Lex Pulos
@elflex21.bsky.social
Educator, game player, film and TV watcher, podcast listener, book reader, trying to be the best nerd teacher I can be.
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Couldn’t agree more! That’s why I helped the @umich.edu Library put all the fan mail from Orson Welles’s WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast online.
I can say from experience it’s a great tool for getting students thinking about media literacy, misinformation, “fake news,” etc…
quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wow/
I can say from experience it’s a great tool for getting students thinking about media literacy, misinformation, “fake news,” etc…
quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wow/
September 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Couldn’t agree more! That’s why I helped the @umich.edu Library put all the fan mail from Orson Welles’s WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast online.
I can say from experience it’s a great tool for getting students thinking about media literacy, misinformation, “fake news,” etc…
quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wow/
I can say from experience it’s a great tool for getting students thinking about media literacy, misinformation, “fake news,” etc…
quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wow/
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Guess it's time to bring this back out for film class with an upcoming unit on Casablanca, propaganda, and wartime media. For a time this was down/unlisted. I was gratified to see it up and openly listed when I searched today.
Don't do fascism, y'all. Shout it down wherever you find it.
Don't do fascism, y'all. Shout it down wherever you find it.
Casablanca | Cinema Antifa
YouTube video by KyleKallgrenBHH
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Guess it's time to bring this back out for film class with an upcoming unit on Casablanca, propaganda, and wartime media. For a time this was down/unlisted. I was gratified to see it up and openly listed when I searched today.
Don't do fascism, y'all. Shout it down wherever you find it.
Don't do fascism, y'all. Shout it down wherever you find it.
I do appreciate the push to always nuance a situation: youtu.be/k__vlLU6gqk?...
The Real 'Political Violence' in America
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I do appreciate the push to always nuance a situation: youtu.be/k__vlLU6gqk?...
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Giving this another push, would appreciate the signal boost if you are so inclined!
🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
1000 Women in Horror
From the silent era until today, the nightmares that have haunted our screen have been sculpted and embodied by women, but many of those artists have gone....
miff.com.au
August 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Giving this another push, would appreciate the signal boost if you are so inclined!
Ok rereading to listen to these back to back as they paint a frustrated perspective of Ai from very different angles:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
And
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
And
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Inside the Artificial Intelligence Hype Cycle. And How AI is Making Music
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 07/11/2025 · 50m
podcasts.apple.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Ok rereading to listen to these back to back as they paint a frustrated perspective of Ai from very different angles:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
And
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
And
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
Will we listen to his words today?
July 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
Will we listen to his words today?
I realize this has been said before, but Fahrenheit 451 feels more and more relevant these days.
While destructive scanning is a common practice among some book digitizing operations, Anthropic's approach is somewhat unusual due to its massive scale.
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…
arstechnica.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I realize this has been said before, but Fahrenheit 451 feels more and more relevant these days.
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Mel Brooks' iconic '70s horror spoof Young Frankenstein is being developed as a series by the creatives behind What We Do in the Shadows.
VERY YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Series in Development From WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Team
nerdist.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Mel Brooks' iconic '70s horror spoof Young Frankenstein is being developed as a series by the creatives behind What We Do in the Shadows.
I have not been to a lot of musicals, but went to Moulin Rouge and it was really fun. Learned about Juke Box Musicals as a genre too.
June 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I have not been to a lot of musicals, but went to Moulin Rouge and it was really fun. Learned about Juke Box Musicals as a genre too.
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Hustle culture lied to us. *This* is the perfect life
December 16, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Hustle culture lied to us. *This* is the perfect life
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We stand in solidarity with the @voxmediaunion.bsky.social in their fight for the fair contract they deserve! #1u
We have so far been unable to reach a deal with Vox Media that includes fair pay, AI protections, competitive benefits, improved severance and layoff procedures.
Should we not reach a fair contract tonight, our 250-member @VoxMediaUnion.bsky.social has overwhelmingly authorized a strike. ⏰ @vox.com
Should we not reach a fair contract tonight, our 250-member @VoxMediaUnion.bsky.social has overwhelmingly authorized a strike. ⏰ @vox.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We stand in solidarity with the @voxmediaunion.bsky.social in their fight for the fair contract they deserve! #1u
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
www.extremetech.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are getting into the defense industry.
The billionaire and his company are partnering with defense-tech company Anduril to "design, build, and field" new products for the military.
nymag.com/intelligence...
The billionaire and his company are partnering with defense-tech company Anduril to "design, build, and field" new products for the military.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Mark Zuckerberg Joins the Military-Industrial Complex
Meta is making the perhaps inevitable move into defense contracting.
nymag.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are getting into the defense industry.
The billionaire and his company are partnering with defense-tech company Anduril to "design, build, and field" new products for the military.
nymag.com/intelligence...
The billionaire and his company are partnering with defense-tech company Anduril to "design, build, and field" new products for the military.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Community Colleges Fear Proposed Changes to Pell
The House’s budget would strip Pell Grants from many part-time students. That’s bad news for community colleges. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3T22tuD
The House’s budget would strip Pell Grants from many part-time students. That’s bad news for community colleges. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3T22tuD
Community Colleges Fear Proposed Changes to Pell
The House’s budget would strip Pell Grants from many part-time students. That’s bad news for community colleges.
bit.ly
June 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Community Colleges Fear Proposed Changes to Pell
The House’s budget would strip Pell Grants from many part-time students. That’s bad news for community colleges. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3T22tuD
The House’s budget would strip Pell Grants from many part-time students. That’s bad news for community colleges. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3T22tuD
So much fun rewatching these as I replay Tony Hawk 1 & 2.
This playlist represents thousands of hours & millions of dollars spent to document the game biz for TV.
We visited studios every week & had a blast making the show with/for/about game developers.
Please help me spread the word.
ELECTRIC PLAYGROUND CLASSIC SEASONS
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We visited studios every week & had a blast making the show with/for/about game developers.
Please help me spread the word.
ELECTRIC PLAYGROUND CLASSIC SEASONS
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
ELECTRIC PLAYGROUND CLASSIC SEASONS - YouTube
Here are classic seasons of The Electric Playground starting with our series premiere in 1997. Enjoy this deep dive into the history of the videogame industry!
www.youtube.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So much fun rewatching these as I replay Tony Hawk 1 & 2.
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Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
May 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
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new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...
Space is not a wall: toward a less architectural level design
Maybe video game level design theory needs less focus on architecture? And maybe I'm part of the problem? My bad.
www.blog.radiator.debacle.us
May 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...
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We have to shatter the illusions of "American Exceptionalism" and 21st century superiority, and to do that, we have to be able to look at history's warnings and lessons. Cinema (particularly Capra's prescient filmography) is an excellent place to start.
May 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We have to shatter the illusions of "American Exceptionalism" and 21st century superiority, and to do that, we have to be able to look at history's warnings and lessons. Cinema (particularly Capra's prescient filmography) is an excellent place to start.