Stevie Zhang 張珮琳
@stevievzh.bsky.social
(they/them) 上海人 | reader, writer
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It may be a sign of my age but I remember a time when the Internet was designed so there wasn't a singular point of failure which took out half the Internet.
Cloudflare goes down way too often and way too many sites and resources use it
Cloudflare goes down way too often and way too many sites and resources use it
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It may be a sign of my age but I remember a time when the Internet was designed so there wasn't a singular point of failure which took out half the Internet.
Cloudflare goes down way too often and way too many sites and resources use it
Cloudflare goes down way too often and way too many sites and resources use it
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Oh boy, Cloudflare is suffering a hiccup and now a huge chunk of the internet is fucked. Who's idea was to shove it all into like, 3 or 4 big-ass companies?
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Oh boy, Cloudflare is suffering a hiccup and now a huge chunk of the internet is fucked. Who's idea was to shove it all into like, 3 or 4 big-ass companies?
this chris hedges david marr interview is actually a great demonstration of the kind of plausible deniability journalists practice when being confronted with the fact that their reporting has a clear, biased agenda. marr acts wilfully obtuse towards hedges' criticisms
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Journalist Chris Hedges on being cancelled by the National Press Club - ABC listen
Australia’s National Press Club was due to host Pulitzer prize winning journalist, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Chris Hedges on Monday October 20, 2025. But after receiv...
www.abc.net.au
October 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
this chris hedges david marr interview is actually a great demonstration of the kind of plausible deniability journalists practice when being confronted with the fact that their reporting has a clear, biased agenda. marr acts wilfully obtuse towards hedges' criticisms
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
feeling like this after hearing my partner's cousin who is currently in uni complain about writing essays and saying that it's unreasonable to expect students to read references
October 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
feeling like this after hearing my partner's cousin who is currently in uni complain about writing essays and saying that it's unreasonable to expect students to read references
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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm
• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
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This is a sickening article from Rachael Lucas at the ABC, sanitising and rewriting the history of neo-Nazi Jeff Schoep, who is NOT reformed or repentant. Not ONE mention in this article of Charlottesville Unite The Right, or the murder of Heather Heyer. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au
October 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is a sickening article from Rachael Lucas at the ABC, sanitising and rewriting the history of neo-Nazi Jeff Schoep, who is NOT reformed or repentant. Not ONE mention in this article of Charlottesville Unite The Right, or the murder of Heather Heyer. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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"The ABC let down the Australian public badly when it abjectly surrendered the rights of its employee Ms Lattouf to appease a lobby group." Justice Rangiah said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Judge says ABC 'let down the Australian public' over Lattouf sacking
The judge ordered ABC to pay a fine of $150,000 for unlawfully sacking journalist and presenter Antoinette Lattouf for reasons including her political opinions.
www.abc.net.au
September 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
"The ABC let down the Australian public badly when it abjectly surrendered the rights of its employee Ms Lattouf to appease a lobby group." Justice Rangiah said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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this is gaslighting, plain and simple. No, it's not the worker producing workslop, it's the fucking AI!
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
this is gaslighting, plain and simple. No, it's not the worker producing workslop, it's the fucking AI!
really fun to return to novels originally written in english after a long spate of reading only translated fiction
September 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
really fun to return to novels originally written in english after a long spate of reading only translated fiction
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OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.
student came up to me after I spent 15 minutes talking about how to reference correctly to ask "do people really still get that wrong"
September 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
student came up to me after I spent 15 minutes talking about how to reference correctly to ask "do people really still get that wrong"
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"Readers will no doubt see the irony in a cash-strapped organisation paying an independent consultant for three months to provide strategies for financial viability, only to ignore the findings on the grounds of financial viability."
Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
www.crikey.com.au
September 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"Readers will no doubt see the irony in a cash-strapped organisation paying an independent consultant for three months to provide strategies for financial viability, only to ignore the findings on the grounds of financial viability."
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The customer service nature of student evaluations has long been a part of such conditioning. In my years of teaching, no administrator no peer ever formally observed any classes. Yet despite winning a mentorship award & being cleared of wrong doing by professors who investigated me…
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The customer service nature of student evaluations has long been a part of such conditioning. In my years of teaching, no administrator no peer ever formally observed any classes. Yet despite winning a mentorship award & being cleared of wrong doing by professors who investigated me…
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a letter from me and m'learned colleagues in support of @meanjin.bsky.social (@savemeanjin.bsky.social )
September 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
a letter from me and m'learned colleagues in support of @meanjin.bsky.social (@savemeanjin.bsky.social )
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A collective statement from my University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program colleagues and I about the closure of Meanjin - and thank you to Julienne and Bec for representing us at the rally!
September 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A collective statement from my University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program colleagues and I about the closure of Meanjin - and thank you to Julienne and Bec for representing us at the rally!
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“Future generations will look upon the decision to shutter Meanjin with contempt…” @catrionamp.bsky.social on the Meanjin debacle www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...
Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up
Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...
www.crikey.com.au
September 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“Future generations will look upon the decision to shutter Meanjin with contempt…” @catrionamp.bsky.social on the Meanjin debacle www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...
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What’s the real reason it’s being shut down?
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
What’s the real reason it’s being shut down?
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.
this is actually so fucked....
Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
this is actually so fucked....
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Sophie Cunningham:"universities are no longer spaces that support or nurture literature or the arts in this country. Certainly universities have, in the last several years, shown themselves unable to manage robust debates or the complexities of freedom of speech.”
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Sophie Cunningham:"universities are no longer spaces that support or nurture literature or the arts in this country. Certainly universities have, in the last several years, shown themselves unable to manage robust debates or the complexities of freedom of speech.”
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
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This, from Jonathan Green, pretty much sums it up: “Meanjin’s financial demand is trivial … a few hundred thousand dollars … the cultural loss of its death is as significant as it is tragic.”
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This, from Jonathan Green, pretty much sums it up: “Meanjin’s financial demand is trivial … a few hundred thousand dollars … the cultural loss of its death is as significant as it is tragic.”
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
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It's coming up to 2 years since Hong Kong-based journalist Minnie Chan was last seen by her colleagues or her family. Last seen attending an event in Beijing. We will never give up hope for her safe return. #journalismisnotacrime www.scmp.com/author/minni...
September 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's coming up to 2 years since Hong Kong-based journalist Minnie Chan was last seen by her colleagues or her family. Last seen attending an event in Beijing. We will never give up hope for her safe return. #journalismisnotacrime www.scmp.com/author/minni...
why am i getting the most attention i've ever gotten on bluesky for pregnant clippy
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
why am i getting the most attention i've ever gotten on bluesky for pregnant clippy
it's so ugly... bring back Shapes
August 31, 2025 at 2:11 AM
it's so ugly... bring back Shapes
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Relatedly I think journalism could maybe use stronger professional style norms around not anthropomorphizing the computer systems we report on/reference in our writing.
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Relatedly I think journalism could maybe use stronger professional style norms around not anthropomorphizing the computer systems we report on/reference in our writing.