Cheeky-naive question: if a university does act as a for profit investment fund rather than optimising for public interest, is there a legal case to challenge its DGR status, so that its profit can be redirected to government through tax, and DGR gifts be redirected to better aligned institutions?
Question to lawyer friends. Would MUP’s axing of #meanjin on ‘purely financial reasons’ - and, according to the press, refusing to hand it over to potential successors - be cause to challenge its DGR status, on account of prioritising profit motives over its duty to public interest? Just wondering…
I would love to read a #meanjin piece reflecting on the boardroom discussions that led to the decision to close meanjin. It would have a lot to teach us about the pressures of governance. It might even build empathy. Of course, part of that fantasy is the prospect of a future meanjin to publish it.
Streat has the best muffins - and a beautiful garden view. What is not to love!
The latest in my yearly exploration of cardinal / stoic virtues - where I reflect on food safety, tragic wisdom, forgiveness and mental models. open.substack.com/pub/julienle...
I remember puzzling conversations on tax brackets as a child, painting an absurd exploitative system. Then realised, most of those fears echoed in my family were based on ignorance. Wondering - how might we build generalised, in-depth tax literacy, so we can have better informed public debates??
Got it!! Ah - I deleted the post, don’t want random links lying around - thanks for pointing it out!!!!
Thanks for the ping - new-ish to Bluesky, who knows what happened :-/.
In two years, I’ve had one really positive use of ChatGPT, as an IT help desk. It helped me fix a DNS attribution issue on a website I made (with poor tech skills) for a small emerging community project, with no budget. Useful. Not quite a case for wrecking lives, communities and ecosystems.
Gosh - I had no idea I was sharing something :-/.
open.substack.com/pub/julienle...
A weekly share - my latest post on courage, as part of a yearly exploration of #stoic virtues
(In fairness - I also do enjoy extraverting with it as a cheerful editorial assistant, to point areas of improvement and progress in successive drafts. It has helped me get unstuck or given a boost of energy. And here again, how much is worth destroying so that I can get another text over the line?)
I still remember when I realised that the troposphere stretched about as high up from me as Melbourne CBD to Brighton Beach - thinking ‘wow, that’s not a lot’ - and how it made my understanding of climate change and carbon concentrations suddenly palpable!
On every long suburban walk, there’s a baroque pearl to be found.
Legally blonde 🥰🤪🙈
Sometimes, I miss Europe. The GPO takes me back home.
Oh, the quirks of suburban lives!
I have so many questions!
Some days you can do not very much and get depressed about it - or you can do not very much and enjoy it… it’s taken me a while to embrace the second option!
Here’s for a touch of morning optimism, and reflection on deep innovation.
I did not!!! But I will now remember it!!
It would be mervillous for a mermaid! 🙈
A picture of muffin paper with a fork on a cafe table, the muffin all eaten up. View of the barista and machines blurry in the background
One of the world’s great mysteries.Why do some places make so much better muffins?? Little Henri in Thornbury is definitely one of them!
OH: ‘But I’m an algorithm person, so I want to dissect these things and fix them, right?’
Still undecided - is Bluesky giving nostalgic joy, or hopeful joy?? In any case, it’s on the joy spectrum. I’ll take that for now 🤪.
As a broad critical perspective on AI and its various ramifications, to frame our thinking around it, The Atlas of AI by @katecrawford.bsky.social would make the top of my list (not strictly about education)
This was my 2024 Xmas gift - and brought enormous amounts of joy!!!
Wow. I was grieving the death of social media. And here it is, feeling like a resurrection!!! Here’s my soundtrack to Bluesky today!!
open.spotify.com/track/0yDkW8...
Ouch
