: One of Douglas Annand’s iconic Dalton undercroft mosaics at UNSW (1960, West Wall depicted).
: The chattering e-biking classes
: Universities are struggling to protect staff from stalking and online harassment But today, a cadre of academics is now aiming to strengthen the much smaller body of research that …
: COP28 president secretly used climate summit role to push oil trade with foreign government …
: The contemporary hunt for hidden messages in film We retreat into private enclaves, indulging our personal preferences without worrying about what the …
: “Thirty years later, ostensibly Marxist parties continue to dominate Nepalese politics, but …
: “average daily walking trips dropped a whopping 36% in the contiguous U.S. between 2019 and …
: “The normal thing would be to quit his old job and accept the new position, which was also …
: As the threat of food shortages knocks at our door, the only hope for feeding ourselves is to …
: Anti-vaxxers are winning local elections across Western Australia “The appeal of local governments, Harris argued, is that they allow insurgent groups like …
: Hidden at the top of 44 Martin Place is something a little unexpected
: CSIRO accused of not disclosing BP input into scientific reports According to internal documents, the CSIRO reports were eventually published in scientific journals …
: “In other words, the economist who has been embraced as a guiding light by the global …
: Antidepressants or Tolkien character?
: Welcome to the Kazakh town where there’s bad insulation and an unreliable water supply - and …
: A long overdue movement: Web Revival “The goal is to find what was best about the early web and what is best about new technologies …
: Kagi’s Small Web is an interesting effort to fight back against the enshittification of search …
: “Thus, under the present geopolitical approach to GHG emissions, global warming will exceed …
: Fifty Years on, the Whitlam government's Community Health Program is more relevant than ever On Friday I had the privilege of attending a forum Celebrating the Whitlam Community Health Program: …
: New York rideshare conpanies agree to pay USD $328 million owed to drivers “For years, Uber and Lyft systemically cheated their drivers out of hundreds of millions of …
: "We spent a whole week extracting from the UN officials we met information that's relevant": A.I. Bros muscling in on Israel's occupation of Palestine Shults and Lane are aware that claiming that AI could “solve the crisis” between Israelis and …
: In 🤡 news: A group of academics has offered an unreserved apology to the big four consultancy firms …
: Medicare’s forty-year update Interesting Inside Story piece from Mike Steketee about the Australian Government’s efforts to …
: When climate adaptation exacerbates the problems Maladaptation is usually understood as referring to the unintended consequences of well-meant …
: The standard research approach to disasters is not directly relevant to pandemics and many of the future disasters we face It is questionable that the notion of the naturally well, (auto)regulating disaster subject applies …
: Hundreds of millions of identity checks under the federal government’s ID verification service may …
: "Action as a citizen [on climate change] is far more powerful than action as a consumer" Luke Kemp on bad-to-worst clikate scenarios: “you develop a certain kind of emotional …
: Dialogue and friendship in Jaffa in a time of war People say to me, ‘You have to be realistic, you’re dreaming of peace, and you’re dreaming of …
: The African workers taking on Big Tech's shameful outsourced content moderation practices The human toll of moderation of staggering - and almost all hidden so the brushed metal psychopaths …
: Arundhati Roy's scathing appraisal of India's descent into fascism under Modi The banality of evil, the normalization of evil, is now manifest in our streets, in our classrooms, …
: "Academics need to think harder about the purpose of their disciplines and whether some of those should come to an end" We believe the time has come for scholars across fields to reorient their work around the question …
: Seven years ago today, while I was on my way to Phuentsholing in Bhutan for work
: New Zealand city terrorised by Céline Dion ‘speaker battles’ 📢 A small city in New Zealand plagued by “siren battles” – cars decked out in loudspeakers commonly …
: I’ve seen some sick stuff online but… “Lately I’ve met adolescents — some who don’t yet …
: The truth is that the majority of Australians have committed a shameful act whether knowingly or …
: Perfect day in Sydney today 📷
: The heart of the nation is still here. It always was and it always will be, waiting to be recognised by our fellow Australians. In 2017, we were almost 4 per cent of the population calling for Voice, Treaty and Truth-Telling. As …
: Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy I tweeted in response to the homework algorithm “hack” that if it’s not worth a …
: We are all more than we seem: the unexpected death - and life - of Atilla Demirer A good piece of journalism by Mostafa Rachwani: Upon hearing my explanation that the story is about …
: Neanderthals were the dominant hominims from roughly 400,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago - and we're changing how we think about them scientists appear to be divided between those who think Neanderthal dignity calls for a recognition …
: Cixin Liu's Dark Forest trilogy and their elaborate defence of authoritarianism A great aacademic article that articulates clearly many of the reasons I don’t like Cixin …
