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Archive fever – one tweet at a time
Déjà vu, déjà entendu [24]
Seen all these.
Being human, becoming human, and ceasing being human [2]
A few illustrations.
- “Tech support” (R. Kikuo Johnson, The New Yorker, 16 October 2017)
- “Humans are hooked. Machines are learning.” (Source unknown)
- Yes, master. (Design Museum Gent, 2017)
Déjà vu, déjà entendu [23]
We ship you and we ship you hard. [6]
Can’t stop laughing 🤣 #2. See also this whole thread and its QTs. Explains why I am still on that Titanic of a platform.
Kind but creepy [6]
🫠
Extracting audio from visual information (MIT News, 4 August 2014)
Never, ever, ever use pixelation for redacting text (Bishop Fox, 15 February 2022)
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? (MIT Technology Review, 19 December 2022)
We ship you and we ship you hard. [5]
RT @fanlore_wiki Are you thinking of leaving #Twitter? This isn’t the first time fans have decided to move platforms, nor will it be the last. The video essay “Life and Death of Fandom Platforms” details @cfiesler’s research into why and how fans change platforms: http://bit.ly/3VOBRwT (28 November 2022)
Metaphors we teach by
🫶 Why I have been insisting that my CAQDAS workshop is a food festival, not a cook-along show (image via @danielagduca).

We ship you and we ship you hard. [4]
Goncharov: why has the internet invented a fake Martin Scorsese film? (The Guardian, 25 November 2022, first learnt via this tweet; see also the Shazaam story)
Neil Gaiman: With the greatest possible respect, “has decided they are in love” is fandom’s default mode. I could have put up pictures of Maggie and Nina and talked about how they hate each other and were each other’s worst enemies and fandom would have nodded its collective head and muttered “ah. Friends to enemies trope. They are in love.” I’m just looking forward to everyone loving Maggie and Nina as much as I do. (7 October 2022, via this tweet)
RT @DiscussingFilm A feature film adaption of Ali Hazelwood’s ‘THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS’, a novel that was originally ‘Reylo’ fanfiction, is in the works. (Source: Deadline) (7 October 2022)
RT @Stormy_Robyn *whispers* my favourite fanfic author just posted a story after years of silence and I am freaking the fuck out (18 April 2016; apparently this is not an uncommon experience, as shared in similar tweets such as this and this, especially during the heights of the pandemic…)