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
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...
CNN headline: Kim Kardashian's business advice for women sparks controversy: 'It seems nobody wants to work these days'
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
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...
"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...
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
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"
"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."
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…
a letter from me and m'learned colleagues in support of @meanjin.bsky.social (@savemeanjin.bsky.social )
“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...
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.
this is actually so fucked....
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...
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...
Saw this the other day
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
thank you cam
ok im scared
"microsoft paperclip" entered into the search bar, which has returned the suggestion "microsoft paperclip pregnant"
..excuse me?
it's so ugly... bring back Shapes
Relatedly I think journalism could maybe use stronger professional style norms around not anthropomorphizing the computer systems we report on/reference in our writing.
I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators.
If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: AIkilledmyjob@pm.me
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