: "They took our place on earth": How the United Kingdom is still screwing over the Chagossians The United Kingdom, which oversaw Chagos — sometimes called the British Indian Ocean Territory or …
: Our Frasier Remake Jacob Reed asked 130 artists and animators to create scenes from the season 1 finale of Frasier My …
: Please remember to update your genetic information Yesterday, a threat actor named ‘Golem,’ who is allegedly behind the 23andMe attacks, …
: “The amount of plastic on our planet—it’s like one big oil spill.” To make a bigger difference, the programs need to bring in the “upstream” producers—those that …
: Jamie's 5 Second Austerity Treats While the author has clearly been having a bad day, or maybe year, this is an interesting …
: Your car may be spying on you using location data, sensors, microphones, cameras and phones Mozilla warned that manufacturers may collect and commercially exploit much more than location …
: "The initial problem raised by Westworld, the ethics of killing virtual beings, thus gives rise to a broader historical inquiry that concerns the inability of human societies to face the past and deal with the images they inherit." A worthwhile journal article for any Westworld fans, sadly paywalled so let me know if you have …
: The plastipelago: Indonesia’s encounter with the “plasticene” has led to a naïve and hasty government effort to rebrand waste as an asset This alchemic-like ambition to turn discarded plastics into new objects can also be seen at the …
: Police, Pokémon Go and an Internal Affairs investigation report called “Dishonesty.pdf" Two Los Angeles Police Department officers who ignored a robbery in progress in order to catch a …
: More people are going to die from heat events, across more regions, at lower temperatures than has previously been assumed Our research shows that the footprint of life-altering heat using updated, empirically derived heat …
: Being respected and listened to are the key to happiness at work - and not just for librarians Library staff morale is impacted mostly by staff members’ sense of connection, respect, and value …
: Unsettling ‘The Settler’ Decolonisation, they famously argue, is not a metaphor but a material set of actions, hard-won …
: "Which makes it genuinely baffling that Northeastern's Senior Vice Provost for Research decided to install under-desk heat sensors throughout the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, overnight, without notice or consultation This is a hell of a post from Doctorow: What’s the “shitty tech adoption curve?” …
: Replika chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen. Now he's serving a nine year sentence. On Thursday, 21-year-old Chail was given a nine-year sentence for breaking into Windsor Castle with …
: The surprisingly long life of paper straws The presence of PFAS in plant-based straws shows that they are not necessarily biodegradable and …
: An August DeSmog investigation described a Shell-sponsored video from one popular feel-good account …
: In defence of “what if?” We live in a world not of ambitions achieved completely and plans that reliably follow a straight …
: Hokusai and Contemporary Art: Pop Art, Superflat, and Beyond Talk delivered by Kendall deBoer, …
: A red s̶u̶n̶ pill rises in the east A couple of months before he was arrested, Tate converted to Islam. This was a shock to some of his …
: The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X It’s time to step back as an engaged user, one who for the past decade has posted several times a …
: "I do not believe that finding ways to legally yeet as many Black people as possible between us and a boiling planet is, or will ever be, a viable climate solution." I will never agree that white supremacy is a legitimate response to the demands of the climate …
: "It is a world transformed, where things are not what they seem." “There’s no ‘hauntology’ here… Transformers are totally neoliberal artefacts, and the world …
: You've seen people demoted, forced out, then credit claimed for their work. This is on a totally different level... 1995: “UPenn even demoted her because she could not get the financial support to continue her …
: A.I. detection software is falsely accusing international students of cheating The case described, about a student flagged as using A.I. who was able to provide evidence of drafts …
: A detailed analysis of a single academic paper mill. The problem is much bigger than you think. Yikes. We know the system of acadmeic publishing is broken, but the extent of the problem still …
: Confronting a terrorist A fascinating account of anti-Chinese racism and neo-Nazis in Perth by Crispian Chan. Harrowing but …
: "It's not that A.I. are going to automate whatever, it's the social automatism that goes with them" I recently finished reading Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence by Sam …
: The Insecurity Machine - the irony of capitalism is that even rich people don’t feel secure We’re also living in a moment of intense ecological instability, we’ve just been through a …
: Meta in Myanmar: A detailed account of the events leading to Facebook's role in genocide by Erin Kissane …by the end of 2015, Meta knew—as much as any organization can be said to know—that both …
: You’re born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little …
: “It’s comparable to a lot of the revelations made about so-called autonomous vehicles. They’re just …
: "You can feel what the Aboriginal people are feeling. I know they have really suffered." “This should not be questioned. I think it’s very important. These people are the owners of …
: If AIs ban books… “We asked OpenAI’s GPT3.5 and GPT4, Meta’s Llama 2 13B and 70B and Google’s Palm2 to process …
