Vassiliki Veros
@vaveros.bsky.social
Libraries and digital literacies scholar as well as popular romance fiction. PhD teaching @ UTS.
Walking, talking, storytelling and shallowreading. I sometimes forget the shallow part.
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Walking, talking, storytelling and shallowreading. I sometimes forget the shallow part.
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Vassiliki Veros
@vaveros.bsky.social
· Aug 14
*looks around*
Oh wow! Is this the good place?
Oh wow! Is this the good place?
Double bromeliads peeking out.
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Double bromeliads peeking out.
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AI is an absolute net negative for humanity. So of course govts are clamouring for more of it.
I don't want to be too judgmental, but every single proponent of the glories of AI is a complete wanker
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I don't want to be too judgmental, but every single proponent of the glories of AI is a complete wanker
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions?
Banks of servers operating 24/7 generate massive amounts of heat, requiring power to run and cool them
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
AI is an absolute net negative for humanity. So of course govts are clamouring for more of it.
I don't want to be too judgmental, but every single proponent of the glories of AI is a complete wanker
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I don't want to be too judgmental, but every single proponent of the glories of AI is a complete wanker
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A post in which I get a bit annoyed about the Greek stereotype in romance fiction but still enjoy the novel.
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#tbrchallenge #romBkBlog
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#tbrchallenge #romBkBlog
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A post in which I get a bit annoyed about the Greek stereotype in romance fiction but still enjoy the novel.
shallowreader.com/2025/11/27/t...
#tbrchallenge #romBkBlog
shallowreader.com/2025/11/27/t...
#tbrchallenge #romBkBlog
My garden is in full bloom, including my 30 year old daisies which are waist high.
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
My garden is in full bloom, including my 30 year old daisies which are waist high.
A wild storm. Hail, startling thunder and lightning. I shut down all my computers and stopped marking. I am waiting it out with the lights turned off.
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A wild storm. Hail, startling thunder and lightning. I shut down all my computers and stopped marking. I am waiting it out with the lights turned off.
I have finally caught up to the TBR challenge. Though I cheated.🤷 Two themes for one book. And there are a ridiculous amount of detailed spoilers.
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TBR Challenge – Friend Squad and Here There be Monsters: Reading Note 93
So I am going to cheat here and I am going to use two (yes two!) TBR challenge themes for the one book. WILD! Has this ever been done before? I don’t know but maybe SuperWendy will know. Am I…
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October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I have finally caught up to the TBR challenge. Though I cheated.🤷 Two themes for one book. And there are a ridiculous amount of detailed spoilers.
shallowreader.com/2025/10/29/t...
shallowreader.com/2025/10/29/t...
A review post for @superwendy.bsky.social and the #tbrchallenge. I may have gotten a tad ranty. But overall, I loved this book.
shallowreader.com/2025/10/16/t...
shallowreader.com/2025/10/16/t...
TBR Challenge – Do the Hustle: Reading Note 92
I am behind on my TBR challenge for this year so I am going to try to write several posts over the next few days to play catch up. This post is actually on the topic for August. And a BIG SPOILER A…
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October 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A review post for @superwendy.bsky.social and the #tbrchallenge. I may have gotten a tad ranty. But overall, I loved this book.
shallowreader.com/2025/10/16/t...
shallowreader.com/2025/10/16/t...
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LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.
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AI "disrupt[s] our apprehension of epoch + dislodge[s] thought from embodiment. If evrythng is everybody’s or nobody’s, [if] all humanities are treated as jumbled masses of info w/o regard for autonomy or ⌛, [we betray] the very idea of archives as repositories of human experience + layered memory"
Patricia J. Williams: “When AI Speaks for the Dead”
Patricia J. Williams on the shape-shifting nature of generative AI and its troubling commodification of the dead—in the courtroom and beyond
yalereview.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
AI "disrupt[s] our apprehension of epoch + dislodge[s] thought from embodiment. If evrythng is everybody’s or nobody’s, [if] all humanities are treated as jumbled masses of info w/o regard for autonomy or ⌛, [we betray] the very idea of archives as repositories of human experience + layered memory"
My bus driver was feeling rage-y today. He leaned heavily on his horn, shouted at passengers and flew up the bus lane as though buses don't need to observe speed limits. It was a white knuckle ride. All this while blasting yacht rock. I don't think it was having a relaxing affect on him.
