Meanwhile in Australia.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 3w ago

Snake in a chain: lucky escape for Australian woman after bite from deadly reptile caught in bike chain

If you care about Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, the Colorado Plateau, the Southwest, the West as a whole, indigenous Americans and their heritage, then, please, comment. You have 14 days to do it. eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

An urgent humanitarian appeal to save Suad and her child Omar after the war destroyed their lives. chuffed.org/project/1838...

An urgent humanitarian appeal to save Suad and her child Omar after the war destroyed their lives.

My name is Liz and I reside in the US; Suad has asked me to manage this campaign on her behalf and all funds raised will go directly to her.

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Sign the Petition

Restore Integrity at UOW: Council Must Resign or Be Removed

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Look into Ibrahim's eyes,look at his pain.His health is poor my child is fading,losing so much weight,crying from the burning fever.World,why is this happening to me?😭How long will this neglect continue?Doesnt he deserve to live?I lost Masa&Maha;please dont let me lose him too.🙏💔 tinyurl.com/baraaZ2

Great thread. Link to article at end.

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · last mo.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Thrilled to be attending The Cultures of Early Television conference over the next two days. Looking forward to lots of stimulating discussions with new and old media history colleagues.

Illuminations@illuminations.bsky.social · last mo.

The full, 24-page programme for this week's The Cultures of Early Television conference, with a schedule, abstracts and speaker bios, and further reading, can be downloaded here. Also, a link to sign up - but hurry, there are just a few places left. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-cultures...

Help nurse Mohammed provide for his family. chuffed.org/project/1781...

Help nurse Mohammed provide for his family.

I am Mohammed Aziz, a nurse. I worked as a nurse for a long time, and we had a beautiful house where I lived happily with my family. But I lost my home and my job during this cruel war. I also lost my...

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Support Naser’s Treatment and Escape from Gaza chuffed.org/project/supp...

Support Naser’s Treatment and Escape from Gaza

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The "huge swathes" of Pitjantjatjara lines in the 1949 film Bitter Springs are at last translated. Warning: This story contains images of Indigenous people who have died. #aboriginal #language #history #movies #indigenous #culture

After nearly 80 years, the actors in this film have finally been understood

The "huge swathes" of Pitjantjatjara lines in the 1949 film Bitter Springs are at last translated. Warning: This story contains images of Indigenous people who have died. #aboriginal #language #history #movies #indigenous #culture

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Another radio hat from 1923. This one is shocking. #fashion #mediahistory

Another fabulous radio hat from 1923, with knobs on! #fashion #mediahistory 2/3

Wireless themed millinery: 'The Aerial'. From Radio in Australia and New Zealand, 1923. #mediahistory #fashion 1/3

Support Naser’s Treatment and Escape from Gaza chuffed.org/project/supp...

Support Naser’s Treatment and Escape from Gaza

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Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

The Pirates of the Mediterranean Sea have kidnapped Aboriginal activist Sam Woripa Watson on open waters, along with 100s of other humanitarians. Free the flotilla members. Free Palestine www.blackwitness.com/p/we-have-a-...

"We have a Blackfulla from Magan-djin and we don’t know where he is": Fears felt for Brisbane Blacks activist Sam Woripa Watson, who has been kidnapped by Israel

Eleven Australians have been illegally abducted by Israel in international waters. Call DFAT and Penny Wong's office today to demand they act.

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Looking up datacenter locations for a piece I'm working on and found maybe the most egregious piece of AI art I've come across in the wild.

Everlee Wihongi is a green card holder. I honestly don't think it can be said to be safe to travel in and out of the US for anyone right now, especially if you are a person of colour. One small thing could go wrong and then you could end up in an internment camp!

David Farrier@davidfarrier.com · 3mo ago

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

We are sad to report the passing of BBC costume designer Joyce Hawkins. She was a central figure at Pebble Mill and at BBC Birmingham, with her work seen in hundreds of productions. Joyce was also a friend to us, helping Ian Greaves tell the story of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene…

finding this shit on my Mac was a pain in the ass, btw I guess recent OSes hide the library folder? anyway, here's how I finally located the weights.bin file open finder > command + shift + G search for "~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default"

Lady Talia@djtalia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

The Government ten days ago released a new strategic vision for archives which makes a strong and convincing case for their central importance. Using it as a yardstick shows just how far short of best practice the BBC Written Archives Centre falls. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/new-strategi...

New strategic vision for archives highlights how BBC Written Archives Centre falls short - Illuminations

John Wyver writes: Ten days ago, with perhaps rather too little fanfare, the Government released a new strategic vision for archives. Commissioned from The National Archives (TNA) and launched by Baro...

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New special issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social on'Value' & women's work in broadcasting, co-edited with Kristin Skoog & Kate Terkanian. #mediahistory #broadcastinghistory #womenshistory #radiohistory #televisionhistory #feministproductionstudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Value’ and women’s work in broadcasting

Researching the history of women's labour in broadcasting raises questions not only about women’s contribution to media productions, organisations and industries, but about how their labour has bee...

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Intro to new special issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social on 'Value' and women's work in broadcasting, co-edited with Kate Terkanian & Kristin Skoog, now published! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Value’ and women’s work in broadcasting

Researching the history of women's labour in broadcasting raises questions not only about women’s contribution to media productions, organisations and industries, but about how their labour has bee...

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Another brilliant post from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social Uni managers gain 'headroom' by fucking everything up. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

Uni managers gain 'headroom' by fucking everything up.

University bosses claim legitimacy from the work others do. And then they make it impossible for them to do it.

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Help for families in Gaza This war on Gaza’s people must stop

I’m a China correspondent for the BBC (formerly ABC); I worked on the ABC’s AM, PM and The World Today; I reported for Four Corners and Lateline on the ABC & where did all this start? Sydney’s 2SER radio. The loss of 2SER would be utterly terrible. It’s too depressing to consider. Come on!

This article co-written with @nickhall.bsky.social about women camera operators at the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s, is some of my most valuable work, yet also the least cited. www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/doi/full/10....

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar? Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece! Here's mine... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

@dreamcargoes.bsky.social 👆 TM: Note death, aged 100, of Sheila Tomlinson, leading editor of UK (BBC) television drama, developing the role in 30+ years, 1956<-1985, from film-editing to equivalent to feature film status as deputy director. Should get the full, informed, obituaries she deserves.