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Andrew Garton

@andrewgarton.bsky.social
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Filmmaker, musician, producer and media comms educator of Ukraine/Austrian descent. Co-founder post-punk fusion trio Rat Kangaroo. Author of Right to Know - India's Internet Avant-garde. linktr.ee/andrewgarton

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politically alive cinema in Japan at 87 years old." @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/09/adac...
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The Last Revolutionary Filmmaker
Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politicall...
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GetUp getting onto it! act.getup.org.au/s/1HSEz6JE
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Tell Albanese: AI crime, CEO time
A handful of tech billionaires are racing to build superhuman AI. Nobody voted for this. Sign the petition: Australia must push for a global slowdown.
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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
main arguments to avoid useless use of AI: exploitation of data workers in low salery countries (Kenya, Philippnes). water resource abuse, data centers & land abuse, surveillance and shrinking brains aka verdummung
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.

"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life,"  she said.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >>
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
With all this talk about human extinction right now, I am BEGGING people to understand the difference between TERMINAL and FINAL extinction. TESCREALists *only* care about final extinction, but nearly the entire public *misinterprets* them as warning about terminal extinction.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What's Anthropic really up to? They claim to be the good guys? None of them are. They are not interested in improving the well being of us all. They want to track and kettle us for the benefit of an increasingly freakish, fascistic, out of their minds few. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Guys but it's the fictional machine god that needs to be regulated and that we should worry about. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@doctorow.pluralistic.net on being a "good AI critic". youtube.com/shorts/VxOyR...
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Cory Doctorow: Don't Let AI Bosses Fool You
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@doctorow.pluralistic.net "Care is the only future we have... and AI, so far, is the opposite of care." Thanks @alexkelly.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/65VdY...
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Maybe We Shouldn't Destroy Our Climate to Make Chatbots?
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 04/09/2026
In the new TMK, we chat with @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine, both veteran tech labor organizers, about their new book that chronicles the tech worker movement, while also offering invaluable perspective and advice on building worker power in tech. free episode:
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473. Tech Workers of the World, Unite (ft. JS Tan, Clarissa Redwine)
[We had technical difficulties and had to use a backup recording, sorry!] We chat with JS Tan and Clarissa Redwin — both veteran tech workers and labor organizers — about their new book which chronicl
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The iPhone Street Photography of Richard Koci Hernandez. “The true storytelling potential of any image is in the heart and mind of the viewer, not the photographer. No matter what my intention was, the viewer is actually the one in control of the ultimate meaning and context.” Which is true.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 06/09/2026
we are witnessing one of the most embarrassing and catastrophic failures of American diplomacy in history — all triggered by complete inability to read imperial russia.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The first St Andrews Film Festival opens at 10 AM, Sunday 13 September at the St Andrews Community Hall, Vic. Features the Brit historical drama,The Choral, my most controversial film to date, This Choir Sings Carols, & the French comedy drama, My Brother's Band). Bookings Humanitix🔗in my profile.
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC) @apc.org · 02/09/2026
#GISWatch is much more than a publication. For nearly two decades, it has brought together civil society organisations, activists, researchers and journalists – particularly from the global South – to examine how technology policies affect their societies.
Illustrated beige, orange and teal cover featuring past GISWatch publications and a person walking. Text: “What is GISWatch? A global civil society platform for monitoring the information society – and changing it.”Beige slide with abstract orange and teal illustrations. Text: “More than a publication. GISWatch is a collaborative process that brings together civil society organisations, activists, researchers and journalists – particularly from the Global South. Together, they examine how information and communications policies affect their societies.”
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Chanel Contos is warning tech giants could design their way around weaker attempts to rein in harmful social media algorithms. The Teach Us Consent chief executive will use a National Press Club speech to further her push for algorithmic feeds to be "opt-in”” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Chanel Contos says algorithm opt-in could disrupt the manosphere
Consent advocate Chanel Contos wants Australians to be able to opt out of algorithm-driven content.
