We are all watching the US government use AI for their war propaganda, doing military deals directly with some of the largest AI companies. AI is not neutral. Now is not the time to make AI slop for your linkedin post 🫠
This is clearly a strategy by Microsoft to artificially inflate the numbers of Copilot users.
Once again - if these tools were half as good as they say they are they wouldn't have to force us to use them
Yes!!!! They are trying to force these tools on us because they are useless and expensive!
A wonderful write up from the AusSTS2024 team reflecting on decolonial practices in conference organising:
What would it look like to run a genuinely decolonial event? Is it possible to run a genuinely decolonial event at a settler institution?
decoloyarns.org/2025/08/11/h...
“Blended learning” is just me nervously shifting my gaze from the screen class then back to the IRL class, awkwardly making jokes about the “zoomies” and the “roomies” and ultimately nobody has a good time 💀 pls let’s stop doing blended #edusky
A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."
an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Love how all these academics try to excuse their Epstein associations as owing to genuine intellectual stimulation and meanwhile his big thought-provoking questions are like "why do women live past menopause?"
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Great to have the chance to talk about our research in this article for The Point! In it we emphasise the risks GenAI raises for Indigenous Education and what came from our recent study testing LLMs on Indigenous topics. 🦘🎓 #edusky #academicsky
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
This is devastating and will have significant long term consequences. Solidarity with those impacted.
Horrifying to see Victoria seeking adult jail sentences for children. 14 year old could be deemed too young for social media in Aus but old enough for a life sentence in prison. So little care for actual children, but politicians happy to invoke "protect the children" to win political points #auspol
Where's the bit in the ROPE thingo on grant applications for: I'm a renter so I have to move house every 1-1.5 years at the whim of my landlord and it consumes a month of my life 🫠🫠🫠 #🦘🎓
This looks great! Looking forward to reading!
Hope to see you at today’s seminar on The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness at 3pm, please see details and register at the below
Great to see this article is finally published! Written with the brilliant Jess McLean, we explore how young Australians think about their agency on TikTok. With the incoming ban, there's a lot of talk about young people on social media, but we need to listen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Terrible policy aside, it's very funny to ban Pinterest. Omg the kids are making vision boards!! They must be stopped!
So much for the (terrible) social media ban not including games. We’re already seeing proof that the ban’s definition of social media is broad enough to be applied to any internet service or website the minister of the day wishes to ban.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
In awe of the bravery of @drdemography.com to expose this culture of bullying and threats from leadership at ANU. Julie Bishop should resign www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Absolutely loved this paper from Tanja Bosch - "As a method, decolonisation demands more than critique. It requires a commitment to building alternative ways of knowing, citing, collaborating and theorising that do not extract from the margins to enrich the centre"
So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.
Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Awful to see ANU making these cuts to Gender Studies
Shoes of ANU
ANU cuts are impacting an innumerable amount of people. Here are just some of their stories. www.shoesofanu.com
My latest with @claresoutherton.bsky.social - on AI and Aesthetic Alienation - aka the thorny issue of ai slop.
Completely open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
