Jo Case
@jocaseau.bsky.social
Professional book nerd (writer, editor, critic - former publisher, bookseller). Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas, The Conversation: @aunz.theconversation.com. Co-editor, Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Autistic Writers (UQP).
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Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
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I've got an essay in People!! It's about the sexiness of listening, tying together some of my academic work on audio erotica with my new rom-com An Academic Affair.*
*out tomorrow in North America!! people.com/audio-erotic...
*out tomorrow in North America!! people.com/audio-erotic...
Audio Erotica Is Having a Moment — A Romance Expert Reveals Why Listening Is So Sexy (Exclusive)
"In romantic relationships, something just about everyone wants is to be truly heard," explains author and love and sex expert Jodi McAlister. In an exclusive essay for PEOPLE, the author of 'An Acade...
people.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I've got an essay in People!! It's about the sexiness of listening, tying together some of my academic work on audio erotica with my new rom-com An Academic Affair.*
*out tomorrow in North America!! people.com/audio-erotic...
*out tomorrow in North America!! people.com/audio-erotic...
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📚 A war criminal prosecuted for crimes against humanity still receives fan mail today. Legal academic Olivera Simic spent eight years talking with her.
Friday essay: my time with ‘Madam War Criminal’, unrepentant at 95
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
📚 A war criminal prosecuted for crimes against humanity still receives fan mail today. Legal academic Olivera Simic spent eight years talking with her.
Who’s read Flesh, the Booker winner? I read 3/6 of shortlist … but not this one.
(Should I?)
(Should I?)
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Who’s read Flesh, the Booker winner? I read 3/6 of shortlist … but not this one.
(Should I?)
(Should I?)
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Even Liberace would have told his interior designer to tone it down a bit…..
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Even Liberace would have told his interior designer to tone it down a bit…..
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This should have happened a long time ago (and the quota should probably be higher), but this is a step in the right direction.
Streaming services to be made to produce Australian content
The federal government puts laws requiring streaming services to produce Australian content back on the table after a hiatus following the US election.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This should have happened a long time ago (and the quota should probably be higher), but this is a step in the right direction.
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Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:
1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad
Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad
Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:
1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad
Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad
Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
Can’t wait for this!
My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Can’t wait for this!
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I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
October 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
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The episode of the Middletown Centre for Autism podcast about Someone Like Me is up!
Cat @naturetable.bsky.social Hughes, always an excellent host, interviews the editors @clembastow.bsky.social and @jocaseau.bsky.social.
I've been looking forward to this!
www.middletownautism.com/social-media...
Cat @naturetable.bsky.social Hughes, always an excellent host, interviews the editors @clembastow.bsky.social and @jocaseau.bsky.social.
I've been looking forward to this!
www.middletownautism.com/social-media...
October 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The episode of the Middletown Centre for Autism podcast about Someone Like Me is up!
Cat @naturetable.bsky.social Hughes, always an excellent host, interviews the editors @clembastow.bsky.social and @jocaseau.bsky.social.
I've been looking forward to this!
www.middletownautism.com/social-media...
Cat @naturetable.bsky.social Hughes, always an excellent host, interviews the editors @clembastow.bsky.social and @jocaseau.bsky.social.
I've been looking forward to this!
www.middletownautism.com/social-media...
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Looks like The Rapture is not happening, once again Belinda Carlisle vindicated
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Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO
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September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Looks like The Rapture is not happening, once again Belinda Carlisle vindicated
youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM
youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM
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This, exactly. GenAI, as I'm experiencing it in my working life, is a machine for shifting cognitive burden from one colleague (the AI user) to another (the person who receives, must interpret, and must almost always re-do the work).
A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
www.404media.co
September 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This, exactly. GenAI, as I'm experiencing it in my working life, is a machine for shifting cognitive burden from one colleague (the AI user) to another (the person who receives, must interpret, and must almost always re-do the work).
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Five publishing outfits and four of them have women founders. Thanks to @womensagenda.bsky.social for republishing my piece in the Conversation
Australia's newest publishers are dominated by women. And they're making defiant, weird, grass-roots books
Five new Australian publishers are bringing bold, grassroots books to life despite challenges in funding and distribution.
womensagenda.com.au
September 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Five publishing outfits and four of them have women founders. Thanks to @womensagenda.bsky.social for republishing my piece in the Conversation
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"I don't like either one of these parties," Rogan said on Thursday's episode. "I don't think there's a solution that's correct."
