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Assistant Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University. PhD, Yale University. Co-president of the Society for Animation Studies. 🇧🇬 Research areas: animated media, AI, visual effects, video games. Latest: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944430
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That furious typing sound you're hearing is the clickety clack of thousands of Russian Lit PhDs feverishly drafting their hot takes on The Death of Ivan Ilyich being featured in this week's #Severance

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Saw this tonight in a packed IMAX theater (thanks to a colleague who had the foresight to reserve tickets as soon as they dropped). As the credits started rolling, a young Gundam enjoyer got up, struck a Rocky pose, and yelled, "This is absolute cinema!" There are good things left in the world.

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Want to feel alive on a Monday afternoon? I recommend telling a group of MA and MFA students in the Cinema department that you don't like Jeanne Dielman.

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How could anyone mind that we are destroying the environment in the name of LLMs when they produce such quality content

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PSA: If you run a film appreciation account of any kind and never post animation, you ain't shit.

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Reghabi performing brain surgery on this week's #Severance

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Oooh this CFP sounds amazing 👌

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So tired of seeing self-proclaimed "cartoon research" bros post the same ignorant Ne Zha 2 takes over and over. "Oh I've never heard of this! How come it's making so much money? Oh it was actually good?? How surprising!!" Why are you surprised, Jonathan? Tell us the real reason, don't be shy.

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The CSU system is now offering free online AI "microcredential" courses to faculty. I decided to enroll in one of them to check out what flavor the Kool-aid is. Behold, the very first quiz I had to take on my way to becoming microcredentialed:

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An excellent op-ed by two of my colleagues in the STS Hub on the CSU system's irresponsible, ill-advised AI initiative: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... "It is important to ask whether investment in AI is more important than investment in people."

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Netflix marketing: "The continuation of Season 2's shocking ending will begin soon..." Me, having forgotten every single plot point of Season 2 the moment the credits started rolling: Oh yes, I've been waiting for YEARS to see how this ends!

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Anyone can use Generative AI to turn art into slop but leave it to Zemeckis to immediately embrace deepfake sloppification as an adaptation approach. Truly a generational talent at finding the corniest applications of any new tech

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I did not time my grad seminar sessions on Habermas and Debord for post-Super Bowl week *on purpose* but so far it's been working out great.

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The Chemical Brothers are having a moment in pop culture soundtracks and I'm here for it. #Invincible S3E1 nailed this cue.

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Announcing the SCMS Animated Media SIG's next entry into our series "(Re)animating the Curriculum"! This session discusses AI and animation, featuring scholars Mihaela Mihailova and Nea Ehrlich. 📅Friday, Feb 7 ⏰9AM PST / 12PM EST / 5PM BST 🛜Online via Zoom

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Today in vfx class I said that if he were working today, Méliès would be distributed by Lionsgate, and Segundo de Chomón would be with A24. Not a single student reacted. I'm sorry, I thought this was a FILM school??

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