Cáit Murphy
@caitmurphy.bsky.social
Lecturer in film & digital media, Trinity College Dublin. PhD on the caméra-stylo in the social media era. Former ECR @Long Room Hub 🍉
Claire Denis|synthetic media|desktop documentary|Wes Anderson TikTok trend|
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0698-3584
Claire Denis|synthetic media|desktop documentary|Wes Anderson TikTok trend|
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Cáit Murphy
@caitmurphy.bsky.social
· Oct 2
Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2997 This desktop documentary (https://vimeo.com/1121241319) retraces the London filming locations of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) via Google Maps…
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I am so delighted to announce that my desktop documentary "Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation" has been published in issue 22 of Frames Cinema Journal. I want to thank Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng & Camila Contreras-Langlois for their work on this issue.
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It’s reasonable to assume Bad Lieutenant is on the list, right? So I won’t bother to check.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It’s reasonable to assume Bad Lieutenant is on the list, right? So I won’t bother to check.
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The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Palestinian groups’ YouTube channels hosted hours of footage documenting and highlighting alleged Israeli government violations of international law in both Gaza and the West Bank. interc.pt/4oUJNer
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The socialist left has won power in New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The socialist left has won power in New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won a majority - the first candidate to win more than 1 million votes since 1969.
He did so despite an unrelenting racist smear campaign, vast sums spent by billionaires, and threats from Trump to strangle New York.
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
Being post-PhD gives me more time to spiral but also watch movies. What I’ve watched in 48 hours:
- Kwaidan
- Vera Drake
- Pather Panchali
- La Noire de …
- The Human Condition
- Repulsion
- The Driller Killer
- Kwaidan
- Vera Drake
- Pather Panchali
- La Noire de …
- The Human Condition
- Repulsion
- The Driller Killer
October 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Being post-PhD gives me more time to spiral but also watch movies. What I’ve watched in 48 hours:
- Kwaidan
- Vera Drake
- Pather Panchali
- La Noire de …
- The Human Condition
- Repulsion
- The Driller Killer
- Kwaidan
- Vera Drake
- Pather Panchali
- La Noire de …
- The Human Condition
- Repulsion
- The Driller Killer
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How the Gaza genocide is redefining world cinema - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-gaza-genocide-redefining-world-cinema
How the Gaza genocide is redefining world cinema
Palestinian eyewitnesses to this horror, like Bisan Owda, are shifting the global gaze away from Hollywood and the West
www.middleeasteye.net
October 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
How the Gaza genocide is redefining world cinema - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-gaza-genocide-redefining-world-cinema
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I am so delighted to announce that my desktop documentary "Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation" has been published in issue 22 of Frames Cinema Journal. I want to thank Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng & Camila Contreras-Langlois for their work on this issue.
framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2997 This desktop documentary (https://vimeo.com/1121241319) retraces the London filming locations of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) via Google Maps…
framescinemajournal.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I am so delighted to announce that my desktop documentary "Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation" has been published in issue 22 of Frames Cinema Journal. I want to thank Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng & Camila Contreras-Langlois for their work on this issue.
framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
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Hi everyone! I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please DM. I recently submitted my PhD in Film Studies. I currently lecture in TCD, but seeking a teaching/post-doc role for 2026. orcid.org/0000-0002-06...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hi everyone! I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please DM. I recently submitted my PhD in Film Studies. I currently lecture in TCD, but seeking a teaching/post-doc role for 2026. orcid.org/0000-0002-06...
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A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. www.wired.com/story/taylor...
Fans Call on Taylor Swift to ‘Do Better’ After Accusations of Using AI for Promo Videos
A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign.
www.wired.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. www.wired.com/story/taylor...
The academic job search is really demoralising. I knew it would be bad, but not this bad …
October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The academic job search is really demoralising. I knew it would be bad, but not this bad …
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The Cinémathèque has revealed a new photo booth that uses AI to generate images in various period styles. The comments are, unsurprisingly, largely negative.
October 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Cinémathèque has revealed a new photo booth that uses AI to generate images in various period styles. The comments are, unsurprisingly, largely negative.
The Cinémathèque has revealed a new photo booth that uses AI to generate images in various period styles. The comments are, unsurprisingly, largely negative.
October 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Cinémathèque has revealed a new photo booth that uses AI to generate images in various period styles. The comments are, unsurprisingly, largely negative.
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The Department of Homeland Security using clips from Twin Peaks in their cringe and racist anti immigration edits….
October 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Department of Homeland Security using clips from Twin Peaks in their cringe and racist anti immigration edits….
I am so delighted to announce that my desktop documentary "Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation" has been published in issue 22 of Frames Cinema Journal. I want to thank Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng & Camila Contreras-Langlois for their work on this issue.
framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15664/fcj.v22.i0.2997 This desktop documentary (https://vimeo.com/1121241319) retraces the London filming locations of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) via Google Maps…
framescinemajournal.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I am so delighted to announce that my desktop documentary "Google Mapping Blow-Up: A Desktop Remediation" has been published in issue 22 of Frames Cinema Journal. I want to thank Yuanxin Chu, Rachel Ng & Camila Contreras-Langlois for their work on this issue.
framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
framescinemajournal.com/article/goog...
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Livestream of Global Sumud Flotilla as they approach Gaza. Watch & share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
October 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Livestream of Global Sumud Flotilla as they approach Gaza. Watch & share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
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Italian unions call for strike over Israel's Sumud Flotilla attack - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-unions-call-strike-over-israels-sumud-flotilla-attack
Italian unions call for strike over Israel's Sumud Flotilla attack
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<p>Italian unions called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Sumud Flotilla as it comes under Israeli attack.</p>
<p>Demonstrators in Naples entered the city's main railway station and halted train traffic. Police surrounded the Termini railway station in Rome after protesters gathered there. </p>
<p>The Flotilla includes, Italian, British, US and other citiznes. </p>
<p>"The aggression against civilian ships that were carrying Italian citizens is an extremely serious matter," the CGIL union said. </p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
October 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Italian unions call for strike over Israel's Sumud Flotilla attack - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-unions-call-strike-over-israels-sumud-flotilla-attack
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The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."
All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.
All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.
‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’
‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’
The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."
All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.
All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.
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Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
www.wheresyoured.at
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
Last day at the Hub.
September 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Last day at the Hub.
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"I went into this with the intention of being a YouTuber. I don’t have a journalist visa. I don’t have a journalism degree.”
New from me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-a-...
New from me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-a-...
How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World
Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.
www.wired.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"I went into this with the intention of being a YouTuber. I don’t have a journalist visa. I don’t have a journalism degree.”
New from me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-a-...
New from me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-a-...
A famous Irish comedian is doing an ad campaign for Alexa’s new Irish accent feature. She has since removed the string of comments criticising her for shilling for Amazon (you can’t have a successful sponsored ad on Instagram with critiques embedded in it — defeats the purpose).
September 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
A famous Irish comedian is doing an ad campaign for Alexa’s new Irish accent feature. She has since removed the string of comments criticising her for shilling for Amazon (you can’t have a successful sponsored ad on Instagram with critiques embedded in it — defeats the purpose).
Applying for academic role after role.
September 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Applying for academic role after role.