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· Nov 16
This is the working title of my poetic memoir.
I might try to publish it, I might also just release it open access and have a book launch in a circle of milk crates in Punchbowl.
I might try to publish it, I might also just release it open access and have a book launch in a circle of milk crates in Punchbowl.
I overheard students talking about me today and I think I've never been more flattered but simultaneously insulted.
"He looks like Arthur Morgan if he never got to work with horses".
Not my students thankfully.
They'd know I'd not miss the reference.
"He looks like Arthur Morgan if he never got to work with horses".
Not my students thankfully.
They'd know I'd not miss the reference.
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I overheard students talking about me today and I think I've never been more flattered but simultaneously insulted.
"He looks like Arthur Morgan if he never got to work with horses".
Not my students thankfully.
They'd know I'd not miss the reference.
"He looks like Arthur Morgan if he never got to work with horses".
Not my students thankfully.
They'd know I'd not miss the reference.
I turned 39 the other day.
I usually get a bit glum. My cure for that kind of mood is a pretentious urge that I'll defend.
I find a way to feel the better and worse feelings of others - I read poetry.
I go to a bookstore and pick up books at random, open a page until I feel what I read.
I usually get a bit glum. My cure for that kind of mood is a pretentious urge that I'll defend.
I find a way to feel the better and worse feelings of others - I read poetry.
I go to a bookstore and pick up books at random, open a page until I feel what I read.
October 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I turned 39 the other day.
I usually get a bit glum. My cure for that kind of mood is a pretentious urge that I'll defend.
I find a way to feel the better and worse feelings of others - I read poetry.
I go to a bookstore and pick up books at random, open a page until I feel what I read.
I usually get a bit glum. My cure for that kind of mood is a pretentious urge that I'll defend.
I find a way to feel the better and worse feelings of others - I read poetry.
I go to a bookstore and pick up books at random, open a page until I feel what I read.
Allow me to flex right quick?
Since 2021 I have received 100% on student feedback surveys, an unblemished record.
Since 2021 I have received 100% on student feedback surveys, an unblemished record.
September 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Allow me to flex right quick?
Since 2021 I have received 100% on student feedback surveys, an unblemished record.
Since 2021 I have received 100% on student feedback surveys, an unblemished record.
Pete and Bas dropped a Wheatus bar and I'm going to do AI psychosis but for aging cockney drillers.
They're talking to me specifically.
They're talking to me specifically.
September 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Pete and Bas dropped a Wheatus bar and I'm going to do AI psychosis but for aging cockney drillers.
They're talking to me specifically.
They're talking to me specifically.
Does anyone else have deep lore songs?
That one song on that one album that you feel is really underrated and the artist never performs it but it's one of the reasone you listen to them?
I want to hear yours.
That one song on that one album that you feel is really underrated and the artist never performs it but it's one of the reasone you listen to them?
I want to hear yours.
September 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Does anyone else have deep lore songs?
That one song on that one album that you feel is really underrated and the artist never performs it but it's one of the reasone you listen to them?
I want to hear yours.
That one song on that one album that you feel is really underrated and the artist never performs it but it's one of the reasone you listen to them?
I want to hear yours.
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We were very pleased to get the news today that the Australian National Dictionary Centre will be saved, thanks to an anonymous donation and the halt on involuntary redundancies under the Renew ANU plan. We thank everyone for their generous support through these difficult times.
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
We were very pleased to get the news today that the Australian National Dictionary Centre will be saved, thanks to an anonymous donation and the halt on involuntary redundancies under the Renew ANU plan. We thank everyone for their generous support through these difficult times.
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The Black Death ripped through the world to devastating effect. /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta has a surgically precise post on how medieval people tried to fight it, and what effective ways were just beyond their capabilities. #Skystorians #HistMed
What would some actually effective treatments for the Black Death be?
Given what is known about the practical and theoretical knowledge of medicine and related field around mid-14th century, not only in Europe but generally in the world, it can said with quite a high degree of certainty that there were no efficient curative for any internal bacterial or viral infection.
