Ruth, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a pilkunnussija! 😉

Haha! I didn’t bother

I have already been offered an AI summary of my whole PhD and I have been informed by AI that it has used my academic publications to add to its learning. So, it seems to me that (in time) this situation is inevitable. It’s not ideal.

Jurgen Habermas has died. We have lost an intellectual giant.

Telling statistics, Claire.

Yep. Same here.

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.

Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-45...

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:

-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS

Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.

Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump.

Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment.

A government of, by, and for the billionaires.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Melbourne/Naarm, save the date: Thursday 11 Dec, 6:15PM at Trades Hall! Join us in welcoming Chief Na'moks and Gwii Lok'im Gibuu of the Wet'Suwet'en and Gitxsan nations, visiting Australia for the first time

Melbourne/Naarm, save the date: Thursday 11 Dec, 6:15PM at Trades Hall!

Join us in welcoming Chief Na'moks and Gwii Lok'im Gibuu of the Wet'Suwet'en and Gitxsan nations, visiting Australia for the first time to Stop Woodside on their ancestral lands.

State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.

#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

I have read this article now and do not see why it needed to be rejected by either the Age or Guardian. She simply expresses her experience and what we see on the news.

Pro-Israel group lobbied La Trobe and Bendigo Writers Festival over Palestinian academic's institution A leaked letter reveals pressure from a pro-Israel group in the lead up to the Festival

www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.

"Following the illegal robot-debt scheme, two of the key architects of the program — found to have designed and implemented it by the royal commission but ignorant of the fact it was unlawful — moved to the NDIA," writes Rick Morton. http://satpa.pe/q0f6JWE

I think the comparisons to Robodebt are apt, Rick. It’s hard to be in France thinking creatively with the sheer volume of crap going on in this Agency. Surely Minister Butler is planning to intervene?

Yep. Filled in their form 12 months ago. A few months back they ‘closed the request’. Not sure why since it was unresolved. 🤷‍♀️ @deakinnteu.bsky.social shouldn’t you be posting about this?

Plus @beneltham.bsky.social Blockchain Hub 🙄

Great work again Rick. Rather than pay casual academics correctly or fairly, universities are dumping them in favour of making tenured academics teach non-stop, then punishing them for not researching, when they have no time anymore to do so.

😵😵😵😵

So it’s all good on the climate front then!

Because women don’t matter!

It’s a cross section of the male pattern baldness population

A throw back from the mid 1970s?

It’s terrible to see this from Columbia. And where will it end?

Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.

It really works.

I’ve worked in the sector for 18 years (casual) while also practising in my field. I am unemployable now in any uni, because they have all moved to remove casuals, rather than pay them fairly. My current university employer has ghosted me after 6 yrs of work. No farewell morning tea for me I guess.

I don’t think regional unis like Charles Sturt are the problem, Claire. Looks look more closely at the VC salaries in the Group of 8, shall we?

It has pockets!