Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I found out today that Janna, the centre of this story, went to primary school with my son. We're all proud of her, but I am very disappointed that no one did anythin. I'm pretty sure this is one of the buses I get to work 120
Reposted by Alex LukeFiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"There was a lot of men sitting right next to that man and they were just looking up and looking back down at their phones," she said. "No one helped her, which is really, really, really disappointing." 1012553
Reposted by Alex LukeMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 484297717665
Reposted by Alex LukeIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Months after citing the phrase "Become Ungovernable" as evidence of a vast conspiracy by 15 anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis, the GOP hosted the Trump pardoned head of Silk Road, a darknet marketplace famous for drug trafficking + murder for hire plots, who spoke in front of the same slogan. 311243
Reposted by Alex LukeNight of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths. 3945631523
Reposted by Alex LukeDr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026As an anthropologist, I endorse this message! 273207276676
Reposted by Alex LukeMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 07/06/2026Reminder that The Guardian has a strategic partnership with OpenAI 29138
Reposted by Alex LukeBassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer 130198334939
Reposted by Alex LukeLina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Has anyone published about the functions of “lowkey” as an adverb? Want some good references! 133
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I had to get something thoughts on repression of pro-Palestine speech on capus out of my head, so I wrote this lukestransmissionstoo.blogspot.com/2026/05/init...lukestransmissionstoo.blogspot.comInitial thoughts on the Palestine exception at work 2023-2026The upcoming Sydney Staff for Palestine forum on repression of speech on campus (you should attend! more information here ) has got me thin... 021
Reposted by Alex LukeChrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia 7246551066
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 02/05/2026It's a sad day when you realise 30-50% of your personality is unhealthy coping mechanisms 121
Reposted by Alex LukeNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026🔔 new paper alert 🔔 Justine, Su Lin and I spent the last year and a half trying to understand how LLMs are being sold — what are their supposed ‘capabilities’? how are these measured? etc and, more importantly, what does all of this discursive work *do*? what kinds of world does it presuppose? 1/ 1318
Reposted by Alex LukeGrey Area @greyarea22.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This is very true Unhappy about it? Time to organise... 153
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 18/04/2026You call it procrastination, but I call it slow scholarship 131
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I agree this would be good but it is pure nostalgia. The conditions for such a form of life no longer exist, and never existed for anyone apart from a small number of people in countries like the USA. We need to dismantle capitalism entirely instead 031
Reposted by Alex Lukepublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026idk i think it’s probably a best case scenario at this point that trump’s national law enforcement guy is so incompetent and intoxicated that he can’t even effectively oppress us 650380
Reposted by Alex LukeDan Hon @danhon.com · 16/04/2026I legit think some of the belief and experience that the economy sucks is also sheer exhaustion from shit like this and notification fatigue and every single shitty tech-mediated interaction of which there are hundreds a day 1123336
Reposted by Alex LukeKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/04/2026This article highlights something really important: it is absolutely bonkers how many massive, energy + water hungry data centres are being built in Sydney suburbs that are already subject to worsening climate impacts and heat island effects. They'll make both worsethesaturdaypaper.com.auPublic unrest heats up over Western Sydney’s data centresAs the NSW government hastens approvals for large data centres, Western Sydney communities say their concerns about heat and health risks are being sidelined. 411853
Reposted by Alex LukeTim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Took 15-odd years for BRS to be charged, but at least Qld police got right onto that dude wearing a t-shirt 121857
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 28/03/2026honisoit.com/2026/03/staf...honisoit.comStaff posts on compulsory antisemitism training removed from university platform – Honi Soit 012
Reposted by Alex LukeRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/03/2026this is truly excellent and important work 181087246
Reposted by Alex LukeMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026a reminder that sora, like chatgpt, is a commercial product that can come and go like any other website, which is another reason why a lot of us remain critical of “AI” — and why we focus more on its political economy than its technological mechanisms 138290
