@evelynaraluen.bsky.social you are the best. “I do not recommend drinking wine in the bath and listening to Mitski and crying and calling that a writing practice.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Fiction "About Honey" by D.J. Huppatz “Cruising back to Nassau after my arrest and subsequent release for obstructing a bulldozer in the last Irish rainforest, my thoughts turned to the fate of the high-vis goons who smashed the forest’s fairy ring.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/abou...

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

Summer reading stack. So good so far...

"Please stop being mean about AI"

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He: Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion. Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/

On Adelaide Writers Festival and their decision to be racist shits: “They want to apply the Mormon soaking method to thought and imagination. Anything more than that ruins the bedsheets, and sends these people into a tizzy.” open.substack.com/pub/yeahnah/...

1924 group photo of the Surrealists, including Salvador Dali, Gala and Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault, René Crevel, Robert Desnos and Benjamin Péret

New poems up at Luna Luna: www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...

Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...

BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable. Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Xltn conversation btw @hawthorne.bsky.social + Aaron Cayer abt Cayer's 📘 on AECOM, a huge, faceless, ethically ?-able conglomerate that designs electrical grids, military bases, highways, airports; they discuss why it's imptnt to study such work + methods for doing so amidst gov't + corp secrecy

Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.

When i wrote "moon" in my poem i obviously meant the small one. Yeah the fresh, new one, not Shelley's or Dickinson's old 19th century moon.

Which one did they land on?

@versobooks.bsky.social's series "Harvey at 90" continues with recently posted pieces by Trevor J. Barnes, Helga Leitner and Richard A. Walker. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Great analysis by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social here who cuts through all the — sorry — bullshit and gets to the inevitable point of the absolute triumph of marketing over design. We start from here (if we even care anymore). Must read on.ft.com/46M9mXI

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Thanks so much @exactingclam.bsky.social. Finally, the true story about the creator of Bitcoin is out in the world!

Seconded. This book is essential reading.

Sad to hear Meanjin is closing. Here's two poems of mine they published from 2004. Tho the ref was The Gulf War, I feel like they still resonate 20 years later meanjin.com.au/poetry/land-...

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Here’s D.J. Huppatz with “Build a Network” @djhuppatz.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/dj-huppatz #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #DJHuppatz

On a packed train thinking it's Uber for the masses

AI, a tool of American authoritarianism.

"Technologies aren’t a rising tide that lifts all boats, unless we very specifically design them that way. With computing, they have not been designed that way" This @histoftech.bsky.social interview is so good www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...

theconversation.com/universities... "...academics and students remained outside, protesting in the rain against staff cuts and governance issues facing the sector."

So happy this story is out: 'Wellness' in 3AM magazine: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/wellness/

Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

Worth reading but maddening and saddening.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

"Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD…This has resulted in an endless chase for dollars (international students & “the next big thing”) rather than thinking about what an educated Australia should look like” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

"Over 100 countries want something to happen and we are being held up by the United States. Their position was even more regressive than the Saudis"

Australian journalists #withMEAA have made a video in recognition of the many Palestinian journalists and media workers killed by Israel while/because of reporting on the ground in #Gaza. #StopKillingJournalists #StoptheKilling www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...

Courage @drdemography.com www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Could be some awesome exhibitions coming up at the Smithsonian...

In an otherwise cowardly capitulation by the American History Association in their AI guide, an amusing thought:

Universities: you need the latest edutech. Students: we'd prefer purpose. Universities: how bout AI in the classroom? Students: no more AI. Just a sense of purpose. Any purpose. Universities: Gotcha. AI with purpose it is.

Postmodernist Fiction was my reading guide when i was 18/19. I still have it. RIP.

I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.

It’s never too early in the week to admire one of the holiest inventory poems that Anne Carson ever wrote. “God had the book of life open at PLEASURE”

The measures called for in this report are an extraordinary attempt to place higher education under the control of a political lobby.

I am so tired of the AI tsunami of slop overwhelming what good remains in higher ed

An absolutely damning insider account of what has just gone down in Paris. Murujuga traditional custodians took the fight to protect their Country to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris. They lost. @unesco.org www.lastplaceonearth.com.au/inside-unesco/ Inside UNESCO

Relieved I can now cut out abs exercises.

OUT NOW: ballast 3.3 (Summer 2025). www.ballastjournal.com/issue-33-tab...