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Joshua Pocius

@pocius.org
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👨‍🏫 Lecturer, UniMelb School of Social and Political Sciences 🔬 Medical humanities | corporeal cinema | AIDS cultural criticism | bodies bodies bodies 🗺️ Naarm/Melbourne, Australia 🐈‍⬛ Catlady

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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 06/07/2026
An anonymous NYC financier told an FT journalist the “AI-native” grads tended to have very shallow ideas, and that his firm “now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead” because they “want critical thinking, not just AI.” 👀👀
futurism.com
Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace
"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 15/06/2026
Some neat, disturbing visual analysis of the US history of the present, portrayed through the Trump administration’s schlocky genAI propaganda imagery.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 29/12/2025
Terribly sad and shocking news, so sudden and so young. May she rest in peace, cognisant of her profound impact on our world.
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Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity
The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 01/05/2025
GSC SEMINAR: ‘Extreme Misogyny, Problematic Feminisms and Governmentality of Gender in Post-Socialist China’ Speaker: Dr. Ling Tang, Lecturer in Cultural Studes, University of Melbourne Date: 2 May 2025 (Fri) Time: 13:00-14:00 Online registration: unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 13/03/2025
Oh this is terribly sad. Vale Linda Williams, your work was so integral to my thinking and writing on the libidinal economy of the moving image. Rest in peace 😢
dukeupress.wordpress.com
Farewell to Linda Williams
We are sorry to learn of the death of Linda Williams, Professor in Film & Media and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley. She passed away March 12, 2025 at the age of 79 following a l…
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 13/03/2025
Looking forward to this one!!!!
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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
All of these attacks were used by politicians on both sides and basically every media outlet to justify attacks on pro-Palestinian campaigners, pass repressive new laws and criminalise the anti-genocide movement. Now it’s revealed they were all orchestrated by one criminal syndicate
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Just bleak as fuck: “It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment...Therefore, the award is terminated.”
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/03/2025
I realize that a lot of this may seem dense and like it’s a bunch of finance shit. But it’s very simple: CoreWeave, a company that sells data centers for the AI boom, loses hundreds of millions doing so and is burdened with debt it cannot hope to serve. Nobody is making money in AI. Nobody.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 08/03/2025
Donna coded
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 06/03/2025
Vale Sandra Harding, a giant of feminist science studies and the history and philosophy of epistemology. 1935-2025.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 06/03/2025
Dawn kisses from my sweet Aušrinė, goddess of the morning star
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
19thc/20thc eugenicists believed that philanthropy and welfare for the "unfit" were "dysgenic" forces--that these contributed to the overall unfitness of a population by "allowing" those they perceived as "unfit" to not only live, but procreate, when it was better to let those classes die.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/03/2025
Truly taking on the United States and its tech industry cannot be done in isolation. Countries must form a new alliance not just to develop an alternative tech infrastructure, but to fundamentally change who that technology serves — the public, not profiteers. www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
The new technological infrastructure they develop cannot simply emulate the American model, but in another context. It needs to throw off its control on profit maximization, share price manipulation, and social control. Instead, it needs to embrace open protocols and federated infrastructures with a goal of maximizing the public good rather than creating the next unicorn. The solutions will not come from random coders, software engineers, or hackers though. Properly building out an alternative will necessitate an important role for government to finance development, direct key projects, and keep the public interest at the core of the work instead of letting corporations capture key infrastructures or tech savvy developers build things that only work for themselves.

