Ben Harris-Roxas

This animation does an amazing job of explaining why a slightly misplaced wire label led to a shipwide blackout, which in turn led to a the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing. Dymo owners take note!

Reading is falling off a cliff, like an endangered craft. This is clearly more about performance than interiority, but perhaps that’s okay if it leads to someone reading?

How fashion embraced the book nerds- GQ

This ridiculous post (the answer is clearly his own tariffs) made me learn about “Boxed Beef”, a fascinating turn in intensive beef production that reminds me of what has happened to poultry. Sci-fi authors who thought we’d be eating vat protein got it wrong.

Putting Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers - 404 Media

“…my “collaborations” with generative AI are no more collaborative than my body’s folding to the contours of the chair I sit on, or the way my drawing is a collaboration with the pencil, or how the air I breathe buoys my thinking.“ – Rachel Horst

I grew up in a town where there were several Aboriginal deaths in custody in the ‘80s. The final report of the RCIADIC was released 34 years ago.

Nothing’s changed.

“More First Nations people have died in custody in New South Wales so far this year than ever before, the state coroner has revealed”

Western Sydney University students and alumni emailed to say their degrees had been “revoked”. These incidents are damaging because they mirror the officious and depersonalised tone of so much comms. If acting in more human and humane ways was the norm, these incidents wouldn’t be so harmful.

I’m proud to announce my new role as Chief Content Officer for SlopApp and I look forward to the many challenges of the role.

“OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos”

University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time - Daniel Demant at InSight+

Rick Morton in the Saturday Paper:

> The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its own enterprise agreement, until it was forced to release it.

A small way of showing your support for students and staff at UTS:

Petition · Save UTS Public Health – For Students, Communities, and Equity

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

The ever-diminishing set of use cases for LLMs…

A Croakey post by me: Calls for action to stop public health cuts at University of Technology Sydney

Me 🫴 The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers 🦋 is this real? (It’s very well done)

Three influential policy groups that together receive almost $20m in donations a year refuse to reveal their key donors, including those whose commercial interests may overlap with their public advocacy campaigns. The progressive Australia Institute, the right-leaning Centre for Independent Studies and the conservative Institute of Public Affairs argue they cannot reveal their donors without exposing them to attack from political opponents.

Slack. Good on Grattan, CEDA and Per Capita for being more honest about their funding.

Reported by Henry Belot for _The Guardian _

This TikTok is a useful reminder that everyday, shoulder-shrugging, just-asking-questions racists are the soil in which Nazis grow

Australian and kiwi pedestrians beware, Tesla are coming for you

Prof Michelle Arrow is one of the finest writers on Australian society and how we’ve ended up where we are. In this piece for The Conversation she tackles a timley issue: what are Australian universities for?