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?
13.09.2025 01:34
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Question to lawyer friends. Would MUPβs axing of #meanjin on βpurely financial reasonsβ - 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 wonderingβ¦
13.09.2025 00:45
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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.
09.09.2025 23:19
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Streat has the best muffins - and a beautiful garden view. What is not to love!
07.08.2025 00:47
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Wisdom β Week 8
Where I reflect on food safety, tragic wisdom, forgiveness and mental models
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...
28.07.2025 03:54
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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??
24.07.2025 00:32
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Got it!! Ah - I deleted the post, donβt want random links lying around - thanks for pointing it out!!!!
21.07.2025 13:24
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Thanks for the ping - new-ish to Bluesky, who knows what happened :-/.
21.07.2025 12:38
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In two years, Iβve 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.
21.07.2025 12:37
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Gosh - I had no idea I was sharing something :-/.
21.07.2025 12:32
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(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?)
20.07.2025 23:04
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I still remember when I realised that the troposphere stretched about as high up from me as Melbourne CBD to Brighton Beach - thinking βwow, thatβs not a lotβ - and how it made my understanding of climate change and carbon concentrations suddenly palpable!
20.07.2025 12:36
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On every long suburban walk, thereβs a baroque pearl to be found.
19.07.2025 03:58
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Legally blonde π₯°π€ͺπ
19.07.2025 02:31
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Sometimes, I miss Europe. The GPO takes me back home.
16.07.2025 22:50
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Oh, the quirks of suburban lives!
16.07.2025 02:15
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I have so many questions!
24.12.2024 00:42
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Some days you can do not very much and get depressed about it - or you can do not very much and enjoy itβ¦ itβs taken me a while to embrace the second option!
05.12.2024 02:08
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Hereβs for a touch of morning optimism, and reflection on deep innovation.
01.12.2024 20:49
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I did not!!! But I will now remember it!!
28.11.2024 11:11
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It would be mervillous for a mermaid! π
28.11.2024 10:12
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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 worldβs great mysteries.Why do some places make so much better muffins?? Little Henri in Thornbury is definitely one of them!
27.11.2024 23:05
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OH: βBut Iβm an algorithm person, so I want to dissect these things and fix them, right?β
26.11.2024 23:37
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Still undecided - is Bluesky giving nostalgic joy, or hopeful joy?? In any case, itβs on the joy spectrum. Iβll take that for now π€ͺ.
26.11.2024 10:48
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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)
18.11.2024 03:51
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This was my 2024 Xmas gift - and brought enormous amounts of joy!!!
18.11.2024 02:56
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Ouch
20.08.2023 10:05
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