It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

King

I think it’s incredible news that we’re now going to be strapping billionaires onto rockets and shooting them into space; I must admit I didn’t expect they’d be so willing to let us do this by themselves.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

We’re gonna bring back punching dweebs with glasses on, but only this kind

This is just every guy in a humanities phd

It’s because it’s shit for dweebs, next question

I email because I don’t want to talk

Apropos my post from yesterday, a response from Tokarczuk This isn’t that convincing tbh. She’s using the plagiarism machine to assist her - including by her own admission in the interview asking it how to “write things beautifully”. This isn’t a misunderstanding, this is what she says she does

My post from this morning about Olga Tokarczuk falling into slopaganda really has brought some interesting characters out of the woodwork.

With disgust I learned Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to help with writing her latest novel - article in Polish, my translation of relevant bit in posts below mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...

Started Schattenfroh this evening and I feel I’m probably going to be insufferable about this book when I finish it

Me when I was 4

I have a PhD in philosophy, and while that has made my relationship with thinking complicated why would I give up on thinking and outsource it to AI??

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Mamdani’s management of the NYC budget shows just how many problems in any city, state, or national budgets are caused by handouts to the rich. All this guy did was stop giving rich people an even easier ride on the backs of everyone else. We could do this here as well

This isn’t the ARC, but I can easily imagine it happening to an ARC scheme: The Government cancelled the Australia’s Economic Accelerator scheme, **including the round of submitted proposals currently under review**. Absolutely gutting for researchers involved. Enraging, and outrageous!

Still a 10/10 movie for me. The cast, the wardrobe (!!!), the script, the call to action. Amazing.

Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

One of those days where it feels like tomorrow I’ll wake up with a bad flu or I’ll feel like I’m powered by a thousand suns

“Hello pdf how are you?” “Report on Proposals 2025” “No, how are you?” “I am a report you cretin.. er.. Report on Proposals 2025”

The Guardian has some more quotes from JMC www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

PSG through over Bayern - mixed feelings because I like Bayern but PSG just unbeatable - amazing second semi final.

I’m at an event to hear Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg speak and the music playing in the background is all space themed, as it damn well should be (currently Space Oddity by David Bowie)

Does getting cited on Wikipedia count on google scholar?

Woke up early to watch the Champions League semi final between Arsenal and Atletico just to watch Arsenal win in the dullest way. Something wrong with that At least tomorrow Bayern and PSG will be more exciting

You know a book is gonna be a banger when the bookseller complements you on your fine choice at checkout (Ben Lerner’s Transcription is the book in case you’re wondering)

Thank you @micwink.bsky.social , this is unbelievable

First guitar lesson post trip - feeling good, playing badly

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

I asked for a minor workplace accommodation today and got it - please clap

Crazy how to have a real job you need functioning brains but if you’re a total fucking moron you can make billions of dollars

I would read poems by the river and eat fruit

Universities are the boot factory

I was sitting around reading and listening to jazz records and my mum asked me three times if I’m okay and what’s wrong Apparently reading and listening to Bill Evans is giving depression

This is just incredible stuff from TCW

If only there was something that could be done about climate change.. something feasible.. I don’t know what.

Perennial post in light of racists booing the acknowledgement of country at this morning’s dawn service.

Has anyone I know moved away from streaming music in favour of a dedicated audio player and downloading music again (via Bandcamp or whatever)?

Just read through the fascist screed that Palantir posted (the "manifesto") - this is the sort of shit that you find on the hard drive of a lunatic who just shot up a school or a church - the whole thing needs to be shut down, and the soil on which it was allowed to grow salted.

Unfortunately, the list of books that came out while I was in Spain that I put off buying is very lengthy and will likely bankrupt me. I guess it's time to get one of those barrels on suspenders

I think I'm a little late to the news but good things still happen - there is a new Boards of Canada album coming out in a month!!!

I'm brave enough to admit that I would, in fact, buy this the day it goes on sale or see it opening night. Yes, I would.

Shameful. And doesn't bode well for the new Meanjin, let's be honest.

Finally able to get into what is one of my top 3 most anticipated books of the year (super excited, @alanbaxter.bsky.social !!!)

Every time I learn about a new character in the Trump admin it’s always some guy who is just like every kid in my philosophy classes who played devil’s advocate in every conversation on a topic that affected his classmates Turns out they just like the devil www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

If you are doing academic work in AI, but cannot see the technofascist project called "AI" for what it is, how are we to trust your work does not support that project?

I get on one ten hour flight and you people start debating whether Madonna made any good pop music?? Kids these days man

When I was a kid, there wasn’t always any money for video games or toys, but my dad had a rule that there was always book money. Except the month I discovered Terry Pratchett where eventually the answer became “just re-read one of the eight books of his you got this month”