Reposted by Andrew WearringRobbie Buck @robbieb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Sydney's much-loved community radio station 2SER-FM is under imminent threat. We've started a petition to go to UTS, (the uni that will make the call). WE DON'T WANT MONEY, just your support. Can you help? c.org/xnykpfBd7r Please share.c.orgSign the PetitionSave 2SER-FM 23935
Reposted by Andrew WearringJames F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 01/03/2026#CfP : ‘So(cially) Ancient! Representing Ancient and Early Medieval Social, Ethnic and Religious Realities in Video Games’ classicalreception.org/cfp-socially...classicalreception.orgCfP: ‘So(cially) Ancient! Representing Ancient and Early Medieval Social, Ethnic and Religious Realities in Video Games’CALL FOR PAPERS for the international conference at the Finnish Institute at Athens, on 22–23 October 2026: Video games have become a significant and influential part of mainstream culture. Consequ… 011
Reposted by Andrew WearringJeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Dear Lord. Centrelink says 144 different parts of its system have been operating unlawfully or erroneously. This scandal of 44k overpaid debts is just ONE of the 144 issues they say they've identified. The welfare system is in complete crisis & disarray 1017795
Reposted by Andrew WearringDigital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Scammers are going to be targeting children thanks to the social media age ban, imitating age verification tools to steal data, and dodgy 'free VPNs' being promoted to kids. Full article: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/cybe… 01914
Reposted by Andrew WearringRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQyoutu.beHoward University AI PanelYouTube video by Tiera Tanksley 9593289
Reposted by Andrew WearringCethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 12/11/2025Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails. 68142323106
Reposted by Andrew WearringJennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch. 10632598
Andrew Wearring @wandrew.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I promise I'm not getting back on the Religital bandwagon, but couldn't not share thistheguardian.comAn ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley 000
Reposted by Andrew WearringNicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2025it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...aftermath.siteA Condition Took Away The Use Of My Hands. Silksong Helped Me Rehab Them - AftermathLast year I woke up with the hands of an alien. Every item I grasped fell to the floor like so many grains of sand; every doorknob became a lock I couldn’t open. It didn’t hurt, but hundreds of dollar... 9479115
Reposted by Andrew WearringAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy 312109595
Reposted by Andrew WearringBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2025This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs. 2933111455
Reposted by Andrew WearringJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/08/2025an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening 3479051825
Reposted by Andrew WearringYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 23/08/2025#MIFF2025 Shocking level of CO2 in Hoyts 6 as we await the start of ICE TOWER (good is 600-800 ppm) Helpful MIFF staff have gone to see if Hoyts can do anything about the ventilation So much rebreathed air in here! #MaskOn #CleanIndoorAir 2122
Reposted by Andrew WearringCrikey @crikey.com.au · 24/08/2025This policy will allow the government to purge waitlists, decrease “reported” homelessness figures, and allow them to spin the narrative that Queensland is managing the public housing crisis. The opposite is true.crikey.com.auQueensland’s 'anti-social' housing policy is a disgraceful attack on homeless people 1187
Reposted by Andrew WearringDeclan Humphreys @dhump.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I had such an great conversation with three remarkable thinkers. Thank you to Sami Shah for asking some blisteringly difficult questions about the nature of God, whether AI can replace religious leaders, and if this technology signals the biblical end times. #AI www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...abc.net.auIs God in the machine? - ABC listenCan we know God through machines? Can machines know God? And could machines, one day, become godlike themselves? While AI is still in its infancy, it is evolving at lightning speed, and ingraini... 002
Reposted by Andrew WearringJon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I know a *lot* of researchers who use Otter for transcription services. Hmmm... 24726
Reposted by Andrew WearringBisho @angbisho.bsky.social · 15/08/2025A playable species book for d&d featuring NZ Aotearoa inspirations! So fun! 282
Reposted by Andrew WearringJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I studied Buddhism intensely for a decade, and nothing immediately clears my mind of all grasping to thoughts or perceptions like someone trying to tell me the rules to a board game. 5697
Reposted by Andrew WearringThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 30/07/2025Buddhist teachings caution against creating AI avatars of deceased loved ones. The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes. theconversation.com/it-is-becomi...theconversation.comIt is becoming easier to create AI avatars of the deceased − here is why Buddhism would caution against itA scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for genuine transformation and connection. 13911
Reposted by Andrew WearringBruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025"The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity." www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo... Hurray for "A.I."datacenterdynamics.comReport: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demandsAll the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers 12416
Reposted by Andrew WearringEileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...technologyreview.comA major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal dataPersonally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. 2219147
Reposted by Andrew WearringMissReadsALot @theresjustnopo1.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Do you work in STEM? Want to engage with the next generation of scientists? Become a pen-pal! Our office just shared this around, and I've signed up. Maybe you'd like to too.prescientist.orgFor STEM Professionals - Letters to a Pre-ScientistPen Pal Program Overview We encourage STEM Professionals of all kinds to get involved with Letters to a Pre-Scientist! STEM professionals send and receive letters throughout a school year from ... 12917
Andrew Wearring @wandrew.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I haven't seen much discussion in the media about how new government policies will affect Australians of all ages on platforms beyond just the teen social media ban. They will need to verify your age to work out whether you're old enough, too: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...abc.net.auAustralia is quietly rolling out age checks for search engines like GoogleJust as Australians are adjusting to the idea of having their ages checked for social media, age assurance rules are being applied to search engines and many other corners of the internet. 150
Reposted by Andrew WearringAnthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 09/07/2025AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist 2764226863
Reposted by Andrew WearringDr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Very proud to have co-authored this blog post with Jo Hemlatha! It looks at how qualitative research methods contribute to open research through participatory methods, interpersonal openness, and linguistic openness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openresearch #openscience #qualitativeblogs.lse.ac.ukWhat does “Open Research” mean for qualitative research? - Impact of Social SciencesOpen research has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha and Thomas Graves argue that when it comes to qualitative research, considerations around replicability, context-dependent m... 0197
Reposted by Andrew WearringJames F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Mandaeans and others speak out against threats to Iranian leadership www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/...presstv.irIran’s religious minorities denounce assassination threats against Ayatollah KhameneiIn a show of national unity, the top representatives of Iran’s religious minorities and faith communities have strongly condemned recent threats against the Leader of the Islamic Revolution,… 011
Reposted by Andrew WearringCroakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Australian classrooms have worse air quality protections than many pet shelters and greenhouses www.croakey.org/australian-c... #publichealthcroakey.orgAustralian classrooms have worse air quality protections than many pet shelters and greenhouses 21110
Reposted by Andrew WearringLucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 18/06/2025A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one 242319656
Reposted by Andrew WearringAnnette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Position (tenured) in ancient/late antique Jewish history, religion, and culture at Harvard (deadline 9/1) academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14958academicpositions.harvard.eduTenured Professor in Near Eastern Languages and CivilizationsThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations seeks to appoint a tenured professor in Jewish Studies, with a specialization in Jewish history, religion, and culture in antiquity and/or la... 12516
Reposted by Andrew WearringKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/06/2025Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. The next phase will double the gas turbines. A short vid on a dataset I found showing the scale of this problem Part 1 below, or full on YT here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQC... 323188
Andrew Wearring @wandrew.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Today I learned that Britney Spears is an anagram of Presbyterians 030
Andrew Wearring @wandrew.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Bluesky may not be the old web but it is where the old web hangs out 020
Reposted by Andrew WearringLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is extraordinary: "emissions by data centres needed to train and deliver AI services are estimated at around 3 per cent of the global total, close to those created by the aviation industry." 13502310
Reposted by Andrew WearringKathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 05/05/2025"Worse than being drunk or high" hfs how did screens even pass safety testing when any small cabin or seat-change must be rigorously crash-tested?? 3376
Reposted by Andrew Wearringmankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you 60151045119
Reposted by Andrew WearringMegan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025y'all when I tell you this was the most fun I've had all week 1317
Reposted by Andrew WearringGabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNIH cancels its first and largest study centered on womenThe Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings 13026701743
Andrew Wearring @wandrew.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Have too many of these lost loves and it's still too soon to talk about any of them 010
