Loki Cassandra Harlequin Maelorin
@maelorin.bsky.social
non-binary autistic adhd gen-x polymath
academic lawyer & public policy wonk
on kuarna yerta • • adelaide australia
@maelorin c1990 errata facta sunt
academic lawyer & public policy wonk
on kuarna yerta • • adelaide australia
@maelorin c1990 errata facta sunt
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No no no no. As a former social worker, I can't properly express how much I hate this. Even beyond the "automating inequality" of it all, writing case notes is an important way to reflect on a session/meeting with a client and helps you make better decisions in how you work with them in the future.
The contract follows a pilot in the council’s children’s services dept, “including using AI for case-note transcription and to summarise social workers’ records. The council is planning to extend the Palantir system to processes for providing support to children with special educational needs.”
Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and children’s services
Exclusive: Workers say £500k contract with US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces raises ‘serious ethical questions’
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
No no no no. As a former social worker, I can't properly express how much I hate this. Even beyond the "automating inequality" of it all, writing case notes is an important way to reflect on a session/meeting with a client and helps you make better decisions in how you work with them in the future.
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Technologist Victor Riparbelli sees a future where students interact with AI avatars rather than read and write. We ask teachers and kids what they think and how they're using AI right now.
Will AI avatars eventually teach our kids?
Technologist Victor Riparbelli sees a future where students interact with AI avatars rather than read and write. We ask teachers and kids what they think and how they're using AI right now.
n.pr
August 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I had a stunning gift delivered to my college but no name?!?! Please tell me who this is from!!
August 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I had a stunning gift delivered to my college but no name?!?! Please tell me who this is from!!
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My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
August 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
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“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
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On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
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Treat yourself to some smart, smart, smart thinking about what we really do as historians & as teachers: "Rule One in the Intro to Art History class that I teach is: these things on the slides here are not the works of art that you're studying; they're digital copies of them." #MedievalSky
Some reflections on replicas, the internet's untethering of information from reproductions of works of art, and a lovely email I received from a stranger one year ago.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down
Will the Real Hildegard von Bingen Please Stand up? It's Replicas All the Way Down — Sonja Drimmer
A year ago, I received a fascinating email from a stranger. The stranger was a man who had recently traveled with his wife to visit family in Germany and had decided to visit Bingen with the expectati...
sonjadrimmer.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Treat yourself to some smart, smart, smart thinking about what we really do as historians & as teachers: "Rule One in the Intro to Art History class that I teach is: these things on the slides here are not the works of art that you're studying; they're digital copies of them." #MedievalSky
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Yes! Still remember how a senior archaeology professor took a ten minute detour from his lecture to tell us how best to dispose of a body
Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.
August 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Yes! Still remember how a senior archaeology professor took a ten minute detour from his lecture to tell us how best to dispose of a body
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Our internet is down until Monday which means we’re logged out of our lightbulbs until then
August 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Our internet is down until Monday which means we’re logged out of our lightbulbs until then
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This shit sucks man. Medically proven and effective treatment that would save trans youth a lifetime of pain and discomfort in their own bodies thrown in the trash because our country enables the most evil people imaginable.
August 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This shit sucks man. Medically proven and effective treatment that would save trans youth a lifetime of pain and discomfort in their own bodies thrown in the trash because our country enables the most evil people imaginable.
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Why did no one tell me Clue (1985) is about McCarthyism? I was sat in an @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social for the 40th anniversary showing of a film I'd never seen, enjoying the dog film about dognapping, and then BAM it was Joe McCarthy in the kitchen with the TV.
vaughnjoy.substack.com/p/communism-...
vaughnjoy.substack.com/p/communism-...
Communism Is, Was, and Will Always Be A Red Herring
A Contextual History Approach to Clue (1985)
vaughnjoy.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Why did no one tell me Clue (1985) is about McCarthyism? I was sat in an @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social for the 40th anniversary showing of a film I'd never seen, enjoying the dog film about dognapping, and then BAM it was Joe McCarthy in the kitchen with the TV.
vaughnjoy.substack.com/p/communism-...
vaughnjoy.substack.com/p/communism-...
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I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter
They Spent Years Covering L.A.'s Taco Scene. When ICE Raids Began, They Were Ready.
