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Language Teacher, Football Coach, Bad Parent, ADHDer. I try to be kind.
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With Bradfield now called, @skyelark.bsky.social points out that the 2025 election was the first time where the votes for independents and minor parties were *larger* than for one of the ALP or LNP #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-202...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

submitted 10 days ago • 112 comments

It’s not often that I simultaneously laugh out loud and gasp at having my own fractured and fizzing thoughts expressed so succinctly by a complete stranger. PS: read the whole thread. It’s fire.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s work procrastination is courtesy of @thecharismaticvox.bsky.social and Linda Ronstadt. Had me in tears. Just magical. youtube.com/watch?v=pEy0...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

[LUKE]: “Is the Asian Exoticization Side stronger?” [YODA]: “No! No… Quicker, easier in an OpEd, more seductive. [LUKE]: “But how am I to know reasonable analysis from the racist shit?” [YODA]: “You will know… when they’re not describing racial traits like it’s a BG3 character selection menu…”

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I’ll be honest: I had not heard of Mr Perrett before this. But his actions say a lot about his character.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

If the federal government want to be remembered for delivering on their “mandate” we all need to be constantly pushing them on climate action. As the excellent article points out, the tools needed are not new. What is lacking is political leadership. We have to push them where we need them to go.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I didn't know terror until I heard that folks working in an AI shop were musing about having their software automatically call violent agents of state power on you because of your use of their software.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

once again cannot stress enough that people selling generated AI stuff can't even be bothered to read their own writing but think you should pay to

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Casey Newton, in his latest newsletter: “Every time I feel like progress in artificial intelligence is beginning to slow, a week like this one hits — and suddenly, it's all I can do to keep up.” Me, a stratcomm professor: YES EXACTLY THAT’S A COMMS CAMPAIGN. www.platformer.news/openai-jony-...

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

I’m not going to ask *how* the University of York Library figured this out. But I am going to fucking thank them for their service to us all.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Last time I posted a screenshot Ike this it was fire. This time it’s flood. Feeling very fortunate that everything is still in one piece. Many are not in that position…

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Gonna be an interesting day…

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 19 days ago • 795 comments

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

We are very busy, but now apparently have to keep checking whether the tech we are given to do our jobs is “collecting” (stealing?) our students’ data to train their LLMs. Sigh. NSW education department caught unaware after Microsoft Teams began collecting students’ biometric data

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Muppet a band: It’s Not Easy Being Green Day

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment