Giovanni Tiso
@gtiso.bsky.social
Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
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“If Australian policy-makers genuinely want to safeguard young people, the evidence points elsewhere: comprehensive, non-stigmatising sexuality education that acknowledges pleasure, consent and diversity.”
The Scarlet Alliance’s Mish Pony on Phase 2 of Australia’s online safety codes.
The Scarlet Alliance’s Mish Pony on Phase 2 of Australia’s online safety codes.
Howard and Harradine’s vision for the Internet is finally realised - Overland literary journal
What binds these actors is not simply distaste for pornography, but a conviction that sexuality and identity require moral regulation. Through advisory roles and institutional influence, they're shapi...
overland.org.au
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“If Australian policy-makers genuinely want to safeguard young people, the evidence points elsewhere: comprehensive, non-stigmatising sexuality education that acknowledges pleasure, consent and diversity.”
The Scarlet Alliance’s Mish Pony on Phase 2 of Australia’s online safety codes.
The Scarlet Alliance’s Mish Pony on Phase 2 of Australia’s online safety codes.
Anyway Foucault's Pendulum is a pretty good book.
a lot of people seem to think that television shows are full of secrets and that analyzing shows is about looking for clues to reveal those secrets
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Anyway Foucault's Pendulum is a pretty good book.
So... what happens to schoolkids in this scenario? Do we need to give them bank cards or upgrade their phones? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Wellington region to ditch Snapper public transport cards
Public transport users will be able to tag on with their phones and debit cards, as a councillor says locals are "sick of waiting" for a national system.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
So... what happens to schoolkids in this scenario? Do we need to give them bank cards or upgrade their phones? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
We shall start with the spelling.
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We shall start with the spelling.
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Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
It's the First Annual Gianni Infantino Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Peace.
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's the First Annual Gianni Infantino Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Peace.
An incredible piece.
“I was analysing systems of state power at the exact moment one of those systems was destroying my family.”
Two years after his mother was killed by an airstrike in Khan Younis, Hazem Almassry writes about how universities exploit Palestinian expertise.
Two years after his mother was killed by an airstrike in Khan Younis, Hazem Almassry writes about how universities exploit Palestinian expertise.
The profit of distance: how universities exploit Palestinian expertise - Overland literary journal
My mother was killed on 5 December 2023 in Khan Younis. An airstrike hit our home around 3 pm. The building collapsed. I learned she was dead while I was in Taiwan, working on research about how polit...
overland.org.au
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
An incredible piece.
Speaking of music, my son asked for a portable CD player for his birthday and since then—our family subscription to Tidal be damned—he's been going to the library and borrowing CDs. So he gets to listen to them as discrete albums instead of drowning in the ocean of endless playlists. SMOOTH move.
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Speaking of music, my son asked for a portable CD player for his birthday and since then—our family subscription to Tidal be damned—he's been going to the library and borrowing CDs. So he gets to listen to them as discrete albums instead of drowning in the ocean of endless playlists. SMOOTH move.
Russians by Sting. Hands down.
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Russians by Sting. Hands down.
[Seinfeld jazz riff]
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
[Seinfeld jazz riff]
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“Planning is political, especially in a country where it has been used to facilitate settler frames of land commodification and exclusion.”
An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.
An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.
Settling the city: urban planning as a vector of settler colonialism - Overland literary journal
The key tools of urban planning, like master planning, zoning and state acquisition of land, are derivatives of the state’s perceived need for centralised control. Urban planning assumes there is a bl...
overland.org.au
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“Planning is political, especially in a country where it has been used to facilitate settler frames of land commodification and exclusion.”
An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.
An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.
Pege Hegseth, Ssecretary of War
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Pege Hegseth, Ssecretary of War
Not so much prescience as science (but pronounced so it rhymes with prescience).
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not so much prescience as science (but pronounced so it rhymes with prescience).
Actually a terrible outcome as Peter Griffin explains in the article. It says AI companies can still train their LLMs on works of literature without permission so long as they don't acquire the content using dodgy websites. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
NZ authors among global payout out after AI chatbot trained on pirated books
Award-winning author Catherine Chidgey's books have been caught up in a class action in the US which saw Anthropic AI agree to pay up to $2.6 billion.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Actually a terrible outcome as Peter Griffin explains in the article. It says AI companies can still train their LLMs on works of literature without permission so long as they don't acquire the content using dodgy websites. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
The common experience of accumulating followers on platforms one is not on.
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The common experience of accumulating followers on platforms one is not on.
A clickbait headline about rage-baiting.
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
A clickbait headline about rage-baiting.
Trump doesn't know what part of his body was medically scanned in an unusual case of patient-patient confidentiality.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Trump doesn't know what part of his body was medically scanned in an unusual case of patient-patient confidentiality.
Our once beautiful city is officially dead.
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our once beautiful city is officially dead.
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“Perhaps the poor essay still reveals, through its derivative gestures, the outline of the writer it tried to replace.”
Jonno Revanche on the present of a form, and what might still amount to real writing.
Jonno Revanche on the present of a form, and what might still amount to real writing.
With respect to the poor essay - Overland literary journal
Once, many years ago, I was on a panel discussing something for a new redundant culture publication with a few different writers of my cohort concerning the topic of “Fake News” — a panel which I glad...
overland.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“Perhaps the poor essay still reveals, through its derivative gestures, the outline of the writer it tried to replace.”
Jonno Revanche on the present of a form, and what might still amount to real writing.
Jonno Revanche on the present of a form, and what might still amount to real writing.
Fuck them up, PATHA.
BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fuck them up, PATHA.
Please reply to this post with all the other things I should know, at the age of 54.
Then I found out that every oven has a self-cleaning steam function. You just need to fill a tray with water and run it at 150°C for half an hour.
Now my question is WHY AM I JUST DISCOVERING THIS NOW? It seems like something they would teach you at school.
Now my question is WHY AM I JUST DISCOVERING THIS NOW? It seems like something they would teach you at school.
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Please reply to this post with all the other things I should know, at the age of 54.
Looking into buying a new oven (the old one is carking it) and moving away from gas, which is expensive for a bunch of reasons. A big factor in the purchase is the presence of a self-cleaning option, of which there are two kinds
1 Pyrolytic: Brutish. Can damage the gaskets.
2 Steam: Gentler, fancy.
1 Pyrolytic: Brutish. Can damage the gaskets.
2 Steam: Gentler, fancy.
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Looking into buying a new oven (the old one is carking it) and moving away from gas, which is expensive for a bunch of reasons. A big factor in the purchase is the presence of a self-cleaning option, of which there are two kinds
1 Pyrolytic: Brutish. Can damage the gaskets.
2 Steam: Gentler, fancy.
1 Pyrolytic: Brutish. Can damage the gaskets.
2 Steam: Gentler, fancy.