Reposted by Alex LukeBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Sat in Academic Board at my Uni yesterday where they congratulated themselves on rushing through a new Bachelor of AI, someone commented that “Marketing has warned us if we don’t get a named A.I. degree, we’ll be left behind by all the other universities” 1410021
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I just came out as non-binary on the family group chat 140
Reposted by Alex LukeJennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 09/03/2026College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below. 6525159
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 05/03/2026When your own reference list places your work next to Marx 🥰 030
Reposted by Alex LukeDr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026almost as tho a system of government established by, for and of propertied white males is designed to serve the interests of propertied white males. 0399
Reposted by Alex LukeDr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026every single time these politicians say “keeping people safe” and “community safety” and “keep Australians safe” the context will tell you that colonised and racialised people are not fully human to them, and nor are women and children. 15114
Reposted by Alex LukeDr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026the Aust home affairs minister just told the ABC that meetings like one between Israeli President and Aust intelligence boss “happen all around the world” and “they keep people safe”. Which tells you who are considered “people” to our government. 58432
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I'm delivering an online research seminar next Friday 6 March 1-2pm AEDT with WSU. uws.zoom.us/j/8314940900... Meeting ID: 831 4940 9001 Password: 469673uws.zoom.usJoin our Cloud HD Video MeetingZoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications. 120
Reposted by Alex LukeZachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions: 18128401616
Reposted by Alex LukeAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17/02/2026aliahabib.substack.com/p/do-i-have-...aliahabib.substack.com“Do I Have To Disclose I Used AI In My Query Letter?”And other things about which I’m vehement. 092
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Massive W as a parent when your child sends you stuff like this 151
Reposted by Alex LukeHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Gosh, who could have seen that coming?!hbr.orgAI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies ItOne of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten... 0134
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I keep seeing all these "Aussie patriots" defending the cops actions at the Herzog rally, and I can't help but think of this artwork 042
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I wrote a gonzo thing on my last day or so as a err pro-Palestine activist ('activist' makes me sound better than I am though) lukestransmissionstoo.blogspot.com/2026/02/its-...lukestransmissionstoo.blogspot.comIt's like living in the not-too-dystopian future!I got pepper-sprayed at the anti-Herzog protest yesterday, but it was actually some much less dramatic stuff today that gave me the ick;... 142
Reposted by Alex LukeDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8 1573277940
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 03/02/2026This is not Guenther's point exactly but lately I'm fascinated by how just the mention of 'pronoun' indexes a whole political philosophy to those on the right 060
Reposted by Alex LukeMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Foreign language learners show a kinematic accent in their co-speech hand movements. New paper by Hans Rutger Bosker & al. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.321doi.orgForeign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand MovementsAbstract. Humans typically move and vocalize in a time-synchronized fashion, aligning prominence-lending hand movements to acoustically emphasized syllables. This requires complex coordination. When s... 082
Reposted by Alex LukeLeft Voice @leftvoice.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Drawing lessons from the 2020 Black Lives Matter struggle, we must clearly understand that the National Guard will never be our ally — their allegiance is to the capitalist government.leftvoice.org2020 Taught Us the National Guard Is Not Our Ally, Whether in the Twin Cities or Elsewhere - Left VoiceDrawing lessons from the 2020 Black Lives Matter struggle, we must clearly understand that the National Guard will never be our ally — their allegiance is to the capitalist government. 0126
Reposted by Alex LukeAlex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Fuck the colony, all my homies hate the colony 1136
Reposted by Alex LukeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026If confirmed, this really is a new low, where a state agency is altering image of real events with an intent to deceive the public. 552418710
Reposted by Alex LukeCharmslot @zaraworkercouncils.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Work and labor are such different things. Work is what you put in even when it won’t benefit you much but just to maintain homeostasis in your living space or in your intellectual zone. Labor is how you are exploited in order to get currency. I don’t dream of labor either but of happy works for love 0113