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Marian Hurley

@marianhurley.bsky.social

Lecturer; interested in film, culture, language, HE. Here for the inoffensive cat memes I've been promised.

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Black text on a sepia background: "As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

Black text on a sepia background: "As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

Grateful to the editors of @nplusonemag.com for the clarity and force of this editorial.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

29.09.2025 19:55 — 👍 37    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

06.09.2025 07:24 — 👍 272    🔁 68    💬 19    📌 2
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If you're in Cork on Friday, 23 May and you're interested in what's going on in Higher Education, come along to our symposium at MTU's Bishopstown campus! Enquiries welcome, etc.

06.05.2025 19:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That your newly honed skills may protect you in perpetuity from that severest of afflictions, the terrible dose of man flu.

22.03.2025 00:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

P.S. All reskys of this much-appreciated. I'd love to have these all gone by the end of the day as our house currently has 5,000+ of my backlist in it (you'll know why if you check out my Substack) and we'd like to clear less convoluted routes to our fridge, bed and kitchen sink.

17.03.2025 09:29 — 👍 41    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 1

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