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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The esteemed Prof. Bongiorno diagnoses Australian higher ed as trying to serve too many purposes at once, shortly before exiting his own employment at #ANU

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 08/05/2025

Authors and publishers need urgent assistance to keep Australia’s literary culture thriving - we are in danger of losing Australian voices writes @alicektg.bsky.social #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/authors...

Charts showing that since 1988-89 CPI has risen 110% while book prices have risen just 28%

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 15/04/2025

Faculty senates at Rutgers University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have passed resolutions calling for the creation of a mutual-defense compact. chroni.cl/4cBFrnu

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These Faculty Senates Are Trying to Band Together to Stand Up to Trump

The idea of a compact among institutions is based on the idea that there’s strength in numbers, and it comes amid frustration that few presidents are speaking out against the administration’s actions ...

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Jonathan Kandell @jkandell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is a once-in-a-generation chance for teachers, politicians, media, activists and academics to rebuild from the ground up the legitimation of coequal branches, freedom of speech, tolerance, diversity, law, international cooperation, bureaucratic expertise, regulation, and a robust welfare state.

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Victor Caston @vcaston.eurosky.social · 08/03/2025

Aristotle, Nic. Eth. 5.6, 1134a35–b1: This is why it is not a person that we allow to rule, but rather law, because a person does so in his own interests and becomes a tyrant. (Crisp tr.) διὸ οὐκ ἐῶμεν ἄρχειν ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν νόμον* ὅτι ἑαυτῷ τοῦτο ποιεῖ καὶ γίνεται τύραννος. * M; λόγον ceteri

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Well I think that clears that issue up!

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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It really lets you imagine how a bunch of Soviet agricultural scientists felt about having to live under Lysenko.

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God @thegodshow.com · 17/03/2025

The Seattle Times found a very much alive man who was wrongly declared dead and immediately cut off from his benefits.

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DOGE’s Dead Person Found Alive And Well

“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead.“

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I'm sure you teach some, though, and endeavor to guide them professionally

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The true watchdogs speak back to the lapdogs. This is heartbreaking, not least because they seem such thoroughly decent folks.

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They Were the Original DOGE. Then Trump Fired Them. | NYT Opinion

YouTube video by The New York Times

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A ringside seat to real-world battles at a proud institution

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The old 'hard-boiled' journalistic types were, ironically, more idealistic in their trust in readers to handle dangerous ideas. Whereas journalists used to serve as 'sworn witness' so the public could be judge and jury, journalists have increasingly usurped the latter role, to everyone's detriment

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

He acknowledges that the vaunted NYT 'objectivity' was really a side-effect of a business model selling newspapers to as many folks as possible. (Now we're returning to C18th partisan 'subscription' models). Still, journalists on the ground developed a genuine ethic around it.

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I found this a gripping watch, as James Bennet reflects deeply on his tenure at NYT during the first Trump presidency, and mistakes made as he now sees them.

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James Bennet: Is There a Mainstream Media?

YouTube video by The Point Magazine

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What about the weird juxtaposition of dating opportunities and career advancement for talented young women in the field?

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I read that back in the 90s. Really enjoyed the portrayal of "Noam Hillel" (!) But how much has changed since then?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/03/2025

"We've heard your demands for action. Some of you have called for a strike to protest the Trump administration. We love that idea, with just a couple of minor tweaks. For example, what if, instead of a general strike, it was a national watch party of To Kill a Mockingbird?"

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We Democrats Will Fight Back Just as Soon as We Can Get Our Shit Together

“More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party that is struggling to define what it stands for, what issues to prioritize, and h...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Ah ok. Fossicking is not pejorative in Australia - connotations of cheerful enterprise. I think it goes back to our gold mining days....

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Which term are you referring to?

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Last week at the Capitol Theatre - two 'inner-city Melbourne Italian girls made good' teamed up to make a unique event. Loved listening to Patricia show and interpret her own work.

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Episode should drop next week. Thank God we still have this public infrastructure in this country (for now...)

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

First time in the studio at ABC Radio, interviewed by silver-voiced David Rutledge for a Philosopher's Zone episode on "pragmatist philosophy and post-truth". In the booth opposite, pretty sure that was Waleed Aly! #philsky #pragmatism

Cathy in the recording studio at ABC Radio

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"Internal expertise [in Universities] all too often gets shunned in favor of contracting a global consultancy.” This creates an expertise deficit, since “the less an organization does something, the less it knows how to do it.” And the answer is...AI! Huh?

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Opinion | How Colleges Can Kick Their Addiction to Consultants

AI can help the sector wean itself from its dependency on outside ‘experts.’

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Wish I could be there! Will be teaching

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/02/2025

Heaven Installs Spikes To Keep Cherubs From Shitting On St. Peter’s Gate theonion.com/heaven-...

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Wow, that's a very...specialised personality 😁

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thanks for the engagement, Lauri. I can't read the German but your argument snapshot sounds plausible 👍

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Not an easy one to address since these days, "All roads lead to Rome" (p.286). It seems we might be able to pass through various circles of narcissist-studded hell by embracing insignificance. At least, so two little birds said to each other 🐦🐦 #philsky

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

What I read this summer: sequel to #indigenousepistemology smash hit "Sand Talk" by my esteemed Deakin colleague Dr Yunkaporta. Here Dr Y addresses how to recognise, and deal with, bogus indigenous knowledge in a late capitalist world hungry for vicarious authenticity.

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

What I read this summer: so evocatively written. Main character is a young male slave stuck in VA as his masters' fortunes have dwindled from their abuse of the land. Contains much real history - Underground Railroad, and Harriet Tubman, who I know now was an absolute badass. Highly recommended.

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