A colleague sent this along from the NEH. What an absolute joke. As they said, we’re in an era that is post-satire. I’d say it’s just rank stupid.

The Remote Labor Index (RLI) measures how well AI agents can automate real-world remote work projects — the current best automation rate is just 3.75%. The debate on AI and the labor market needs empirical indices like the RLI — real-world performance metrics. #AIandWork #AgenticAI #Automation

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

Satire didn’t just die. It was autonomously executed.

Yes, I remember when I had my first child and had to build 30 data centers to feed them.

It's quite an achievement when a man is so immediately annoying on sight, that even knitwear cannot begin to mitigate it.

This! Stop batch labeling everything “AI” and start using the name of the actual tool. The AI hype cycle does nothing to help disambiguate the ramifying harmful effects of extractive technologies from everything else.

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything." And. Yup.

This ABC article states that NSW Police have admitted deploying a Long Range Accoustic Device at the 9 February protest in central Sydney www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

20,000 people in northern Portugal have been without power for 17 days

One thing that astonishes me about the Herzog visit is that Israel has murdered more journalists than any other state in the 21st century, and he hasn’t faced a single question about this (to my knowledge) from the Australian media

#TheNerdReich.

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

The trumpification of Alberta continues: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Video of a wall of cops chasing protestors in Sydney. I hope Minns is happy with his ICE agents

It can be difficult sometimes to distinguish between social cohesion and common assault

It isn’t surprising to any woman who has spent anytime in the university sector that male academics feature in the Epstein files. Sexual predation is built into the brickwork of patriarchal places. I am intrigued by his coordinating role as a community coach for their actions against whistleblowers.

I just learned that there's a book titled "The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900" and it's going straight onto my list of favorite academic book titles academic.oup.com/north-caroli...

cool. glad we protected her identity at least www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...

This is like a scene out of Monty Python. ICE agents get a name back from face recognition and multiple agents start calling out "Maria! Maria!" to see if a woman in custody reacts. (Presumably if she does that's a match???) It didn't work, so they ran the app again and got another name.

‘The People vs Robodebt’ won Best Documentary at the AACTA Awards

Apparently the only way to restore social cohesion is to keep saying "Randa" in a scary voice until she disappears in a puff of smoke

Clearly it’s time to appoint a permanent officer in the government to look over all the festival programs. Some fellow in a centralised office where all the art can be submitted beforehand, to make sure it’s socially cohesive. Some kind of Chief Approver, if you like www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The Newcastle Writers Festival organisers can see the rake. They understand how a rake on the ground works. They know what happens when you tread on the rake. They’ve seen the swish-thwack of a trodden rake on other festivals. Can they resist rake-stepping?

On Monday, a man threw a homemade bomb into a crowd of First Nations families and allies, and we get: a reluctance from police and media to call it an act of domestic terrorism, the attacker’s identity suppressed to protect *his* safety, and some empty platitudes from politicians.

Funny/terrifying thread demonstrating the extent to which governments bask in the glow of, and keep adding fuel to, the dumpster fire that is AI hype.

I've only just been made aware that there has been a backlash against astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg, Australian of the Year. I've been over on Facebook responding to (mostly male) critics who clearly have no idea how astronauts work. We can't let them be the dominant voice. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Man appropriates his partner’s pregnancy to interview men who appropriate other people’s creativity to fuel their fintech visions.

Just to join in the fun, this is the only screening of 'Melania' in Auckland today. Two tickets sold for a very small screen.

A white guy threw a homemade bomb into a crowd protesting colonialism in Australia and the media have broadly reframed it in more gentle terms, eg this describing it as a "device" that was 'designed to explode'.

OMFG.... They are showing the Melania film at selected Hoyts (haven't check other cinemas) in Australia... You know how no tickets have been sold in the US... Guess how well it is going in Melbourne.

Wow. Powerfully combining the actual and the bin fire that is everything at the moment.

These are documented massacres of First Nations people between 1788-1930 Happy Australia Day

Salient words for times like these: heated.world/p/i-dont-kno...

Very happy to see this actual book in my actual hands (hat tip to global postal infrastructure)! With thanks to the editors @alanyliu.bsky.social @jamessmithies.bsky.social and Urszula Pawlicka-Deger.

So very pleased to announce that From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026) is now available to preorder! I invite you to share 🙏🏼 www.ubcpress.ca/from-red-dre... @ubcpress.bsky.social @ualberta.bsky.social @janisirwin.bsky.social

Sorry. Not sorry. pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Something I learnt while researching this post about Kubla Khan — thanks to J.C.C. May’s excellent edition of Coleridge’s poetry — is that the poet almost certainly pronounced ‘Khan’ as ‘Can’, giving the first line an almost palindromic vowel structure: ‘In Xanadu did Kubla Khan’ (I AAU I UAA)

Has he ever met a movie lover?

Periodically I’m inspired to wonder how such patently unsuited people rise to positions of leadership then I remember - old boy’s club.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Can my submission just be: hey what the fuck

I heard him say ”Miss” which I found disrespectful at so many levels. As well as repeatedly butchering her name.

TL;DR: the huge amounts of funding put into the human genome project meant researchers kept chasing funding to find genetic causes of disease, but it’s looking more and more likely that only a minority of disease is caused by genetics—even diseases that can be genetic are more often environmental.

Sleeper issue in all this 👇

St ASS?

data seems to match this theory