Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
@szilviavirag.bsky.social
Just a realist with a camera and a pen who loves trees, animals, rainy days and solitude, and acknowledges the displeasing things going on in the world in the hopes of fixing them.
Pinned
Intro: I'm a multidisciplinary thinker with degrees in public health, social work, journalism& commerce &a mixed professional background. Passionate about ecotherapy, degrowth and telling stories with data, words and photographs.
Happy thanksgiving to my American followers. I hope you have a nice dinner planned regardless of whether you are spending it with family, friends or alone. #thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Happy thanksgiving to my American followers. I hope you have a nice dinner planned regardless of whether you are spending it with family, friends or alone. #thanksgiving
Is most of the old Twitter/X public health/social justice/climate change crowd here? I only seem to see a few people posting. So I'm wondering if everyone is just scattered everywhere across multiple platforms since leaving X, hence why Bluesky still doesn't feel the same.
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Is most of the old Twitter/X public health/social justice/climate change crowd here? I only seem to see a few people posting. So I'm wondering if everyone is just scattered everywhere across multiple platforms since leaving X, hence why Bluesky still doesn't feel the same.
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
stealing and enshittifying human knowledge, attacking social connection, giving money to purveyors of slop for testing their black box bullshit machines, trashing the planet.
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
stealing and enshittifying human knowledge, attacking social connection, giving money to purveyors of slop for testing their black box bullshit machines, trashing the planet.
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
it’s okay to hate everything about GPTs. Ai is mass damage and completely pointless unless the point is to dumb down all of humanity while the planet warms exponentially faster because billionaires have decided everyone should be groomed, stolen from, and lied to.
bsky.app/profile/ingr...
bsky.app/profile/ingr...
“there is a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin… the machine is disgusting and we should break it” - Anthony Moser
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
it’s okay to hate everything about GPTs. Ai is mass damage and completely pointless unless the point is to dumb down all of humanity while the planet warms exponentially faster because billionaires have decided everyone should be groomed, stolen from, and lied to.
bsky.app/profile/ingr...
bsky.app/profile/ingr...
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
“I hate the waste, the loss, the destruction, the theft, the damage to our planet, and the sheer excitement that some executives and writers have that workers may be replaced by ai - and the bald faced fucking lie that it is happening” - Ed Zitron
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“I hate the waste, the loss, the destruction, the theft, the damage to our planet, and the sheer excitement that some executives and writers have that workers may be replaced by ai - and the bald faced fucking lie that it is happening” - Ed Zitron
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
People moving away from me because I'm wearing a mask is the funniest thing. Beginning to think a "Haven't caught a bug since 2019" t-shirt for masking novids is long overdue.
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
People moving away from me because I'm wearing a mask is the funniest thing. Beginning to think a "Haven't caught a bug since 2019" t-shirt for masking novids is long overdue.
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now.
I. Told. You. So.
Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.
Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)
I. Told. You. So.
Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.
Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now.
I. Told. You. So.
Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.
Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)
I. Told. You. So.
Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.
Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)
If there was a prize for post of the week @clareobrien.bsky.social deserves to win it for saying that trying to get away from the AI shite being pushed on us is "like escaping the advances of a drunken harasser in a bar."
I'm sick of A.I. being pushed on me like drugs at the school gate. Wanted to check my Microsoft 365 subscription today, and only got to see my payment history after I'd had to punch Copilot in the face about three times. Felt like escaping the advances of a drunken harasser in a bar.
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If there was a prize for post of the week @clareobrien.bsky.social deserves to win it for saying that trying to get away from the AI shite being pushed on us is "like escaping the advances of a drunken harasser in a bar."
Thinking about the amazing St Mary McKillop on All Saints Day - because nothing says "I smashed the patriarchy" better than being ex-communicated for telling the priests to stay in their lane and let her teach as she saw fit only to eventually become a saint 😊.
-photos from my 2016 visit to Penola.
-photos from my 2016 visit to Penola.
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Thinking about the amazing St Mary McKillop on All Saints Day - because nothing says "I smashed the patriarchy" better than being ex-communicated for telling the priests to stay in their lane and let her teach as she saw fit only to eventually become a saint 😊.
-photos from my 2016 visit to Penola.
-photos from my 2016 visit to Penola.
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."
1/n
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
1/n
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
October 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."
1/n
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
1/n
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
The housing crisis is the 2025 equivalent of the Broad Street pump in 1854. Attempting to fix a housing crisis with more psychiatrists, is like trying to prevent cholera with more air freshener. Failure to take drastic action on housing is only going to cause more deaths like David's 😰.
It is my understanding that David Wakeham @wakehamamr.bsky.social died on 7 August by suicide, secondary to housing instability caused by the apathy and malice of the Queensland and Australian Governments.
I met David once, at a Senate inquiry. I did not know them well. They deserved better.
