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“…we have a choice about who we want to be as a society. For me, that choice is clear. I want to live in a country where people seeking safety are not treated as risks to be managed, but as people to be protected. Because safety should not come with conditions. And belonging should not depend on how we are described.”

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Angus Taylor’s comments remind refugees like me that our belonging is conditional - Thouraya Lahmadi

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@dannagal.bsky.social You’ve been using the same exams for seven years?

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@benhr.bsky.social I’m not descended from gentry

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One day, all this will be yours gestures at box

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@patrickstokes.com He’s the ASU cheerleader of Fabian shitposting.

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@patrickstokes.com To wit: this pony sucks at its trick www.instagram.com/reel/DMT20lB…

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@oysta.au For some reason, I thought you were referring to Shane Warne

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@transportist.org Incredible value. I’m surprised it’s not in Swiss francs

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@transportist.org Their article processing charges are chickenfeed

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Turmoil has engulfed the [update]. The taxation of trade routes to [insert] is in dispute.\nHoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy [update] has stopped all shipping to [insert name].

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Trump has said the US will begin a blockade of the strait of Hormuz

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@canion I’ve found News Explorer surprisingly good, though everyone has an opinion.

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Good morning

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@grogsgamut.bsky.social Not knowing what you’re actually referring to, it’s worth noting that this applies to only a small subset of academics. Most sensibly run a mile.

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World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’ - The Guardian

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In March, research published in the international science journal Nature found that ocean levels had been underestimated due to inaccurate modelling. In some areas of the global south, including south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific, they may be 100cm to 150cm higher than previously thought.

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@anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social 100% this. Their broader social and political curiosity is shrivelled.

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@seamusbyrne.me Prepare to be middlebrowed

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boxd.it/akR1n

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@tylerfromtheinternet.com “Why don’t you like me any more?”

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Sorry, wrong film.

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@canion the witching hour, followed by the zombie day

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Instead of disrupting art, illustration, graphic design, education, journalism, copywriting, marketing, translation, software development, legal services, accounting, voice acting, and music production, why don’t overconfident technology midwits disrupt PRINTERS

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🖨️🏏

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@bakoon.bsky.social Then there really is no ethical consumption under capitalism

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@benhr.bsky.social It’s a good question - I don’t know! Others will have a better idea. This, coupled with cognitive offloading, won’t make for an easy transition into the workforce for young people.

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What will a researcher be? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Epistemological Bomb: benhr.xyz

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Absolutely no thanks to Morrison’s government for sleepwalking Australia into AUKUS. Will probably be remembered as amongst the worst and most consequential decisions of the last decade.

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Universities' $1.8b spend on consultants and contractors shocks experts and politicians - ABC

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@liamhogan.id.au Don’t worry, Kier Starmer is there in AUKUS to keep them in check.

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@oysta.au I’m opposed to this reckless use of our strategic Greek stockpile.

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@ozkitsch.bsky.social

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@chrisomerville.bsky.social It’s an artefact sent back in time from 2026

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@chrisomerville.bsky.social After asking this for four years, you receive a response:

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FAFOing intensifies: A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta

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@janeannehoward.bsky.social Expired: cost per ticket

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Tired: cost per minute

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Wired: ratio of cost per minute to cost per entertained minute

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@janeannehoward.bsky.social As long as there is still an intermission at or before the 90 minute mark so I can bail if necessary.

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@blogdignag.bsky.social This is a strange hill you’ve selected. All the best.

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@tobiasziegler.bsky.social Love a curated zoom background

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My Dinner with Andre: 45 years of deep listening: benhr.xyz

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Jürgen Habermas has died, aged 96.

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Guardian obituary\nJacobin article\nStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry if you’re not familiar with his work

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“The Aroma of Tacoma… is a putrid and unpleasant odor associated with Tacoma, Washington, United States.”

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@chrisoregan.bsky.social Dolphins and Titans. What exotic unknown sport has team names such as these?

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Well this is grim:

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However, the terms demanded extensive sharing of national health intelligence, including epidemiological surveillance data and pathogen samples, while offering no binding guarantees that Zimbabwe would receive equitable access to medical technologies developed from them.

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US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism

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From catching out to helping out: embedding transparent AI collaboration guidelines in assessments: benhr.xyz

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Gotta catch ‘em all, and by all we mean you, and by catch we mean create training data for AI robotic delivery

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Will she read novels? I hope so, because a novel is one of the last technologies that still trains attention as an ethical act. It makes you inhabit another mind without extracting a summary.

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Interesting piece that gazes across the epistemic abyss

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We used to be a country that built things (manufacturing consent for wars more than a day in advance).

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What a lickspittle country.

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The Atlantic, so take it with a mountain of rock salt, but interesting to ponder:

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The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films

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I’m looking forward to degrees in vertical microdrama.

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New preprint: We got 400 postgrad students to use AI in an assessment and critically reflect on it, rather than banning it. Here’s what happened.

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Might be useful as you head into the new teaching year, especially the design principles.

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Unexpected beatboxing on Saturday

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How far back in time can you understand English? A story where each paragraph travels back in time.

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Unless you’ve studied middle English I doubt you (like me) will make it back further than 1200.

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tl;dr: I have a digital twin, you have a digital avatar, he is a deepfake.

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Article on “Can synthetic avatars replace lecturers?“

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