TEU online hui on AI on the 31 October (Halloween - appropriate for the topic!). I'm on the first panel - Mana Mahi - keeping decent work at the centre. The conference is free and open to all, attendees do not need to be TEU members. Registration link: teu.ac.nz/news/teu-art...

Getting ready for the big public sector strike tomorrow while teaching the next generation the value of protest

Workslop - the word of 2025?

Speculative labour has a hopeful or promissory function, with little hope of pay-off, focused on both a demoralising present and uncertain future. Balancing labour is the work associated with learning to become flexible enough to manage competing demands in a deteriorating present

This orientation has unpaid labour attached, with our analysis highlighting two key forms – speculative and balancing

Statement on AI in Universities from Communication and Media Studies network (and someone's made a snazzy summarising poster)
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...

Priceless

David Graeber on the scourge of "managerial feudalism" so prevalent in universities with the creation of countless bullshit jobs

Love how internet culture has influenced home made signs

Can get used to this Auckland life

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