Kyle Smith

4 panel comic Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

the US government has arrived on bluesky

Another great pod on hyperbolic language which also covered the weaponisation of language, institutional hypocrisy, Riyadh comedy festival etc.....

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Let’s start with Benson Boone 🗑️

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

'Cooking the books': national think tank questions ANU finances

Our research was covered by the Canberra Times today.

Read the report: australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-anu...

Read the article: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907948...

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

Classic Blair. He is now proposing himself as the Empire's Regent of Gaza. A war criminal himself, he demands a five year appointment to run the site of Israel's genocide on behalf of Donald Trump in the finest tradition of White Settler Colonial projects www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

4 panel comic Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face. Agent: STOP Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm Agent: BEING Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester Agent: POLITICALLY Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head Agent: VIOLENT

We're sharing GPT-4.5 as a research preview to better understand its strengths and limitations. We're still exploring what it's capable of and are eager to see how people use it in ways we might not have expected.

This is what I would say if I was given a stick and told to market it

ANU campus notice boards continue to inspire 😂

The report is welcome, but its important that we think about first and second order effects

1st order: broken accountability systems, weak transparency mechanmisms

2nd order: VC salaries, low staff and student representation, wage theft

2nd order effects are SYMPTOMS of the 1st order CAUSES

Waleed extremely badly verballing what Kimmel said.

Kimmell did not say the shooter was of “the MAGA gang”.

He said “the MAGA gang are desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Chalier Kirk as anything other than one of them"

Amnesty names companies contributing to apartheid and genocide in Gaza

#apartheid #genocide #occupation #israel #gaza #palestine #complicity #massacres #zionism

N E T U National Tertiary Education Union Cease Work Order in CASS A CASS Health and Safety Representative (HSR) has ordered that unsafe work cease due to psychosocial hazards and psychological injury resulting from Renew ANU NTEU is supporting the HSR and members in CASS. This email contains information on your rights in this situation

BREAKING | ANU staff in the College of Arts and Social Sciences have received a Cease Work Order due to dangerous working conditions. Under the WHS Act staff will be paid while this order is in place. The order seeks to protect lives and wellbeing.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, major UN report finds Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, according to the "most authoritative assessment" to date.

Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

There are so many unforgivable actions of capitulation being taken by the institutions most well-positioned to stand up to Trump’s authoritarianism if they wished to do so.

A must-read from @samtlevin.bsky.social:

There's a word for the kind of society you're in when every single institution demands that you cry in mourning over a guy who repeatedly and explicitly called for your death at the hands of the state and vigilante mobs

ANU vice-chancellor resigns after months of controversy Genevieve Bell has bowed to intense pressure and resigned from her position as Australian National University vice-chancellor.

Bishop needs to go as well. There is no sensible governance arrangement where she gets to lead appointing a new VC. A new Chancellor / Chair and then a deep breath followed by a proper process to appoint a new VC / CEO needed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

"The core problem is a vacuum of accountability. In the university sector, no one is held responsible for failure, at least no one at the top."

@jack-thrower.bsky.social in the Canberra Times

Read:
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906393...

'Not an easy decision': ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell resigns Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned from her position, after months of controversy due to sweeping staff cuts and allegations of poor governance.

Professor Bell’s resignation is the culmination of months of scandal, plummeting staff and student morale, and a governance system that is completely broken.

Let’s not forget that Chancellor Bishop’s leadership has also been fraught, and she too must be held accountable for the crisis at ANU.

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

Can a kitchen sink into depression? Does my car have ADHD?

And most importantly for me:

Will I ever take The Guardian seriously again?

I think the problem is that being a credulous idiot is a prerequisite for a career in journalism in the UK.

'Are you dumb enough to believe the lies produced by our Lie Machine 9000? Welcome to British Journalism where you never have to be right and never admit to being wrong.'

Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.

The @NTEUnion has consistently called for TEQSA to be given more power to regulate governance and university leadership. This is another promising sign that our campaign to fix governance is working.

Wow! Bendigo Writers Festival (15 - 17 Aug) is making guest speakers sign a last-minute agreement to not mention Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Writers who care about human rights are cancelling. Any writer/guest still thinking of appearing should seriously reconsider. Stand up! Refuse to comply