04/28/2026

Look what they took from us.

I did not expect fascism to involve this much Kid Rock

"The current stronger focus on lifelong learning, has overall been one where the challenges presented and discussed, which certainly exist, have obscured thinking and creativity in relation to the opportunities."

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

plants should be able to suck oxygen back from people they don’t like

Who was it that said that Labor parties used to be made up of the best of the working class but are now led by the worst of the middle class

Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:

The art of the deal

I despise with the heat of a thousand suns the way I have to be suspicious of all art I see now while I investigate it's authenticity, because this couldn't be more diametrically opposed to the state of mind one should be in while taking in all art.

WTF? Victoria police just conducted dawn raids on eight women for the crime of staging a "Difficult Woman" protest at Victorian Trades Hall #Zelda8 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/escalat...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

The Torment Nexus has great connectivity, but hopefully the next version will adjust the volume of the screaming.

I must insist that plastic cable ties are not appropriate for this and that either Velcro or waxed string is the proper material

Just turned on the Jays game. I'm guessing someone advised Lukes and Okamoto to start believing in dinosaurs.

You know what would be hilarious? If blockchain turned out to be the solution to the academic integrity crisis wrought by GenAI. (Actually NFTs would be even funnier)

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My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his CEOs so I asked how many CEOs he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new CEO so I said it sounds like he's just feeding CEOs to coyotes and then the chair of the Board started crying. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

it'd be great if you could get off Substack

"No, *I* will blockade the Strait of Hormuz" - Duckling 🪶 🐣

This is called smothering and it’s a crime!!

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

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This is obviously fictional. One does not get to be a professor of economics by showing interest in whether the theories are true.

New paper alert! 🎉Our paper on supporting professional services colleagues to achieve Advance HE Fellowships is now published in the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice @jpaap.bsky.social. Reflective, honest, and a bit different. Full paper: lnkd.in/eKb99b8D

Bluesky covers all facets of the BRS case

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... As the world turns its mind to #war crimes there is this.

Every photo of Sam Altman is starting to look like this

In fairness, I would hope architects and people in building understood foundations pretty well

Ai does not "reason" it just rhymes

"A young tech entrepreneur who recently moved to Florida got upset when he ran into obstacles while trying to build a house on the habitat for the endangered Florida scrub-jay. So he filed a lawsuit attempting to strip the bird of its federal protection."

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

A friend told me that Anthropic has released 74 updates to Claude in the last 2 months. Realistically how many of these are really bug fixes and patches?

Here's a simple mneumatic for remembering how to convert a Word document to a PDF. I call it LADDER: -Let yourself open the document -Allow yourself to click Export as PDF -Do not prevent yourself from clicking Export -Define yourself as someone with a PDF -Enjoy having a PDF -Relish having a PDF

The past decade has shown that giving evil people a platform, even in the guise of an “interview” or press conference, is always a failure. They never admit error, and they use the platform to spout lies and propaganda. Take your “hold them to account” naivety back to the 1980s

“vibecoding” is such a pathetic concept to me. if you like vibes so much then come play with the big boys in the humanities, coward

Synergy

Are we going to need to do glasses checks? Have a set of loaner glasses covering the full range of prescriptions? Set up faraday cages?

How on earth am I supposed to trust someone to make decisions about AI when they're asking AI "hey, am I right?" and then are like "yo everyone, look, AI said I am right."

Tiny toot on the horn blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/three...

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

it reminds me of this classic Derrida anecdote:

Does the way that we currently define or describe third space roles in HE limit wider understanding of them? What do overlaps in practice and purpose tell us about them? All this and more in our webinar this Thursday 26/3 12pm AEDT with Colin Simpson and Ingrid D'Souza ascilite.org/events/...

Kim Gordon sharing the wise words, 'A lot of times I actually don’t know what I think about something until I start writing about it.'

It just didn’t have legs.

Heck yeah

Perfect

Love this! ☘️ 🇮🇪