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Sean Latham
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Walter Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, Director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Bob Dylan Studies.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · Oct 9
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 2
No kings

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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · Apr 2
Val Kilmer on meeting Bob Dylan, who just kept bugging him to do lines from Tombstone:

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Sean Latham @seanlatham.bsky.social · Mar 13
It’s theft. Plain and simple: externalizing costs by ripping off writers. All for a demoralizing even dystopian technology no one wants.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · Mar 13
So it’s over then, works for me
OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use
National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.
arstechnica.com

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Jen Latham @jenandapen.bsky.social · Feb 23
Hello, Bluesky!

Using this first post to say that for any educators using Dreamland Burning in Oklahoma (or any other place where officials are afraid of real discussions about complex history), my hour-long virtual visits are now free. Y’all are heroes.

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · Feb 2
Happy Birthday to James Joyce, born #OTD in 1882.
'He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.'🎶 🎸

Today we revisit UCD Special Collections exhibit highlighting the friendship between #Joyce & Constantine Curran: www.ucd.ie/specialcolle...
James Joyce with electric guitar

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Sean Latham @seanlatham.bsky.social · Jan 30
In that fun and exciting moment in planning for the World of Dylan where we begin seeing proposals come over the transom while lining up some unique keynote events. We expect to begin sharing news about the program shortly after the paper proposal deadline closes on 28 February.
a group of people are looking out of a car window and smiling .
ALT: a group of people are looking out of a car window and smiling .
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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · Jan 30
Marianne Faithfull, RIP. Damn, 2025. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Marianne Faithfull: Singer and actress dies at 78
She was known for hits such as 1964's As Tears Go By and films including 1968's The Girl On A Motorcycle.
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Sean Latham @seanlatham.bsky.social · Jan 29
Time to get the ball rolling here with a reminder that you can submit ideas for a paper, panel, or creative event at the 2025 World of Bob Dylan @utulsa.bsky.social by February 28. Eager to hear your ideas!
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The World of Dylan 2025: Call for Papers and Proposals
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025 The World of Bob Dylan returns to Tulsa from July 24-27, 2025 and, in cooperation with the Bob Dylan Center, will
dylan.utulsa.edu

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Sean Latham @seanlatham.bsky.social · Jan 23
I've just made the jump over here from Twitter--for too many obvious reasons. Still not a heavy user of social media, but looking to find at least some of what the old site used to be. Mostly Dylan, Joyce, arts, and humanities.