Dave Dun
@davedun.bsky.social
Language Teacher, Football Coach, Bad Parent, ADHDer. I try to be kind.
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“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago
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A lot of well meaning cis allies will still be under the impression that your average trans girl grew up just like the boys around her. I don't think many actually understand just how frequently people picked up on how we are different and considered hurting as a victimless action
www.tumblr.com/biblicallyac...
Related: I remember telling stories about my childhood to my therapist and her just staring at me through the Zoom call with a thousand yard look in her eyes and then just slowly shaking her head when I said I had a typical childhood
Related: I remember telling stories about my childhood to my therapist and her just staring at me through the Zoom call with a thousand yard look in her eyes and then just slowly shaking her head when I said I had a typical childhood
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A lot of well meaning cis allies will still be under the impression that your average trans girl grew up just like the boys around her. I don't think many actually understand just how frequently people picked up on how we are different and considered hurting as a victimless action
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On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.
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NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Police authorisation of Sydney neo-Nazi demonstration sparks calls for protest law review
A neo-Nazi protest received NSW Police authorisation to go ahead outside NSW parliament on Saturday morning.
www.sbs.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Pro-tip:
Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it.
Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it.
Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers
Pro-Palestine and climate activists join Jewish voices criticising ‘entirely inconsistent police responses’ and ‘unfathomable approval’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Pro-tip:
Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it.
Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Next time you see a nazi rally, contact police and tell them you saw one of them carrying a sign with a 🍉 on it.
Then sit back and watch the carnage. 😉
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A story that will have half the population utterly bewildered, while the other half screams for recognition from an overlooked corner of the room.
A Victorian inquiry has found a dismissive and disrespectful health care system built around "Caucasian male biology" is contributing to poorer outcomes for women and girls.
'Difficult reading': Victoria releases report into women's pain
A Victorian inquiry has found a dismissive and disrespectful health care system built around "Caucasian male biology" is contributing to poorer outcomes for women and girls.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A story that will have half the population utterly bewildered, while the other half screams for recognition from an overlooked corner of the room.
For those who think that coddling Nazis is just an American or European thing, pay attention to what is happening here in 🇦🇺
NSW Police:
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
More than 60 people attended Saturday morning’s rally after notifying police more than a week ago. The police commissioner said he had no idea it was going to happen.
www.smh.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
For those who think that coddling Nazis is just an American or European thing, pay attention to what is happening here in 🇦🇺
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Every masked ICE person five years ago screamed themselves raw about how they couldn't breathe in the masks to keep people safe. Masks to harm people, meanwhile, they can breathe through very well. Must be some kind of new invention, a hate fabric.
Literally, every member of ICE looks like they've been banned from at least one bar for being creepy.
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Every masked ICE person five years ago screamed themselves raw about how they couldn't breathe in the masks to keep people safe. Masks to harm people, meanwhile, they can breathe through very well. Must be some kind of new invention, a hate fabric.
If you’re not following @riotgrlerin.bsky.social, please do. You may think this is a one-off flash of brilliance but she just keeps coming up with these magic threads.
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If you’re not following @riotgrlerin.bsky.social, please do. You may think this is a one-off flash of brilliance but she just keeps coming up with these magic threads.
Really interesting piece about the infrastructure of education and what AI companies are doing to it:
“While private sector influence in public education has a long history, it is now taking the form of infrastructural penetration from below.”
“While private sector influence in public education has a long history, it is now taking the form of infrastructural penetration from below.”
We wrote this paper a while ago and since then OpenAI has claimed plans to be "core infrastructure" of education, Google has rammed Gemini into schools via its education platforms, and AWS showed it underpins most edtech platforms... 1/
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Really interesting piece about the infrastructure of education and what AI companies are doing to it:
“While private sector influence in public education has a long history, it is now taking the form of infrastructural penetration from below.”
“While private sector influence in public education has a long history, it is now taking the form of infrastructural penetration from below.”
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
I don’t post enough wholesome content. Happy Friday, everyone.
Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I don’t post enough wholesome content. Happy Friday, everyone.
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Homo Sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago.
Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?”
But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth.
You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars.
Capitalism is fucked
Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?”
But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth.
You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars.
Capitalism is fucked
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Homo Sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago.
Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?”
But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth.
You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars.
Capitalism is fucked
Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?”
But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth.
You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars.
Capitalism is fucked
So…. race science is ok as long as it’s done by computers?
