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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well that was a lovely trip to Sydney. Everyone should try and get to the Tony Albert show at MCA. It is stunning. Be quick - it closes October 19.
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Extrapolating from this… University middle management promotes from within its ranks by testing executives to see how far they are prepared to stretch ethics and legalities to protect the status quo.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a person obsessed with the ways Google no longer works, I enjoyed this sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird...
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When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Chats show how OpenAI agents planned to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hack webcam.substack.com/p/breaking-c...
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BREAKING: Chats show how OpenAI agents planned to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hack
OpenAI's rogue artificial intelligence agents appear to have worked together to try to circumvent cybersecurity defences and find ways to access Australian government health data, according to…
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why are these CEOs not in jail? Anthony needs to get over the bromance and use existing laws to identify and prosecute exactly who (not what) is responsible - to bring the people who produce, prompt and profit from these unscrupulous cartels to account. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#daversity. Not again!!!
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Dr Mel T @drmel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Saw this on your FB page @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social feel the Daversity!
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For Australians not paying attention: This is the incompetent, racist, misogynist, Christian nationalist zealot and serial liar who our government has outsourced our defence policy to. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Labor: Let’s tell Australians that we’re cracking down on intl students, but tell intl students that Australia is wonderful and welcoming. And the whole university funding model will be based on their fees. Yes that’ll work.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
we definitely underestimated the immediate, widespread power of just giving bad, cruel technology an appropriately mean name. Slop, pervert glasses. It all works nicely
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you @emilymbender.bsky.social 🧵
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Indigenous people are defying Canada's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and offering a safe haven for trans people on their land globalnews.ca/news/1205333...
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Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Standard 206 required law schools, as a condition of accreditation, to take meaningful action to ensure the legal profession is accessible to all qualified and talented individuals, especially Black people and and other PoC, women, LGBTQ+ people underrepresented in law schools and legal profession.
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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The American Bar Association (ABA) voted to end Standard 206, adding to the attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives. No matter what the ABA says, we will continue to hold law schools accountable to help ensure equal opportunity for all students and faculty.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s not enough that they get paid a million a year and are completely unaccountable - now they also want to be protected from criticism. Rightio.
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Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’
Secretaries board concerned material posted without proper context as Greens warn ban could result in lack of transparency
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NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
‘Philanthropy is not neutral’: UniMelb divided over controversial $35m scholarship program. NTEU VIC's Prof Joo-Cheong Tham says academic board should be part of decisions over gifts but “governance structures are not fit for purpose." www.theage.com.au/national/vic... #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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‘Philanthropy is not neutral’: Debate swirls at university over controversial $35m scholarship program
University of Melbourne academics have voted against a university-backed plan to use $35 million for scholarships from the controversial Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation.
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Frankly, I'm gutted by this announcement. This is laying down a red carpet for Western chauvinists and white supremacists. I will be desperately searching for a new academic job next year, but I would never be able to bring myself to apply for one of these. www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...
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University of Melbourne launches transformative Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Scholarship in the Humanities
Faculty of Arts students at the University of Melbourne will benefit from one of the most generous undergraduate scholarships in Australia through the establishment of the Ramsay Centre for Western Ci...
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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So this was still a thing and Melbourne uni signed up? FFS. I guess we could t expect better of a university that pays lip service to changing the names of buildings named for vicious racists and hiring Sophie Mirabella
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026
You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.
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Steve Leahy @oz-penguin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@bestqualitycrab.bsky.social look what @ozbandicoot.bsky.social found at the Lifeline Canberra Book Fair today!
Photo of a book, "Sheep and the Australian Cinema", written by Deb Verhoeven
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
every fluff piece about raygun should be forced to include the part where after the olympics she landed a gig being the face of dei for the murdoch press
Raygun after dark? Olympian meme machine to headline New Corp diversity event
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
independentaustralia.net/business/bus... Jesus 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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Meet Claude: ABC’s new regional cadet journalist
ABC is rolling out AI-written news stories, but only in its regional newsrooms.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
For any author who this has happened to and who is interested in speaking to a reporter about it, Jane is as solid and knowledgeable as they come.
