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James Anwyl

@jmanwyl.bsky.social
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we can solve all the problems, can't we sincerely curious, still

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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In Australia, we publicly fund privilege, not opportunity.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/06/2026
Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We've been raised to assume that recreation requires competition, that half the people playing a game must try to defeat the other half. Thus, until you play a cooperative game, you may not grasp how much fun competition ISN'T. More in my new podcast ep "Fun Without Winning or Losing": is.gd/JiaK2w
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
1/5 Superb new book by Nick Chater and George Loewenstein: It’s on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We’re to Blame for Society’s Deepest Problems - tinyurl.com/uj4ymmey
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It's on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We’re to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems: Chater, Nick, Loewenstein, George: 9781541700116: Amazon.com: Books
It's on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We’re to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems [Chater, Nick, Loewenstein, George] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on quali...
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
1/2 Given how many positive things can be flicked away just by calling them "woke," I guess it shouldn't be surprising that conservatives also rely on derogatory labels like ”fuzzy math” to dismiss more sophisticated teaching that emphasizes meaning over rote recall.
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The Kavernacle @thekavernacle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
New video! Professor Jiang continues to rise, and in this video we look at the conspiracy theories driving his world view and also how he does not understand Communism or Capitalism properly (because of his belief in these conspiracy theories)
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Somehow Professor Jiang got even WORSE
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James Anwyl @jmanwyl.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Supporting educators to guide our children - dignify their efforts, give credit to their importance and recognise their importance in society as a matter of priority. Please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/re...
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Respect kindergarten teachers and educators!
The Premier cannot say Victoria is the ‘education state’ and promise parents fee-free 3 and 4-year-old kindergarten without the workforce to deliver it – and that can’t happen without investing in dec...
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Bannon famously described the fascist's movement goal to "flood the zone with shit" so no one knows what's true any more. Thanks to AI, we're just about there - nearing "authenticity collapse" where the regime's deepfakes are believed, and, just as dangerous, actual videos are doubted: is.gd/ECquPE
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
From my recent piece "The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym": www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
To rely on Al to read for you is no more sensible than using it to write for you. This is true not only because, as I've pointed out, its summaries are often wildly inaccurate, but because the intrinsic value of reading is lost when you delegate ChatGPT to extract bullet points from a text. Imagine a world where this becomes the norm, where people's primary engagement with books and articles consists of telling a computer to boil them down, where even great literature is compressed into a thd. Isn't this what we're actually training students to do when our schools are bent to the purpose of preparing them for LLM-centered workplaces? (And, incidentally, how might future writers be affected by realizing that any given reader may rely on software to digest their work?)