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September 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Black Death ripped through the world to devastating effect. /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta has a surgically precise post on how medieval people tried to fight it, and what effective ways were just beyond their capabilities. #Skystorians #HistMed
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It isn't some great gotcha. They want to exploit and steal while reviling the people who labour for it (cultural product).
September 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It isn't some great gotcha. They want to exploit and steal while reviling the people who labour for it (cultural product).
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It's easily intelligible, but still mildly perturbing, that Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism has said nothing about the National Socialist Network & the March for (White) Australia.
(I don't think this silence is a good way to Advance combating antisemitism, racism or xenophobia.)
(I don't think this silence is a good way to Advance combating antisemitism, racism or xenophobia.)
August 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It's easily intelligible, but still mildly perturbing, that Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism has said nothing about the National Socialist Network & the March for (White) Australia.
(I don't think this silence is a good way to Advance combating antisemitism, racism or xenophobia.)
(I don't think this silence is a good way to Advance combating antisemitism, racism or xenophobia.)
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The wee baby Thomas is participating in the MS read-a-thon. Please donate if you can: www.msreadathon.org.au/fundraisers/...
June 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The wee baby Thomas is participating in the MS read-a-thon. Please donate if you can: www.msreadathon.org.au/fundraisers/...
Just a reminder: before, during, and after the height of the pandemic numerous health authorities told decision-makers in government both publicly and privacy that the policing response actively harmed the public health response.
The desires of the police were almost universally prioritised.
The desires of the police were almost universally prioritised.
That racist policing and scapegoating caused real and lingering harm.
That harm was both forseeable and avoidable.
And the resentments it caused have not and will not just go away just because a lot of people's primary memory of 2020-22 was of sourdough.
That harm was both forseeable and avoidable.
And the resentments it caused have not and will not just go away just because a lot of people's primary memory of 2020-22 was of sourdough.
August 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Just a reminder: before, during, and after the height of the pandemic numerous health authorities told decision-makers in government both publicly and privacy that the policing response actively harmed the public health response.
The desires of the police were almost universally prioritised.
The desires of the police were almost universally prioritised.
Anyone else remember this campaign from 2021?
August 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Anyone else remember this campaign from 2021?
I'm curious about the dynamic at play when people unironically adopt a similar approach to genAI as Nancy Reagan to drugs.
Do they think that the campaign in question worked?
Do they think that the campaign in question worked?
August 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I'm curious about the dynamic at play when people unironically adopt a similar approach to genAI as Nancy Reagan to drugs.
Do they think that the campaign in question worked?
Do they think that the campaign in question worked?
The boys fight incessantly. My efforts to break them up are often met with indignant insistence that they both find it fun.
The latest development to the living room arena situation is O (7yo) making rhyming songs to accompany his gladiatorial exertions.
The latest development to the living room arena situation is O (7yo) making rhyming songs to accompany his gladiatorial exertions.
August 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The boys fight incessantly. My efforts to break them up are often met with indignant insistence that they both find it fun.
The latest development to the living room arena situation is O (7yo) making rhyming songs to accompany his gladiatorial exertions.
The latest development to the living room arena situation is O (7yo) making rhyming songs to accompany his gladiatorial exertions.
The context of this post was when I got doxed by some fascist and got a bunch of death threats, to which I usually responded with my location tag.
We were all young once.
We were all young once.
August 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The context of this post was when I got doxed by some fascist and got a bunch of death threats, to which I usually responded with my location tag.
We were all young once.
We were all young once.
Anyone want to take bets with me about what the recommendation of this envoy will be?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/08/i...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/08/i...
Inside the Islamophobia envoy's private briefings to parliament
The special envoy to combat Islamophobia has held private briefings for federal MPs in Canberra ahead of his imminent report. The meetings left some attendees confused, others upset.
www.crikey.com.au
August 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Anyone want to take bets with me about what the recommendation of this envoy will be?
www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/08/i...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/08/i...
I gave up policing both AI use and attendance in my gen ed course and I'm never looking back.
The depth and creativity of the assessments this term honestly moved me. One group made an absurdist film, another performed a play, another filmed 10 minutes of intense debate about AI. It fkn ruled.
