Horrible forms of hate-based violence described in this article – but I can’t help but reflect on the alarming uptick of similar incidents in Australia as well.

See e.g. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

The legitimation of hate breeds violence, no matter where.

Instead, we must – as always – look to more transformative possibilities, like transforming the way we assess or even abolishing grades altogether...

Anyway, figured sharing this essay was a good enough reason to finally get on BlueSky :)

Young people today have grown up in an environment where $$ is poured into punitivity – police, prisons, but also AI detection and proctoring software – but there somehow never seems to be enough left over for their schools or educators.

A punitive 'crackdown' on AI use will not solve these crises.

My essay in Overland!

In it, I argue that our understanding of students' GenAI use must be situated in the anti-intellectual and anti-youth cultures of our time, which has told them that neither they nor their education matters. (1/2)