claireb30.bsky.social
Avid traveller. Master's in conflict archaeology. Still searching for a way to make 'professional student' a viable career.
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What's happening to young men online was the top-voted audience question at the Wheeler Centre's event with Kara Swisher last night so there's obviously public concern about it too, so extra odd that there's no appetite to tackle it.
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It's not so much that using Copilot is frustrating, it's being sent an email saying my subscription was increasing by $50 but good news, I now get Copilot. No option to opt out unless it was buried in fine print somewhere. Had to find out from some guy on BlueSky. After you'd already taken my money.
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IG was the first one I got rid of. Don't see any benefits to it at all. Facebook unfortunately has some useful groups. Would love to transition them to Slack or Discord or something similar which are better platforms for that kind of thing anyway, but unfortunately they're not where the masses are.
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I'm reading it now too. Finding it very accessible for a conflict I've always struggled to fully understand.
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This is the absolute correct take. I'll add garlic to it as well. And they are in EVERYTHING.
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Shakespeare by Judi Dench
On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
The Green Eyed Lama by Oyungerel Tsedevdamba
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My fav books of the year:
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields by Christina Lamb
Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum
Children of the Night by Paul Kenyon
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
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And who the main lobby groups are, who is behind them, and what influence they have
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I'm only still on there because so few people covering Ukraine that I follow there are on here. I can see them complaining about people leaving but we'd love to follow them and keep up to date with what's happening from here if you can spread the word
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Going private is a good 1st step if not ready to step away entirely. I still use it b/c there are some Ukr journalists on there I want to follow. But I've set up a list to avoid the algorithm & ads and never reply or post even when tempted because I know my privacy settings mean no one can see it.
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It has made them both complete junk imo and made it an easy decision for me to delete both apps.
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A couple from Oz
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...
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I can read it with no issues (in Australia)
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Me too. It's the main reason I'm still on the other place because very few of the people I follow on this topic are on here. That said, I did see Kevin's posts, did listen to the podcast and did share several of the Meduza links in another group so maybe engagement here is just quieter.
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www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...
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I recently wrote to Richard Marles and my local MP to let them know support for Ukraine is still an issue for me, to ask why they scrapping the Taipans and to say we could be doing a lot more. Perhaps others who care could do the same? If they think people don't care there's no political interest
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Academic publishing's so messed up. Friend recently asked my advice on publishing her master's thesis in a journal because she wanted policy makers to see her recommendations. My advice was not to because policy makers can't access journals. Her only audience would be academics. It's really stupid.
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Not just general public either. Was accused of endorsing something I wasn't by the notorious 'reviewer 2' during a journal peer review process.
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I mean...
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Hope you're all ok. (Also black and white cats are my favourite.)
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As someone casually keeping an eye out for PhD opportunities in Europe I can promise these kinds of announcements make me look elsewhere. And I wouldn't be bringing a family, but I'd still question if I'd feel welcome. And I'm white. But the Netherlands are also making me question going there so...
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Off topic slightly but I reported an account yesterday for spreading hate. Apparently it doesn't break community guidelines. Their handle is literally antisemitic! Just waiting for a couple more people to join this platform so I can leave altogether
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Contributed a chapter to this
mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9783031...
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Happy to give you codes to pass on if you want to offer them to your Twitter followers. I've probably got a few now
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I was wondering where you'd gone!
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Same. Get a handful more every time I run it. Just waiting for a few more Australian and Ukrainian journalist types to make the leap before I leave the other place entirely
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Are you working on any pieces about why this is the case? I believe it has long been the way that rural voters are more conservative but it feels like it's becoming the kind of divide like in the US where people just don't understand each other at all.
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I found your Essential pod interesting this week about polls leading people. This is exactly what happened to my friend. She said she was going to vote yes & assumed it was obvious & everyone would. But then she saw so many people were voting no, thought she'd missed something & is now unsure.
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I joined this one because I hate Instagram equally with what's happening to Twitter, and because I can't follow anyone in Europe on Threads. And because Mastodon looked like a mess. So putting my eggs in this basket. Am guessing journalists may have made the same calculations?