September 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My bus driver was feeling rage-y today. He leaned heavily on his horn, shouted at passengers and flew up the bus lane as though buses don't need to observe speed limits. It was a white knuckle ride. All this while blasting yacht rock. I don't think it was having a relaxing affect on him.
Hello Gehry, my old friend.
September 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Hello Gehry, my old friend.
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You can search this database by genre and see which films were based on romances (although I'm not sure if they're all romances as we'd now define that): herhollywoodstory.com/database/fil...
August 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
You can search this database by genre and see which films were based on romances (although I'm not sure if they're all romances as we'd now define that): herhollywoodstory.com/database/fil...
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The UK govt has absolutely f*cked this up.
Award-winning poet Alice Oswald was arrested for supporting Palestine Action. lithub.com/award-winnin...
Award-winning poet Alice Oswald was arrested for supporting Palestine Action.
Alice Oswald, one of Britain’s most acclaimed poets, was arrested at a mass sit-down demonstration outside the houses of Parliament in London on Saturday for holding up a sign in support of d…
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August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The UK govt has absolutely f*cked this up.
And here is a photo from earlier in the week of the blooming magnolia just on dusk.
August 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
And here is a photo from earlier in the week of the blooming magnolia just on dusk.
I am obsessed with this nearby magnolia.
August 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I am obsessed with this nearby magnolia.
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YES! Imputing "delusions" to a chatbot is like saying your Scrabble tiles are delusional because the seven letters you drew misspell a perfectly good word.
Chatbots cannot have "delusions" because they do not have minds or beliefs. Therefore, they cannot themselves go into a "delusional spiral". It is the human USERS of chatbots, laboring under the delusion that they are interacting with a thinking entity, who go into delusional spirals.
New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
August 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
YES! Imputing "delusions" to a chatbot is like saying your Scrabble tiles are delusional because the seven letters you drew misspell a perfectly good word.
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#TBRChallenge - another catch up post: Reading Notes 87-91 shallowreader.com/2025/08/03/t... via @vaveros.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
TBR challenge – another catch up post: Reading Notes 87-91
It has become a terrible habit of mine to blog only a few times a year, and most often, just to catch up on Wendy the Super Librarian’s TBR Challenge. And just like clockwork, I am doing it again. …
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August 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
#TBRChallenge - another catch up post: Reading Notes 87-91 shallowreader.com/2025/08/03/t... via @vaveros.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
@superwendy.bsky.social Well hello!
I put one up today!
I put one up today!
August 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
@superwendy.bsky.social Well hello!
I put one up today!
I put one up today!
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Molly Keran on Colleen Hoover, Jennifer Crusie, contemporary romance, and what happens when genres get adventures.
mid-theory.com/2025/07/29/g...
mid-theory.com/2025/07/29/g...
Generic Guarantees
How do we face a generic crisis, a sense—a dread—that a subject exceeds the bounds of the genre that seeks to contain it? In retrospect, the generic crisis of the film It Ends With Us (2024) was ea…
mid-theory.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Molly Keran on Colleen Hoover, Jennifer Crusie, contemporary romance, and what happens when genres get adventures.
mid-theory.com/2025/07/29/g...
mid-theory.com/2025/07/29/g...
It was an incredible protest. It was bucketing rain yet the turnout was phenomenal. Thank you, Sydneysiders for marching for humanity, and opposing the Gaza genocide. Perhaps the rhetoric from both the media and politicians will start to shift.
