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Nadia Niaz
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she/her Writing, multilingualism, academia, occasional gardening & powerlifting Book! https://rabbitpoetry.com/shop/the-djinn-hunters-nadia-niaz
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Finally found the Australians/Melburnians on here! Hello! I know some of you from Xitter, some from publications, some from your work and even some from real life. Really happy you're here and, if you've just joined, welcome!
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A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges.

TAX BILLIONAIRES
RUN THEM DOWN
LOOT THEM
IT WORKS
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This. Transphobia is a moral panic that has been heavily funded and weaponized by a lot of powerful & wealthy people over the last decade, and it's scary but NOT inevitable - and *certainly* not the fault of their victims.
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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so many of these people are not just doing their work but fighting for the right of their work to exist. and they are not downtrodden—they are determined. they are excited about the work and the believe in what they are doing.
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yesterday i talked to hydrologists, climatologists, people innovating sustainable agriculture, developing new methods of water testing with an Indigenous lens, a woman developing monarch hosting gardens in working class Mexican neighborhoods in Chicago, professors, PhD students…it was amazing
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i am at the midwest climate resilience conference and i will tell you this…it is 1000% better to be in a climate space full of scientists doing adaptation work than a usual climate conference full of tech bros trying to make their fortune

these people are literally getting their hands dirty
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
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An insult to the incredibly complex and nuanced work of translators.
The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25
AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears
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Grapes are like water you can eat. (This is a good thing.)
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I think that's part of it but the other part is it's men -and in this case especially rich men - and they already don't do those tasks, so they don't see them. This is why we're getting Samsung TV's with ads and not fridges that remind us to eat the lettuce before it spoils
This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.
it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”
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Realizing that part of the reason universities’ uncritical pushing AI into everything bothers me is that it is partly related to how little our institutions care about the humanities. Tech that might work in (some) fields does not need to be force fed to all of us. But who listens to us?
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I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

This whole thread.
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
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there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.
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On one hand, the inevitable AI bubble burst will crater computer parts prices, and we'll be able to grab graphics cards from dead data centers for pennies on the dollar.

On the other, it's 17x larger than the dotcom bubble, and according to Deutsche Bank, the only thing propping up the US economy.
AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says
A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.
www.marketwatch.com
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Please join us for a symposium on Translation, Voice and Identity on 9 October. Co-hosted with COASIT & featuring Dr. Frances Egan (Monash University), Em. Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University), and Em. Prof. Stephen Regan (University of Melbourne). Info&Register: www.coasit.com.au
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YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
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The climate of rampant IP theft has given landlords ideas

I want to remind everyone: NEVER waive your moral rights. Even if creators don’t own copyright in the work, it must still be credited to them & nobody else, & the work can’t be used in a way that harms their reputation. More info here:
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New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
www.crikey.com.au