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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good on you @snell.zone for making this point. Copyright law today is heavily tilted away from the public and toward IP owners, and our reliance on major platforms to host and distribute material makes us beholden to their self-interested, risk-averse, and largely incontestable policies.

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Spotify opens new front in war on fair use

Late last month I got several emails from Spotify, all pretty much the same: Hello, Our automatic review tools determined that this podcast may contain content that infringes the rights of a third…

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Basically the US administration is pissed off about the ICJ case and is going in for some economic punishment www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm27g2jzd…

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My favourite thing is when my supervisor just writes 'Really?' in the margins of my draft.

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It’s not popular in today’s narrative, but I firmly believe EdTech and STEM are anti-education models and are deeply inequitable. americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/…

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/01/2025

I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Saaaame - went from here to Lord’s Prayer to 1662 Book of Common Prayer to the Churching of Women with a detour to the first Bishops War

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

With just a pinch of the old espionage, eh wot?

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I think it would be absolutely fantastic if it played Hungarian dance number five - now that would get me excited to hang up the washing

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

These are all great ideas, I hope this guy runs for President someday.

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I’m not too sure about this. There is such a thing as institutional memory. People in any industry for a long time tend to know how to get things done within the confines of the system they’re in. I think I’d rather a professional politician than whatever is happening in the US right now.

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am mostly in favour of the 'control the present (narrative) to control the past to control the future' explanation

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

+1 for Kagi. I’m definitely ok with paying to not be the product.

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Maybe it’s just a version of the availability heuristic

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

There has absolutely got to be some kind of named heuristic for this. Lemme go look it up….

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I am too lazy to double check but I think Qld recently closed its private prisons? I could be wrong. Lemme go double check… yes I thought so: www.themandarin.com.au/162239-all-q...

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All Queensland prisons now run by state government

The Southern Queensland Correctional Centre and Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre are no longer privately operated, having transitioned to state administration.

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Sorry that’s not right; it was closed after change of govt

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Ah, so that’s why it got shut down? Figures

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

A Christmas message full of joy, harmony and fellowship 🙏

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Unless you’re Yanis Varoufakis, in which case we are scooching right back into it 🚀

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

If that fails, knock them out with your bicycle and sing about it in an Amsterdam bar

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Imagine the business card

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I think it’s not a bad interview and Inman Smith is smart enough - she’s on the money with dark patterns and addictive design - it’s just that she is in the unfortunate position of having to back the govt’s unbackable idea of “privacy-preserving age verification”

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked? —Edward, First Baron Thurlow 1731-1806

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Definitely with the spiky helmets though

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I always think of Paolo Freire and Franz Fanon in this regard: both the oppressor and the oppressed are made unwell and unfree by their twisted mutual relation

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In the matter of R v Daryl’s Lambo yer honour

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Oh yes, I looked at the comments and it does look like something like that but on the civil side

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Doesn’t The US regularly bring suits against inanimate objects impounded during raids, so that they can appropriate them? Bloody weird.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

You there - what day is it? Why sir, it's stylish but illegal ikea monkey day Stylish but illegal ikea monkey day! Then I haven't missed it!!

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

For as long as there are universities there will be #sadchairsofacademia

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Not to mention all the implicit public subsidies enjoyed by private firms in the form of roads and healthcare and education. Seems like it would be hard to be a private firm without public spending.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Here’s another song from TikTok about the CEO’s assassination. This creator’s introductory comment is “And medical violence is always wrong, but only when it flows one way.” One million views, 182k likes so far. (Direct link: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYfshson/) h/t @kimlacapria.bsky.social 7/

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Well there’s a surprise

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Good idea! One possible confounding factor is that abbreviations like ‘sapol’ and ‘qldpol’ often also refer to SA Police and QLD Police

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Maybe a way to look at it is: only a bad system can produce billionaires. They are an unpleasant product of the system. But they are not who we should be thinking about changing.

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Mike Carlton @mikecarlton01.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Oops. Shit hits the fan. They paid these two sleazebags a truckload to sell radio porn in Melbourne. They died like a dog in a ditch and advertising revenue has tanked. AND THEY HAVE NO WAY OUT. Hilarious. www.smh.com.au/business/com...

smh.com.au

Kyle and Jackie O struggles put KIIS FM owner in tailspin

KIIS FM’s owner ARN is taking some drastic action to free up cash as it looks to lock in its star breakfast duo for another 10 years.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/12/2024

When hearing talk about the need to protect the Tasmanian salmon industry, just remember this is not a local-owned industry. It is dominated by foreign-owned companies. The profits go offshore, and they don’t pay tax here. But the environmental damage very much happens here.

Charts showing income earned and tax paid by Tassal and Sealord in 2022-23
SEALORD AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED. Income: $159,915,664; tax paid $0
TASSAL GROUP LIMITED. Income: $323,217,126; tax paid $0

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If a government calls Amnesty International a "deplorable and fanatical organisation", that tells me the rest of what that government says is going to be a pack of lies.

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Yuri Banens @banens.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Weird, I thought you were talking about Australians - “chuck us a sando mate”

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