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Senior Lecturer. Teacher & academic development; Applied linguistics; Education. Forest dweller 🌳🌱 Toitū te Tiriti. Free Palestine. Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.

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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 20h
No surprises here. Two ticks Green all the way ✅✅ www.onthefence.co.nz/quiz/results...
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On The Fence helps Kiwis get started on their political journey. Answer a series of questions on the issues that matter most to you, and we'll show you which political parties share your values.
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Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My sincerest hope is for a government change. Please vote! It is heartbreaking how hard it is for so many. #NZpol
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 GREENS TO 20% 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 !!!!!!LESSGO!!!!! 16% in latest 1news varian poll… Wowsers #nzpol
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 28/09/2026
"...use of the word inevitable obviates the need to consider any alternative, and a person confronting only a single possibility is well beyond the need to think. The message is: "The machine is coming. If you are small and in the way, you must lie down and be run over" W. Berry - Life is a Miracle
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Missy Higgins - Total Control (The Motels) #SwoonSong youtube.com/watch?v=WY5i...
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Missy Higgins - Total Control - Live at Kandooma Resort, Maldives, 17 June 2026
YouTube video by Joh
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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is exactly how I talk about it too! I've seen Gen AI try to write good comms and it's always completely terrible (see - most of LinkedIn, a bunch of the newer FB 'nz politics influencer' types.
Screenshot of a tumblr post reading: recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Total Control, an Aussie political drama series. It’s so good. Deborah Mailman 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Alex Irving, in the final scene of Total Control.
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Get hooked by the Toto reference; stay for the learning!
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m a Deborah Mailman fangirl. Ever since The Secret Life of Us, Offspring and now Total Control.
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
✅✅ Two mf’n ticks to the Greens! Go, Chlöe!! 🔥
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
America: Data centers Europe: Data centres Australia: Data senners
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes to all of this--and especially this, right now. "Resources must be put into the labor of teaching and learning to write so that the scale of interaction is appropriate to our goals of helping individuals learn to think and express themselves to the world through writing."
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Call for survey participants ⬇️
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TPU getting Hagerred #DirtyWork Good on ya, Nicky Hager. Meanwhile, c u next Tuesday BvV!
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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
I think the Green Party is the antidote to the #dirtywork epidemic in #NZpol
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
JFC - tell me that the so-called benefits of so-called AI outweigh its harms
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Eugenia Apostol, Whose Journalism Helped Topple a Dictator, Dies at 100 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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Eugenia Apostol, Whose Journalism Helped Topple a Dictator, Dies at 100 (Gift Article)
A publisher in the Philippines, she used her women’s magazine as a forum for political stories that helped drive Ferdinand Marcos from power.
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Krystal Chandelier @krystalchandelier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Based. As. Fuck. For an artist who had their work be changed by someone else and still want that change to exist shows how important art is in modern society. It's not just pictures and noise, it's a message. Ed Sheeran thinks art isn't that. #nzpol www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
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'Ngā mihi nui': Artist welcomes graffiti on Dunedin's Ed Sheeran mural
'Ngā mihi nui': Artist welcomes graffiti on Dunedin's Ed Sheeran mural
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Sylvia Sierra 🪾🏔️ @sociolinguista.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was so nervous going back to teaching this year with everyone saying students can't write, are getting stupider because of AI etc. Well guess what. All 19 students in my undergrad class today submitted their transcription assignments on time, and showed up to class. AND I don't think anyone failed
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We should be rioting honestly WTF
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can confirm this works! The process made me look at my Chrome settings again. I thought I had disabled all ad & info things, but I found a (new-to-me) page where my info like age range, marital status, income range, parental status, education & industry… I quickly disabled those! These fucks!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is still the best metaphor
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
bu.edu
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Slightly nervous for any university administrator to read it, but thanks to the work of scholars such as @cjdenial.bsky.social & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social our first-year humanities program has a pedagogical statement on gen AI, with reading list! core.humanities.uci.edu/index.php/ge...
core.humanities.uci.edu
Our Pedagogical Approaches to Generative AI in Humanities Core
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ngl, the headline piqued my interest because language… But I just couldn’t get even halfway through because of all the anthropomorphising.
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#💅⚔️
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#💅⚔️
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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.” — Octavia Butler 🧪
A JWST image of the “pillars of creation”
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🐶🐙Dr. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just been watching this...I feel less like a conspiracy theorist now with my stance on GenAi
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dr Taiuru warns of uploading photos on “AI” apps. Consider the risks and harms to oneself, whanau, future generations and environment. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/09/15/e...
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Expert warns of risks from viral 80s AI trend
A new AI trend is going viral, turning photos into 1980s-style images. But AI expert, Dr Karaitiana Taiuru warns about the risks of this AI technology.
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wrote up a reference letter for someone’s academic promotion and it was all generated by yours truly. I told the person who requested it. For what it’s worth.
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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey guys, if you're gonna share that one meme I made like a million years ago on Tumblr, share the original, not the horrible auto-smoothed traced version. Don't smooth out my angry, "it's 11 at night and I have FEELINGS ABOUT ART" hand wobbles, they're part of the piece!
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#Lingule #1610 "wakul": 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜↘️️️ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜↘️️️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆 lingule.xyz
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A fun little language game
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This should be good. Aotearoa take note!
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh come on, NY Times’ Spelling Bee! This is definitely a word.
A screenshot of the Spelling Bee word game on NY Times. ‘Dickhead’ is written but it’s not an accepted word.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AI Doomerism has been in the news lately, especially with the loud, viral resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger. >>
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Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Listen to me on BBC Word of Mouth talking to Michael Rosen about bias against women’s voices. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Word of Mouth - Bias against women's voices - BBC Sounds
Michael Rosen talks to phonetician Jane Setter about women's voices.
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wordle 1,910 3/6* 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Got all the letters, just not the right word!
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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ganesh'a speech at the Koroneihana 2026 celebrations. The economy is for all of us, now and in the future. Worth a read. #nzpol
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Get that worldwide franchise started
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Silver lining to this kind of awful story: It throws into sharp relief how just simple person-to-person connection is an important kind of resistance as we are being told "AI" can do everything. >>
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Scottish crime drama Dept Q is so good!
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Dept. Q Great
Alt: Dept. Q’s DI Morck played by Matthew Goode is giving a two thumbs.
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𓆉 A Study of Resistance 𓆉 @colourmefiji.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m so inspired by our Indigenous leadership in Aotearoa; how lucky are we to have such an iconic young Kuini! My goodness, such a profound contrast to the democratic leadership we’ve endured for the past three years. WE NEED MORE WOMEN & INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER ffs!
rnz.co.nz
'The leaders of today': Rangatahi see path laid by Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po
"Ko te rangatahi, ko rātou ngā rangatira o nāianei. Karekau ko rātou ko te rangatira āpōpō ko rātou te rangatira o nāianei." - Kiingitanga spokesperson Rahui Papa.
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#💅⚔️
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
But I do wonder what they think a “functional art” is??? 🤣
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Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A frictionless assembly line…
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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They need to know, as every kid needs to know, that the teachers they’re learning from value what they’re teaching and what’s happening in the minds/hearts of the kids in front of them
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