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Joshua Pocius

@pocius.org

👨‍🏫 Lecturer, UniMelb School of Social and Political Sciences 🔬 Medical humanities | corporeal cinema | AIDS cultural criticism | bodies bodies bodies 🗺️ Naarm/Melbourne, Australia 🐈‍⬛ Catlady

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Joshua Pocius@pocius.org · last mo.

An anonymous NYC financier told an FT journalist the “AI-native” grads tended to have very shallow ideas, and that his firm “now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead” because they “want critical thinking, not just AI.” 👀👀

Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace

"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.

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Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2mo ago

Surreal to do an interview with BBC World Service in the middle of last night discussing how the world’s first trillionaire is also the world’s most prominent Far Right agitator.

Osman Faruqi@osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · last yr.

All of these attacks were used by politicians on both sides and basically every media outlet to justify attacks on pro-Palestinian campaigners, pass repressive new laws and criminalise the anti-genocide movement. Now it’s revealed they were all orchestrated by one criminal syndicate

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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last yr.

I realize that a lot of this may seem dense and like it’s a bunch of finance shit. But it’s very simple: CoreWeave, a company that sells data centers for the AI boom, loses hundreds of millions doing so and is burdened with debt it cannot hope to serve. Nobody is making money in AI. Nobody.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last yr.

19thc/20thc eugenicists believed that philanthropy and welfare for the "unfit" were "dysgenic" forces--that these contributed to the overall unfitness of a population by "allowing" those they perceived as "unfit" to not only live, but procreate, when it was better to let those classes die.

Septima P. Snark@drsubini.blacksky.app · last yr.

Does everyone understand they are breaking of public services because 1) they want to privatize them to make money off of them, 2) they do not believe everyone should have access to these services. This is how white supremacist eugenicists who think empathy is a weakness function.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last yr.

The United States is a rogue state that’s now launched an imperialist trade war against Canada and Mexico. It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.

The United States has gone rogue. There must be consequences.

Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war

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Joshua Pocius@pocius.org · last yr.

Arrived at work nice and early for the first day of semester and was greeted by a gorgeous (huge!) butterfly trying to get into my office building 🦋

Joshua Pocius@pocius.org · last yr.

Had a nightmare that Elon Musk was my boss and he was trying to hack me up with a chainsaw. Nearly escaped with my wit and ingenuity but then his minions stole my escape vehicle and I ended up also wielding a chainsaw, induced into lateral violence against my peers.

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

Joshua Pocius@pocius.org · last yr.

I find this deeply cringe but my therapists both chastised me for prefacing personal disclosures with “this is so cringe” so consider this therapeutic praxis: when im frustrated or devo I’m going to occasionally STOP, REFLECT, and list 3 GOOD THINGS that recently caught my attention. 🧵

Joshua Pocius@pocius.org · last yr.

I really need better phone-bed nexus hygiene. Lately I’ve found myself doomscrolling in bed before I sleep, which gives me night terrors. Worse still I keep waking up incredibly early (3am, 4am, 5am). Too early to actually get out of bed, and so I doomscroll again, obliterating my optimism and mood.

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.

John Hudson@johnphudson.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨The Trump administration is considering ending all ongoing shipments of military aid to Ukraine in response to Zelensky’s remarks in the Oval Office on Friday and his perceived intransigence in the peace process, per senior administration official

Andrew Perfors@perfors.net · last yr.

Scientists and educators in Australia and NZ! Have you been watching the state of the world and wondering what you can do? We've created a crowdsourced document with resources and links with ideas. Pls check it out, do them, contribute your own, and share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ideas for how to be GOATS

Ideas for how to be GOATS Guardians Of (Australian) Academia, Teaching, and Science The title of this is jokey but the intent is absolutely not. It is intended as a compendium of resources for Austral...

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Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last yr.

It’s always a pleasure to have @niedermeyer.online on the show, but especially as Elon Musk remakes the US government, we need to understand there are means at our disposal to curtail his power by targeting his companies — Tesla in particular.

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · last yr.

Elon Musk looks invincible, but a lot of his power and wealth is tied up in Tesla. This week @niedermeyer.online joins @parismarx.com to explain why Tesla is more vulnerable than it might appear and how hurting it can cause problems for Musk. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/265_...