"It's very personal to me," Memo Torres told HuffPost. "L.A. is home. So you attack my home, you’re attacking my people."
www.huffpost.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter
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I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
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it’s unfortunately quite tricky to get hold of (thank you, interlibrary loan) but this book is fascinating both as a historical snapshot and as a deeper interrogation of what it means for computers to mediate power.
really good conversation about it here, too: techwontsave.us/episode/182_...
really good conversation about it here, too: techwontsave.us/episode/182_...
August 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
it’s unfortunately quite tricky to get hold of (thank you, interlibrary loan) but this book is fascinating both as a historical snapshot and as a deeper interrogation of what it means for computers to mediate power.
really good conversation about it here, too: techwontsave.us/episode/182_...
really good conversation about it here, too: techwontsave.us/episode/182_...
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Shared with me by a friend:
New Zealand libraries are beginning to suspend international ILL to/from the United States due to the Trump administration tariffs.
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New Zealand libraries are beginning to suspend international ILL to/from the United States due to the Trump administration tariffs.
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August 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Shared with me by a friend:
New Zealand libraries are beginning to suspend international ILL to/from the United States due to the Trump administration tariffs.
📚
New Zealand libraries are beginning to suspend international ILL to/from the United States due to the Trump administration tariffs.
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Friggin’ interlibrary loan is some crazy magic. I was living in Mexico finishing my MS at UC Riverside and they would get me texts that quite literally existed in one library only in Ghana, xerox it, and mail me the dang copies. Heroes, I say.
August 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Friggin’ interlibrary loan is some crazy magic. I was living in Mexico finishing my MS at UC Riverside and they would get me texts that quite literally existed in one library only in Ghana, xerox it, and mail me the dang copies. Heroes, I say.
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And here's some history.
(Sorry — since I no longer have academic library access, I can't read it either :)
(Sorry — since I no longer have academic library access, I can't read it either :)
“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945 | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 4
Abstract The devastation of World War II left German libraries partly in ruins, collections and catalogs lost or destroyed, prompting a need to reconstruct and reimagine the library system. This artic...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
August 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
And here's some history.
(Sorry — since I no longer have academic library access, I can't read it either :)
(Sorry — since I no longer have academic library access, I can't read it either :)
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Writing teacher advice for Democratic strategists: Your audience is NEVER everyone, and acting as though it is will lead to generalities that appeal on average but not in specific. You find your audience through specificities. Relying heavily on polls and consultants leads to tepid messaging.
August 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Writing teacher advice for Democratic strategists: Your audience is NEVER everyone, and acting as though it is will lead to generalities that appeal on average but not in specific. You find your audience through specificities. Relying heavily on polls and consultants leads to tepid messaging.
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US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Was asked to do an expedited faculty review for another uni this past 😎. Just learned that the recruitment fell through — so now I’ve wasted those 30hrs. Academia involves so much intense, futile service. You do it to sUpPoRt PeOpLe, but you end up perpetuating the stupid systems they’re trapped in.
October 3, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Was asked to do an expedited faculty review for another uni this past 😎. Just learned that the recruitment fell through — so now I’ve wasted those 30hrs. Academia involves so much intense, futile service. You do it to sUpPoRt PeOpLe, but you end up perpetuating the stupid systems they’re trapped in.
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A breaking point for me, in terms of my own career pathway, was reviewing dossiers for a few men at elite R1's and realizing: their "research output" was no better than mine, but their teaching load was less than half, and I'd done four lifetimes' more service. That's when I considered quitting.
August 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A breaking point for me, in terms of my own career pathway, was reviewing dossiers for a few men at elite R1's and realizing: their "research output" was no better than mine, but their teaching load was less than half, and I'd done four lifetimes' more service. That's when I considered quitting.
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Tech businesses love to make stuff and then come up with uses post hoc.
Them: “We made a robot that can move through the store!”
Us: “To do what?”
Them: “To… um… hold bananas.”
Them: “We made a robot that can move through the store!”
Us: “To do what?”
Them: “To… um… hold bananas.”
i am allergic to bananas and i also don't want this at the grocery store
August 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Tech businesses love to make stuff and then come up with uses post hoc.
Them: “We made a robot that can move through the store!”
Us: “To do what?”
Them: “To… um… hold bananas.”
Them: “We made a robot that can move through the store!”
Us: “To do what?”
Them: “To… um… hold bananas.”
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Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?
Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
August 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?
Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...