You know what, I’m feeling marginally less flippant about this insanity now that I know I’m on a list in a dossier prepared by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs as a “key influencer” of antisemitism. This is munted.

big firearms and machine guns

It’s evergreen!!!!

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

So the source of this hallucinatory AI slop appears to a press release sent to Scoop by the World Literacy Foundation. The absolute irony of a literacy organisation using AI to generate a reading list of books that don’t exist. Is it a fake organisation? That would be my question now.

Some of my picks in here incl. the beautiful heart resource if we knew how to we would by @ehjc.bsky.social and the tremendously haunting the book of guilt by @catherinechidgey.bsky.social

it actually rocks to be perceived, and loved anyway!!!! Bec made the fact that I am essentially uncontactable cute. also i'm sick of this world i want to go to the one she has imagined for me www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This literally means that if a trans person requires GnRH blockers for cancer treatment (i.e breast or prostate), they CANNOT get cancer treatment. Insane. Absolutely insane - and deadly.

Blocking healthcare cause you’re anti disabled people/women/children/queer people is so sinister. It’s bullying and abusive behavior. Abusive people withhold resources. Straight up state violence against its own people.

FUCK THIS VILE BULLSHIT

fuck marry kill alliteration assonance rhyme

Woke is back time to say I agree with the shark people who think they shouldn’t be called “shark attacks” they should be called “shark bites” or “shark accidents” they aren’t attacking they are usually checking if you’re edible like you finding something weird in the fridge

Filled with spoilers but if you’ve read it pls tell us your thoughts!!!!!!! We got maybe 8% into the conversation and had to stop for word count

Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty. 🧵 #kikorangi

Counterpoint: GET FUCKED

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

I rly thought the bitcoin statue was a joke

Oi wanna come to this next week my beloved hometown?

The poetry slam tonight in Ōtepoti Dunedin is looking for more competitors. No experience required! It's a supportive, fun event. Have a poem you'd like to perform? Check out the details: youngwritersfest.nz/events/otago... Please share!

Gotta say. I would basically die for my Aotearoa poem friends. NO ONE DOES IT LIKE THEM

Love this from @clairemabey.bsky.social

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

This seems a simple and sensible approach to saving Meanjin: An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin

It beggars belief that MUP are scrapping Meanjin *entirely*. Could it not even continue as an online journal? And what will happen to the vast and essential archive on its website? The decision is a stunning, appalling act of cultural vandalism which demands complete transparency and accountability.

Sometimes Emma Thompson speaks your gf words, ? Am I best friends with Emma Thompson now Emma Thompson Girlfriend Words Thank u Paris paloma the antipodes are feeling very nice

This is a dope read

Having a smorl depression but seems to be really receptive to Riverdance, totally fine as long as I’m listening to Riverdance

Something I think is really good lucky and cool is that me and @brocklesnitch.bsky.social both got to meet each other’s nanas before they died. Nanas rock thank you nanas

Have a fucking Pip treat!!!!!!!!! Pip’s thoughts are unmissable!!!!

Pay teachers more you stupid fucks they’re the most valuable people in the motherfucking world

basically i would do anything for her. she's a girl with a vibe

This is a sore point for the whole diaspora so pardon me for getting in a shit about it, not only Indigenous people but all immigrant communities in the West have been traumatised and robbed of our culture by this thinking.

"I once studied under a lamp. I read books. I dreamed of life. Now, the glow of my phone makes me flinch. A candle is a target. A match, a betrayal." Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza. jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

The most racist government since Muldoon and also the stupidest.

Last word on this: monolingualists and monoculturalists are our Achilles’ heel. It feels cosy for some, but it makes us insular, village-like, and unable to handle the complexity of a global world and different world views.

i would prefer it if the THIRTY midge bites i received on ONE NIGHT in MARCH could be GONE BY NOW

i'm experiencing a somewhat trying time that i can't avoid and i can't talk to anyone about and that's fine it is fine i am fine and i will be fine forever

NSW Police is putting out the story that this powerful event came perilously close to disaster. NSW Police were the ones who made the mid-event decision to block the northern end of the Bridge, instead of having a plan to funnel protestors safely off it and to train stations on the north shore. 1/

I’ve seen estimate of 100,000-300,000 people in today’s march. A sobering thought: these are also the conservative (100k) realistic (300k) estimates of people israel massacred in Gaza.

Over 100,000 Australians marched across the symbolic heart of Sydney today, and together we showed more leadership on one rainy afternoon than our PM and Foreign Minister have shown in 2 years from the comfort of their offices. Free Palestine. Sanction Israel. 🇵🇸 🕊️

The NSW Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge! Protestors will be legally protected while marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge tomorrow after the NSW Supreme Court's decision this morning. #auspol #FreePalestine #MarchForHumanity #SaveGaza

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Very satisfying seeing Chris Minns totally humiliated www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

An excellent piece by David Ehrlich on AI’s encroachment on the film world and how it’s creatively inert. Combining AI with The Wizard of Oz is so abhorrent to the legacy of film history. Shame on Ben Mankiewicz. www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

Do u guys know the game grandma’s green undies cos I’m discovering lots of people don’t know it and I’m so confused I thought it was a prominent feature of all our childhoods

listening to two people (who both otherwise seem quite well-reasoned and thoughtful) opine that chatGPT and similar AI will ‘actually increase neuroplasticity’ and ‘equalise things between neurodivergents and neurotypicals’. no offence but some of you should be crated

Bless you @williamfleitch.bsky.social williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...