey all! Raccoon Logic continues to grow! We are looking for a Technical Artist (intermediate or senior) and a Level Designer (also intermediate or senior) to work on our soon to be announced project! If you're in Montreal and this sounds exciting then mail [email protected]!

went to see the #BarbieTheMovie at Cineplex in Montreal last night (7pm) & halfway through we were evacuated due an alarm. Paid $140 for meals which we did not receive & no info via email re: any sort of refund - no clue how to proceed #disappointed Cineplex

thank you to 聯影電影有推特了! 歡迎加入喔 phone CSR who refunded everything and only a wait time of 18 minutes. Not bad at all.

I learned today that my book is Open Access thanks to MIT Press' larger "Direct to Open" project. So if you're looking for something to read, here are 82 new books published and open accessed this year! mitpress.mit.edu/mit-presss-dir…

this! one of the things I take to hear the most is refusing to do things I am only minimally qualified to talk about/evaluate & try to point people in the right direction on any topic! KNOW YOUR LIMITS & CHECK YOUR EGO fellow academics! <3

take to *heart /sigh-no-edit-button ;)

I teach remote & blended, but it would be awesome if that extra work put on profs to deliver in multiple modalities simultaneously be compensated appropriately! Just the extra work of extensive course LMS' takes so much more time than 10 years ago -

This Mashable article about who follows Musk here is is wild... He's screaming into a void of nothingness mashable.com/article/elon-m…

If you are going to #AoIR in October, consider signing up for the Undergraduate Teaching Pre-Conference Workshop. This is the 3rd year the workshop is running & is a great opportunity to discuss teaching strategies about & with digital media & the Internet aoir.org/aoir2023/preco…

by the way goodbye volcano high is proudly a SAG-AFTRA game. and after becoming intimately familiar with union contracts what actors are asking for is so so so basic it's shocking how much AAA companies push back.

wednesday from 3-5pm! technoableism series STS York University with @kellyfritsch1 & Anne McGuire! also thoughts from Melanie Baljko & me (eep!) zoom: yorku.zoom.us/j/94263127715?…

My 2nd PhD article, written with Blake Hallinan, is out in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication! We developed the new concept of value affordances of social media engagement features 👇(1/10) academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/2…