Evelyn Araluen: "It is devastating to see that despite the cultural, emotional and intellectual labour given to UQP through its First Nations storytellers, our work can be erased on a political whim." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
Melissa Lucashenko [who has been working with the publishing house for 30 years] : “It is not only silencing an Indigenous author [Jazz Money], it’s caving in to the Murdoch press...” “And it makes me want to put an ancestral curse on the lot of them.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
My words on the decision by UQP to pulp a book by Jazz Money in @artshub.bsky.social
Solidarity.
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This is Evelyn Araluen (UQP’s most successful recent author) not fucking around,
Via Lamestream:
UQ pulping an Aboriginal writer's book is the new Adelaide Writers Week is the new Bendigo literature festival. Corporations/governments caving into lobbyists' racist harrassment always backfires. Hold on to your hats - UQP authors & poets won't be staying quiet
I can not get past an actual university publishing house, one where so many Blak writers are loved and respected by countless readers and a dedicated literary community, is pulping 5000 books, childrens books, a river story, by an Aboriginal poet. My throat constricts when thinking about this.
I love that they say things like 'people will be moved to services outside NDIS' as though there are actually services there for those people to access.
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If your ostensibly critical paper talks about "recent advances in AI" I have a hard time taking it seriously. Advances towards what? Measured how?
I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.
"The rise of generative artificial intelligence presents a wonderful opportunity for the people who have all the money to pay human beings to do work. If you are worried about women falling behind in the workforce, hire them to do jobs." 👆👆👆
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."
Here are the hard numbers:
More to come, but I just did a data analysis for someone who left substack for beehiiv some time ago and WOW, if your only motivation is money? Forget nazis, terfs, and pedos, just care about cash? You should get tf off substack now!
what if we think of LLMs as computational equivalents of plastic, especially since my CS colleagues tell me nearly? and/or all? LLMs have to be corporate owned bc of their vast scale & expense. “Plastics are economically viable only at industrial scale...because the initial molds are expensive" #ai
I haven't seen good estimates of the energy consumption of agents yet but just using Claude for code can be pretty massive
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#TakeBackTech but not tech like AI, what we need is an alternative technopolitics and the collective development of convivial tools for the common good
Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”
🛎️🛎️🛎️
when i say "destroy AI" i also mean the mindset that produced this
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
it always surprises me when people react really viscerally to the idea of destroying systems and institutions that either no longer serve us (and can't be reformed), or never existed to serve humanity in general. putting the destruction of a system on the table shouldn't be a radical position
“From the liver to the brie,” one sign read.
“Globalise the insalata,” read another.
“Well played,” said one police officer.
Well played indeed Queenslanders.
I’m about to go rip out thousands of lbs of asphalt with 100 friends and then make a fucking nature play area for kids out of the new land
Sounds like the functional effect of this change is to cause NDIS support to be completely governed by the most cost-conscious government auditors available, and to cut actually relevant expert evidence out of the loop
I recall the Disability Community fighting hard to prevent assessments being used by untrained staff back in 2022. We will have to fight again harder this time , both disabled people and their families.
#RoboNDIS
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!!
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
GenAI has no place in education. GenAI is, in fact, the antithesis of education.
Not to mention, access to these technologies come with potential for addiction, psychological harm, and pure deskilling of the next generation.
The only reason to put them in schools is to make money for AI companies.
🟢 The energy shock is now going global This is the part many people still underestimate. Economist Steve Hanke warned the conflict has restricted the free flow of critical goods from the Gulf — including helium and fertiliser. Energy analyst Ketan Joshi suggested fuel rationing and work-from-home rules could become enforced measures as governments urgently try to reduce reliance on complex global fossil fuel supply chains. Multiple countries showed signs of the spreading impact: Sri Lanka ordered street lights, neon signs and billboard lighting switched off to cut energy consumption by 25%.
It is very fun to get google alert hits for my own name now that reveal completely fabricated statements / quotes thanks to reliance on chatbots. Absolutely wild how the choking pollution of our information environment is being powered by literal choking pollution from fossil fuelled data centres
Cancel Reply Forbidden Jay Bluesky is made with Al, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code Can you ask them to stop?
Asking the forbidden question