The depth and creativity of the assessments this term honestly moved me. One group made an absurdist film, another performed a play, another filmed 10 minutes of intense debate about AI. It fkn ruled.
August 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I gave up policing both AI use and attendance in my gen ed course and I'm never looking back.
The depth and creativity of the assessments this term honestly moved me. One group made an absurdist film, another performed a play, another filmed 10 minutes of intense debate about AI. It fkn ruled.
The depth and creativity of the assessments this term honestly moved me. One group made an absurdist film, another performed a play, another filmed 10 minutes of intense debate about AI. It fkn ruled.
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question it replies with an extended tangent before making a bitter comment about the neoliberal academy while filling its pockets from the catering table with pastries wrapped in napkins.
every time you ask chatGPT-5 something it rants about this comment from reviewer 2 that it's still pissed about from 3 years ago
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question it brings the topic back around to the portrayal of birds in early 20th-century literature and then realizes it’s late to teach a class.
August 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question it replies with an extended tangent before making a bitter comment about the neoliberal academy while filling its pockets from the catering table with pastries wrapped in napkins.
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Every time you ask ChatGPT a question it brings the topic back around to the portrayal of birds in early 20th-century literature and then realizes it’s late to teach a class.
August 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question it brings the topic back around to the portrayal of birds in early 20th-century literature and then realizes it’s late to teach a class.
The first great successes of AI are fortunes made from grift.
Then fortunes made through short term wins - layoffs that look great for quarterly reporting but bite hard long term.
Then will come the backlash, the realisation that all that was promised was never to be delivered.
Then fortunes made through short term wins - layoffs that look great for quarterly reporting but bite hard long term.
Then will come the backlash, the realisation that all that was promised was never to be delivered.
August 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The first great successes of AI are fortunes made from grift.
Then fortunes made through short term wins - layoffs that look great for quarterly reporting but bite hard long term.
Then will come the backlash, the realisation that all that was promised was never to be delivered.
Then fortunes made through short term wins - layoffs that look great for quarterly reporting but bite hard long term.
Then will come the backlash, the realisation that all that was promised was never to be delivered.
Invigilated high stakes exams might make it harder for students to get genAI to write their essays, but it makes it easier for them to be marked by genAI.
Invigilation is not a specialist skill, and exams were already a way that academics made their courses more efficient (no feedback).
Invigilation is not a specialist skill, and exams were already a way that academics made their courses more efficient (no feedback).
They're the equivalent of treating a snakebite to the toe by severing an artery in your thigh.
Sure it fucking sucks to read a bunch of essays written by AI slop but the "cure" here is worse than the disease.
Sure it fucking sucks to read a bunch of essays written by AI slop but the "cure" here is worse than the disease.
August 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Invigilated high stakes exams might make it harder for students to get genAI to write their essays, but it makes it easier for them to be marked by genAI.
Invigilation is not a specialist skill, and exams were already a way that academics made their courses more efficient (no feedback).
Invigilation is not a specialist skill, and exams were already a way that academics made their courses more efficient (no feedback).
AI isn't a threat to historians because it can do our job (it can't) its danger comes from the harm it does to our institutions' primary way of making money: the certification of degrees.
This is not in the abstract - "the value of a degree goes down" - it is first in the cost of invigilation.
This is not in the abstract - "the value of a degree goes down" - it is first in the cost of invigilation.
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
AI isn't a threat to historians because it can do our job (it can't) its danger comes from the harm it does to our institutions' primary way of making money: the certification of degrees.
This is not in the abstract - "the value of a degree goes down" - it is first in the cost of invigilation.
This is not in the abstract - "the value of a degree goes down" - it is first in the cost of invigilation.
The conversations you have with your students about generative AI can be productive if they push beyond prohibition and towards a reflection on process.
To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.
You might find it useful.
To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.
You might find it useful.
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The conversations you have with your students about generative AI can be productive if they push beyond prohibition and towards a reflection on process.
To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.
You might find it useful.
To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.
You might find it useful.