man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

#Queensland women, you'll need to fight. Your govt is discarding your rights and choices. Demand no public funds for this hospital until it provides contraception & full range of care. Extremist religious activists cannot be allowed to hijack public health to force girls & women to give birth.

US removes UN expert Francesca Albanese from sanctions list reut.rs/3RmmnmG

A government who says they are about 'social cohesion' may have enabled Nazis. Perhaps if they had spent less time focused on empowering Zionists to suppress any criticism of Israel... #auspol

Wow! America's graduating seniors really fucking hate AI: defector.com/wow-americas...

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

If they can't be fucked writing it, I can't be fucked reading it.

PSA for authors: gen-AI kills your "voice". Gen-AI works using a probability model (which word is most *likely* to come next), drawing on a database of other writers' work. I know a lot of editors, and what they're talking about right now is the manuscripts they're seeing sounding the same

So Olga Tokarczuk announced she now writes using AI, and a (terrible) AI-written story has won a prize in the Commonwealth Writers Prize. What other literary crap will the day bring?

Of all the useless fucking things to ask a computer to do, "write me up some literary fiction" has got to be near the top.

Every day common sense becomes a little more endangered. Anyways, fuck gen AI. Be a real writer. 😘

It's simpler: stop using gen AI. Full stop.

PSA for authors: gen-AI kills your "voice". Gen-AI works using a probability model (which word is most *likely* to come next), drawing on a database of other writers' work. I know a lot of editors, and what they're talking about right now is the manuscripts they're seeing sounding the same

Calm-mongers: "There is no asymptomatic transmission of hantavirus." Precaution-pushers: "How do you know that?" CM: "We've never seen it." PP: "Do you test asymptomatic people who have been exposed?" CM: "No." PP: "Why not?" CM: "Because there is no asymptomatic transmission of hantavirus."

I occasionally come out of poetry workshop retirement for good causes like Verve. I'm donating one to Verve to help with their fundraising but one which I hope will be useful; I was inspired by the local repair cafes to offer something similar, very practically-based and respectful of work shared,

Infection Control Experts Unsure Of Hantavirus Transmission Mode, Advise Public To Use Only Precautions That Feel Comfortable

Palestinian peak body refused leave to appear at royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

this is so cohesive. Just super cohesive well done fascists

Australians are dying while waiting for aged care www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

"Facts matter ... some witnesses have said things that are just wrong, and demonstrably so" - veteran magistrate David Heilpern tests the evidence from the Bondi Royal Commission #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-bondi-ro...

6. the extremely unhinged series of claims that without training them on how to be users of such systems that we somehow fail as teachers — truly ludicrous, utterly bizarre, and in fact directly contradicts other industry selling points. (Section 3.6 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 8/n

2. the strange but often repeated cultish mantra that we need to "embrace the future" — this is so bizarre given, e.g. how destructive industry forces have proven to be in science, from petroleum to tobacco to pharmaceutical companies. (Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 4/n

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports could solve the gas crisis – and raise $17 billion every year at the same time. ✍ Sign the petition to support a 25% tax on all Australian gas exports: https://theaus.in/4txMF2H

"WHO should change its default ... For pathogens with documented person-to-person spread & severe outcomes, the initial assumption should be airborne risk unless & until evidence supports easing back. The burden of proof should not be on those arguing for caution [but] on those arguing to relax it"

Hantavirus outbreak should reset WHO's default approach to airborne risk 👏🏼 great op-ed by Milton, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social , @dfisman.bsky.social et al www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Read more ⤵️ thepoint.com.au/news/260513-...

This would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. As I’ve said many times before, Murdoch media is producing propaganda, not journalism. The country’s biggest “news” organisation is a publicity platform for the right wing of politics. It’s power being used to accumulate power on behalf of the rich. Gross

It's frustrating to see media treat the same minimizers who built their reputations downplaying Covid now as the default experts on hantavirus too We actually have a much broader range of voices & expertise available now! Maybe interview them

in case it is helpful, i have put together this list of resources for people who want to resist uncritical ai adoption in work or other aspects of life: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Reading this was like being shaken by the shoulders, smacked in the face and given a lifesaving dose of the elixir of truth at the same time. Read it if you have a single doubt about gen-AI and the way it is being sold. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

Yup. It's so tiring hearing that we (as teachers) MUST "prepare our students for an AI future" & "get on the AI train or else be left behind," & I'm aware that some professors are using AI for grading or creating AI lectures using avatars of themselves, but I think if "AI is the future" we're fucked

I think the correct attitude for mathematicians is to avoid plagiarism. Since there is no way to trace where AI steals ideas from, there is no way to avoid plagiarism. So yes, I am "anti-AI" if this means I think our community should reject plagiarism.

"The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution." *boos from the crowd of graduating students* "May I finish? ... Only a few years ago AI was not a factor in our lives." *wild cheers and applause from crowd of graduating students*

Does anyone in nz have a phone they don't want. My neighbors one broke and she's poor like I am, would really like to procure her one if possible Must be unlocked

Play this on a loop for every enthusiast of this slop in higher ed.

“The findings directly contradict the common assumption that because acute omicron illness is usually mild in children, reinfection is clinically inconsequential… Instead, … each successive infection adds to a child’s long-term health burden rather than being neutralized by prior immunity.”

It’s not a mild virus, many children have missed years of school and on return have relapsed again after catching it. There is nothing in place to stop children from suffering long covid. Please watch this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6b4...

"The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution." *boos from the crowd of graduating students* "May I finish? ... Only a few years ago AI was not a factor in our lives." *wild cheers and applause from crowd of graduating students*

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Yep. Our lack of an offical poverty line in line with the rest of the OECD is disgraceful

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

we worked very hard to get over a dozen Labor MPs to break ranks in the lead up to the 2023 budget, but since then have heard from MPs that they're not allowed to bring it up anymore

#ResistanceRoots Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born on this day in 1900 in Wendover, U.K. She was an astronomer and astrophysicist who discovered that stars are made primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her male colleagues discredited her work and denied her opportunities because she was a woman. /1

maybe the people seeing Israel content on social media are not antisemitic at all. Maybe they are readers, nurses, doctors, students, parents, children, Muslims, or christians, watching Israel destroy libraries, hospitals, ambulances, schools, universities, homes, mosques, and churches.

young people see footage of Israelis committing genocide posted to social media by Israelis committing genocide, Jillian. The footage is not fashionable, it is utterly depraved.