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Huh it's more path than garden.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

I love that these people keep talking about how manly and hypermasculine these two "alphas" are, and all they're actually doing is whining and complaining about one another, often in completely different forums. My high school students usually weren't this fucking puerile.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

I think a lot of people don't understand that in a world where everyone uses "AI" to vomit out statistically average text, the ability to use words uniquely becomes a premium skill and a critical differentiator.

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

Hey Melbourne! I'll be there in a few weeks to do a book talk!! www.readings.com.au/events/emily... July 1, 6pm, at RMIT, with Dr. Kobi Leins as interlocutor.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Heartbreaking www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

:-(

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Welp guess I'll have to work out how to get Apple TV now. (Netflix keeps sending us gambling ads despite our opposition to gambling corporations, so I guess once we've finished the current seasons of Black Mirror and Love Death & Robots, it might just about be goodbye for us.)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Well Flight of the Nova is a fun space-landing simulator in desperate need of a trim control.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

However do you pick two?! However, the two most recent authors I've read were Aliette de Bodard and RSA Garcia (both today, still catching up on my 2024 short fiction list!) so I guess they're who I'll mention.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

So many more than two! But for tonight, @annleckie.com and @marthawells.com because they're so insightful in their depictions of artificial intelligences (that are actually intelligent!).

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

In praise of niche papers www.superlinguo.com/post/7845555... A blog post inspired by @dingemansemark.bsky.social I really enjoyed this exercise, please share those papers which are close to your heart and you're always surprised they don't get much attention!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

really hate it every time i remember that "diphthong" means "two phthongs".

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

theconversation.com/a-first-nati...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really fun interview with Alexander Skarsgård about Murderbot. Fun insights into his interpretation of the character. Mad props to him for being 100% consistent about Murderbot's "it" pronouns, and you can watch the interviewer picking it up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGxK...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

have had to tell a few people that non-binary people can be masc-presenting. that this kind of gatekeeping disqualifies a lot of amab bodies. this kind of discussion puts qualifiers on who gets to be non-binary and it's gross.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Huh, fuck. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Pretending to be a PUA and telling men on social media to shave off their eyelashes to be attractive to women would be the sort of shit I'd have pulled when I was 20 and immature.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Since for some reason I've suddenly gone on a gestural studies binge

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Six months from now the Nats are going to lean into Family Court Dad Energy so hard

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

Now would be a great time for Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to do the funniest thing and defect back to the Nats

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

Nowa Fantastyka (oldest Polish SFF magazine) Award 2025 winners: Foreign Book of the Year: And Say My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, collection of letters between Stanisław Lem and Ursula K. Le Guin (published only in Poland so far but classified as foreign book because the letters were in English)

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

It's hard to overstate the impact this is having on many people I know. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

From the creators of "I don't like Rage against the Machine anymore, they've gone woke", we bring you a new, thrilling journey of self discovery:

submitted 20 days ago • 155 comments

TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:

submitted 52 days ago • 20 comments

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan” just fucking shoot me

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

If humanity survives the next few hundred years and retains any sort of cultural memory of these times, I really hope we look back at this era with disgust and shame.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I will also note the various authors had proposed a future where information couldn't be trusted because so much automatically generated information existed online - in one case as a deliberate tactic by geopolitical powers.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Douglas Adams

submitted 21 days ago • 74 comments

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

submitted 22 days ago • 74 comments

See a whole bunch of people who seem to be conflating "education" with "assessment" (an important part of education, but far from the whole).

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

submitted 26 days ago • 718 comments