suggested slogans for annoyingly popular but inherently terrible bits of software, number #1 in what promises to be a very long series: "Adobe Acrobat: why don't YOU go fuck yourself?"
Katie Freund
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#HigherEd, #FanStudies, #MedEd, #SocMed, #DigPed, #CriticalEdTech, and Marvel tragic. Canadian in Australia. She/her. Learning Designer in Ngunnawal country.
Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.
Open Educational Practice (OEP) Digest – August 2026 Welcome to the latest edition of the Australasian OEP Digest. Subscribe to receive all the latest news straight to your inbox every month! #OEPSIG #OER #OEP #OpenEducation #AustralasianOER #AustralianOER #NewZealandOER #AotearoaOER #AustraliOER…
Open Educational Practice (OEP) Digest – August 2026
Welcome to the latest edition of the Australasian OEP Digest. Subscribe to receive all the latest news straight to your inbox every month! #OEPSIG #OER #OEP #OpenEducation #AustralasianOER #AustralianOER #NewZealandOER #AotearoaOER #AustraliOER #AotearOER #OEPDigest #ASCILITE #OpenTextbooks #HigherEducation #Libraries #HigherEd #OpenPedagogy
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Are you gearing up for fall? Thinking about classrooms that are welcoming, just, and kind? Check out -A Pedagogy of Kindness- for ideas about how to be kind to yourself, and how to thread kindness through your syllabus, assignments, and into your classroom. www.oupress.com/978080619385...
A Pedagogy of Kindness - University of Oklahoma Press
Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, highe...
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I respect a committed hater, especially one who rightly hates agapanthus
Andy McKay@korimakoecology.bsky.social · 7d agoIncredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.
"[Circe] is also a symbol of why women look to the witch archetype as a clarion call, a reminder, a prayer. Morton’s performance has the spark of that, even as Nolan remains incurious about her inner life and the context of the anger she points at Odysseus’s men..." +
Vulture@vulture.com · last wk.Christopher Nolan’s never been great at writing women, but what doesn’t exist on the page Samantha Morton conjures through a tricksy, powerhouse performance.
FINALLY we are getting the cyberpunk future we were promised
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w agoFacing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
Sing Emily, of arms and the man and the traffic! Fabulous thread by the celebrated (and reviled) translator of the Iliad a the Odyssey.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2w agoThere is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
The opening chapter to #Nostos #Unflattening 2 is a 22 page, 15 foot long continuous sequence that is a retelling of the Odyssey. It’s been done since 2019 and I’ve been pushing to have it released as a standalone since to no avail, & really hoping before this movie, but here we are. A sneak peek…
Why are academics using GenAI to write articles, grade assignments, compose emails and a lot of other tasks that they would/should otherwise be doing themselves? A brief summary of our anonymous survey of over 200 academics' 'grey uses' of GenAI ... researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a...
Academic (mis)uses of GenAI
This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …
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senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign
Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2w agoTime keeping is my passion.
My favorite take on the interminable Helen of Troy casting controversy. (Those who know about ancient Greek theater will get this.)
like holy shit The Acolyte had brilliant aesthetics. the lesbian space witches who could connect with the force in a pagan way the jedis fucking hated were so cunty.
Sage Deviant 🏳️⚧️@trans.bsky.social · 2y agonow watching: Episode 1 of The Acolyte Carrie-Anne Moss as a Jedi is exceptional casting that i never knew i needed. can’t wait to see where this goes. 😻
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Which Organs Still Work: a. Your kidneys seem fine. b. Your pancreas hasn’t set off any alarms (yet). c. Fingernails are not an organ, but the end user wil...
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What is the purpose(s) of honours? What will I actually have to do when? Where can I find some good honours theses to read? How do I conjure a research question? How do I do a literature review? What do I do when my supervisor turns out be less useful than a broken brick?
Hi #HigherEd hive mind - I am putting together some resources for Honours students (mostly in IT/ #CompSci) and would love thoughts on what sorts of things you or your students would have found helpful in their Honours year. What were main challenges? What supports would have helped? #TELEdvisors
Months after the data breach, Instructure has still not provided customers with information about what was stolen. They said they would release information this week, but "recently learned that the third-party platform we've selected to deliver your data may have been subject to a security threat."
Im always mildly amused and shocked when Ai pushers pretend to be upset when the public doesn't believe what Big Tech is selling them any more--you did this to yourselves, please be serious
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3w agoI have no idea why any reasonable person would believe anything tech companies say about anything at this point, AI related or otherwise hostile skepticism should be the public default
New UN report on the environmental cost of LLMs. Key points include: inference (use) causes 90% of energy cost; web search with AI summary costs 10 times a regular search, and video generation is extremely energy intensive. Also, land and water use must be tracked too. unu.edu/inweh/collec...
Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints
AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.
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- web search without AI summary: 0,3 Wh - short text query to LLM: 0,42 Wh - AI-generated image: starts at 2,9 Wh - web search with AI summary: 3,0 Wh - AI-generated video: starts at 415 Wh www.nrk.no/urix/fn-rapp...
I was probably about 9 when I read Clan of the Cave Bear.
