Have to spell out White Australia Policy these days thanks to Cardi B

Game changer!!!

If universities want to use AI they need to stop saying "we're ethical!" and share their ethical details and ambitions with staff.

“Scrivener is designed for creative writers to create, not to have a data center create for them.” Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...

ChatGPT can write assignments and online quizzes that students can take using ChatGPT.

"Customized" is the ultimate keyword fantasy promoted in all the AI EdTech. Practically, this looks like what? "Customized" is dangling from the same thread as "individualism" that makes everyone unique in that Gap and H&M sort of way.

Free shovel to dig your own grave.

With a few exceptions, this is my experience also. The exceptions tend to be a handful of male writers who manage to write complex and interesting female characters (Colm Tóibín comes to mind).

Thanks Don! And this gift link miiiiiight work: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

I don't know about tiktok but I read this book last year after having had it on my shelf for ages and it still haunts me today. Felt completely timeless. (It's I Who Have Never Known Men for those not wanting to click the clickbait)

I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.

Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic. Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim. Four of mine were in there.

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years. "Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third." This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government. www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

I have seen a lot of 'dont comment on women's bodies' etc posts about the Wicked press & i generally agree but the normalisation and celebration of ever-shrinking forms is being blasted into the retinas of thousands of young girls across the world & that is also bad

There is no downside

2005 me: I love literary journalism, I love writers who bare their souls 2025 me: Stop stop oh my god please stop

It’s free* and legal to enjoy making notes with a fine Japanese fountain pen on fine French paper.

It’s true. You can simply do it. No subscription, no qualifications. You don’t need three forms of ID or a reference from your employer. You can just write on good paper with a proper pen and they can’t stop you.

i hate that the "nostalgia is bad" discourse directly preceded the moment accountability evaporated. remarks that once carried real fallout now barely flicker. imagine if Obama or even Bush said this. nostalgia (for that at least) is reasonable. not all mourning for old norms is bad nostalgia.

"Libraries are nothing less than our secret weapon in the war against ignorance and isolation." Australia's libraries are treasures. Protect them. theconversation.com/australias-p...

Me: What did you do today? 5-year-old: I don’t remember. Me: Okay. 5-year-old: what did you do? Tried to remember for other people? Me: Yup. That’s basically what all of history writing is.

Another day, another story of ChatGPT leading a user into dangerous mental health situations. How many such stories and cases will be enough to actually get politicians to do something? Or to get universities to stop pushing this onto students? www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some. Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

Look, maybe as a German person I am being overly sensitive here, but in the nicest possible way: what the fuck lads?!

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The whole problem with AI is that it isn't accountable ffs. It isn't reliable, truthful or ethical. www.themandarin.com.au/303010-ato-i...

Please admire my 88 year old grandfather’s grocery list

I got a new fountain pen today that I have been yearning for - I saw one on eBay a few weeks ago and put in an impulsive bid and then was terrified when I won that it might be dodgy or unusable but it arrived today and it is *perfect*... might as well be new. My very own Pilot Custom 74 😍

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

Need an analog to the “police passive” for this kind of description of sexually abusive men “being Me Tooed”—as if they were merely caught in a storm, their own actions and behavior irrelevant to their outcomes. Call it the predator passive.

"The best... health department in the world was now run by a man with no belief in modern scientific medicine and whose ambitions were not in public health but in politics."--from "The Great Influenza" by John M Barry, describing the situation in NYC just as the 1918 flu hit, and across the US today

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.

Books like this will not get men reading literary fiction again. If these kinds of novels worked, Jonathan Franzen would have led to some kind of male readership renaissance. (And I am not a Franzen hater. The Corrections was brilliant.) Litfic wasn't scooped by women. It was scooped by video games.

I try to read all the Booker winners, so I am in the middle of this year's (Flesh) right now. It's decently well-written, but if it is the last word on masculinity (total lack of interiority, driven solely by sexual impulses that cannot be explained or controlled) then masculinity is in real trouble

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is rose byrne finally going to have a well deserved Oscar run…I’ve been waiting for a decade. she should have been nominated for an Oscar for Spy

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed” basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again. i feel that with my dad.

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.

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“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!” --Megyn R. Kelly “Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!” --Also Megyn R. Kelly

a streamlined, managed device is all well and good until you're done with school and have no idea how to save a file

we don't talk enough about the damage that widespread chromebook adoption by schools has done to computer literacy in children

Keep on saying it! If you can't afford the components, then you don't have a viable business model.