Alison Young
@scotinoz.bsky.social
Art, architecture, cities, Japan, whippets, cats, literature, film. And food.
Academic at Melbourne University.
Deputy Director, Melbourne Centre for Cities.
Views are my own.
Academic at Melbourne University.
Deputy Director, Melbourne Centre for Cities.
Views are my own.
My current office, in one of the spaces for visiting fellows at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My current office, in one of the spaces for visiting fellows at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
So terrifying that this not made up.
"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies
So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So terrifying that this not made up.
The cafe/bar of my one of my favourite public libraries in the world, the Biblioteca Delle Oblate in Firenze.
September 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The cafe/bar of my one of my favourite public libraries in the world, the Biblioteca Delle Oblate in Firenze.
Waiting for the storm, Firenze (on a day of a national general strike).
September 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Waiting for the storm, Firenze (on a day of a national general strike).
I love me a nice library
September 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I love me a nice library
In Oxford, far right nationalists on one side of the road, and anti-racism protesters on the other…Cops in the middle of the road.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In Oxford, far right nationalists on one side of the road, and anti-racism protesters on the other…Cops in the middle of the road.
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"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."
“You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."
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Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.
July 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.
All too recognisable.
Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol
June 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
All too recognisable.
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Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol
June 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol
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"In an announcement (...) San Francisco bookstore The Booksmith said that it would no longer carry books by J.K. Rowling because of her ongoing support of anti-trans policies. Accompanying the post was a list of fantasy books that 'might fit the Harry Potter brief for you and yours.'"
This San Francisco Bookstore Has Stopped Selling the ‘Harry Potter’ Series
The announcement came with a curated list of alternatives to J.K. Rowling’s fantasy series.
www.them.us
June 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"In an announcement (...) San Francisco bookstore The Booksmith said that it would no longer carry books by J.K. Rowling because of her ongoing support of anti-trans policies. Accompanying the post was a list of fantasy books that 'might fit the Harry Potter brief for you and yours.'"
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Whenever people ask me what I mean when I talk about the “neoliberal university”, I tell them about the giant Woodside Building on campus www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Monash staff say Woodside-backed climate conference highlights concerns about energy giant partnership
Senior lecturer says staff and students have struggled to get answers from university leadership about arrangement
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Whenever people ask me what I mean when I talk about the “neoliberal university”, I tell them about the giant Woodside Building on campus www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
June 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to
June 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to
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No state has the right to block, attack, or harm passengers aboard an aid ship carrying vital humanitarian supplies—baby formula, rice, diapers, water kits, medical equipment, prosthetics. Doing so would constitute a war crime, one of many already committed by the state in question.
June 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
No state has the right to block, attack, or harm passengers aboard an aid ship carrying vital humanitarian supplies—baby formula, rice, diapers, water kits, medical equipment, prosthetics. Doing so would constitute a war crime, one of many already committed by the state in question.
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🚨 Important database of cases where lawyers were found to have used AI-hallucinated materials. Covers multiple jurisdictions, mostly anglophone systems.🚨
This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
www.damiencharlotin.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🚨 Important database of cases where lawyers were found to have used AI-hallucinated materials. Covers multiple jurisdictions, mostly anglophone systems.🚨
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I'm going to try to write a thread to entice people to read this piece I published last night.
A series of disasters have hit Australian waters in the first half of this year, and I am terrified and offended by the fact that the losses being suffered are barely being spoken about.
You should be. 🧵
A series of disasters have hit Australian waters in the first half of this year, and I am terrified and offended by the fact that the losses being suffered are barely being spoken about.
You should be. 🧵
Here we go.
I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:
I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:
May 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm going to try to write a thread to entice people to read this piece I published last night.
A series of disasters have hit Australian waters in the first half of this year, and I am terrified and offended by the fact that the losses being suffered are barely being spoken about.
You should be. 🧵
A series of disasters have hit Australian waters in the first half of this year, and I am terrified and offended by the fact that the losses being suffered are barely being spoken about.
You should be. 🧵
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Here it is!! The first in a series from new voices. Chloe Young of Edinburgh Uni discussing her #research on #women in the #Nighttime economy for #sensory #criminology: sensorycriminology.com/2025/05/12/t...
The Night-Self
Nightlife spaces are, to borrow Durkheim’s term, socially and sexually effervescent places. The environment, often loud and electric, offers ‘possibilities of pleasure, excess and gratification” (M…
sensorycriminology.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Here it is!! The first in a series from new voices. Chloe Young of Edinburgh Uni discussing her #research on #women in the #Nighttime economy for #sensory #criminology: sensorycriminology.com/2025/05/12/t...
Just throwing this out there but is Tixel a scam? I sold two concert tix through the site and they’re now claiming there’s an error in my account and payment can’t be made, and there’s no way of emailing them and only a bot to answer queries… #tixel
May 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Just throwing this out there but is Tixel a scam? I sold two concert tix through the site and they’re now claiming there’s an error in my account and payment can’t be made, and there’s no way of emailing them and only a bot to answer queries… #tixel