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I had a new experience "digging in the crates" today: scrounged up a bunch of my parent's records from under their house. They're far from mint condition but I am currently listening to a Tracy Chapman record I remember hearing as a kid.

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So many understandings of what constitutes plagiarism today depends on networks of surveillance and exploitation. Turnitin drawing on the archives of Elsevier. Metrics make our ideas into currency, would we be so concerned with policing citation without that?

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Series part of our project #CottonCapital Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

I for one cannot wait for people to decide that the formula of "thesis, antithesis, synthesis" is a sure bet identifier of generative AI outputs.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

What an odd coincidence the The Guardian, The Age, the AFR and the ABC all had exactly the same case study of the same Melbourne lawyer trapped in Israel. Who happens to work for a firm whose senior partner runs a high profile Zionist lobby group.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

My "giving lectures at 9am on a Friday" saga continues unabated. Today was talking about posthumanism, extended mind theory and AI-powered killing machines. By 10 I was utterly drained.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

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The numerical detritus of abandoned technology is a good place to start conversations. I wrote this post some time back with a similar opening but took it to a very different place.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Correlation isn't cognition, and I feel like so much of the convo about that "This is your Brain on ChatGPT" article misses the point. The article is about cognitive debt, so let's talk a bit about debt, and quantification, and how that research is a great example of what it warns about.

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NEW: A protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City 'No Kings' march. A man is in police custody, booked on suspicion of murder—but not the one who fired the gun. From video, witnesses and interviews, @schotthappens.com and I tried to piece together what really happened Saturday. Our report-

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

I say it again and again in this summer rain. -Carol Ann Duffy, Name Always read love poems in hard times #everynightapoem

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Might fuck around and apply to the NSW Heritage Council for an Interim Heritage Order (IHO) under Part 3 of the Heritage Act for the Collins Class. They must be protected and conserved

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Beard update.

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Expanded ‘Jack’s law’ police powers could lead to further ‘surveillance and harassment’ of some Queenslanders, expert warns

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