Joe Rogan says he's not a Republican—"You're gonna need some socialism"
www.newsweek.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"I don't like either one of these parties," Rogan said on Thursday's episode. "I don't think there's a solution that's correct."
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Worth linking to Eli McLean's Overland essay on Meanjin's closure and the state of publishing if you haven't yet
“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal
Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...
overland.org.au
September 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Worth linking to Eli McLean's Overland essay on Meanjin's closure and the state of publishing if you haven't yet
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It felt like Australian publishing was shrinking with mergers and the shock closure of Meanjin - waiting to see the full story behind that!
But there's a few new players bring fresh energy and new books in recent months.
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for excellent editing.
But there's a few new players bring fresh energy and new books in recent months.
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for excellent editing.
5 new Australian publishers are making defiant, weird, grass-roots books
The launch of 5 new Australian book publishers is good news, for once. Meet Perentie Press, Pink Shorts Press, Evercreech Editions, Aniko Press and Bakers Lane Books.
theconversation.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It felt like Australian publishing was shrinking with mergers and the shock closure of Meanjin - waiting to see the full story behind that!
But there's a few new players bring fresh energy and new books in recent months.
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for excellent editing.
But there's a few new players bring fresh energy and new books in recent months.
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for excellent editing.
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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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Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...
The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war
Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...
Rewatched All the President’s Men in honour of Redford … and noticed Family Ties’ Mrs Keaton has a bit part as the wife of a White House staffer involved in Watergate, interviewed by Woodward & Bernstein.
This 80s kid has had her mind blown!
This 80s kid has had her mind blown!
September 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Rewatched All the President’s Men in honour of Redford … and noticed Family Ties’ Mrs Keaton has a bit part as the wife of a White House staffer involved in Watergate, interviewed by Woodward & Bernstein.
This 80s kid has had her mind blown!
This 80s kid has had her mind blown!
RIP Robert Redford. The Way we Were, All the President’s Men … classics dear to my heart. And he really knew how to wear a sweater. 💓
September 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
RIP Robert Redford. The Way we Were, All the President’s Men … classics dear to my heart. And he really knew how to wear a sweater. 💓
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September 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Not the most important thing, but reading Epstein's emails, he kind of comes off as pathetic and incapble of doing the simplest of tasks on his own. And then, of course, the way he talks about women and girls is abhorrent.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
www.bloomberg.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Not the most important thing, but reading Epstein's emails, he kind of comes off as pathetic and incapble of doing the simplest of tasks on his own. And then, of course, the way he talks about women and girls is abhorrent.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Big turnout at this morning’s rally against @mupublishing.bsky.social vandalism of Meanjin. @beneltham.bsky.social called for Meanjin’s name and archive to be surrendered so the magazine can be published by someone who deserves to and appreciates the honour
September 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Big turnout at this morning’s rally against @mupublishing.bsky.social vandalism of Meanjin. @beneltham.bsky.social called for Meanjin’s name and archive to be surrendered so the magazine can be published by someone who deserves to and appreciates the honour
ABC’s new show is about journalism students ‘with autism’ (see line 1) the same way The Stella Prize is for writers ‘with womanhood’ (or with non-binary identities).
Autism is not a disease we catch (or can be cured of or grow out of); it’s who we intrinsically are.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Autism is not a disease we catch (or can be cured of or grow out of); it’s who we intrinsically are.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
'No questions off limits' as autistic journalism students return to grill Australia's biggest names
Aspiring journalism students with autism are back to grill some of Australia's most prominent figures, and this time they've got seasoned peers behind the camera cheering them on.
www.abc.net.au
September 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
ABC’s new show is about journalism students ‘with autism’ (see line 1) the same way The Stella Prize is for writers ‘with womanhood’ (or with non-binary identities).
Autism is not a disease we catch (or can be cured of or grow out of); it’s who we intrinsically are.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Autism is not a disease we catch (or can be cured of or grow out of); it’s who we intrinsically are.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...