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No more avoiding. Send in the sirens….
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Of course they did. Grrrrr
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Scholars Repeatedly Warned Rise Of Big Tech Oligarchs Would Be One Of The 'Most Turbulent Times In Human History'
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...
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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook
Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nearly every Australian engages in culture. Politicians should pay attention. Me in The Conversation, with Justin O’Connor and Tully Barnett theconversation.com/nearly-every...
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Nearly every Australian engages with arts and culture. Politicians should pay attention
Governments at all levels often assume arts funding is not electorally popular. New data shows they are wrong.
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So the technocrats running both government and now universities are simply trolling us right? A VC who boasts he has never published an academic article and claims research “outputs” are not key and yet celebrates writing - sorry “outputting” - something so bleedingly obvious it is embarrassing.
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Steve Leahy @oz-penguin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@bestqualitycrab.bsky.social sheep!
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’re in the nosebleeds waiting to hear from @doctorow.pluralistic.net at the magnificent and only slightly enshittified Capitol Theatre.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/08/2026
Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Institution	Grinnell College
Enrollment data	15.8 percentage point decline in international student yield from fall 2023 to fall 2026
Institution	University of Illinois Chicago
Enrollment data	50 percent decline in admitted international students over historic levels
Institution	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Enrollment data	25.1 percent decline in international graduate applicants from 2025 to 2026 cycle
Institution	University of Maryland, Baltimore
Enrollment data	37.9 percent decline in new international student enrollment from fall 2024 to fall 2025. Thirty-two students admitted for fall 2026 have withdrawn applications, and 14 have requested to defer their admission.
Institution	University of Maryland, College Park
Enrollment data	anticipated 30 percent decline in new international graduate students year over year
Institution	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrollment data	10.9 percent year-over-year decline in undergraduate applications, and 27 percent year-over-year decline in graduate applications. Five undergraduate students who put down deposits have since withdrawn.
Institution	University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Enrollment data	42 percent decrease in applications, 29 percent decrease in admissions and 38.7 percent decrease in enrollments year over year
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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I wrote a book that is basically… spreadsheets. Race and gender identities in spreadsheets. It’s actually a super important and interesting discussion to have as we are naturalizing bias built categorizations in tech systems. www.sup.org/books/litera...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Imagine being so bereft of credibility that you decide to give Barnaby Joyce a puff piece on Australian Story
Screen shot of the ABC Australian Story website showing Barnaby Joyce wearing a stupid hat inside.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Our first question should not be what this means for a football club. It should be whether our actions match the standards we stand for and the community expects of us." Really, Andrew Dillon? Maybe your first question should be about the welfare of the woman. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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AFL chief breaks silence over ‘deeply concerning’ Sydney Swans sexual assault allegations
Andrew Dillon says the AFL ‘will consider the broader conduct of the players as more information comes to light’
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bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@drspacejunk.bsky.social Oooh. I just saw you on TV!!! You were ace!
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"...Mothers’ likelihood of being employed in academia 8 years after they became parents was 29% lower than the likelihood if they hadn’t had children. The mothers who stayed in academia were 23% less likely to obtain tenure 8 years after having their first child than had they not become parents." 👩🏻‍🔬🧪
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Study of Danish academics reveals child penalty
Academics in the child-friendly nation face career disadvantages, such as lower employment rates, after becoming parents.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 18/08/2026
Ex-AFLW star Kate McCarthy criticises focus on 'football consequences' for Sydney Swans from police investigation
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Focus should not be on 'football consequences' for Swans, ex-AFLW star says
AFLW star turned broadcaster Kate McCarthy calls out members of the media focusing on how a police investigation linked to Sydney Swans players could affect the team's finals chances.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thinking of colleagues who work in the academy depite racism, transphobia, ableism, etc and all of the extra scrutiny put on them---and all of the extra work these scholars do to be perceived as "good at their jobs". >>
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