“Before the Taliban we were so happy”. On “The Weekend Intelligence”, Neggeen Sadid talks to three young women from Afghanistan who used to dream of building a life in their own country. Now they only dream of leaving

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Come on now, Economist. You can't post this and then not give the names of the 7 cha chaan teng places in Burwood! Kowloon Cafe is good and conveniently located in Burwood Chinatown. What are the others?!

However regrettable, the announcement of the United States to withdraw from the Organization was anticipated, and #UNESCO has prepared for it.

Read the full statement by the Director-General, @aazoulay.bsky.social, to learn more: unes.co/ksovsg

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

The second, on June 25th, will be a talk about the sequel, of sorts, to my book Calling Bullshit.

"Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" is the new, free online course that Jevin West and I developed about how to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world.

Australian friends!

I'm going to be visiting Sydney in just over a week. I'll be at UNSW on June 23-25th and Macquarie on June 26-27th.

I'd love to catch up with people in person, and also will be giving (at least) two talks at UNSW.

The first is science-of-science modeling talk, on June 23:

The drama, the memes, the characters were beyond parody, yet somehow real. This dissertation analyzes the early afternoon of 5 June 2025.

Ts&Cs of these sites are traditionally exceedingly complicated and one-sided (in favour of the platform). Traditional publishers also don't tend to look kindly on the inclusion of VoRs on these sites (which don't have CC BY licences). Please read what you sign! #academicsky #skybrarians #oa

And if you don't have an institutional repository to share your work, try the Knowledge Commons hcommons.org

We don't talk often enough about the problems of academic 'social networking' sites like Academia and ResearchGate for researchers and knowledge dissemination. Put your work in an institutional or disciplinary repository instead. They won't AI your work.

As someone currently in the rewrite, craft, polish final stages of thesis writing, this. Also - Bender and Hanna's book 'The AI Con' is excellent and a great argument for the enduring value of longform writing. It's starting to feel like reading is becoming an act of resistance against AI.

Congratulations Te Paea Paringatai (Waikato, Ngāti Porou) who will become the first IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) President from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2027.

Te Paea's role as President-elect begins in August 2025.Te Paea's election result was a landslide and is a

Reset is the show I heartily recommend most often to people who've never watched C-drama (and who are unlikely to sit through dozens of episodes of a historical palace drama or wuxia, though my goodness, Guardians of the Dafeng!)

This looks so amazing. Wish I'd know about it when I was in Beijing a couple of months ago, but to be fair I was also taking a holiday from libraries, so...

There are tons on Netflix and YouTube, as well as all the local paid platforms. I got hooked on them when the algorithm recommended The Rational Life. In Australia, SBS picked up a couple of the grittier 'realistic' shows like The Bad Kids. More here: mydramalist.com