Robbie Moore

You only kill journalists when you want to hide what you're doing.

What happened to the v21 site, btw? It keeps going offline, and I miss it

FORTUNE Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: 'If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts'

just imagine... a whole town of mozarts!! hundreds of mozarts to spare even if an entire shift were to perish in the mine

The francophone Seinfeld adaptation we all deserve

i’m trying to write a note in my syllabus that simultaneously addresses and de-centers AI. wish me luck.

Yep agree, would love to hear it raw or live, but the way they weave lines together is still joyous

YouTube video by Big Thief Big Thief - Los Angeles (Official Lyric Video)

How are they so good at this youtu.be/GOeELtc6fqg?...

[me, screaming at students filing out of the room after I've just revealed our "American Literature Survey" class meets on a doomed whaling vessel]

FINANCIAL TIMES Opinion FT Alphaville “The ludicrous Spotify nationalisation proposal” Streaming socialism has a reality problem.

Ok but hear me out

"I could have been Shakespeare, but then I Inherited some money and read a couple of books so now I'm an Arctic explorer, except I'm bad at it and I'm going to get everyone killed" is the 1790s equivalent of the failson crypto entrepreneur

alternatively,

Uncanny

The conversations you have with your students about generative AI can be productive if they push beyond prohibition and towards a reflection on process.

To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.

You might find it useful.

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of uni...

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: "These proposed measures have nothing to do with combating antisemitism, and everything to do with limiting and censoring criticism of Israel and stifling freedom of speech on Palestine."

Provocateur’s progress While Naomi Mitchison was sitting, with her four children, for the artist and writer Wyndham Lewis, she saw that he kept a flipped pudding bowl on permanent display in his studio. Inside the bowl, Lew...

The @thetls.bsky.social let me eviscerate Wyndham Lewis 🖤🔥🔥🖤

My Heart at Evening | Konrad Muller

The launch of a new Tasmanian publisher (Evercreech Editions) and a new Tasmanian novel (My Heart at Evening, by Konrad Muller), on August 7 at Fullers. Launched by Geordie Williamson, Adam Ouston and Richard Flanagan. www.fullersbookshop.com.au/event/my-hea...

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...

Repeal the “inequitable, “pernicious,” and “perverse" Jobs Ready Graduate Policy! openpetition.org/!repealjrg

At home, daughter is sick, watching lots of movies. Not really a Pixar/Randy Newman guy, but Luca (2021) feels like the pick of the bunch

YouTube video by Connie Francis - Topic My Happiness

TUNE youtu.be/evv62FOSDHU?...

I mean I don’t know if you like them, but The Apartments, Tangled Shoelaces, The Particles, The Cat’s Miaow?

Playlist goes off like a frog in a sock

Hülkster Dü

Buff dog vs wimpy dog meme. Buff dog is labelled "arrest the war criminal and sanction his regime". Wimpy dog is labelled "respect the rules, traditions and customs of the senate".

Ways to respect the law

The "we're sensible" routine is pure centrist street theatre

Guardian headline yesterday: Australian politics Mehreen Faruqi sanctioned for Gaza sign protest as Greens senator accused of 'street theatre'

The message, as always: grow up, calm down, let the sensible people take charge. There’s horror and calamity everywhere but the sensible people know what to do.

The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington

“It doesn’t make mistakes.” Snake oil and false prophets aplenty in this regrettable century. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I quite like Dreiser

Can’t move, send help