I wrote a short blog post about this paper, reflecting on my own time as a @carpentries.carpentries.org Software Carpentry instructor blog.stephenturner.us/p/ten-simple...

MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates have the opportunity to do something so hilarious right now. There are 300 recently unemployed journalists who would love the opportunity to help them fight the darkness that is consuming our democracy.

Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

Made a conscious decision to focus on AI/bigtech in early 2025 and I'm glad I did It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now

Some much-needed good news, including • renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally • new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty • landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown • indigenous wins at COP 🌱❣️🌊 www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

A thread describing an absolutely fascinating project about the Deep History (and meaning) of Ukraine. x.com/Mylovanov/st...

Poster on way to #ascilite25 @wentale.bsky.social

Very funny 🤣 -- great crypto-chart @crikey.com.au fyi @infobeautiful.bsky.social

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Winter is coming ... end of UK summer time means #lthechat is at a more Australia-friendly time

Huge congrats to a real ed-tech hero, @linkletter.org, who survived a five-year legal odyssey after he posted a critique of Proctorio on social media. linkletter.org/update-33-th... I so admire Ian's bravery in the face of corporate bullying. Kudos and congrats, Ian!!!

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction. My friends, they have lost the flag.

Class is in session! Thanks, @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social, for this analysis of the importance of this moment. "This is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography." Yes!

#nokings Portland frog brigade

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is wild. I’ve never heard this story before.

USA Government is targeting people who just want things to be normal. Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

bubble dance party

We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective @thenerve.news, the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊 broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve

Speak truth to power, from Professor Tim Snyder.

We all needed this right now 👇🏽 Alt text and info about the author are in the replies

From January 2006. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2006-01...

An iSchool colleague who I don’t think is on Bsky shared this article about The Carpentries’ recent refusal of a $1.5 millon NSF grant after they were asked to strip DEI from their programming This feels like the only ethical way forward

Those of us studying edtech platforms and infrastructures in education talk a bit about vendor "lock-ins" - how schools can't get out of a platform once they're on it. This is a magnificent paper about that by @lucascone.bsky.social and Signe Sophus Lai www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

We need a German word for the feeling when you've communicated with another academic in English only to discover that their first language is also German.

NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

“Australian university students are still paying some of the highest fees in the OECD under a system that punishes them for choosing the ‘wrong’ degree. That system has a name – the Job-ready Graduates package – and Labor has left it virtually untouched.” http://satpa.pe/jwqLqCo

I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n

This hasn't dated 'The survival of humanities researchers is a political act in itself'

Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.

The latest round of cuts at ANU include an outrageous plan to close the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC). ANU has forgotten its vital function as the national university. Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Make yourselves ungovernable. Brilliant explanation of what we need to do and why, from @graceblakeley.substack.com

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨 25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

Yes to this a million times over, in so many fields of work and social life

One-to-one is still a less expensive staff:student ratio than the Masters in the School of Cybernetics

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Cambridge, showing some of the colleges on a map Without using the internet, how many of the other colleges can you name? If you like this card, please share it so that others can see it too - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

This piece by @timinclimate.bsky.social is a complete banger. I have really never ever read such a comprehensive analysis of Australia's fossil export emissions like this, it is something else. Go read the whole thing now --->>> timinclimate.medium.com/australia-em...

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

What he said, and amen to it.

Cheers to the comment section. I made a thingy for you using your replies.

I have been saying this for years, as a pilot who regularly flies over Sydney, we have more than enough unused industrial roof space for solar to power the entire city, New build code should include as much solar as possible on large industrial buildings. #auspol #solar

Two years is not long on a planetary timescale. Stop, review, relegislate, reject.

Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…” www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...

Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...