I met David once, at a Senate inquiry. I did not know them well. They deserved better.
October 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The housing crisis is the 2025 equivalent of the Broad Street pump in 1854. Attempting to fix a housing crisis with more psychiatrists, is like trying to prevent cholera with more air freshener. Failure to take drastic action on housing is only going to cause more deaths like David's 😰.
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
#EmotionLogic #Paradox #PoliticalGameTheory
The denial of #GlobalWarming may be more psychologically toxic than the stress of the actual warming #Gaslighting
#FkeWorlds versus #SharedFacts
The denial of #GlobalWarming may be more psychologically toxic than the stress of the actual warming #Gaslighting
#FkeWorlds versus #SharedFacts
January 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#EmotionLogic #Paradox #PoliticalGameTheory
The denial of #GlobalWarming may be more psychologically toxic than the stress of the actual warming #Gaslighting
#FkeWorlds versus #SharedFacts
The denial of #GlobalWarming may be more psychologically toxic than the stress of the actual warming #Gaslighting
#FkeWorlds versus #SharedFacts
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
“Doing kindness makes you happier and being happier makes you do kind acts.”
Kindness is contagious.
Pass it on.
❤️
Kindness is contagious.
Pass it on.
❤️
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“Doing kindness makes you happier and being happier makes you do kind acts.”
Kindness is contagious.
Pass it on.
❤️
Kindness is contagious.
Pass it on.
❤️
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
Once again, a music magazine is doing a better job reporting on the state of public health than public health orgs
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Once again, a music magazine is doing a better job reporting on the state of public health than public health orgs
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
The reputational risk associated with the use of AI is an under-considered consequence.
Imagine: You, a world-class consultancy, labeled as having a “human intelligence problem.“
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Imagine: You, a world-class consultancy, labeled as having a “human intelligence problem.“
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The reputational risk associated with the use of AI is an under-considered consequence.
Imagine: You, a world-class consultancy, labeled as having a “human intelligence problem.“
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Imagine: You, a world-class consultancy, labeled as having a “human intelligence problem.“
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It's a year old but even more relevant in 2025. "Why, why, did we invent AI?" 🎵
youtube.com/shorts/KDKbI...
youtube.com/shorts/KDKbI...
AI campfire song
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It's a year old but even more relevant in 2025. "Why, why, did we invent AI?" 🎵
youtube.com/shorts/KDKbI...
youtube.com/shorts/KDKbI...
I agree that it's ghastly. But it's not a "double colonisation" when it's affecting artists and writers of every background.
The rapid development of AI is testing the effectiveness of the Copyright Act, with creative and media industries calling for better protections.
First Nations artists warn against AI 'double colonisation'
The rapid development of AI is testing the effectiveness of the Copyright Act, with creative and media industries calling for better protections.
www.abc.net.au
October 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I agree that it's ghastly. But it's not a "double colonisation" when it's affecting artists and writers of every background.
It amazes me that the creatures who can't read the Bible and would only understand words like "walk" if you read it to them are more Christian than some humans who are most insistent of their supposed faith - while spewing hatred. Dogs just appreciate nature and show humans love and forgiveness.
October 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It amazes me that the creatures who can't read the Bible and would only understand words like "walk" if you read it to them are more Christian than some humans who are most insistent of their supposed faith - while spewing hatred. Dogs just appreciate nature and show humans love and forgiveness.
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week
He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared
They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him
Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility
They kidnapped a disabled child!
He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared
They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him
Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility
They kidnapped a disabled child!
October 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week
He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared
They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him
Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility
They kidnapped a disabled child!
He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared
They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him
Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility
They kidnapped a disabled child!
Reposted by Szilvia 😷📚📷🐕🇦🇺🇭🇺
I was astonished to hear from Matthew Warner-Smith that the public radiology workforce in NSW is so precarious that just 4 radiologists, all approaching retirement age, do 1/3 of Breastscreen NSW reporting. And screens are double-read- a huge volume. 😱 #ASBD2025 #BreastCancer #MedSky
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I was astonished to hear from Matthew Warner-Smith that the public radiology workforce in NSW is so precarious that just 4 radiologists, all approaching retirement age, do 1/3 of Breastscreen NSW reporting. And screens are double-read- a huge volume. 😱 #ASBD2025 #BreastCancer #MedSky
Billy Idol - We Didn't Start the Fire (1989). Imagine - John Lennon (1971). So many other examples. The reason for people's shock today isn't that the world has changed. It's that they thought the horrors they are now seeing only happened in the past, or in other countries, to other people.
September 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Billy Idol - We Didn't Start the Fire (1989). Imagine - John Lennon (1971). So many other examples. The reason for people's shock today isn't that the world has changed. It's that they thought the horrors they are now seeing only happened in the past, or in other countries, to other people.