Patrick Keilty

Patrick Keilty

@patrickkeilty.bsky.social

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🎥 🖥️ 🐈 http://patrickkeilty.com/

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Montreal's tragic shooting follows established patterns of violence: angry young men who would deny womens' rights & bodily autonomy It's time to acknowledge the role of anti-porn rhetoric shaping hateful incel beliefs my latest for the @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

theglobeandmail.comOpinion: The Montreal shooting revealed how antiporn rhetoric is being taken up by incelsThe shooter’s 104-page manifesto made clear that misogyny was the clearest of his motivations

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Mike Stabile
@mikestabile.bsky.social

The success of the SpaceX's recent IPO seems to have been driven, in possibly large part, on revenue from Grok porn. "Two recent xAI employees estimated that well over half of Grok’s overall traffic was driven by pornographic images and videos, adult role-play chats or other NSFW activity."

theinformation.comXAI Bets on Grok’s Racy SideSpaceX’s xAI is doubling down on video- and image-generating tools, people familiar with the project said. That’s seizing on an opening left by OpenAI and Anthropic, which offer fewer visual capabilit...

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Mike Stabile
@mikestabile.bsky.social

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

theintercept.comCongress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous OnlineThe bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

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James Leo Cahill
@jamesleocahill.bsky.social

In a few weeks, if you're in Toronto, stop on by... This is different from the other two talks I've given at U of T this year on stray thinking... www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/le-te...

cinema.utoronto.caLe temps de chien: Stray exposures in shadow of VesuviusIn 1870 Giuseppe Fiorelli and his team of archaeologists produced a plaster cast of a bubble in the earth in the ruins of Pompeii, revealed to be a dog, which they designated watchdog of the House of ...
Patrick Keilty
@patrickkeilty.bsky.social

Terrific article highlighting the fantastic work of our colleagues at the Film Library and Media Archives at the University of Toronto to preserve film and media history! www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

thestar.comThese Toronto archivists are preserving rare and classic films for generations to come: ‘Why do all the work if nobody gets to see it?’Christina Stewart and Rachel Beattie help maintain the University of Toronto's film library. The school's Pop-Up Cinematheque will be screening a 16-mm print of 'Singin' in the Rain' on Jan.