We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Everyone who knows me well knows I am actually Lilith Fair’s target audience. In high school, my favourite artists weren’t just Pearl Jam and STP, they were also Jewel, Sheryl Crow, Aimee Mann and Sarah McLachlan.

Very happy to have had an opportunity to write about my personal favourite comedy film for The Conversation today: theconversation.com/why-this-is-...

I can’t wait to see this!

Just deleted my academia edu page because screw companies trying to leverage my work for their profit through dodgy AI and why exactly do I need them?

Loved having the opportunity to share a new project on the big screen at the Sightlines/Screenwriting Research Network conference this week in Adelaide. A privilege to be part of a panel with two other excellent films by Adrian Holmes and Jacob Brinkworth.

I know we’re all Online (probably chronically) but what truly makes me sad is that this still isn’t the tipping point. And I have no idea what it will take for the average American to wake the fuck up to what’s going on.

The final scene from The Natural seems like the appropriate way to say goodbye to the icon that is Robert Redford.

Super enjoyable day listening to Hottest 100 Australian songs. 4/10 of my choices made the list. Great number one choice.

Turns out Jeffrey Epstein is a big factor in terms of life.

Jesus Christ 🤦

Incredibly enjoyable to see Trump hoisted on his own petard with the Epstein scandal. He spent so much time stoking the conspiracist fires with the belief he would never have to deal with what I have always believed is his own involvement. This is how dumb people operate in the world.

Definitely using this! Thanks @shanedenson.bsky.social

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Weird how this was all caused by the Apprentice.

You can rationalize it however you want but staying on twitter is a terrible choice. It is not the “town square.” It is the world’s disease-ridden dump. You don’t need to be there to think critically or write relevantly or stay abreast of current events.

hey uh this isn't going well?

In the last week I saw 28 Years Later, Materialists and F1. All were in my opinion excellent, but the one I’ve spent most time thinking about afterwards is Materialists. Where are my Materialists heads?

Who doesn't enjoy a robot-gone-rogue movie? Wrote this piece on killer AI for The Conversation: theconversation.com/from-hal-900...

Rachel Maddow's excellent & inspiring analysis tonight made me think of this prescient poem by Carl Sandburg: @maddow.msnbc.com

The most important story of our time is not what Donald Trump wants to do, but what the people of this country allow him to do.

Making Agoge with our awesome cast and crew was a joy, but there’s nothing more joyous than getting a film project in front of audiences. Wish I could be in Palm Springs for our International Premiere at the end of June but will be celebrating from home.

This is the biggest loss in the lack of writing skills (and interest) by the current generation of students. Writing is Thinking.

Wish I was part of this classroom! Thanks for the plug @ladyhorrors.bsky.social

Excited to be an attendee at this year’s Screen Forever on the Gold Coast.

Tonight’s result makes missing out on a Democracy Sausage today somewhat more acceptable. Well done Albo and Labor. Thanks also to the LNP for their disastrous candidate choice and overall campaign. Australia is and always has been great and we will continue to make progress with this leadership.

The definition of Schadenfreude: watching the Liberal party argue for 2 hours on live TV that we just need to wait for pre-poll votes to be counted. 😂

Gotta say, today has Made Australia Happy Again #fuckrightoffBrethren.

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

One puzzle of Trump’s trade war is that he simultaneously argues America is the greatest country on earth and a victim of global trade. That contradiction suggests a deeper insecurity, understood less through policy than psychology and ideology. 🧵 1/

Sam Fender absolutely killing it on the Coachella live stream. Such an incredible talent. Very cool way to spend a Sunday morning. Charli XCX coming up next!

Very cool piece on the enduring power of Twin Peaks: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

The easiest way to understand everything that is happening in the United States is to ask yourself how would deeply unserious people handle deeply serious issues. It works every time.

Impressed the crack White House economic team not only found the Heard and McDonald Islands—an uninhabited Australian territory which is a two week sail from the mainland requiring a permit to visit—but that they managed to figure out the optimal retaliatory tariff to impose on penguins.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Hahahaha go fuck yourself Elon

Like, even on my worst day of writing, a day where the writing feels like I'm banging my head against a rock, I never wish I could just push a fucking button to write that page, or that paragraph, or even a sentence. I want to do the work! THE WORK IS MYSTERIOUS AND IMPORTANT

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

It's not just that just about everything I've ever published is in this particular database and used without my permission. It's that everything I've ever published was used without my permission to develop such a shitty, flawed and fundamentally useless tool. I deserve compensation for THAT itself.

Roses are red Violets are blue