: No parts, no repair “the easiest way to prevent harvested components from entering the parts stream is to destroy …
: “The TikTok account, conversations with victims, and TikTok’s own lack of action on the …
: The creation and destruction of a healthcare service that's free for all The NHS is possibly the greatest, most humanising innovation of the past century. It’s …
: “The recent study settles this debate: humans in western Asia domesticated table grapes around …
: Genuinely surprised that CERN staff are allowed to have an OnlyFans onlyfans.web.cern.ch (via rixx)
: Brazil's StopClub app uses the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house Choose when you work and the rides you take. No, not like that! “Uber Brazil took StopClub to …
: From 2020: African elites initiated tobacco-related co-operation to meet their interests, but …
: An important article examining why almost half of all cigarettes in the world are consumed in China …
: Humanity's mutilation of the tree of life During past mass extinctions there was no species with the power or interest to stop extinctions, …
: Apple TV+ has taken down the paywall on their anthology series Extrapolations until Monday 25 …
: Beyond grades I was already disillusioned with grading and its perpetual power to distract from students’ learning …
: A language is a dialogue with the environment… it captures the essence of that place where it …
: Banana Ecosocialism …for most of Uganda’s history, bananas escaped serious commodification and facilitated the …
: Chile's experiment with cybernetic management In a February 1973 lecture, he explained how his cybernetic approach to management would empower the …
: London facing 45C days ‘in foreseeable future’, mayor Sadiq Khan warns Those kind of temperatures …
: US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after ‘mishap’ sees pilot eject
: "Capitalism is inherently problematic rather than simply a good system gone awry" What I mean is that capitalism is inherently problematic rather than simply a good system gone awry …
: Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil, decimated plant and animal …
: What happened to the family doctor? U.S.-focused but clearly relevant to Australia as well: “Today, primary care is being squeezed …
: Any sufficiently advanced form of data centralisation is indistinguishable from kleptomania “Many would prefer that NHS England invested in its own capacity, instead of farming out to …
: Wildfires and xenophobia Twitter/X really is the new Gab: “Armed militia groups, some linked to extreme far right …
: Interview with a McKinsey whistleblower An interesting interview with a former McKinsey consultant about what it’s like to use …
: The last of the fungus “Before sunset, we found more than 30 caterpillar carcasses. We arrived back at his village …
: “Gambling addiction has contributed to 184 suicides in Victoria over eight years, although the …
: The pursuit of Aboriginal literary sovereignty “Perhaps critique and analysis informed by the traditions and priorities of the settler colony …
: One of Douglas Annand’s beautiful mosaics at UNSW
: Trilemma facing carbon extractive multinational corporations “In this report, we have argued that Shell will face a trilemma with respect to these …
: “offers insights into how NGOs play a critical role in stifling the development and …
: “In Western philosophy the proper way is considered ethics, whereas in Aboriginal society, as …
: Enough with the emails already.
: Smoke-filled skies. Summer is here.
: “Rich people get lots of it.Poor people don’t get any of it!”: Fifty years of tackling the Inverse Care Law I was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at the South Western Sydney Local Health District …
: 60 years old, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions are one of our founding documents – so why don’t we know …
: Why engage in a deeper exploration of the creation of meaning when ChatGPT can do it for you? I …
: "Seeing humans and computers as interchangeable also meant that humans had begun to conceive of themselves as computers, and so to act like them" “For Weizenbaum, judgment involves choices that are guided by values. These values are …
: Colonial science European colonies became the frontiers of exploration, extraction and production of tropical plants. …
: Empire of dust In 2019, a Financial Times investigation declared the London underground “the dirtiest place in the …
: Understand who this person was, who they are, their challenges, their triumphs: What leads to brilliant aged care? Even though many aged care services don’t provide the care that older people and carers need and …
: “subsea cables are the workhorses of global commerce and communications, carrying more than …
: How Monotype became a font behemoth On the enshittefication of fonts. That optimism, however, will likely be tested as Monotype begins …
: Fortress Europe's culpability for the Melilla massacre Official figures from that day indicate that of the roughly 1,700 migrants who attempted to cross …
: The Marxist in the Machine “With remarkable humility and a relatable sadness Wang confronted the fact that it is much …
: Plenty of horrifying detail on here Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule newyorker.com The New Yorker …
: A detailed account of what it’s like to be a GP in the English NHS. A lot of this would be the …
: A worthwhile post by Patricia Rogers, a major figure in évaluation in Australia Risky behaviour — …
: Tell me your favourite blogs and why, briefly. My collection of RSS feeds needs pruning and …
: It is not possible for a reminder to be gentle.
