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Vassiliki Veros

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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. shallowreader.com

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 14

*looks around*

Oh wow! Is this the good place?

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · 3d

I do too and it frustrates me that my local library got rid of theirs for a digital bulletin board that just runs a series of dull event promotions.

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · 4d

This is the first time I have heard of this! Good to know.

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · 6d

A review post for @superwendy.bsky.social and the #tbrchallenge. I may have gotten a tad ranty. But overall, I loved this book.

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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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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11d

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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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · 29d

I would love to do this 🩷🩷🩷

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 17

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

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Sep 16

It's on brand for a Tuesday commute. Maybe I will. It certainly was not pleasant.

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Sep 16

Shaken, Kaetrin! Plus my hip hurts from bracing myself for half an hour travelling on a sideways seat. But otherwise all good!

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Sep 15

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.

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Sep 3

The building gets better every time I see it 💕

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello Gehry, my old friend.

Frank Gehry designed university of technology sydney building. Blond curved bricks with sharp edges and square reflective windows. Blue sky and a tree framing the left side of the image.

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is so important. Friendly community builds helps feeling connected. Also, not all friendships have to be instant. I have had friendly acquaintances from play dates take 15 years to turn into deep and supportive friends.

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · Aug 23

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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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 21

...also I am obviously out of posting practice. Didn't mean to sound exasperated. Sorry! 🤦‍♀️

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sheesh! What's with the stereotyping? Both my sons are genz and they call each other regularly (eldest lives out of home). Am I confused - yes. But it is so lovely that they call just to chat. They call their friends too 🤷‍♀️

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Aug 20

The UK govt has absolutely f*cked this up.

Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bwahahaha!
I know them 🤣

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 14

I get the meme but I am clueless as to who this is (I am hopeless with music bands 🤦‍♀️)

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 11

These are beautiful. Especially the burgundy (maroon?) ones.

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 11

There is a white one down from this one but it is not as striking.

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 11

This tree only flowers once a year. Every August I take photos to sustain me the whole year!

Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 10

And here is a photo from earlier in the week of the blooming magnolia just on dusk.

Deep pink magnolia flowers against a deep blue sky.

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 10

I am obsessed with this nearby magnolia.

Pink magnolia flowers against a grey clouded sky.

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Vassiliki Veros @vaveros.bsky.social · Aug 10

🤯🤢
That is a lot!

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · Aug 9

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.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · Aug 8

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...

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