For those yet to get to know Count Binface, enjoy. Also, bring back Ceefax.

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.

Excellent to see @kathybowrey.bsky.social explaining what's so problematic about the current state of copyright and AI in Australia alongside music legends Paul Dempsey and Dave Faulkner iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2601...

7.30: Wednesday 1/7/2026

Australian musicians are fighting against the rise of AI. Moscow has been attacked by swarms of Ukrainian drones and missiles. Plus Sarah Ferguson interviews Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy.

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Best computing era. Pirated games with handdrawn cheat codes used to make their way home for us kids to play now and then. As if black text on red paper stopped anyone - the theory was to prevent photocopying. 1980s security. This thing ran for well over a decade.

Robin Wigglesworth@robinwigglesworth.ft.com · last mo.

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

This is not the tone of podcast I usually listen to, but this one is worth a listen for the commentary on how people are getting way too caught up in pride and identity in their AI hot takes. A big reason why LinkedIn has become absolutely nauseating IMO.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo ago

Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading the scare-mongering. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

I don't think the old paradigm is completely gone. There are still remnants, spaces that operate somewhat differently, but creator-centered, parasocial spaces that ride the waves of algorithmic recommendation seem to be dominating our attention, and (re)shaping the flows of information & influence.

If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.

Jay Chou has made a habit of some very elaborate music videos in recent years, this one is different in a good way

Louise Edwards@ledw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

theconversation.com/the-taiwanes...

I happened to mention the resurgence of analogue and libraries in a meeting just now. It's true. We see it on campus everyday. It's great.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4mo ago

If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious. Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.

Sharing a brief writeup of my visit to Beijing to attend the ZGC international open science forum last week: www.ifla.org/news/open-sc...

LOL same.

Christopher Deutsch@drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Fun fact, my phd advisor had to literally tell me to stop reading books because I needed to write my dissertation already. I didn't need that many connections to that meany different literatures.

At the Rangoon Tea House reflecting on things. For starters, I’m at the Bangkok branch, not back at their original home in Yangon. How much has changed.

I just got back from another trip and another obvious change is the rise of Chinese fashion brands.

Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅@zeyiyang.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Beyond excited to have @wired.com's new magazine entirely dedicated to one of the biggest issues in our lives: how to understand China's rise and rise and rise. Humanoid robots, EV batteries, cleansing crystals, AI boyfriends, gene-editing... Something made in China is already changing your life.

I used this as a framing example in a recent talk I gave about the "librarian's dividend" which is my probably-far-too-positive spin on this absolute garbage fire -- that at least maybe we're forced into more appreciation and value for the people and institutions who help us evaluate information.

“Before the Taliban we were so happy”. On “The Weekend Intelligence”, Neggeen Sadid talks to three young women from Afghanistan who used to dream of building a life in their own country. Now they only dream of leaving

Studying in the shadows

How the Taliban transformed women’s education from a path forward into a path out

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Authors Deserve to Keep Their Rights! Too many researchers unknowingly sign away their rights. KR21 calls for stronger Author #RightsRetention. 📄 KR21 Position: www.knowledgerights21.org/wp-content/u... 🗃️ More resources to #RetainYourRights: www.knowledgerights21.org/retainyourri... #Science4EU

Come on now, Economist. You can't post this and then not give the names of the 7 cha chaan teng places in Burwood! Kowloon Cafe is good and conveniently located in Burwood Chinatown. What are the others?!

The Economist@economist.com · last yr.

An estimated 500,000 people have left Hong Kong since its authoritarian turn. Many have taken their love of cha chaan teng with themt

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

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I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

The second, on June 25th, will be a talk about the sequel, of sorts, to my book Calling Bullshit. "Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" is the new, free online course that Jevin West and I developed about how to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world.

Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Teaching students to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world

Join Carl Bergstrom in a talk that helps teach students to think, learn and thrive in a ChatGPT world.In this session, Carl will provide an overview of the course Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machin...

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Australian friends! I'm going to be visiting Sydney in just over a week. I'll be at UNSW on June 23-25th and Macquarie on June 26-27th. I'd love to catch up with people in person, and also will be giving (at least) two talks at UNSW. The first is science-of-science modeling talk, on June 23:

The drama, the memes, the characters were beyond parody, yet somehow real. This dissertation analyzes the early afternoon of 5 June 2025.

Ts&Cs of these sites are traditionally exceedingly complicated and one-sided (in favour of the platform). Traditional publishers also don't tend to look kindly on the inclusion of VoRs on these sites (which don't have CC BY licences). Please read what you sign! #academicsky #skybrarians #oa

Fiona Bradley@fionabradley.bsky.social · last yr.

We don't talk often enough about the problems of academic 'social networking' sites like Academia and ResearchGate for researchers and knowledge dissemination. Put your work in an institutional or disciplinary repository instead. They won't AI your work.

And if you don't have an institutional repository to share your work, try the Knowledge Commons hcommons.org

Fiona Bradley@fionabradley.bsky.social · last yr.

We don't talk often enough about the problems of academic 'social networking' sites like Academia and ResearchGate for researchers and knowledge dissemination. Put your work in an institutional or disciplinary repository instead. They won't AI your work.

We don't talk often enough about the problems of academic 'social networking' sites like Academia and ResearchGate for researchers and knowledge dissemination. Put your work in an institutional or disciplinary repository instead. They won't AI your work.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · last yr.

This is my PhD thesis I did not ask for this I did not consent to this I did not approve of this I was not compensated for this I would not have advised this I do not like this And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

As someone currently in the rewrite, craft, polish final stages of thesis writing, this. Also - Bender and Hanna's book 'The AI Con' is excellent and a great argument for the enduring value of longform writing. It's starting to feel like reading is becoming an act of resistance against AI.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · last yr.

There's this fundamental mismatch in what AI people seem to think research is. As if you have a kernel of an idea and one needs the right re-combination of tokens to have some kind of insight. Research should be surprising, thought-provoking, (re-)discovering new literatures and subcommunities.

Congratulations Te Paea Paringatai (Waikato, Ngāti Porou) who will become the first IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) President from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2027. Te Paea's role as President-elect begins in August 2025.Te Paea's election result was a landslide and is a

Reset is the show I heartily recommend most often to people who've never watched C-drama (and who are unlikely to sit through dozens of episodes of a historical palace drama or wuxia, though my goodness, Guardians of the Dafeng!)

This looks so amazing. Wish I'd know about it when I was in Beijing a couple of months ago, but to be fair I was also taking a holiday from libraries, so...

Oolong Musk 🇵🇸@curtexplores.bsky.social · last yr.

New* museum-style exhibition inside National Library station on the Beijing Subway. Most stations in Beijing feature art in some form - but an entire exhibition is next level. *or previously unnoticed by me