Even when gleaning information is the primary purpose of reading certain documents, claims about the usefulness of Al ignore the value (and, often, pleasure) of doing the research oneself, the way that reading can lead in unexpected directions, yield serendipitous insights, suggest new lines of inquiry. This, in turn, raises deeper questions that are typically ignored by Al proponents: What is the point of education — and, for that matter, of life itself? Optimization and efficiency to what end?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 16/11/2025
Since becoming a father, Oliver Jeffers has felt a need to write and illustrate stories that truly make a difference.
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Oliver Jeffers: 'I want to be able to look my kids in the eye and say that I tried'
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
1/2 My new essay on AI (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by @emilymbender.bsky.social, @palan57.bsky.social, @stopgenai.com, @ddmeyer.bsky.social, @zachczaia.bsky.social, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social ....
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The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym
EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different ti...
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Why do we persist in romanticizing failure, particularly where students are concerned? A look at the ideology behind this tendency - and how it's contradicted by research - in the latest episode of Kohn's Zone: "The Failure of Failure." (All episodes are available here: www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/09/2025
Blumenthal to Patel: "I'm not going to mince words -- you lied to us."
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This seems a simple and sensible approach to saving Meanjin: An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It wasn’t about the money
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A new episode of my podcast (Kohn's Zone) just dropped: "Confusing Harder with Better." Why do corporate school reformers fetishize "rigor"? Why do we assume that AP classes are the best classes in a high school? Why have kindergartens come to resemble bad first-grades? Listen here: is.gd/JiaK2w
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TheSocioPhi @thesociophi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Authoritarians weaponize stupidity to undermine trust in expertise, institutions responsible for safeguarding and dispersing knowledge, and consensus reality, because doing so makes people more dependent on the authoritarian leader or party as the sole arbiters of “truth.”
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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This is the only thing you need to read about AI The part about being too emotional and putting words in people’s mouths ESPECIALLY
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
When you see news stories day after day about Israel's deliberate policy of creating mass starvation & shooting desperate civilians, please realize this can't be blamed exclusively on a handful of monsters in charge. (Sources for the figures below: is.gd/hrAf4T & is.gd/TMTHTx)
64.5% of the Israeli public is not at all or not very concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.Around 2/3 of the [Israeli] public think that when planning military operations, Israel should not take into account, or should only take into account to a smalll extent, the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza...
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
It's not just a protester's slogan: A Jewish Holocaust scholar (who served in the Israeli army) explains that "Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza." It's not a war or even just ethnic cleansing: It is genocide; Israel is "beyond the pale of humanity": is.gd/26p4ud
[Guardian headline] Gaza is 'hell on earth' with doctors fainting from hunger, UN says, as 1,000 people estimated to have been killed seeking food
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Happy to point out that @albomp.bsky.social deciding to release the highly contentious special envoy's report - a report he has known about for many months - just before he departs for a large, publicity sucking tour of China, is in fact, not a coincidence. #duckandrun #pfffft
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James Anwyl @jmanwyl.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Helping Ahmed Nashwan and his family chuffed.org/project/1325...
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Helping Ahmed Nashwan and his family
This is Julia, I have set up this campaign for Ahmed Nashwan. His story in his own words is below.My name is Ahmed Nashwan. I am a 29 year old accountant who has lost everything in the Gaza massacre. ...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation
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Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
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James Anwyl @jmanwyl.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
relative perspective
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Solidarity Economy Association @solidarityecon.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Among the many people Israel slaughtered today, these two families were nearly wiped out. I documented them for you to witness.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Countries all over the world are looking at Iran and thinking. "I need to build a nuclear bomb." Well done. 🙃
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The 2022-23 tax stats just dropped. And there we have it: 91 millionaires who paid ZERO tax
2023-23 TAX STATS SPREADSHEET SHOWING 91 PEoPLE WITH A TOTAL INCOME OF $1M+ who paid $0 tax
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
For those tired of the Neo-Liberal lies about debt and the economy from the media, Steve Keen will speak with Hannah Appel and Michael Hudson about Debt, Empire and the Economy. 30th June.
"Private debt is much bigger 
than government debt. It’s 
private borrowing, not 
government spending, 
that actually drives 
crises and inflation."
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  - Steve Keen
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 30/05/2025
Elon Musk's huge popularity over the years is a great reminder of an often forgotten truth: nerds are exactly as dumb and gullible as everyone else.
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James Anwyl @jmanwyl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
attn: israel stenographers & media 'both siders' that enabled israel to commit vile atrocities against Palestinians with impunity IF JUSTICE DOES NOT FIND YOU FIRST May the guilt eat at you, excuses of 'editorial censorship' fail you & your conscience gnaw voraciously upon your future, forever.
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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza — legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it. ~ Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza
Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza — legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it.
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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The quiet part out loud. This is colonization. This is apartheid. This is ethnic cleansing. This is genocide. Free Palestine.
Israeli Finance Minister doubles down on ethnic cleansing.
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Mo Hamzeh @mohamz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A F*CK!NG GENDER REVEAL. t.me/metanyahu
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 27/04/2025
I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights. Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 02/05/2025
Capitalism didn't give us the internet. Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 04/05/2025
It's so funny how "ambition" for so many people just means "trying to make as much money as possible." Like guys, you only get one life, I can't imagine anything less "ambitious" than using it trying to get a promotion at work so you can afford a boat or whatever.
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“2020, Wolf Pack of surveillance tech rolled out by Israel across Occupied Palestinian Territories. Using Blue Wolf, Israel carried out a massive biometrics registry of Palestinians, checkpoints, gunpoint, people's private homes in the middle of the night.” advox.globalvoices.org/2024/10/11/i...
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Israel is using surveillance technology to subjugate and target Palestinians
Data collection and technology can be harmful, especially when used to monitor and subjugate marginalized people. This can be seen most clearly in how Israel has used technology in its war against Pal...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/04/2025
stealing like meme from my hellsite replies because lmao
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
FACT CHECK: Yes, we can afford to lift Australian welfare recipients out of poverty live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/05/aust...
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Australia Institute Live: Day 34 of the 2025 election campaign
It's the start of a 48 hour blitz where the leaders will criss cross the country trying to shore up final votes. All the day's events, with fact checks, as it happens.
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James Anwyl @jmanwyl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
the "wealth" didn't evaporate, because it doesn't really exist
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James Anwyl @jmanwyl.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
serf your masters
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/04/2025
This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/04/2025
Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight" @selc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
a greyscale satelitte image of Musk's data centre - with a bright red marker showing emissions from the many (I think about 30) fossil fuel combustion engines on site
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Jane Caro: Education is used by the rest of the world to at least try to break down the class system. Almost alone in the developed world, Australia is using it to build one. www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/j....
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Class warfare
Australia’s education funding model protects and entrenches the gap between schools, and it’s steadily getting worse
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