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Write, write, write that doctorate Write, write, write and if you write yourself to death Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate That you hates to make him wait But you just gotta have that doctorate (youtu.be/DUCsULR6ODA?...)

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Someone needs to tell our university executive class too:

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A tiny handful of people read anything in The Australian - and none of us (nobody) changes their mind about anything because of what they read in it.

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You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres per day.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

One moment of intellectual honesty and our politicians would have to admit that their stance puts us in more danger, not less. We are just lucky that China shows far more restraint than the warmongering Israel and the USA.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

‘experienced a major anomaly’ tho

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

SpaceX’s “major anomaly” last night. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 864 comments

MEDIA RELEASE: Israel’s ongoing attacks on starving Gazans “As Jews, we cannot watch Palestinians starved, concentrated into zones to be shot with impunity, and not remember our own history. The Australian government must urgently act.”

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 8 days ago • 766 comments

🚨REMINDER In 2023, the Albanese Government explicitly rejected giving Parliament the power to vote on war. Right now, only the PM can decide if Australia goes to war. One person. That's it.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

“The Essence is a window to where me and Mike are at right now. We quite literally took it back to the essence on this joint.” dälek have brought us a new track "The Essence" ahead of European tour dates later this month. Listen now at dalek.lnk.to/essence @daleknwk.bsky.social

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Universities are in trouble. But is Nous Group the answer? The business model of the consultant is sharp and sophisticated. They bought the sector 'benchmarking' data and use it to sell services. Griffith Uni even hired 4 exec staff from them. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

RIP Sly

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Were Aime Césaire alive to conduct a structural analysis of the advancing militarization of American law enforcement since 9/11, I suspect he would have understood DHS as a template for how Imperial Boomerangs operate in the 21st century. Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 17 days ago • 115 comments

"We are sad that the journalist didn't dodge the projectile that chose to go towards her" said her employer. Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

submitted 17 days ago • 73 comments

#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta

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If one is censured by a nation's Parliament for behaviour officially found to be "corrosive of trust in government", and is referred to an anti-corruption commission for misleading its Cabinet about the "crude and cruel" Robodebt scheme, how is one then eligible for said country's highest honour?

submitted 19 days ago • 79 comments

McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

submitted 22 days ago • 73 comments

And then what are we meant to do about it? Buy another AI tool recommended by a well-remunerated consultant that reminds students to attend things, presumably, but which won't actually work. University leaders are being played here, and sadly, a lot of the time, they're falling for it.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Around the country, an unaccountable class of university managers is thinning out rich and meaningful curriculums and replacing them with generic mass units dressed up as skills-focused learning. The latest from my University:

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 27 days ago • 1298 comments

when the AI bubble pops and corporations stop forcing AI down our throats i'll miss stuff like this

submitted 26 days ago • 107 comments

'A rush to embrace artificial intelligence risks hampering universities’ net zero targets, with leaders being accused of generally overlooking the “hidden” huge environmental impact of the new technologies.' Said this in our Academic Board a year ago and was greeted with resounding silence. 1/2

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Fyi we say someone ‘voted with their feet’ when there was no actual election but they made their preference clear in another way, i.e., by doing basically anything except for voting. During an actual election, people vote with their vote. Because it’s an actual election. Make sense?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Anne Ruston is using AI to figure out why her party lost hell yes

submitted 39 days ago • 25 comments

Hard to argue. When it comes to words used to refer to goods sold by a grocer, ‘groceries’ is almost certainly the most accurate.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that Sussan Ley voted AGAINST: renewable energy, same-sex marriage, increasing LGBTIQA rights, transgender rights, fee-free TAFE, Sunday and public holiday penalty rates, protection for women in the workplace, climate change initiatives, protecting Indigenous rights. #AusPol #LNPfail

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

An entire administration set up to solve problems that only exist on right wing media

submitted 45 days ago • 206 comments

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

submitted 47 days ago • 85 comments

New @shitrock.bsky.social record couldn’t be dropping at a better time - mclusky energy is just the energy I need at a time when so many things are so shit in such stupid ways. mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Two LANTITE technical reports and one admin report are now publicly available here: www.education.gov.au/about-depart...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

submitted 49 days ago • 114 comments

A 40,000-year-old collection of rock engravings is under threat of destruction from acid rain, caused by fossil fuel extraction. One of the earliest tests of Albanese’s re-elected Labor Government will be a decision on whether or not to extend the lease of the gas hub that is causing the damage.

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

Wow, there sure are a lot of dolls and pencils going to Europe and China. Do they really need that many?

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The richest, most powerful people are the biggest cowards.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

submitted 52 days ago • 213 comments

This is a great read. I particularly like the suggestion that the LNP should “extend their interest in countering racism beyond an antisemitism to be pinned on their opponents for political gain”.

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I think any journalist who spent time in #Dickson would have seen that there was a good chance of Dutton losing his seat, and may also have seen that the LNP might be under threat in Petrie next door. I can’t understand why more journos didn’t bother visiting the electorate and talking to voters.

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Dutton can now go back to his real passion: trading childcare centres for profit. 👋🏼

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