Younger me blithely thought we were moving past this. But now I see I’m gonna have to work on my fitness. Looks like I’ll be punching racists and fascists for the rest of my life.
Younger me blithely thought we were moving past this. But now I see I’m gonna have to work on my fitness. Looks like I’ll be punching racists and fascists for the rest of my life.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 AM
So…. race science is ok as long as it’s done by computers?
Younger me blithely thought we were moving past this. But now I see I’m gonna have to work on my fitness. Looks like I’ll be punching racists and fascists for the rest of my life.
Younger me blithely thought we were moving past this. But now I see I’m gonna have to work on my fitness. Looks like I’ll be punching racists and fascists for the rest of my life.
LLMs just aren’t capable of producing anything anywhere near as good as “milquetoastify boringify language”.
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
LLMs just aren’t capable of producing anything anywhere near as good as “milquetoastify boringify language”.
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bit rusty on the "principles & values Jesus lived by" but astounded tt they now include:
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support
At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
bit rusty on the "principles & values Jesus lived by" but astounded tt they now include:
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support
☠️ militarily & politically supporting genocide, scholasticide & ecocide
☠️ cruel, pointless, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
☠️ punitive immiseration & perpetuation of Robodebt on people on income support
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Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.
[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
Hmm 🧐
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Hmm 🧐
Ms Rachel for the win.
Today, Ms.Rachel accepted Glamour Magazine ‘Women of The Year’ by wearing a custom dress with drawings from children from Gaza.
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Ms Rachel for the win.
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“I want forty op-eds belittling Mamdani on my desk by 5pm!”
News Corp Calls for “All-Hands-on-Deck” After Young Muslim Man Elected New York Mayor — The Shovel
“I want forty op-eds belittling Mamdani on my desk by 5pm!"
theshovel.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“I want forty op-eds belittling Mamdani on my desk by 5pm!”
Posting this again because it’s 🔥
“And even as it consumes those who use it, even as the scammers become their own marks, even as it is sustained by exploited workers slotted in as human filters for algorithmic abuse – some people want to have a little, as a treat. As a joke.”
“And even as it consumes those who use it, even as the scammers become their own marks, even as it is sustained by exploited workers slotted in as human filters for algorithmic abuse – some people want to have a little, as a treat. As a joke.”
“I do understand: you want permission... You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it.”
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Posting this again because it’s 🔥
“And even as it consumes those who use it, even as the scammers become their own marks, even as it is sustained by exploited workers slotted in as human filters for algorithmic abuse – some people want to have a little, as a treat. As a joke.”
“And even as it consumes those who use it, even as the scammers become their own marks, even as it is sustained by exploited workers slotted in as human filters for algorithmic abuse – some people want to have a little, as a treat. As a joke.”
The whole system should be nuked. For profit companies just won’t get people into work.
Increase unemployment benefits, no suspensions, no mutual obligations and a *government* employment service to help people get work.
It can’t possibly be any worse and we won’t be throwing money at grifters.
Increase unemployment benefits, no suspensions, no mutual obligations and a *government* employment service to help people get work.
It can’t possibly be any worse and we won’t be throwing money at grifters.
Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies
Employment department’s annual report shows just 11.7% of jobseekers ended up with jobs lasting at least 26 weeks last year
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The whole system should be nuked. For profit companies just won’t get people into work.
Increase unemployment benefits, no suspensions, no mutual obligations and a *government* employment service to help people get work.
It can’t possibly be any worse and we won’t be throwing money at grifters.
Increase unemployment benefits, no suspensions, no mutual obligations and a *government* employment service to help people get work.
It can’t possibly be any worse and we won’t be throwing money at grifters.
In case you’re worried about the synthetic text extruders becoming conscious and farming us Matrix-style: this is an excellent and very accessible piece on why those concerns are probably overblown. 👇
Hinton has been talking about “maternal instincts” in AI, but that’s a symptom of a larger issue: he worries about AI’s power to persuade us, even as he believes in what it tells him. mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...
Thoughts on Hinton
On Consciousness in Programs
Geoffrey Hinton recently won a Nobel Prize for his work on backpropagation, a foundational piece of research that contributed to the emergence of contemporary artificial ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
In case you’re worried about the synthetic text extruders becoming conscious and farming us Matrix-style: this is an excellent and very accessible piece on why those concerns are probably overblown. 👇
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Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
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No media about this?
NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences
The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas
.
NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences
The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas
.
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
No media about this?
NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences
The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas
.
NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences
The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas
.