Big data and AI companies coming to Australia including pro renewables but driest city, Adelaide, South Australia. Nobody I heard yet on the news asks about the massive water needed for data centres ...

cool article! australian.museum/learn/first-...

Decimated means reduction by 10%, it does not mean eviscerated Mr President. I'm becoming a stickler for historical terms of destruction...

In important news, Adelaide is slowly but hopefully entering the start of the merino cardigan-wearing autumn season. Excited!

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... might be news for some.

Australian university staff watching #4corners tonight

📢 CFP: Cultural Complexity and Computational Approaches (Complexhibit) 📍 Málaga 🗓️ 30 June – 2 July 2026 How do we study culture as a complex system—computationally, yet critically? A call at the intersection of AI, data science, and digital art history. 🗓️ Deadline: 26.4.26 #digitalarthistory #AI

We are pleased to announce the Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities - #VeSSDPH 2026 which takes place at Ca' Foscari University from 6 to 10 July 2026. Entirely taught in English. Free of charge. ➡️ Full programme and further information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/

www.bbc.com/news/article... wonder what this means for academic collaboration...

The hardest room to escape.

A CFP for the #DHmakes crowd!

"Peters unveils power shake-up in speech hitting out at ‘woke agenda’ and ‘weirdos with purple hair’" That's unintentionally funny, older purple-haired voters are most of his fan base! www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

In 1900, Paris’ Exposition Universelle featured a 3.5 kilometer wooden moving walkway, captured on film by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

Modern moral philosophy perplexes me... edition.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...?

Are you interested in doing a practice-based #PhD with Norwich University of the Arts and Norfolk Museums? As part of the AHRC-funded 'Collections & Communities in the East of England' collaborative doctoral programme, we have a funded studentship for October 2026...

astounding, shows the magic one can conjure up with stats: www.timeout.com/australia/ne...

“Since the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has added over 3 GW of new renewable energy capacity. Wind and solar arrays with independent transmission lines are scattered over the landscape, which makes them harder to hit and easier to repair”

Oh dear. I can't actively dislike Jeremy Clarkson now. He likes Condors.

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Yes line manager, of course I feel very efficient in my new (yet old) office with nobody else around, a clutter of books and a clutch of old VR equipment, a large wall monitor, and game DVDs.

So nice when colleagues coauthor and improve the whole piece without making you feel schemmy (schematically scummy). Now to tell them (and the poor editors) the chapter is 5 weeks past deadline because I didn't realize I could solve writer's block by writing paragraphs from the back to the front.

AI replace this, AI replace that. I'd be more interested in Motivational Machines.

This special issue is SO GOOD

Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

Join us & the @stir.ac.uk Art Collection Artist talk with Toby Paterson RSA How do artists think about architecture and the experience of place? 27 March 2026 13:00–14:00 Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling Free event. In person and online. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artist-tal...

Prison corp here we come. www.news.com.au/world/north-...

how interesting. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"Tower of freedom" in a creepy, beautiful, style that Sauron could have penned. But I'm not one of the convinced that bombs are the answer. It's like we have gone back 100 years. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The man wrote a whole book about this:

Well done Australia, that shows how independent you were/are ... www.news.com.au/national/pol... "the tax cut was effectively ‘a handout’ and that supporting it restricted their ability to spend more on defence, in line with the new expectations of the US Government.”

Charmed and fascinated by Chess Wars, a DOS game released in 1996 that features live-action cutscenes of medieval melee when playing pieces engage one another in battle.

"Digital art: I want to be confused. I don’t want to understand. I want to see something for the first time again. Rarely a game does that, and when it does it’s a precious thing." my exact feelings

I think maybe the people corrupting the system to take status from the system (a degree) have some responsibility for this...

Even without the moral issues, Altman seems to think AI developed itself, no, human energy and investment did. www.news.com.au/technology/i...

Why does the UK seem to be arresting people over Epstein associations but not USA given he was American with mostly American contacts? It is a strange world.

Thanks @ign.com and @duckvalentine.bsky.social for following along on this for the past few weeks. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

"Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas" I think right there is a reason I never learnt Finnish, but what an amazing language! (I can say two sentences and cheers in Estonian, but they are rather bizarre sentences).

I didn't realize with FSD that Teslas became fully submersible! Also funny it is on X! x.com/i/status/202...

I can only dream of receiving book reviews like this "preposterous in its thesis, destructive in its purpose, and tortuously numbing in its content."

On behalf of dogs everywhere I request that the expression "dog eat dog world" be replaced with "cats eat anything world" www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/cani...

www.bbc.com/news/videos/... this annual battle has appeal.

Hmm, in academic management, when defending the humanities, Floccinaucinihilipilification is actually a useful word, if only I could learn how to say it!

is it my impression or is EU foreign policy becoming almost assertive? www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

idle thought, I'd be less unimpressed by the left if they actually could work together; or by the right, if they weren't such leeches.

Gifted, sad overall perhaps, but the Penrose toilet paper quote was hilarious! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 'When it comes to the population of Great Britain being invited by a multinational to wipe their bottoms on what appears to be the work of a knight of the realm without his permission'