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Billionaires have become radicalised against democracy," Gil Durán tells the ABC. “We have to realise how much power we have, & stop being tuned out from the very real threat..from a billionaire class that has gone off the edge of sanity into an altered reality” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'Silicon Valley fascism' is waging war on democracy
The author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, has a warning.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“At a time when madmen think they have the right to kill us because of what they think they know about an afterlife, which is by definition unknowable, those who don’t know the answers are the only ones asking sane questions…” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Waking Life: Richard Linklater’s genre-defying indie is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece
Wiley Wiggins plays a man wandering around Austin, Texas, whose reality-bending encounters make him uncertain whether he’s awake or asleep
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Last chance to get a submission in. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Artificial intelligence and data centres
Committee: Environment and Communications References Committee Date referred: 13 May 2026 Submissions close: 1 September 2026 Reporting date: 16 November 2026 Extension of time to make a submissi...
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Evgen Bavcar. Is a blind photographer. Born 1946 in Slovenia. He became blind around the age of twelve, losing his left eye, then his right eye in two successive accidents. He began practicing art photography four years later.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just saw this play. Runs for nearly three hours. I cried. More than once. I had a friend reporting for an NGO in Sri Lanka at the time of the 2009 #genocide. It was an astounding performance depicting the events that lead to the atrocities that took place at that time www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-ti...
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The Jungle and the Sea
S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack’s moving follow-up to the much-lauded Counting and Cracking follows one family’s epic journey to retain their dignity and their safety against the backdrop of Sri Lank...
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The St Andrews Film Society is hosting a screening event on the theme of community choirs on Sunday 13 Sep. Bookings essential. It will feature, This Choir Sings Carols, a film I produced with First Impressions Youth Theatre. events.humanitix.com/st-andrews-f...
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St Andrews Film Festival
One-day film festival celebrating community and music. Screening two international films and one local documentary. Q &A with documentary film maker.
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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
fyi
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is what smug looks like. Labor is not in the least interested in the day to day needs of Australians. Albanese, he is not a man of the people, he is a man of an elite minority. Perhaps not even a man. Something lesser. A disgrace. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using renewable energy
Shift comes after Chris Bowen said Labor would use constitutional powers to override states resisting rules on sustainable energy
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some of my students still rely on X/Twitter for news. No one is here nor anywhere on the Fediverse, and no one leans into the many independent news platforms and journalists that have emerged in recent years. I compiled a list of those I rely on. #auspol www.andrewgarton.com/2026/03/07/i...
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Independent journalism finds its moment
Independent journalism finds its moment With extreme views populating mainstream media and increased use of generative AI within once respected news media outlets and platforms, how do we make sens…
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"I think it's important for people to know this wasn't just some antic from somebody who just decided to show up one day and make some noise." I got the chance to talk to the man behind the mask: www.404media.co/darth-vader-...
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The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: 'When Will This End?'
Anthony Ralphs has been speaking against Flock at San Diego City Council meetings for almost a year straight. When he showed up as Darth Vader, the world started watching.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Recording Ukraine's folk traditions one village at a time. #UkrainianView www.atlasobscura.com/videos/these...
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These Grandmothers Are Preserving Ukraine’s Folk Music Traditions
Miklós Both, founder of the Polyphony Project, is on a mission to preserve the folk music traditions of Ukraine. Over the last four years, the proj...
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Things are looking up ... and over canvases in Sydney. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Gen Z and Millennials are Rejecting AI for Plein Air, Sydney City Council Stirs Censorship Debate: Morning Links for August 19, 2026
Gen Z and millennials are increasingly turning to art making traditions like plein air in a rejection of AI art, and more art news.
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Take a moment and listen ... As we hurtle towards an existential crisis with climate that threaten our society and civilisation, listen to the wisdom and perspectives of one of the world's oldest cultures www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Seven First Nations Australians tell us their worries and hopes for future generations – video
Guardian Australia asked prominent voices at the Garma festival, including internationally acclaimed artist Baker Boy and a Groote Eylandt elder, to share their very personal answers to questions that...
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Updated! The journalists I have come to rely on. www.andrewgarton.com/2026/03/07/i...
