Robbie Moore

After five years my academic book has reached the minimum threshold for paying royalties (£50). The money train is at the station, toot toot.

@slackbastard.bsky.social

Buy Hotel Modernity and help me feed my family again in another five years edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hotel-m...

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Andy Fleming

Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ@dfertl.bsky.social

With 81.2% of the vote counted in #Brazil 's presidential election, it seems the improbable is becoming the inevitable. #Lula (PT, centre-left): 51.3% (+0.3) #Bolsonaro (PL, right): 48.7% (-0.3) (+/- vs 72.8% counted) #BoraLula #LulaPresidente

The needle is in our favour and the needle, as we know, has never been wrong

mathieu gallard@mathieugallard.bsky.social

🇧🇷🗳️La projection des résultats finaux de #Electomaps sur désormais plus de 10% des bureaux dépouillés, avec une belle #needle : ➡️Chances de gagner 🔴Lula 92% ⚫️Flávio 8% ➡️Résultats finaux 🔴Lula 51,9% ⚫️Flávio 48,1% Remontada extraordinaire de Lula !

This actually ... might be heading somewhere better than round 1

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Lead change in Tocatins: With 65% counted, Bolsonaro up by 0.4%. (Was Bol +7% in R1.) Distrito Federal has now counted 74%, with Bolsonaro up 9%. (Was Bol +13% in R1.) Only other state that has counted majority of precincts: Paraíba. Lula leads 68% to 32%, so by +36%. (Was Lula +28% in R1.)

theguardian.com‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university reportWA paid Deloitte $166,000 for flawed feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin university and Murdoch university * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Western Australian government has said it is “extremely disappointed” and is seeking an “expedited” cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in a report on a potential university merger, including AI-hallucinated references and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost discrepancies. The WA government paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin university and Murdoch university. Continue reading...

Uni lecturers and admin staff working overtime with limited resources to deliver a service, while management consultants with infinite resources phone it in with AI slop

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 #GamescomAsia

@hey.paris

last day! #politas

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 #GamescomAsia@hey.paris

hey tasmanians who aren't transphobic shitheads, please sign this, it closes tomorrow haepetitions.parliament.tas.gov.au/haepet/Home/... #politas

haepetitions.parliament.tas.gov.auPetition Details - Tasmania Parliament E-Petitions

youtube.comSwimming SongYouTube video by Anna McGarrigle - Topic

Tasmania is unnaturally hot and the earth is dying but at least it's a chance to play my kids' favourite song www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZXf...

Why have I never read Rebecca before. What have I been doing with my life

Distraught that I have now finished Rebecca

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jon christian

@jonchristian.net

a pitchfork-style site that rates albums on a ph-like scale between bouba and kiki

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youtube.comBjork interviews Arvo PartYouTube video by La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale

Björk talking to Arvo Pärt in 1997! Björk says "I hear pinocchio and the little cricket in your music" and Pärt (beaming) is like "yes, exactly" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqE...

youtube.comBjork interviews Arvo PartYouTube video by La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale

Björk talking to Arvo Pärt in 1997! Björk says "I hear pinocchio and the little cricket in your music" and Pärt (beaming) is like "yes, exactly" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqE...

(tapping head meme) but what if you never make a profit

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Um ... looks like UPenn never finished their acknowledgements and permissions page for the online edition of Frankenstein

Um ... looks like UPenn never finished their acknowledgements and permissions page for the online edition of Frankenstein

"Netscape is Copyright ???" is a research assistant in 1996 staring into the abyss

I wish there was a version of Tim & Eric with fewer human liquids. Exactly the same but without the wet foley noises. Release the dry cut.

@davidcollard.bsky.social

Don’t send any of those nuncios of more grave aspect - they’re not up to it

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Jon Piccini

@jonpiccini.bsky.social

Keywords was published 50 years ago. A great book that really opened my eyes to the complexities of language.

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David Collard

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

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Hwæt!

@hwaet.info

"Well" Beowulf, 2002 Louis J. Rodrigues 🇬🇧

In "Modern Fiction", Woolf raves about Chekhov's story "Gusev" ("as the eyes accustom themselves to twilight and discern the shapes of things in a room we see how complete the story is, how profound"). And she's right, it's an absolute banger. With the most absurd and moving death in all literature.

An AI slop account on Facebook called "English Literature Gems" posted this version of "In a Station of the Metro" with new hallucinated lines (and breathtaking rhymes)

lol

21 Sept

One again I have to read "In a Station of the Metro" in public, and once again my brain will panic and glitch when I reach the word "bough" (bough? bough? bow? bow?)

“one again” smdh

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Sheila Liming

@seeshespeak.bsky.social

16 Sept

Flashback to that time I gave my students extra credit for plastering Annie Dillard quotes all over campus in preparation for the eclipse.

youtube.comBuy Me a ZeppelinYouTube video by Macbeth the Great - Topic

16 Sept

Yes, to every isthmus and every lake I want to be like Sir Francis Drake www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8V...

14 Sept

Our Proust reading group is still REELING from Swann’s death being reported as an aside in half a sentence

@flyingrodent.bsky.social

14 Sept

Uncanny that Mary Shelley, at 18, knew how hard it was for adult men to make a new friend

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flyingrodent

7 Sept

Replying to @flyingrodent.bsky.social

T minus 435 days, and counting down.

theguardian.comMacquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjectsUniversity’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and the loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’

1 Sept

“Instead of a group discussion or a tutor teaching you, it’s a class activity done with a robot,” the student said. “I feel like I’m teaching this robot how to take jobs away from my teachers.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

1 Sept

The union is pressing for limits around AI in our latest collective bargaining round - seems increasingly urgent

1 Sept

Honestly the first uni to market itself as an AI-free teaching institution is going to get a huge enrolment boost

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Wanderfound

@wanderfound.bsky.social

30 Aug

Sound up for enthusiastic morning birdsong.

26 Aug

Tim Curry escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism 🙏

youtu.beDolly Parton and Chet Atkins - "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?" 1976 STEREOYouTube video by Jason1920

25 Aug

This one youtu.be/aOoTlQpu5H0?...

26 Aug

Two and a half minutes of Dolly and Chet being casually virtuosic and charming

A relative was throwing out this (apparently notorious?) charity record covering every song on Sgt Pepper, featuring Wet Wet Wet and a British rap version of the title track, but also somehow Sonic Youth, The Fall, The Wedding Present, and The Triffids. How bad can it be … ?

You are not prepared

Against all odds, Michelle Shocked's folk cover of Lovely Rita is almost ok

Research by an IQ scientist who signed the Cofnas petition is exactly what you'd imagine it to be