Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

It's a sad day when you realise 30-50% of your personality is unhealthy coping mechanisms

🔔 new paper alert 🔔 Justine, Su Lin and I spent the last year and a half trying to understand how LLMs are being sold — what are their supposed ‘capabilities’? how are these measured? etc and, more importantly, what does all of this discursive work *do*? what kinds of world does it presuppose? 1/

This is very true Unhappy about it? Time to organise...

You call it procrastination, but I call it slow scholarship

I agree this would be good but it is pure nostalgia. The conditions for such a form of life no longer exist, and never existed for anyone apart from a small number of people in countries like the USA. We need to dismantle capitalism entirely instead

idk i think it’s probably a best case scenario at this point that trump’s national law enforcement guy is so incompetent and intoxicated that he can’t even effectively oppress us

I legit think some of the belief and experience that the economy sucks is also sheer exhaustion from shit like this and notification fatigue and every single shitty tech-mediated interaction of which there are hundreds a day

This article highlights something really important: it is absolutely bonkers how many massive, energy + water hungry data centres are being built in Sydney suburbs that are already subject to worsening climate impacts and heat island effects. They'll make both worse

Took 15-odd years for BRS to be charged, but at least Qld police got right onto that dude wearing a t-shirt

this is truly excellent and important work

a reminder that sora, like chatgpt, is a commercial product that can come and go like any other website, which is another reason why a lot of us remain critical of “AI” — and why we focus more on its political economy than its technological mechanisms

Sat in Academic Board at my Uni yesterday where they congratulated themselves on rushing through a new Bachelor of AI, someone commented that “Marketing has warned us if we don’t get a named A.I. degree, we’ll be left behind by all the other universities”

I just came out as non-binary on the family group chat

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

When your own reference list places your work next to Marx 🥰

almost as tho a system of government established by, for and of propertied white males is designed to serve the interests of propertied white males.

every single time these politicians say “keeping people safe” and “community safety” and “keep Australians safe” the context will tell you that colonised and racialised people are not fully human to them, and nor are women and children.

the Aust home affairs minister just told the ABC that meetings like one between Israeli President and Aust intelligence boss “happen all around the world” and “they keep people safe”. Which tells you who are considered “people” to our government.

I'm delivering an online research seminar next Friday 6 March 1-2pm AEDT with WSU. uws.zoom.us/j/8314940900... Meeting ID: 831 4940 9001 Password: 469673

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

espresso machines

Massive W as a parent when your child sends you stuff like this

Gosh, who could have seen that coming?!

I keep seeing all these "Aussie patriots" defending the cops actions at the Herzog rally, and I can't help but think of this artwork

Caption this

I wrote a gonzo thing on my last day or so as a err pro-Palestine activist ('activist' makes me sound better than I am though) lukestransmissionstoo.blogspot.com/2026/02/its-...

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

This is not Guenther's point exactly but lately I'm fascinated by how just the mention of 'pronoun' indexes a whole political philosophy to those on the right

Foreign language learners show a kinematic accent in their co-speech hand movements. New paper by Hans Rutger Bosker & al. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.321

Drawing lessons from the 2020 Black Lives Matter struggle, we must clearly understand that the National Guard will never be our ally — their allegiance is to the capitalist government.

Fuck the colony, all my homies hate the colony

If confirmed, this really is a new low, where a state agency is altering image of real events with an intent to deceive the public.

Work and labor are such different things. Work is what you put in even when it won’t benefit you much but just to maintain homeostasis in your living space or in your intellectual zone. Labor is how you are exploited in order to get currency. I don’t dream of labor either but of happy works for love

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.

Please help Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah with her legal costs

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

I've long felt that the Venn diagram of 'surf Nazis' and 'actual Nazis' would closely resemble a circle. Source: I grew up in a beachside suburb of Sydney best known for its race riot

2026 reading list starts here:

10 thinkers with the biggest influence on me: 1. Michel Foucault 2. Karl Marx 3. Michael Silverstein 4. Judith Irvine 5. Jan Blommaert 6. Janet Holmes 7. Gilles Deleuze 8. Elinor Ochs 9. Norman Fairclough 10. Michael Burawoy

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I'm presenting some of my research data from performance management meetings at a seminar this week, and I am overjoyed that I finally get to use this video. 2 something minutes of comedy gold that encapsulate my entire PhD thesis