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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

GenAI as a consumer product is an agreement machine, the very opposite of learning and critical thinking (Tokuda-Hall)
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This week's #SundayShot goes global with Shot favourite @ketanjoshi.co beaming in from Oslo, joined by Dark Money expert @lucyham.bsky.social, with an update on all things EPBC Act from @ausconservation.bsky.social's Brendan Sydes.

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YouTube video by The Sunday Shot The Sunday Shot - November 2, 2025

The #Networks and #Tactics being employed by #NeoLiberalism (like the #AtlasNetwork) make it hard to tell if some tactics are about deeply held ideology or just maintaining money and power, says @lucyham.bsky.social on #TheSundayShot.

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Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal Even as clean energy progress slows in the US and EU, developing nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are surging ahead.

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Our study followed Indigenous children for 15 years to understand what helps them thrive A new report follows the lives of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the largest study of its kind.

‘Footprints in Time’ report. The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children.
“Our study followed Indigenous children for 15 years to understand what helps them thrive”

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Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads : Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt

Helpful to be forewarned. As always, avoiding any Meta products

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Findings from a pilot Anthropic–OpenAI alignment evaluation exercise: OpenAI Safety Tests OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a first-of-its-kind joint safety evaluation, testing each other’s models for misalignment, instruction following, hallucinations, jailbreaking, and more—highli...

Is it good news that the best OpenAI and Anthtopic can do is a 70% refusal rate on hallucinations? That means 30% still getting through! openai.com/index/openai...

Reddit Overtakes Google in AI Search: Here’s Why It Matters Reddit became the number one source for AI-generated search results in June 2025. According to Statista, 40.1% of all citations used by large language models (L

We’re missing the main take away from this data! Reddit is becoming the main reference for information searches!! And Wikipedia unsurprisingly remains a key source of information. Not sure what AI searches are actually helping us to do? www.analyticsinsight.net/news/reddit-...

AI Makes Us Worse Thinkers Than We Realize New research on more than 600,000 students reveals why the "impractical" philosophy major produces the best thinkers and what we lose when AI does our thinking for us.

“Students using AI for analysis miss the cognitive development that comes from wrestling with uncertainty”
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Here's the line-up for this week's #SundayShot. Please watch us! (& also like, subscribe and give us money)

It's going to be a great conversation. @wendybacon1.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social, @arielbogle.bsky.social, @davemilbo.bsky.social.
Iran. Sovereign Citizens. Not the Midwinter Ball.

Labor’s new bill would cut HELP loans by 20%. But it also risks locking some graduates into a ‘debt treadmill’ The debt changes will deliver major benefits to recent graduates, but much less to current students and nothing to future students.

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Cutting debt and paid internships: key reforms in the Australian universities blueprint The highly anticipated report has made 47 recommendations, addressing disadvantage and cost of living

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Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

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In a week in which the decision in the Australian Climate case was handed down, the #SundayShot is joined by Grata Fund's Isabelle Reinecke and @roycerk2.bsky.social to discuss the desperately disappointing result.

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I Can’t Sleep. Now What? It’s the middle of the night — and you’re wide awake. We asked sleep experts for tips to help you get some rest.

I Can’t Sleep. Now What? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We're about to go live with the #SundayShot! Join us on YouTube rather than hanging with the News Corp crew on #Insiders.

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Can they put Humpty together again? - May 25 - Frank Bongiorno, Judith Brett and Julianne Schultz YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

The #SundayShot is up! Get the historical context on this week's Coalition chaos with our expert panel.

I KNOW they're not the Government but it's fascinating and useful to understand this background of the alliance and the implications of its potential demise.

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Merle’s-Ponty and Dreyfus on the phenomenology of perception

Please join us this morning at 9am for #SundayShot

This will be me behind the scenes 😇😇 #auspol

A MS teacher requested an immersive experience of the industrial revolution. So I created this simple prototype coal mine experience for our students using Blender, Unity & Engage VR. >> cramped conditions, collapses, fire, poor light, danger & an AI guide at the end. #VRcademicSky

Middle School students and I have been working on iterative #WorldBuilding #ExperienceDesign & #Storytelling to create "Elevation Social" in the Engage VR platform using Unity. Collaborate with your team to navigate the treacherous 3D maze to locate the alchemy lab, dungeon & throne. #VRcademicSky

Thank you for your expose’ of these heinous neoliberal think tanks and media organisations set up by elites to extend their power and influence @lucyham.bsky.social !

YouTube video by CCCB Timothy Snyder. The habit of freedom | CCCB

On the occasion of the publication of his latest book "On Freedom" ("Sobre la Libertad", Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024), historian Timothy Snyder analyses the evolution of threats to individual and collective freedom in a situation marked by the rise of authoritarianisms. youtu.be/CXZbdQpVSAk?...

Lewis, J. 2016. [Representation of Barad's Agential Realism. Permission to reproduce has been obtained from the author].

Why #AgentialRealism matters to social work
September 2020British Journal of Social Work
DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcaa106/5900789

#phenomenology

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Jennifer Moon | I 💜 Karen Barad (2020) | Artsy From Venice Art Walk Benefit Auction, Jennifer Moon, I 💜 Karen Barad (2020), Inkjet print, 11 × 18 in

#AgentialRealism #phenomenology #KarenBarad

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YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

Wow! So many powerful truths in one talk. Thank you @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from world’s driest areas >> “Neither people nor data can live without water,” said Gómez. “But human life is essential and data isn’t.”

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YouTube video by The Sunday Shot Policy, Parity, Parties - April 6

Thanks to everyone who watched the #SundayShot! For those who missed it, it's a cracker conversation with some serious heavyweights (even if I did accidentally call @angelapriestley.bsky.social Miranda from The Devil Wears Prada.

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Once again, a wonderfully well informed episode. These are the conversations we need to be having!! Thank you @instanterudite.bsky.social @angelapriestley.bsky.social @polipedia.bsky.social

Front cover of John Warner's book, "more than words: How to think about writing in the age of AI"

"We are people. Large language models will always be machines.
To declare the machines superior means believing that what makes humans human is inherently inferior."
*More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI* by John Warner
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