Leigh Kellmann Kolb

Teaching, reading, watching, and writing in the middle of America. Community college instructor (comp, journalism, literature) and freelance writer.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Rarely have I seen AI described so succinctly.

[Media Literacy Asoc4 @A_M_L_]

An important call to action to end decades of #TechExceptionalism, arguing "the pace at which #AI is developing suggests that we must act urgently" to regulate the industry to ensure that "governance & ethical decisions" are put in the public's hands. https://t.co/u94M7t0iTG

[Historical Marker Database @HMdbEditors]

#MarkeroftheWeek
Lynching in America / Lynching of Erastus Brown in Union, Missouri 🕯️
https://t.co/JsQyg10ybW

@crp_missouri @ECC_Falcon @eji_org @Emissourian @mohistorymuseum @stltoday #lynchinginamerica #JimCrow

[Dan Schkade @DanSchkade]

Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS is in the Public Domain now, which means you just like, watch it on YouTube. One of the coolest movies ever made, free, whenever you want. If you're having a party just throw it on the projector and play Justice under it, bam, instant vibe

[Chris G. @morebachplease]

Once again, JLD nails it

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

These people want to strip away everything that makes life worth living—literature, language, art, poetry, passion, beauty—until we live in a bleak utilitarian hell of emails, AI girlfriends and machine-generated movies.

[RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices]

"The world has to be reminded that watching a film at home while scrolling through your phone and checking emails and half paying attention is just not the way, although some tech companies would like us to think so."

-- #Cannes2024 Palme d'Or Winner Sean Baker (@Lilfilm)

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

It’s 2024 now

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

"'Jackie Brown' (1997) is a film so cool & so breezy about middle aged people that feel the clock ticking. It reduces me to tears. I consider Tarantino a peer, but it is a watermark for how to shoot & film a scene with delicacy & compassion."

--- Paul Thomas Anderson

[Maggie Harrison Dupré @mags_h11]

I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...

For @futurism // https://t.co/CzVSglV3zN

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

“ You've heard the phrase ‘They said the quiet part out loud’, right? Well, that's what this ad is doing. And it's not just speaking in room tones. It's practically crowing its happiness at the destruction of artists, their tools, and their process.”
https://t.co/zWRjP9TLnJ

[Leigh Kellmann Kolb @leighkolb]

@AugursNFT No apologies! Thank you so much!

[American Association of University Professors @AAUP]

In their new article for #Academe, @EricScarffe and Katherine Valde warn that an undue emphasis on the instrumental “values” of liberal arts education may end up threatening students’ ability to develop crucial skills associated with the liberal arts. https://t.co/IYxGsodAl8

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

Corruption

[Criterion Channel @criterionchannl]

❤️ CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY ❤️ Now playing! https://t.co/MzJEjXuReQ

These stories of revolution, resistance, creativity, community, and everyday endurance offer a multifaceted vision of Black American identity across generations.

[Leigh Kellmann Kolb @leighkolb]

@mattzollerseitz It's all related--if one has no understanding/appreciation of art and culture before 1995 (!) and has an unbelievable amount of power and technological influence (like this guy), societal collapse seems imminent.

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

Many older films, including The Man with a Movie Camera, The Third Man, Koyaanisqatsi and All That Jazz are cut as fast as most commercial narrative films released right now.