Kyle Smith
@lylesnith.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher, sessional academic, sociology of language assessment. Writings: https://pedagogablog.com. Music: https://distantfingers.bandcamp.com and https://therestlessstranger.bandcamp.com He/him. On Turrbal and Yugara land. Anti-genocide.
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HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
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Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
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Percentage of *social housing* in 🇦🇺Australia is 4.1%. Down from 4.7% in 2013.
How do we rank against other western democracies?
🔹Austria - 24%
🔹Netherlands 30%
🔹Denmark 20%
🔹United Kingdom 17%
🇫🇷 25% of all residences in Paris are public housing. #auspol
How do we rank against other western democracies?
🔹Austria - 24%
🔹Netherlands 30%
🔹Denmark 20%
🔹United Kingdom 17%
🇫🇷 25% of all residences in Paris are public housing. #auspol
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Percentage of *social housing* in 🇦🇺Australia is 4.1%. Down from 4.7% in 2013.
How do we rank against other western democracies?
🔹Austria - 24%
🔹Netherlands 30%
🔹Denmark 20%
🔹United Kingdom 17%
🇫🇷 25% of all residences in Paris are public housing. #auspol
How do we rank against other western democracies?
🔹Austria - 24%
🔹Netherlands 30%
🔹Denmark 20%
🔹United Kingdom 17%
🇫🇷 25% of all residences in Paris are public housing. #auspol
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Three progressive organizations have launched the “Spotify Unwrapped” campaign in response to the music streamer running ICE recruitment adson its platform, its alleged promotion of AI generated music, and CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in an AI military defense company.
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Three progressive organizations have launched the “Spotify Unwrapped” campaign in response to the music streamer running ICE recruitment adson its platform, its alleged promotion of AI generated music, and CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in an AI military defense company.
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The 200 worst companies for the globa; climate
The Fossil Fuel Expansion Index - Market Forces
How Australian superannuation funds are propping up the world’s most unforgivable climate polluters
www.marketforces.org.au
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The 200 worst companies for the globa; climate
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Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
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In exchange Atlas will make sure that their CEOs get a decent bonuses and the infrastructure will fail only in 6 months.
So it's this or war, suffering, and misery. You decide.
So it's this or war, suffering, and misery. You decide.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In exchange Atlas will make sure that their CEOs get a decent bonuses and the infrastructure will fail only in 6 months.
So it's this or war, suffering, and misery. You decide.
So it's this or war, suffering, and misery. You decide.
Another reason to intensely dislike OpenAi.
In case you're wondering why you should care about the RAM hoarding by OpenAI causing all prices to spike to the moon, most consumer electronics contain memory, and prices are likely to go up very soon. If the AI bubble doesn't burst, analysts are saying that this won't be resolved until 2027-2028.
Global Memory Crunch Could Drive Up the Price of Your Next Phone by $70
It's not just PCs. IDC warns that the average selling prices for phones, especially lower-end and midrange devices, are expected to jump this quarter and into 2026.
www.pcmag.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Another reason to intensely dislike OpenAi.
Albanese could listen to Crazy Frog 24/7 for all I care. I want him to do some good governing for a change.
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Albanese could listen to Crazy Frog 24/7 for all I care. I want him to do some good governing for a change.
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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A giant. One of the greats. Rest In Peace, Steve Cropper. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A giant. One of the greats. Rest In Peace, Steve Cropper. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
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Labor wants to ban whistleblowers from anonymous FOI requests, charge you to access your own information, and massively expand what they can hide from you.
Only a government addicted to secrecy looks at FOI & thinks "the problem here is that the public gets too much information"
Only a government addicted to secrecy looks at FOI & thinks "the problem here is that the public gets too much information"
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Labor wants to ban whistleblowers from anonymous FOI requests, charge you to access your own information, and massively expand what they can hide from you.
Only a government addicted to secrecy looks at FOI & thinks "the problem here is that the public gets too much information"
Only a government addicted to secrecy looks at FOI & thinks "the problem here is that the public gets too much information"
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
I didn’t think the ‘fog of war’ referred to actual fog…?
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I didn’t think the ‘fog of war’ referred to actual fog…?
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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we have 💔 but because the universities have bent the knee to AI (my school even made their own branded OpenAI), we’re expected to do the same. we’re not even allowed to have no Gen AI policies in our writing classes anymore
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have 💔 but because the universities have bent the knee to AI (my school even made their own branded OpenAI), we’re expected to do the same. we’re not even allowed to have no Gen AI policies in our writing classes anymore
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lol X is a hellhole but sometime still amusing
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
lol X is a hellhole but sometime still amusing
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Former #ANU Vice-Chancellor, Genevieve Bell, will receive remuneration of more than half a million a year for the next five years - despite taking 12 months off.
For context, that's more than ANU hoped to 'save' annually by disestablishing the School of Music. 🫠 @nteunion.bsky.social
For context, that's more than ANU hoped to 'save' annually by disestablishing the School of Music. 🫠 @nteunion.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Former #ANU Vice-Chancellor, Genevieve Bell, will receive remuneration of more than half a million a year for the next five years - despite taking 12 months off.
For context, that's more than ANU hoped to 'save' annually by disestablishing the School of Music. 🫠 @nteunion.bsky.social
For context, that's more than ANU hoped to 'save' annually by disestablishing the School of Music. 🫠 @nteunion.bsky.social
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Fascinating by the idea of someone who had never consumed anything made by Tim Robinson randomly deciding to watch THE CHAIR COMPANY thinking it’s like, a normal HBO crime show
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Fascinating by the idea of someone who had never consumed anything made by Tim Robinson randomly deciding to watch THE CHAIR COMPANY thinking it’s like, a normal HBO crime show
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there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize
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Another Labor obscenity.
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Another Labor obscenity.
Again, *please* can people stop being stupid about AI.
Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Again, *please* can people stop being stupid about AI.