DJ Huppatz
@djhuppatz.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Follower. He/him.
Literature, design, music, architecture, art, history, philosophy, and politics, in any combination or order.
Literature, design, music, architecture, art, history, philosophy, and politics, in any combination or order.
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DJ Huppatz
@djhuppatz.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Wellness – 3:AM Magazine
Here in Norwich the Plague has passed yet Grace says many are still unwell. This may be due to their children. They name them William and Richard and Alice and Agnes. Grace tells me the parents say to...
www.3ammagazine.com
So happy this story is out: 'Wellness' in 3AM magazine: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/wellness/
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Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...
Built for Inequity
How Australia’s quiet architecture of policy and profit sustains disadvantage
www.thespencerstreetend.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...
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BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable.
Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
FOI documents reveal lead-up to failed Bendigo Writers Festival
A founding director of the widely boycotted Bendigo Writers Festival says major sponsor La Trobe University pressured organisers into sending a controversial code of conduct.
www.abc.net.au
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable.
Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Xltn conversation btw @hawthorne.bsky.social + Aaron Cayer abt Cayer's 📘 on AECOM, a huge, faceless, ethically ?-able conglomerate that designs electrical grids, military bases, highways, airports; they discuss why it's imptnt to study such work + methods for doing so amidst gov't + corp secrecy
The architectural-imperial complex
A conversation with Aaron Cayer about how AECOM rose from humble SoCal roots to become a powerful, secretive player in global politics
www.punchlistmag.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Xltn conversation btw @hawthorne.bsky.social + Aaron Cayer abt Cayer's 📘 on AECOM, a huge, faceless, ethically ?-able conglomerate that designs electrical grids, military bases, highways, airports; they discuss why it's imptnt to study such work + methods for doing so amidst gov't + corp secrecy
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Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Oh look, there are renderings. The Versailles jokes make themselves. Also, this architecture firm should be laughed out of existence.
When i wrote "moon" in my poem i obviously meant the small one. Yeah the fresh, new one, not Shelley's or Dickinson's old 19th century moon.
October 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
When i wrote "moon" in my poem i obviously meant the small one. Yeah the fresh, new one, not Shelley's or Dickinson's old 19th century moon.
Which one did they land on?
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Which one did they land on?
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@versobooks.bsky.social's series "Harvey at 90" continues with recently posted pieces by Trevor J. Barnes, Helga Leitner and Richard A. Walker.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...
www.versobooks.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
@versobooks.bsky.social's series "Harvey at 90" continues with recently posted pieces by Trevor J. Barnes, Helga Leitner and Richard A. Walker.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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Great analysis by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social here who cuts through all the — sorry — bullshit and gets to the inevitable point of the absolute triumph of marketing over design. We start from here (if we even care anymore). Must read
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Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
on.ft.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Great analysis by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social here who cuts through all the — sorry — bullshit and gets to the inevitable point of the absolute triumph of marketing over design. We start from here (if we even care anymore). Must read
on.ft.com/46M9mXI
on.ft.com/46M9mXI
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October 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Birthday Steve Reich Happy
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Thanks so much @exactingclam.bsky.social. Finally, the true story about the creator of Bitcoin is out in the world!
September 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Thanks so much @exactingclam.bsky.social. Finally, the true story about the creator of Bitcoin is out in the world!
Seconded. This book is essential reading.
This book Addiction by Design on @princetonupress.bsky.social is one of the most important books on how the world works now
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Addiction by Design
An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tactics
press.princeton.edu
September 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Seconded. This book is essential reading.
Sad to hear Meanjin is closing. Here's two poems of mine they published from 2004. Tho the ref was The Gulf War, I feel like they still resonate 20 years later
meanjin.com.au/poetry/land-...
meanjin.com.au/poetry/land-...
Land of Free; Golf Wear
LAND OF FREE Welcome you to land of free! this is the land of most free. We created this poem from it. It’s fine, we think. It will give aid to your self-imagining principle. Just what you hoped fo…
meanjin.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Sad to hear Meanjin is closing. Here's two poems of mine they published from 2004. Tho the ref was The Gulf War, I feel like they still resonate 20 years later
meanjin.com.au/poetry/land-...
meanjin.com.au/poetry/land-...
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Contributor Features from ballast 3.3:
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September 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Contributor Features from ballast 3.3:
Here’s D.J. Huppatz with “Build a Network” @djhuppatz.bsky.social
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#poetry
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Here’s D.J. Huppatz with “Build a Network” @djhuppatz.bsky.social
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#contributorfeature
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On a packed train thinking it's Uber for the masses
August 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
On a packed train thinking it's Uber for the masses
AI, a tool of American authoritarianism.
August 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
AI, a tool of American authoritarianism.
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"Technologies aren’t a rising tide that lifts all boats, unless we very specifically design them that way. With computing, they have not been designed that way"
This @histoftech.bsky.social interview is so good
www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...
This @histoftech.bsky.social interview is so good
www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...
Historian Mar Hicks on why nothing about AI is inevitable
The author of Programmed Inquality peers through the AI hype by recalling the rise of past technologies.
www.fastcompany.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"Technologies aren’t a rising tide that lifts all boats, unless we very specifically design them that way. With computing, they have not been designed that way"
This @histoftech.bsky.social interview is so good
www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...
This @histoftech.bsky.social interview is so good
www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...
theconversation.com/universities...
"...academics and students remained outside, protesting in the rain against staff cuts and governance issues facing the sector."
"...academics and students remained outside, protesting in the rain against staff cuts and governance issues facing the sector."
Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
theconversation.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
theconversation.com/universities...
"...academics and students remained outside, protesting in the rain against staff cuts and governance issues facing the sector."
"...academics and students remained outside, protesting in the rain against staff cuts and governance issues facing the sector."
So happy this story is out: 'Wellness' in 3AM magazine: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/wellness/
Wellness – 3:AM Magazine
Here in Norwich the Plague has passed yet Grace says many are still unwell. This may be due to their children. They name them William and Richard and Alice and Agnes. Grace tells me the parents say to...
www.3ammagazine.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
So happy this story is out: 'Wellness' in 3AM magazine: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/wellness/
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Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.
August 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.
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HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact
Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…
ketanjoshi.co
August 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Worth reading but
maddening and saddening.
maddening and saddening.
Well, if you were wondering exactly which parts of history the Trump regime is going to purge from the Smithsonian museums, they've helpfully listed it out. It's exactly as fascistic as you've feared.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian
The National Museum of African American History and Culture debuted a series to educate people on “a society that privileges white people and whiteness” —
www.whitehouse.gov
August 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Worth reading but
maddening and saddening.
maddening and saddening.
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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"Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD…This has resulted in an endless chase for dollars (international students & “the next big thing”) rather than thinking about what an educated Australia should look like” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Universities such as mine are making poor decisions, and we’re not allowed to know why
UTS has announced a “pause” on enrolments in 100 courses. Vacating these critically important areas diminishes not only the brand of UTS but the state it was designed to benefit.
www.smh.com.au
August 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD…This has resulted in an endless chase for dollars (international students & “the next big thing”) rather than thinking about what an educated Australia should look like” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...