widgets are so back

the absolute terror of being the foreground to someone's middle-distance stare 🥶

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AI glasses have a new hater: Lorde

Lorde criticized AI glasses during a festival sponsored by Ray-Ban. The jab came right before Blackpink's Jennie, a brand ambassador, took the stage.

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this stairwell overlooking richmond station is gagging for a mission impossible -esque chase sequence

Hello! 🥸 Last week I had the pleasure of joining ABC RN's 'Life Matters' to chat about the latest push on smartglasses by Meta. Have a listen to the podcast here👂⤵️ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Are smart glasses cool now? - ABC listen

Smart glasses — like dumb glasses with added computing power — have been around for well over a decade, without ever reaching broad commercial success in Australia. But this time the tech's had an AI ...

abc.net.au

eleven linkedin notifications and not one meme 🥺

Long weekend coming up!! Will you doomscroll or keep working? Get a screen time horoscope and look into your future... www.savingscreentime.com/tools/screen... @katemannell.bsky.social @binarythis.bsky.social @digitalchildau.bsky.social @maxsoar.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social

"Vandals saw off road signs in protest against reduced speed limits on Victorian roads [...] A petition started by residents who oppose the changes [to speed limits] has been tabled in the Victorian parliament." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Vandals cut down road signs in protest against lower speed limit

Police believe changes to speed limits on country roads in Victoria have led to vandalism including new road signs being cut down.

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Urgently divest from all "corpmanteau" (corporate portmanteau - yes, two can play at this game). Instructure and Explorance have already ruined my month.

‼️I'm going to be speaking at a Parliamentary Inquiry related to petitions later this morning (11:15am). Catch me on the stream here 🎥 www.youtube.com/live/tWwmO77...

House Standing Committee on Petitions | 11/05/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo ago

who could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)

AI is closer to electricity or the internet than ordinary software. Treating it as a productivity app with some privacy risks is like treating the steam engine as a faster horse. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/07/a...

The way the Albanese government is regulating AI reflects its misunderstanding of the technology

Treating AI like a 'productivity' tool with some privacy risks is like treating the steam engine as a faster horse.

crikey.com.au

psst 🤫 canvas needs you more than you need canvas ✊

cookie clicker but its academics refreshing canvas

Recent open access article by TASA members Giselle Newton & Ashely Barnwell et al.: Displaying family on the DNA platform

Displaying family on the DNA platform - Giselle Newton, Ashley Barnwell, Romy Wilson Gray, 2026

Direct-to-consumer DNA platforms are significant yet overlooked social media platforms through which millions of users worldwide shape their identities. DNA pla...

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this lil canvas turd is my new sleep paralysis demon

maybe it will all be worth it if the canvas / instructure debacle finally revives aca-twitter on bluesky 🥺

choose your fighter 🙄

what stage of capitalism is eighty dollar bucket?

convinced timtam is in the early stages of a subtle yet hostile takeover of the beauty industry

how I describe my local village cinema

introduced students to the ancient social media phenomenon of "facebook official" relationships today... ...it received the cringe it deserves

funny one from Word given the current clime

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Hello Bluesky friends, I wrote a book about OnlyFans that is coming out SOON. Would you use this book as a set reading in your course/unit/subject? Would you like an inspection copy? Let me know! I'm thinking media studies (especially social media/internet studies), sociology, gender studies etc

So glad to see this article finally out! I loved working with this team and it was a great opportunity to develop qualitative methods for generative AI research. I feel this is an important contribution that we are currently expanding on in a multilingual context, so stay tuned! ✍️ 🖥️

QUT Digital Media Research Centre@qutdmrc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New article alert! “Just Asking Questions”: Doing Our Own Research on Conspiratorial Ideation by Generative AI Chatbots is now available to read open access! This study examined how a selection of popular chatbots responded to conspiratorial prompts.

google maps pinhole designers:

a close up of a man 's face with the words more on the bottom right

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words more on the bottom right

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Are you active on platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, or Eurosky? Please consider participating in an asynchronous brainstorming activity to share your suggestions to make them safer. See project details and sign up here tinyurl.com/44adp9cx @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

damn, chicken crimpy has taken another size hit

📜 ‼️ In our recent paper, Laura Woodbridge, Zareh Ghazarian and myself reflect on the development of a new volunteering-led course. Read @ Journal of Political Science Education below ⤵️

Volunteerism as Civic Education: Recommendations for University-Led Volunteer Courses

Higher education institutions often seek to integrate student volunteering with their community identity and course curricula. Focused on a newly designed course grounded in volunteerism and combin...

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