People routinely misunderstand Judge Dredd but this is an all-time standout: a LinkedIn post saying the lesson we need to learn from it is about human-in-the-loop AI use.

That torment nexus tweet wasn’t satire at all.

Text shot: Judge Dredd exemplified a future where technology enhances decision-making but does not replace human judgment, emphasizing the need for human responsibility and accountability in justice.

Neighbourhood Watch

A small dog is sitting and looking out through a second floor window of a brick building.

When this masthead visited Merrylands on Thursday to talk to locals about their experience of organised crime, no one approached was willing to share their story.

lmao

Uber For Nursing

This is bleak, even for the Torment Nexus.

The modern university does not exist

One thing became clear very quickly: the modern university does not exist… First of all, they are nothing like the institutions that outsiders imagine. Rapacious devil-take-the-hindmost student recruitment means they are more like aggressive medium-sized enterprises struggling for market share than the school-like cloisters that voters perhaps picture. That has utterly changed their internal character. As all power has passed from frontline lecturers and departments to senior management working at ‘the centre’, universities have increasingly struggled to work with, count, even understand what is happening across their unwieldy empires. Many resemble nothing more than a paper bag with the word ‘university’ written on it.

Thanks to Kate for the link

Fake Ass Writer Challenge

I’m terrible at picking AI writing. A coin toss would be more reliable than me.

“My Students Can’t Read: The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse”

We shouldn’t over-sentimentalise reading as a practice, however I now get student feedback complaints when I set 4 page HBR magazine-style articles as course readings.

Watching The Movie Show episodes from 1999 on SBS on Demand. What an incredible year for film, every episode has a film I still watch or need to rewatch.

Let’s make sure the labelling debacle is the last time a health harming industry is allowed to set the conditions of their own regulation.

New alcohol labels should have been introduced today, but lobbyists derailed them - Alcohol Action Ireland

“Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know”

The Feed Is Fake - Vulture

A large electricity pylon stands amidst an open field with trees in the background and power lines stretching across the sky.

Have a great day everyone. Remember that other people’s opinions of you are just fan theories.

Budget for a broken social contract

Greg Jericho on last night’s budget, and the kicking it gives to people with disabilities:

And so now we have a government saying those with disabilities need to be kicked off the NDIS because gas companies need their profits…

Most people know someone on the NDIS, and few would think they are rorting it. The problem, of course, is that the NDIS is a Productivity Commission idea, which believes the private sector delivers better efficiency than the public sector.

It never does. It always leads to profiteering and worse service and yet when you are beholden to neo-liberalism, what need have you for reality?…

Because people know with such things what happens is the shonks rort the system and get away with it, while those with disabilities need to endure the cuts because ‘spending is out of control’.

The hacker code of conduct will protect us:

“Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.”"

For today’s icebreaker we’ll be sorting ourselves into budget winners and budget losers.

Hard to walk back the impact of this paper though…

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

>Australian universities and colleges have built a sophisticated global recruitment machine – particularly from developing nations – but it’s hard not to conclude they are doing the bare minimum when it comes to the welfare and wellbeing of the students they attract.

An important argument, powerfully put by Erin Longbottom. We have an obligation to do better, sectorally and personally.

Good morning

City street with tram tracks, glowing traffic lights, and silhouetted buildings against an orange dawn sky

I’m glad Webex exists because it’s a helpful reminder that there are worse options that I could be forced to use.

More on the Job Ready Graduates Program, a failed, deeply inequitable policy that needs immediate reform:

“The [2025] modelling… shows the number of students with debts over $50,000 has increased by 70%, and humanities students are set to pay off their debts into their 40s.”

One in four humanities students in Australia to take more than 25 years to pay off student loans, Treasury finds - The Guardian