It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity
August 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It was an incredible protest. It was bucketing rain yet the turnout was phenomenal. Thank you, Sydneysiders for marching for humanity, and opposing the Gaza genocide. Perhaps the rhetoric from both the media and politicians will start to shift.
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pretty shitty that young people now have to learn with both a 24/7 torrent of entertainment microtargeted to their neuroses in their pocket and a learning environment full of chirpy little prompts to press a button and fake their homework so they can spend a little more time in the neurosis torrent
June 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
pretty shitty that young people now have to learn with both a 24/7 torrent of entertainment microtargeted to their neuroses in their pocket and a learning environment full of chirpy little prompts to press a button and fake their homework so they can spend a little more time in the neurosis torrent
The Greek-Australian Writers' Festival photographers:
The Heart of Giving by Effy Alexakis-Fr Nektarios's soup kitchen
Art On The Wall by Eirini Alligiannis-street art in NYC
Glimpses Of The Silk Road by Marios Kalyvas & Aretha Zygouri-travels from Turkey to China
www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
The Heart of Giving by Effy Alexakis-Fr Nektarios's soup kitchen
Art On The Wall by Eirini Alligiannis-street art in NYC
Glimpses Of The Silk Road by Marios Kalyvas & Aretha Zygouri-travels from Turkey to China
www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
April 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The Greek-Australian Writers' Festival photographers:
The Heart of Giving by Effy Alexakis-Fr Nektarios's soup kitchen
Art On The Wall by Eirini Alligiannis-street art in NYC
Glimpses Of The Silk Road by Marios Kalyvas & Aretha Zygouri-travels from Turkey to China
www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
The Heart of Giving by Effy Alexakis-Fr Nektarios's soup kitchen
Art On The Wall by Eirini Alligiannis-street art in NYC
Glimpses Of The Silk Road by Marios Kalyvas & Aretha Zygouri-travels from Turkey to China
www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
Koraly Dimitriadis will be discussing her book The Mother Must Die at the Greek-Australian Writers' Festival in Little Bay, Sydney. A read that felt like a life I could touch but managed to avoid. Tickets for tomorrow's festival: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
shallowreader.com/2025/04/26/g...
shallowreader.com/2025/04/26/g...
Greek-Australian Writers’ Festival 2025 – Reading Note 86: Koraly Dimitriadis
Reading Note 86: I first heard of Koraly Dimitriadis in the early-2010s when I came across her Twitter discussions. I looked up her books and saw them described as “portraits of life”, “ghosts of t…
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April 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Koraly Dimitriadis will be discussing her book The Mother Must Die at the Greek-Australian Writers' Festival in Little Bay, Sydney. A read that felt like a life I could touch but managed to avoid. Tickets for tomorrow's festival: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
shallowreader.com/2025/04/26/g...
shallowreader.com/2025/04/26/g...
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#RomBkBlog: via Dr Vassíliki Veros, an invitation to the Greek Australian Writers' Festival 2025, this Sunday April 27.
For more details:
For more details:
Greek Australian Writers’ Festival 2025
The Greek-Australian Writers’ Festival returns for its 4th year. Some time last year, I volunteered to help out at the festival, and due to some other short-term work I was conducting at the …
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April 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
#RomBkBlog: via Dr Vassíliki Veros, an invitation to the Greek Australian Writers' Festival 2025, this Sunday April 27.
For more details:
For more details:
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Author Vanessa Riley finding out that she can't use the word "slavery" on canva is really something else.
www.threads.com/@vanessarile...
www.threads.com/@vanessarile...
Vanessa Riley (@vanessarileyauthor) on Threads
Final news from Canva.
How do you tell stories of resistance, and survival—if the words our ancestors lived through are now off-limits?
Sl*very is now a flagged term in Canva’s system.
How do you hon...
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April 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Author Vanessa Riley finding out that she can't use the word "slavery" on canva is really something else.
www.threads.com/@vanessarile...
www.threads.com/@vanessarile...