: "It’s a name that speaks to contemporary forms of neocolonialism and climate profiteering, like the …
: Links on the links between the gambling industry and USyd research USyd’s ties to the Australian gambling industry honisoit.com Honi Soit | News, Culture, Comedy, …
: A rogues gallery of investors, ranging from Binance to Andreessen Horowitz to Prince Alwaleed bin …
: Worthwhile piece in Rolling Stone about the many women and people of colour who have been warning us …
: “We’d invited the Prime Minister and the opposition leader to accept the Uluru Statement as a bark …
: Remote work as a break from workplace racism There’s a fair bit of human resources nonsense in this article (quiet quitting, leadership jargon, …
: 🖖 While I like it, Strange New Worlds has jarring tone shifts between episodes. Alternating hijinks …
: Brave New Word? A fun little web game when you guess when neologisms were coined, via waxy.org Not …
: Buildings, buildings everywhere
: Baseball in Bhutan “Bhutan hopes to be next great baseball country” This is interesting, and highlights the …
: Coral I borrowed a GoPro to take some photos while snorkelling. It was pretty fun!
: Is Mastodon a hostile place? I read a useful post by Erin Kissane, where they asked people on Bluesky about what their negative …
: What would the internet of people look like now? One of the key markers of Web 2.0, in retrospect, was not the adoption of mobile, though that is …
: Review of The Deluge by Stephen Markley Stephen Markley has crafted a well-written, thousand-page sprawling multi-person narrative about the …
: The Deluge Stephen Markley has crafted a well-written, thousand-page sprawling multi-person narrative about the …
: Fire in the Hole Across the globe, thousands of coal fires are burning. Nearly impossible to reach and extinguish …
: Climate reparations: An idea whose time has come The largest twenty-one companies analyzed would disburse $5,444 billion over the period 2025–2050. — …
: Misunderstanding Misinformation In this sense, individual posts are not atoms, but something like drops of water. One drop of water …
: “Oceans have been absorbing the world’s extra heat. But there’s a huge payback” England holds his arms out wide to show the size of one cubic metre of air. To heat that air by 1C, …
: The New History of Old Inequality* I don’t read much history but I thought this article by Trevor Jackson was exceptional, and offered …
: Equity in Primary Health Care Provision: More than 50 years of the Inverse Care Law I guest edited a special issue of the Australian Journal of Primary Health with Dr Liz Sturgiss that …
: One other human habitation remains on Earth Please forgive the extended quote from Wikipedia about The City and the Stars but the metaphor seems …
: My friend comes uninvited It comes instead when I am fighting not an open but a guerrilla war with my own life, during weeks …
: Still time to submit your article: Equity in Primary Health Care Provision – More than 50 years of the Inverse Care Law Dr Liz Sturgiss and I are guest editing a special issue of the Australian Journal of Primary Health …
: Evaluation of ‘Shisha No Thanks’ – a co-design social marketing campaign on the harms of waterpipe smoking An important paper from our Shisha No Thanks! project, led by Lilian Chan, has been published: This …
: Speaking COVID-19: Supporting COVID-19 communication and engagement efforts with people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities The pre-print version of this paper written with my colleagues Holly Seale, Anita Heywood, Ikram …
: Moon Towers The surviving moon towers are all in Austin, Texas, though they were found throughout the USA and …
: Informal care in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic An important paper from Lukas Hofstaetter, Sarah Judd-Lam and Grace Cherrington from Carers NSW, …
: “The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served” – Submit your article to our special issue marking fifty years of the inverse care law Dr Liz Sturgiss and I are guest editing a special issue of the Australian Journal of Primary Health …
: Reflecting on 2021 for the Australian Journal of Primary Health The past year has also seen significant changes in academic publishing. There has been an emphasis …
: Ensuring culturally diverse communities aren’t left behind on the road out of COVID “We are always engaged after there is a problem – never upfront. The damage that has been done is …