Stephanie Russo

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

Students using AI is definitely the thing that is going to break me. Not even failing grades work as a deterrent.

In her case, she seems to be stuck in a deeply strange arrested development

Somehow I can't relate to being either a billionaire or being perpetually 16

I honestly cannot stand her music. I don't get it at all and her lyrics are cringe as hell

I never usually comment about Taylor but I have to say, Charli's song was about complex professional jealousy and ambivalence (and not personal at all), and to respond to that with "you must be gay for me and also you do cocaine" would be cringe for a 12-year-old.

Oooh, happy birthday to her and how clever of her to be born on Mean Girls day!

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

I don't know, if you're going to describe yourself as an "English teacher" (lol), I'd expect you to have some reading comprehension skills

Precisely

Actors are hot therefore AI is fine.

JFC I feel dumber for reading this

It's October 3rd

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model.

"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

The proliferation of online disinformation targeted at women, which falsely claims that the most effective forms of woman-controlled contraception are dangerous, is an underrated part of the right’s weaponization of epistemic collapse.

43. In support of their application, the renters have cited a number of supposed authorities. In reality none of the cases referenced actually exist. When questioned about these, the renters advised the authorities were copied from the Al summary that resulted from a simple Google search.

A new variant in the "AI makes false case citations" emerges jade.io/article/1156...

The president of the United States openly bragging about turning the army on to its own citizens to violently quell dissent and centrist men still calling for "civil debate"

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Headline from October 2024: Kamala’s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you

Headline from September 2025: Trump says he’s sending troops to Portland

One for the “who could have seen this coming “ crowd

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

Hon Jason Clare MP Parliamentarian

Finally, if you work, study or care about the university sector, write to the Minister Jason Clare, write to chair of the Inquiry Senator Marielle Smith and urge them to act.

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Universities in crisis

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In this week's DS episode @jennaprice.bsky.social, Sinclair Davidson, Mark and I discuss the governance crisis in the Australian University sector.

It is telling when folk from across the political spectrum agree on the problem and most of the solution

A thread🧵

Shocking yet unsurprising conduct by Uni execs

Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.

University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Very normal behaviour!!

I'm sure the correct approach is to be all very civil and unconcerned about it, though. The marketplace of ideas!!

Every point is exactly what's happening in the US, that seems fine!!

The Toast shutting really was the end of everything.

Creative sector made up 2.5% of Australia's GDP in 2023/24, delivering $67bn to economy

Let’s give it all away to AI scrapers!