Group show curated by Dan Toua featuring Pacific artists opening this Friday evening at the Canberra Contemporary gallery. Tearia, Nick & I collaborated on new photo work inspired by Teresia Teaiwa’s poem “Fear of Flying (in broken Gilbertese).” www.canberracontemporary.com.au/current

An A.I. company that promises to do your thinking for you is “also threatening, somewhere down the line, to scoot you off the stage for good,” Vinson Cunningham writes.

Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/AJBH.09.2025 @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social @romiteshkant.bsky.social @anudpa.bsky.social @anu-chl.bsky.social @kteaiwa.bsky.social @amywayness.bsky.social @auswhn.bsky.social

"The Quilters" is a #documentary that drops today on #Netflix. It is a healing, powerful story that follows incarcerated men at a Missouri #prison who take pride in creating quilts for foster children. #fostercare #netflixandchill #prisonreform #kids #filmmaking

I just voted in @nteuact.bsky.social ANU Council endorsement. This and the university Council vote is unprecedented. It reflects the unprecedented times in university governance. Leaders are failing the university and nation. Get on board and support your colleagues. www.nteu.au/News_Article...

A federal judge in the US has ordered the government to transfer a pro-Palestine Turkish student, Rumeysa Ozturk, to Vermont for the court to assess legal challenges to her detention ⤵️ aje.io/s0t0k4

Breaking News: The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act.

4/9 Register for a Curatorial Lecture on Zoom to learn about how @cecilestudio.bsky.social and I developed our art exhibition on silence and militarism. 7pm Moderated by Dr. Tie Jojima.

Travelling to the USA? GOOD LUCK! Here are some handy hints to get you through US Customs. Or not. No correspondence will be entered into. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dr Liz Allen has resigned from #ANU Council. This follows the @nteunion.bsky.social Vote of No Confidence in ANU leadership. Liz is a credit to herself and her colleagues. The resignations we should be getting are from the Chancellor & Vice-Chancellor.

Gigantic crowd in NYC for the #HandsOff march against Trump, Musk, and MAGA. So many people that the participants can barely move along. Signs decrying Trump and Co. on many fronts: immigration, science, Social Security, reproductive rights, tariffs, autocracy, kleptocracy & the price of eggs.

Israel continues its deadly attacks on Gaza, with UNRWA saying that at least 100 Palestinian children have been killed or injured each day in the besieged enclave since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/7n8dex

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

Video discovered on the mobile phone of one of the victims reveals the details of an Israeli attack that killed 15 medics, including eight from the Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza. Read more: aje.io/6xwedh

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

I’m just sayin’. St Augustine FL is a town of 14,000. In a red county. And we’re doing this. #handsoff #50501 #April5 AND we have some spicy signs!

Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it. Read books. Form your own opinions. LEARN THINGS. READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND

Just saw my book, “White Too Long” was purged from the US Naval Academy library. Listed along w/ 380 other books from @antheabutler.bsky.social , @michaelericdyson.bsky.social , @revjimwallis.bsky.social , Bryan Massingale, and others. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The UN says at least 100 children have been killed or injured every day in Gaza since Israeli attacks resumed on March 18, even as the US underscores continued support for Israel.

The numerous #ANU scandals demonstrate why @nteunion.bsky.social is calling for university governance reform. Join the NTEU today at www.nteu.au/join. ✊

A powerful response to recent #ANU claims. That the authors felt the need to protect their identities further demonstrates the climate of fear and intimidation at the ANU. @nteunion.bsky.social members have no confidence in ANU leadership.

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If the military academies are purging libraries of “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Einstein on Race and Racism,” and a biography on Jackie Robinson, how long will it be before they eliminate classes on the Geneva Conventions and military obligations under international laws of war?

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

The ruling class wants us mad at our neighbors, not the billionaire CEOs cutting wages while giving themselves raises.

Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

“The smartphone changed from being our servant to being our master, for many people,” the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt says. What does this mean for the development of children and teens?

In a time of unprecedented wealth disparities, the American economy appears increasingly oriented toward the needs of the most affluent.

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bring woke back www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/u...

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

My new exhibition: “Dance Protest” is opening at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, April 4 www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats...

The first time I heard of OpenAI was in 2020 when they released Jukebox, which seemed technically impressive but a blatant copyright violation (www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21...). Had no idea they would just double down and take over with this model applied to everything.

The U.S. foreign aid freeze blocks the establishment of Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area (MPA). Ghana’s small pelagics — sardines, anchovy and mackerels — make up about 60% of local fish landings and serve as a primary source of protein for almost two-thirds of the country’s population.

Here's that cartoon about the giant utes you were asking about www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Keith Richards is one thing but it's way more medically miraculous to me that every founding member of motley crüe is still alive

When they attack DEI and “woke” and CRT and BLM—they mean BLACK.

A U.S. district judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must pay nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance owed to its humanitarian partners around the world, saying the administration likely violated separation of powers by “unlawfully impounding” the congressionally appropriated money.

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

From Dr. Stacey Patton: Listen, not everyone moves through the world content to take things at face value, regurgitate surface-level takes, or passively absorb information without question. For some of us, especially journalists, writers, college professors, it’s instinctive for us to probe deeper.

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

It is time for a massive uprising to phase out the billionaires. There is no nice way to talk them out of psychopathy, no nice way to convince them to give up their power. Ban them now. Ban them all. Forever. gizmodo.com/palantirs-bi...

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Oh look, a peer-reviewed study detected microplastics in 99%, or 180 out of 182, samples of seafood either bought at the store or obtained from a fishing boat in Oregon. #NomNomNom #collapse

One thing we can do to challenge systemic barriers in the publishing industry is throw our support behind Black and brown people in publishing. Here’s an author I want you to do that for. Go pre-order this incredible fantasy! When it launches next month, I’ll be hosting a buddyread! a.co/d/3kfTynC

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

“Artist Crushes Tesla With Colossal Olmec Head Sculpture” hyperallergic.com/878913/artis...