Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two

'viktor shtrum'@viktorshtrum.bsky.social · last mo.

Ok wait NOW he really is watching himself watch himself on Fox News.

From journal editing experience this tracks. In 2022 our journal got ~300 submissions. In 2025? 1300. So far this year? 500 and we're not even out of April yet. The AI trickle is now a stream, yet T&F are *still* seeking new big tech partners to flog papers for AI training rather than *helping us*

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'Annual reports for Elsevier and Springer Nature show publications were up 10 per cent and 11 per cent, respectively, with submissions up 20 per cent and 34 per cent.... [for Wiley] publications were up by 11 per cent and submissions by 26 per cent. 1/3

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it

"Why aren't media as outraged about the Perth bomb attack as there were over the Bondi shootings?" Dude, they aren't even as outraged as they were when Adam Goodes threw an imaginary boomerang.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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It’s good to feel a bit of time to slow down & appreciate the people we love, the people who shape us, the people we miss, people who maybe aren't around any more. Maybe some nostalgia for times gone by. A sense of knowing, amidst all the noise, that it’s our relationships that matter.

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...

My thoughts on AI's intrusions in education, quoting @audreywatters.bsky.social & @biblioracle.bsky.social On resisting AI intrusions: buttondown.com/creativegood...

On resisting AI intrusions

For several years I’ve been following Paul Salopek, a National Geographic explorer, on his Out of Eden Walk around the world. Paul has been on Techtonic a...

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Albanese? Wong? Anything to say about anything? I know we just learned that AUKUS is beyond him, and I know we’re very keen to say we have no doubt they would defend us under ANZUS, but is this the moral quality of the ally we are choosing, or just the one we’re afraid of losing?

People who condemn well-intentioned approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion out of hand are presuming their so-called "meritocracy" operates on a level playing-field. Such an argument entirely misses the point that prevailing sources of money, power, and privilege dominate.

So glad this morning to find @brigidrussell51.bsky.social and @charliepsych.bsky.social here. I’m still never quite sure what to say in this space so I’m really taken with the consistency of their reflections.

Australian universities need to be thinking seriously about this question of social license. It’s not new, it’s just got a new hat. And it’s going to pop up everywhere in the election year. A smart defense will need to go beyond stock images of sciencing. futurecampus.com.au/2025/01/23/h...

HE’s hottest topic emerges - Future Campus

As US higher education institutions brace for the Trump administration’s promised reforms, designed to radically reshape the sector to better align with the values of their supporter base, the importa...

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Okay friends, you know what to do. Welcome the formidable @louiseadler1.bsky.social to Bluesky. An *awkward gesture* has brought has brought her from X to greener pastures. Louise is brave, big-hearted, funny and smart. Publisher of my first book on Pell, Cardinal, now runs Adelaide Writers’ Week.

Revealing thread on the return of the barely repressed, edtech inevitabilism. Inevitabilistic projections are sparkly because they’re shallow. No one writing (or prompting) this kind of prose needs to trouble themselves with risk.

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2y ago

The mega-consultancies are all pushing AI in education like you would totally believe. A short thread if you can cope...

One of the early panel discussions I did on Generative AI turned to the question of labour saving for faculty. A big topic was taking on the writing that no one wants to do or read anyway. The specific example was reporting out on sabbaticals and grants. Why not automate that hoop with ChatGPT?

“The goal of this change, in Meta's words, was to "limit … the content [teenagers] see, and help ensure their time is well spent.” Something something footy netball swimming Aussie Aussie Aussie.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 2y ago

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months. Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

Introduce the clumsy obvious AI accounts first, then while people are distracted slip the far harder-to-spot version into the ecosystem

Overheard yesterday in small independent local bookstore. “My son told me the name of the book and I’ve forgotten it.” Long pause. All of us browsing held our breath. “Percy something?” “Oh yes, we have those, which one?” I’m surprised we didn’t all cheer, as we were thinking it.

Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨@debbienorthway.bsky.social · 2y ago

More than “It’s blue and I saw it on my Grandma’s book shelf about 32 years ago. No, I don’t know what it’s about, but I think the author died about 17 years ago”. Yes, I’ve been a bookseller at Christmas.

Thinking hard about what Lorna is saying about the radical praxis of decelerating in the context of this beautiful writing from @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social: theslowacademic.com/2024/11/30/s...

Slow reading – senses, nature, longing

I am just scraping into November with this slow reading post. Here in the southern hemisphere the weather is heating up (too much); the school, university and work year is ending; and we are hurtli…

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Lorna M. Campbell@lornamcampbell.bsky.social · 2y ago

A blog post about Slowing Down lornamcampbell.org/women-in-tec... #femedtech #He4Good HT @sokate.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @drloumycroft.bsky.social @catherinecronin.bsky.social @czernie.bsky.social and Helen Beetham.

The UK's HSE in its reply to the University of Birmingham SMT's response to Birmingham UCU's complaint: 'I do not consider that your reply provides sufficient assurance that work-related stress is being suitably managed by the University'. 'we will be inspecting the University [..] in the new year'

The name of this product is the red flag for the conversations higher education is failing to have about its own labour market. The business problem being solved here isn’t the workload of the privileged, that’s just bait. www.alldayta.com

All Day TA

All Day TA is an AI EdTech company focused on higher education that enables professors to build customized AI teaching assistants for their courses. Available 24/7, it provides students with instant, ...

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As the remaining Bali 9 members return home, ALHR’s thoughts are with the loved ones of Andrew Chan & Myuran Sukumaran - young men who had been demonstrably rehabilitated after 10 years imprisonment but who were executed. We must continue to work towards the worldwide abolition of the death penalty

Mike Carlton@mikecarlton01.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is great news. They must be in their late 30s, early 40s now. They should never have been shopped by the AFP…

From Raymond Carver's book, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/978037... #poem #poetry #raymondcarver #writers #books

I dream of a world where instead of saying “hey, AI can write this grant exit report no one wants to read” we ask “what is a more meaningful way to report out about grants?” We automate busy work instead of abolishing it and boil the oceans in the process.

“professional incentives” is the thing to notice. Why have universities incentivised fast and frequent paywalled publication? What metrics of individual and institutional gain/game have made higher education so ripe for AI uplift? Looking forward to what Mark has to say.

1. It’s not possible to keep “AI” out of “the humanities” so long as the humanities inhabit an institution. 2. AI is first/foremost an amplification of—the operationalization of—long-standing forces acting on (within) that institution. 3. It’s not about the technology. It’s about the capital.