Such an infrastructure will likely be very different than the centralized systems we have today, where a few major companies try to control virtually our entire digital experience. The decentralization such a project requires will ensure that countries have more power to shape how digital systems work in their jurisdictions to better fit their cultural and social norms, but also to allow their citizens access to a wide range of culture, information, and communication tools. There will undoubtedly be challenges on that path, but sorting through them will be far better than remaining dependent on US tech monopolies or simply switching allegiance to those emanating from China.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/03/2025
Canada and its allies should start looking at sanctions against US political and economic leaders, to make them feel the consequences of their actions. That should include tech billionaires, especially Elon Musk. www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
A frequent response of Western governments looking to rein in countries acting outside international norms and rules is to hit their ruling classes with sanctions, as has been done in places like Russia and Venezuela. A rogue United States should be subject to similar treatment, and it shouldn’t just hit administration officials, but key private-sector figures backing what the Trump administration is doing.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has debased himself to get in Trump’s good graces, and would be on obvious target for such sanctions, as would far-right financier Peter Thiel and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. But no one is a more obvious target than Elon Musk, the billionaire once praised as a future-building genius who has now made his true nature undeniable to the public. Musk is actively working to remake the US government — in many cases to serve his own interests — and is trying to push his right-wing project internationally, including in Canada.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/03/2025
The United States is a rogue state that’s now launched an imperialist trade war against Canada and Mexico. It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
disconnect.blog
The United States has gone rogue. There must be consequences.
Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Demi Moore can still win if she takes Pennsylvania
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 02/03/2025
Arrived at work nice and early for the first day of semester and was greeted by a gorgeous (huge!) butterfly trying to get into my office building 🦋
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 02/03/2025
Had a nightmare that Elon Musk was my boss and he was trying to hack me up with a chainsaw. Nearly escaped with my wit and ingenuity but then his minions stole my escape vehicle and I ended up also wielding a chainsaw, induced into lateral violence against my peers.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 02/03/2025
My new casquettes arrived from AliExpress :)))))) 🧢 🚲
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 01/03/2025
I find this deeply cringe but my therapists both chastised me for prefacing personal disclosures with “this is so cringe” so consider this therapeutic praxis: when im frustrated or devo I’m going to occasionally STOP, REFLECT, and list 3 GOOD THINGS that recently caught my attention. 🧵
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 01/03/2025
I really need better phone-bed nexus hygiene. Lately I’ve found myself doomscrolling in bed before I sleep, which gives me night terrors. Worse still I keep waking up incredibly early (3am, 4am, 5am). Too early to actually get out of bed, and so I doomscroll again, obliterating my optimism and mood.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Ukrainian ambassador now just has her head in her hands in the Oval Office. A global embarassment. (📸 Kaitlin Collins, CNN)
In the middle of the frame the ambassador has her head in her hand while Pete Hegseth and others look on
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 27/02/2025
Scientists and educators in Australia and NZ! Have you been watching the state of the world and wondering what you can do? We've created a crowdsourced document with resources and links with ideas. Pls check it out, do them, contribute your own, and share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Ideas for how to be GOATS
Ideas for how to be GOATS Guardians Of (Australian) Academia, Teaching, and Science The title of this is jokey but the intent is absolutely not. It is intended as a compendium of resources for Austral...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/02/2025
It’s always a pleasure to have @niedermeyer.online on the show, but especially as Elon Musk remakes the US government, we need to understand there are means at our disposal to curtail his power by targeting his companies — Tesla in particular.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 28/02/2025
One to 👀
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Poland experts release clinical guidance on trans youth healthcare. They define the Cass Review as of "low scientific value and credibility". journals.viamedica.pl/endokrynolog...
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Framework guidelines for the process of caring for the health of adolescent transgender (T) and non-binary (NB) people experiencing gender dysphoria — the position statement of the expert panel | Gawl...
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...
afr.com
Research funding body suspends grant to pro-Palestinian academic
Controversial academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has said Zionists “have no claim or right to cultural safety”, has had her $870,000 research grant suspended.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 24/02/2025
Trying very hard not to get too frustrated by my latest injury… tripped over less than 2 mins into my Saturday morning run and hit the pavement. Now I have a bung knee >.<
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 18/02/2025
Great episode of The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social with Danielle Carr @daniellecarr.bsky.social on psychiatry and the politico-scientific looping preceding our current bleak horizon. thedigradio.com/podcast/psyc...
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 08/02/2025
Today’s Melbourne rally to protect trans kids was huge!
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge... The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.
Charts of the payments to workers:
Hospitality - $42.8bn
Mining - $42.4bn

Profits:
Hospitality - $13.9bn
Mining - $253.2bn
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 24/01/2025
#BuJo update: I kept at it for an entire week so I bought myself this new one with my name engraved as a special little treat
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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This chart 📊 jumped out, showing the explosion of incarceration in the Northern Territory where 1% of the population is now in jail, worse than the United States. It should be a global disgrace for Australia #auspol
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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
In Australia today, corporate lobbyists can cheaply access politicians in private while peaceful public protestors face draconian penalties, write @jack-thrower.bsky.social and Viv Clarke for @australiainstitute.org.au australiainstitute.org.au/post/compare...
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Compared to the cost of protesting, buying time with a minister is very cheap
In Australia today, corporate lobbyists can cheaply access politicians in private while peaceful public protestors face draconian penalties.
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 05/11/2024
I rarely write online film crit any more but made an exception for The Substance, which is a documentary. If anyone under 50 tries to tell you its not "feminist" or not "reflective of women's lived experience", your wise old horror-nonna here has words to the contrary filmint.nu/coralie-farg...
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The Substance is a Documentary - FilmInt.nu
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. As far as emotional fidelity is concerned, The Substance is a documentary. No other film I have ever seen so perfectly captures my subjective experience of the culturally...
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 23/01/2025
Now would be a great time for australian progressives to stop mainlining the frenetic dispatches from panicked liberals in the USA and start organising towards an ALP minority govt with meaningful input required from independents and minor parties.
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 23/01/2025
I made this late one night when I was procrastinating working on my PhD thesis, it’s now racked up 50,000+ views which makes it my most successful media endeavour thus far 😜 😝 youtu.be/o5hsoeOB33s #SatC #fabulous
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every time Samantha Jones says "fabulous" in SaTC
YouTube video by Joshua Polyglam
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Paul Byron @paulibyron.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
HDR/ECR scholars of gender and politics can apply for this prize of up to $US5000. Due Feb 1 ⬇️
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 23/01/2025
Some pretty inspiring stuff happening in Serbia at the moment, with a general strike in support of the striking university students scheduled for Friday 24 January (image via @yugo.nostalgia on instagram) #podrškastudentima
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 20/01/2025
Filling my apartment with essence of twink because Cignessa Amagrossi just moved in next door and seems to spend all day on our adjoining balconies puffing. #TsuLangeYor #TroyeSivan
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 20/01/2025
Adventures in reading Freud… is the German word for “labia” really “shame lips”??? Can a German speaker confirm….. #shamelips #schamlippen #freud #labia
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Joshua Pocius @pocius.org · 20/01/2025
Convincing myself that I’ll actually keep up the #BuJo momentum beyond January this year… 🙏
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