ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
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Is anyone studying the absolutely unbearable proliferation of AI grifters on LinkedIn?? who find your post, lack basic comprehension and generate comments recommending their AI tools??? I feel like I’m losing my mind 🤖🤖🤖
Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
NotebookLM is not an RA. This article explains the difference perfectly: "Statistical methods of text extrusion are misaligned with users’ needs for precise, consistent results... Summarization is a decidedly rhetorical and embodied activity with a different objective." dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Thinking Smarter, not Harder? Google NotebookLM's Misalignment Problem in Education | Proceedings of the 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
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Among many great points, addresses false claims made by critics of the resolution 1) that the boycott petition excludes people based on nationality. False the boycott is of institutions. 2) that ASA hasn’t taken positions before. Also false. Ukraine, same-sex marriage and more.
Eman Abdelhadi@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 5mo agoTwo Israeli sociologists on the ASA’s overturning of a member petition for Boycott. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/g...
We are all watching the US government use AI for their war propaganda, doing military deals directly with some of the largest AI companies. AI is not neutral. Now is not the time to make AI slop for your linkedin post 🫠
This is clearly a strategy by Microsoft to artificially inflate the numbers of Copilot users. Once again - if these tools were half as good as they say they are they wouldn't have to force us to use them
Nat Osborne she/her@drnatosborne.bsky.social · 7mo agoJust learned that if you disable "Copilot and Other AI" in your Teams lecture, it will also disable automatic recording/transcription. This is to "prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot from accessing any sensitive information that may have been shared"
A wonderful write up from the AusSTS2024 team reflecting on decolonial practices in conference organising: What would it look like to run a genuinely decolonial event? Is it possible to run a genuinely decolonial event at a settler institution? decoloyarns.org/2025/08/11/h...
How to (start to) decolonise a science studies conference: reflections on AusSTS 2024
This is the first part of a four-part series that has come from the 2024 and 2025 AusSTS conferences. What would it look like to run a genuinely decolonial event? Is it possible to run a genu…
decoloyarns.org
“Blended learning” is just me nervously shifting my gaze from the screen class then back to the IRL class, awkwardly making jokes about the “zoomies” and the “roomies” and ultimately nobody has a good time 💀 pls let’s stop doing blended #edusky
an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics: csmapnyu.org/jobs And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub: uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g... I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.
Love how all these academics try to excuse their Epstein associations as owing to genuine intellectual stimulation and meanwhile his big thought-provoking questions are like "why do women live past menopause?"
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
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Great to have the chance to talk about our research in this article for The Point! In it we emphasise the risks GenAI raises for Indigenous Education and what came from our recent study testing LLMs on Indigenous topics. 🦘🎓 #edusky #academicsky thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
What teachers need to know before using AI for Indigenous education
If you ask ChatGPT to write a Welcome to Country, it might caution that only an elder can deliver a Welcome and instead offer you a template of an Acknowledgement of Country. There’s just one problem:...
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This is devastating and will have significant long term consequences. Solidarity with those impacted.
ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 10mo ago“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Horrifying to see Victoria seeking adult jail sentences for children. 14 year old could be deemed too young for social media in Aus but old enough for a life sentence in prison. So little care for actual children, but politicians happy to invoke "protect the children" to win political points #auspol
Where's the bit in the ROPE thingo on grant applications for: I'm a renter so I have to move house every 1-1.5 years at the whim of my landlord and it consumes a month of my life 🫠🫠🫠 #🦘🎓
Hope to see you at today’s seminar on The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness at 3pm, please see details and register at the below
The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness
Explore how contemporary discourses of wellness are aligned with the enactments and dynamics of everyday politics, and their consequences.
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Great to see this article is finally published! Written with the brilliant Jess McLean, we explore how young Australians think about their agency on TikTok. With the incoming ban, there's a lot of talk about young people on social media, but we need to listen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘I feel like I get something else to think about’: How do Australian young people see their relationship with TikTok?
TikTok has become a significant site for youth culture and simultaneously the focus of a moral panic surrounding its impact on young people. The social media platform's content recommendation algor...
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So much for the (terrible) social media ban not including games. We’re already seeing proof that the ban’s definition of social media is broad enough to be applied to any internet service or website the minister of the day wishes to ban. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Not just 'big fish': eSafety reveals new platforms may be forced to ban teens
WhatsApp, Roblox, Reddit and Discord are among an expanded list of platforms which may be covered by the teen social media ban, the ABC can reveal.
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In awe of the bravery of @drdemography.com to expose this culture of bullying and threats from leadership at ANU. Julie Bishop should resign www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Julie Bishop accused of bullying by ANU staff member, senate inquiry hears
Former member of the Australian National University council Liz Allen has used a Senate inquiry investigating university governance to allege Chancellor Julie Bishop harassed, bullied, and threatened ...
abc.net.au
Absolutely loved this paper from Tanja Bosch - "As a method, decolonisation demands more than critique. It requires a commitment to building alternative ways of knowing, citing, collaborating and theorising that do not extract from the margins to enrich the centre"
Decolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal - Tanja Bosch, 2025
This paper argues that decolonisation in media and communication studies must be rooted in anti-capitalist praxis, not just symbolic critique. While the field i...
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So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series. Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities
Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...
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"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action
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