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Independent journalism finds its moment
With extreme views populating mainstream media and increased use of generative AI within once respected news media outlets and platforms, how do we make sense of the world? Who is left to hold powe…
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/08/2026
"The internet represents hegemonic views. It does not represent [everybody] in the world." AI researcher Timnit Gebru untangles the deceptive nature of large language models like Chat-GPT, and explains how so-called "superintelligence" entrenches societal biases and inequality.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The ever erudite @ronnisalt.bsky.social nails the state of Australian politics to the back of the dunny door. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Our politics is a farce and you’re paying for the tickets - The Shot
Those of you not into torturous, pantomime-level political inquisitions may not have been following recent events at the NSW Independent...
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"... young people defining success differently." Brilliant!
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, ep 82 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... … in which @savasavasava.myatproto.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social and me for a good hard look at “harm reduction” as misapplied to “AI”.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I might set this to music. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Meanwhile, the drawn world is shrinking. An appeal for more, not less. Features @fionakatauskas.bsky.social theconversation.com/newspaper-sp...
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Newspaper space for political cartoons is shrinking – but we need these artists as much as ever
The cartooning industry is still struggling to adapt to the 21st century media business model.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Watching Jon’s face as @doctorow.pluralistic.net rips into it is priceless. youtu.be/-dAIJRjb-Bw
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AI and the Enshittification Era w/ Cory Doctorow | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“The real cost [of AUKUS] is the progressive transfer of national sovereignty in exchange for the personal advancement of those who were meant to protect it.” @theshot.net.au theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Bipartisan suits went on an AUKUS junket to sell out Australian sovereignty  - The Shot
Fresh after the Labor National Conference, Federal Labor Senator Raff Ciccone takes a smiling picture in Washington, proud to announce...
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@caitoz.bsky.social finds life amid the ruin “We can make a home here. In these ruins. In this shattered civilization full of walking autopsies where every twinkle in the night sky is an Elon Musk satellite.” caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/07/30/a...
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Anthropocene
We can make a home here. In these ruins. In this shattered civilization full of walking autopsies where every twinkle in the night sky is an Elon Musk satellite.
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Raymond Wilton @raymondwilton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
not crazy about media quoting the alleged Origin hacker on their demands or motivations. even if you ignore the fact that the media is being used to help extort a company, it's also bad journalism because it's completely unverified (and arguably you should trust them less than the average person!)
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
!!! Some models predict a rise of ~4.7C in some parts of the world within a year!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
an important podcast episode we did because i was brave and wore my tanktop hoodie to make a fashion statement www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_u...
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
YouTube video by 404 Media
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the best way to describe what tools like Suno are doing is they apply CEO logic to all art & cultural production - exploit others' labor on mass scale - replace actual creative processes w/ a series of vague executive directives (prompts) - extract all value/take credit for labor you didn't perform
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@getup.org.au taking it to the street, and meters away from Coles stores all over the country. youtube.com/shorts/K_tUY...
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Coles and Palantir: Together, We're Always Watching You
YouTube video by GetUp! Australia
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 02/07/2026
🔴 Russian aerial attack kills 10 in Kyiv. At least 10 people were killed and 56 injured during one of Moscow's largest assaults since the 2022 invasion, as rescue teams search for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed residential building in the capital’s Darnyts'kyi District.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...
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Careless People: A story of where I used to work
The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to b...
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As it says in the article ‘nothing lasts forever’. The Trump Regime will fall. But please do what you can to hasten the fall, American friends, because this is some seriously messed up bullshit.
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“we’re “imputing intentionality to this thing that intends nothing..because, in a state of nature, we don’t encounter sentences that don’t have writers..” We ignore what it gets wrong, or indulge its “hallucinations”, which is just a fancy word for “errors”” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies
The writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises – and why it still appeals so much to those in power
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The old Australian internet, before the Web, was an exciting space to be. We Pegasus Networks - helped produce this doco. Many of the people and projects interviewed used our ICT servers. youtu.be/d16go7hA7a4?...
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Going Walkabout in Cyberspace, 1993 (edit)
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