Long lyve ai;dr!

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

We've now had two meetings of the GenAI ethics in education reading group that I started. The experiences of Indian female 'data annotators' should be deal breakers. Does anyone know more about the workers training Gemini? Or Claude? (ChatGPT is mentioned here).

I was brought up to believe that the police were there to help. And because of my white privilege I have believed that for a long time. But tonight my 19yo son was pepper sprayed for taking part in a peaceful protest. My position may be changing. #FreePalestine.

Thinking about this today - ''Slow academia' is for the privileged - but isn't all academia?' thesiswhisperer.com/2018/05/02/s...

Brilliant! I just might use this strategy daily:

Look at the gorgeous green red grey combo on this baby gang gang - such a beautifully unexpected mix of colours

Melissa McIntosh is more worried about kids singing about being locked up than kids being locked up.

Ughhh. People living in Australia shouldn't have pet cats. You know it, I know it.

I was personally too slow in processing this. The ACT rally was largely peaceful, which I was grateful for. The incident in Perth was horrifying & white leaders could have spoken out instantly. They didn't, and it wasn't right.

the absolute disgrace of this...

Kid spotted a Lyrebird in East Gippsland in the rainforest behind the sand dunes

Four issues the Albanese Labor Govt is ignoring completely (even as it claims to be doing great things): • Femicide crisis • Aboriginal deaths in custody crisis • Climate crisis • Extinction crisis We need our Govt to take action on these catastrophic issues. #auspol #DV #VAW #Indigenous #Climate

Really important work from the ABC’s Gareth Hutchens yesterday: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Renters' advocacy org @betterrenting.bsky.social is doing a data-collection sprint to capture info on conditions inside homes during the heatwave. You can do this quick survey whether you rent, own your home or live with family You can also upload heatwave pics of the kind I posted about yesterday

I was glad to be here. Lots of proud, strong First Nations ppl. #alwayswasalwayswillbe #Canberra

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Perspective

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Australian Fact: Currawongs are more orderly than magpies.

Cut the power to Pine Gap. See who complains. If no one, return land to Indigenous people.

Double ganger

This aged alarmingly well

Spiky gang gang cockatoo

Cumberland river yesterday

Take a break from doomscrolling. #birds #art #timelinecleanse #painting #kingfisher #icon #peace

Pleassse don't use Grokipedia folks!

Omg omg

Many of the most interesting and courageous people I've had the honour of knowing have been transgender 🏳️‍⚧️ 💕

Public thought/question for my Sunday: When I first joined BlueSky, many ppl were promoting the use of real names only. What happened with that? 🤔 I get it can be unsafe - I feel a bit vulnerable personally - but now it's doubly hard to check for bots and trolls again. What happened?

@tonywriteshere.bsky.social is a bot. All the posts are generated by an LLM and they all have links back to longer LLM screeds on Facebook. I've noticed a few similar handles with AI slop devoted to #ReneeGood today. A few thoughts 1/

@janephuong.bsky.social LOOK! There's females this time! ☺️

Let's hold one another. Here's a poem from a friend and neighbor in Minneapolis. (I lived 6 blocks from where George Floyd was killed.)

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Please don't stay and defend your property 🙏🏼

What's wrong with AI? Many people criticize Artificial Intelligence for various reasons. Something I want to discuss here, is that AI lacks diversity and can be biased. It reproduces the idea of the tech people behind it - mostly white american men.

Someone clever should assemble an online writers’ week starring all the people too principled to attend the Adelaide one. Donations to go directly to the artists.

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict... #books #literature #language

Where’s that post about how climate change will show itself as a series of disasters you watch through phones that gets closer until you’re the one holding the camera… (I am safely back in Melbourne)

"Australia’s security and prosperity are best protected in a world that operates by rules and norms. "America’s raid puts that world further at risk." - International & Security Affairs Advisor Allan Behm writing for @thepointau.bsky.social #auspol

My first sunflower is out! But fierce sun is beating down over most of Eastern Australia today. Stay cool, everyone. #heatwave #canberra #ngunnawalcountry

This excellent film may start a little slow, but stick with it. It's a powerful short documentary about neo-colonial exploitation in the digital economy.

Our hands are supposed to busy. Especially with company and conversation. I don't think we want a life of idle hands, all of it taken care of by technology. I think many many of us want the time to do the practical arts of living, or to live in practical and artful ways.

College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened theconversation.com/college-stud...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science

I'm starting to put together a reading group on AI ethics in tertiary ed. Very modest objectives to start with. If you're interested and live in Canberra, feel free to dm.

Déjà vu