Kyle Smith

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

Reasons to be cheerful

Thank you @davidpocock.bsky.social - finally some decisive action from a parliament to deal with our higher education governance problems.

This is why Israel won’t allow international media into #Gaza.

This is Beit Hanoun. It was a thriving city of 67,000 people.

Nothing is left - the result of the Israeli state attempting to exterminate Palestinian society.

The war crime of the 21st century. #Genocide

(🎥 Gaza Notice)

What financial crisis? In 2024, nearly 250 ANU staff earned the same or more than federal politicians. And some only worked part the year! That’s right, the ANU has more people on parliamentary-like salaries than the actual parliament of Australia. d1zkbwgd2iyy9p.cloudfront.net/files/2025-0...

YouTube video by More Perfect Union Why Spotify’s CEO Is Worth Billions While Musicians Make Pennies

Technofeudalism is killing music faster than it’s killing most other aspects of our world and society. This is a good explainer by the brilliant Liz Pelly. #DeleteSpotify

m.youtube.com/watch?v=I8zB...

@albomp.bsky.social says the ‘situation has gone beyond the world’s worst fears’. What, like, just today? Now that doctors are too malnourished to help their severely malnourished patients? You expect people to think you couldn’t see this coming months ago and were simply just too gutless to act?

"If we don't save Gaza we would not have saved our international order. Humanity will be buried in Gaza."

The articulate rage of Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, needs to be heard by every Western leader enabling the genocide & starvation in #Gaza.

(🎥 CH4 News)

I absolutely love elephants! ❤️

I admit that I do not fully grasp what the knowledge of an ongoing genocide demands of me, but I think if I were not bothered by that question—if I batted it away, like a gnat—it could only be because something essential and irreplaceable had absented itself from my soul.

It’s a genocide, possibly the greatest moral catastrophe of our time, and the flippant unwillingness to grapple with it is an egregious failure of intellect in addition to a chilling abdication of honor.

You want to speak to us directly and you lead with ‘AI is already in schools’ 🤦🏻‍♂️

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Director Alon Schwarz on Tantura documentary and Palestinian right of return

I watched Tantura last night. What an incredible and devastating piece of documentary film-making. It provides invaluable insights into what the Israeli state is doing to Palestinians now and the horrors that will haunt us all for decades. #Gaza youtu.be/uUUPc9gE4o8?...

Every “free speech” comedian should use their platform to say that the government nudging corporations to cancel shows is fascistic an actual cancel culture

But sadly you fucks are cowards

'Lack of vision', 'vacuum of ideas', 'disorganisation' accusation against ANU Prominent professor tears into leadership at his own university

“In my 35-year association with the University … I have not seen such a lack of vision, such a vacuum of ideas, such a general disorganisation, nor such cavalier decision-making ...”

Prof Frank Bongiorno

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901516...

An org chart in ANU branding titled "new College structure from 1 Jan 2026". At the top of the chart is "Chat GPT", below are various acronyms evoking recent ANU CMPs, e.g.: "College for Reputational Implosion and Nous Group Enrichment" or "CRINGE" and "School for Wellness Improvement by Learning Less" or "SWILL"

An org chart in ANU branding titled "Australian National University - future organisational chart". The top 8-10 layers are populated with positions titled "Fake jobs". Below them are "academic staff" and "professional staff"

More leaked documents found lying around on campus.

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Turns out cost of higher education probably is a deterrent to accessing it, despite Labor pretending it isn’t.

Insane that under a Labor government an arts degree cost $50K, law $100K.

In the aftermath of Spotify's CEO pouring a billion into military tech, I was thrilled to get to talk to @lizpelly.bsky.social ‬about her great, enraging and ultimately energising book, Mood Machine, about what the tech giants have done to music and how, and what we can all do to loosen their grip

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Australian government not suspending ads or posts on X amid antisemitic Grok chatbot incident Finance department says advertising not paused during or after platform’s ‘MechaHitler’ outburst, as antisemitism envoy praises Musk-owned platform for ‘rooting out hate’

The Australian government didn't pause ads on X during the Grok incident this week and the PM's office dismissed questions on whether he should still be posting there while also launching the plan to combat antisemitism this week. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

As of more than 24 hrs later, still nothing. In fact the most recent print piece on the ABC about Segal is written by a former ECAJ colleague (this is not declared btw).
“Australia’s Special Envoy should be commended for her bold and wholistic plan”(!)

People who are demystified aren’t mystified anymore.

The complete lack of judgement is extraordinary #auspol

Wow, what an extremely uninformed comment to make about anything Musk or X does, even before recent Grok-related developments.

Frankly, Jillian Segal's report is not a serious document and the PM demeaned his office by standing next to her as she delivered it.

Jillian Segal's interview on ABC730 last night revealed her to be utterly unable to provide even basic examples of things she alleges in her report are happening.

Her report is a farrago of distortion and lies. Treat it with the contempt it deserves