Kate Littlejohn
@kelittlejohn.bsky.social
History, curriculum, curriculum history, books, writing. PhD student researching gender, historical consciousness, and the history curriculum in Australia. Passionate about rural equity. She/her. 🏳️🌈 My words and thoughts are my own.
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Kate Littlejohn
@kelittlejohn.bsky.social
· Sep 29
#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
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I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
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Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Frikkin amazing stuff.
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A reminder: For the Holidays, your friends and families want books. Buy them books. If you aren't sure which book to get them, buy them more books. People want books!
My family has been calling me a luddite for years, & I’ve never felt better about that moniker than I do now, after a cities conference highlighting AI data centers & a new push for more surveillance downtown. We don’t have to participate. This year, shop in local stores, buy actual books. 📚🎄🕎
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A reminder: For the Holidays, your friends and families want books. Buy them books. If you aren't sure which book to get them, buy them more books. People want books!
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People who are ‘AI’ boosters and whine about ‘anti-AI’ sentiment bewilder me. You have Twitter and LinkedIn; you have politicians and journalists on your side; businesses are all pro-AI.
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
People who are ‘AI’ boosters and whine about ‘anti-AI’ sentiment bewilder me. You have Twitter and LinkedIn; you have politicians and journalists on your side; businesses are all pro-AI.
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
I feel really sorry for kids right now. They are swimming in genAI slop everywhere they go. It's pushed on them by everyone. My kids regularly tell me that teachers advise them to use it for *everything*. How do they become great at things when they're actively supported to avoid mental work? /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I feel really sorry for kids right now. They are swimming in genAI slop everywhere they go. It's pushed on them by everyone. My kids regularly tell me that teachers advise them to use it for *everything*. How do they become great at things when they're actively supported to avoid mental work? /1
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We had the technology to google “what temp is done for turkey” before we had AI.
The idea that we need AI to tell us how to cook a turkey because we don’t want to ask other humans ignores the many millenia of people finding ways to give each other answers without asking someone they know.
The idea that we need AI to tell us how to cook a turkey because we don’t want to ask other humans ignores the many millenia of people finding ways to give each other answers without asking someone they know.
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We had the technology to google “what temp is done for turkey” before we had AI.
The idea that we need AI to tell us how to cook a turkey because we don’t want to ask other humans ignores the many millenia of people finding ways to give each other answers without asking someone they know.
The idea that we need AI to tell us how to cook a turkey because we don’t want to ask other humans ignores the many millenia of people finding ways to give each other answers without asking someone they know.
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(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
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am i supposed to be consuming or am i supposed to be saving for a house i'll never be able to afford. can yall make up your minds
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
am i supposed to be consuming or am i supposed to be saving for a house i'll never be able to afford. can yall make up your minds
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In Mussolini's Italy, the fascist movement was obsessed with people wearing suitable attire in all social settings. Thomas Mann describes this brilliantly in one of his novellas. The fact that transportation secretary Duffy obsesses over how one should dress to fly in an airplane, while being
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In Mussolini's Italy, the fascist movement was obsessed with people wearing suitable attire in all social settings. Thomas Mann describes this brilliantly in one of his novellas. The fact that transportation secretary Duffy obsesses over how one should dress to fly in an airplane, while being
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
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This is an older article I still link to all the time because it continues to be so relevant. electricliterature.com/taylor-swift...
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is an older article I still link to all the time because it continues to be so relevant. electricliterature.com/taylor-swift...
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Isaac Chotiner like my editors haven't assigned me a new act of violence in two whole weeks I gotta start freelancing
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Isaac Chotiner like my editors haven't assigned me a new act of violence in two whole weeks I gotta start freelancing
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Concerning the Chotiner is opening up new fronts
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Concerning the Chotiner is opening up new fronts
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I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
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Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives
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“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
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I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps
gofund.me/60b29d002
gofund.me/60b29d002
Donate to Veterinary care for Butter Bean, organized by Tristan Gall
Hi everyone.
I run Geelong Guinea Pig Rescue in Geelong and we have one of our perma… Tristan Gall needs your support for Veterinary care for Butter Bean
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps
gofund.me/60b29d002
gofund.me/60b29d002
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#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
September 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#PhD research callout!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.
forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb
Ethics approval: H16788
Please share!
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps
gofund.me/60b29d002
gofund.me/60b29d002
Donate to Veterinary care for Butter Bean, organized by Tristan Gall
Hi everyone.
I run Geelong Guinea Pig Rescue in Geelong and we have one of our perma… Tristan Gall needs your support for Veterinary care for Butter Bean
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps
gofund.me/60b29d002
gofund.me/60b29d002
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For too long we’ve been subjected to a disempowerment discourse that asserts “the humanities are dying”. They’re not dying, but there is an effort by governments and corporations to kill them. And yet, the public’s desire to learn and engage with the humanities persists.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For too long we’ve been subjected to a disempowerment discourse that asserts “the humanities are dying”. They’re not dying, but there is an effort by governments and corporations to kill them. And yet, the public’s desire to learn and engage with the humanities persists.