They should have just got these guys in for the Michael Caine voice youtu.be/HFIQIpC5_wY

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Yes we’ve had §230 debates about social media, but have we tried “the user is the one who is liable for perceiving online harms” yet?

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "If you’re hurting, struggling, or sputtering inside right now, I want you to take a moment to see what I see."

I loathe the discourse of 'psychosocial risks/hazards', and while I can see how it might be beneficial in some lines of work I believe that overall it will only do harm to the labour movement

In amongst all the terrible news in this world, here is a singular, shining piece of good fortune for you: I have made the ultimate disco playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/2qO...

just ScienceDirect promoting uncorrected ai-generated phrenology-sounding slop (that UGs would likely not notice is phrenology-sounding slop). irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Great line: a single-use plastic of the mind

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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The problem with the bourgeois reification into academic 'disciplines' is that the solutions proposed are in answer to the narrowly defined issues mediated through that discipline

New piece on Social Europe, on the impact of the digital revolution on work and why platformisation ultimately matters more than automation #EconSky #sociology @lauranurski.bsky.social @sergiotorrejon.com

AI boosters keep saying, in the face of what is clearly a bubble, that perhaps it will be like the dot com bubble, and that longer term the technology will prove itself, much like profit-making from the internet. But why assume that AI is following a similar track to internet platforms?

I expected Keir Starmer to be a bland, middle-management, platitudinous, tediously disappointing Prime Minister, which is why it’s been such a surprise to find out he’s actually a stupid, incompetent, vindictive, reactionary and outright dismaying Prime Minister.

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

We also show how a counter language ideology labelling those literacy practices as 'HR-language' operated as a form of discursive counter-conduct. It was an absolute pleasure writing this with Karin and learned a lot from doing so. Let me know if you can't access it and I can get you a copy.

I'm happy to say that the article that Karin Tusting and I wrote for Text and Talk is now available. In it, we look at how a number literacy practices were deployed in a university language centre to try to shape workers into reflective practitioners. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I'm happy to say that the article that Karin Tusting and I wrote for Text and Talk is now available. In it, we look at how a number literacy practices were deployed in a university language centre to try to shape workers into reflective practitioners. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

- put down the damn AI.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

The "AI" research community: 1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024) firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... >>

🚨 Update from Yasmin Acar, spokesperson for the Global Sumud Flotilla, speaking from the Alma Freedom ship: At 150 nautical miles from Gaza, about 20 drones are hovering overhead. Multiple naval vessels have been spotted, with reports of an imminent interception by Israeli vessels.

If this isn't capitalism, why do I and almost everyone I know have to engage in wage labour and purchase commodities to socially reproduce ourselves and the people we love?

I'm starting to think we need to bring back a constructive form of shame, which @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social makes a great case for in this excellent piece: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Remember that smug meme, "If you ever wondered what you would have done while the Nazis took power, you're doing it now"? It would seem now that most people never thought about that at all

Well said by Karl Jacoby, this has been much on my mind, need to think about the absurd meeting of generals in this light

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This is a good point. From a critical sociolinguistics perspective, LLMs involve both the formal and real subsumption of language at different points in their formation and use

Well don't I feel stupid

Rest in power

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Perfect example of how the Neocons paved the way for Trump. 2002: Everyone's favorite Neocon resister Bill Kristol argues that it's "unfair" to worry that the president will use the war on terror to settle scores and fight imaginary enemies 2025: Trump designates Antifa a domestic terrorist org

A recording of the Long Arc of Fascism panel discussion on "Fascism as Capitalist Counter-Revolution" with Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo and Alberto Toscano, chaired by Naomi Klein (April 19, 2025). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1...

I started reading this paper on how to reform university governance because it was shared in UTS staff organising circles, and then I realised, hey I know one of the authors from the internet! @francismarkham.bsky.social openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/c...

The vultures are really gathering around Gaza, with Tony Blair, the official Angel of Death, joining Trump and Jared Kushner at the White House, no doubt to discuss making money out of the ‘Gaza Riviera’. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some good news for a change

Please help my colleagues defeat the Zionist lawfare being waged against them

We have a union issue at our uni where a DVC is calling for some staff to undergo 'accent training', so the first thing I did is have a look at @vijayramjattan.bsky.social 's excellent work on this

I think AI can make a latent class consciousness more easy to activate, and I think a lot of our AI critiques should focus on that

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

Please help my colleagues defeat the Zionist lawfare being waged against them

All the discourse on productivity in the Australian media keeps reminding me of one of my favourite quotes from Capital: "To be a productive labourer is ... not a piece of luck, but a misfortune."

what we show of ourselves and how we understand ourselves may well be two very different things, and those may differ from how we are seen, and how we are seen may shift depending on the cultural context, including medical environments, classrooms, streets, and bars." (Butler 2024: 122)

Chris and his mates who profit from moral panics and the surveillance industrial complex spend millions of public dollars on armed officers to criminalise, incarcerate, and violate children born into poverty and intergenerational trauma. This protects meritocracy mythology for the propertied class.

congratulations to Chris Minns and the lock ‘em up cheer squad for realising their one 2023 bail law reforms goal: more incarcerated children, mostly presumptively innocent children, Blak children, children born into poverty. bocsar.nsw.gov.au/media/2025/m...