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I make art. Cinephile. Unionist. So dedicated to overachieving, even my Cancer is advanced. #moreforstagefour

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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 7h
On Lethal Injection There’s traditionally 3 steps in lethal injection with a sedative (pentobarbital or similar), a paralytic (something containing bromide) & finally an electrolyte to stop cardiac function (something containing potassium).
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is why fuel prices are pushing $3 a litre. Because Trump has no idea how to end the war he (and Netanyahu) started with Iran. That’s the war that Labor, the Coalition and One Nation all cheered on in February. It’s the war the Greens opposed. The only party that did.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
““In effect,” says Charlton, “we are creating a new import bill.” Data centres are the ore of the AI industry. Australia needs to do some of the high-value-adding processing of the ore, and that’s the training of models.” lol wut. Cripes. We are stuffed. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Why Australia simply cannot afford to miss this AI wave
For future prosperity and security, and to have any real influence over the big beasts of AI, Australia must convince them to train their models here.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These arseholes never clean up after themselves
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"RBA expected to raise rates next week despite unemployment reaching highest level in nearly 5 years" My column for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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RBA expected to raise rates next week despite unemployment reaching highest level in nearly 5 years
In August, the unemployment rate rose to 4.6%, the highest for nearly 5 years, even as employment continued to grow relatively solidly. It will do little to change the likelihood of a rate rise next w...
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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bundanoon, the subject of this story, Is in Liberal Leader Angus Taylor’s seat. Yes, the man who wants to clobber immigration. #auspol
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These companies claim not to know what their agents are doing, in which case they should never have released them. After the Medicare breach, Australians deserve a full audit of every government system's exposure to AI agents, starting with those holding our most personal data.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US Ambassador must be summoned to explain what the US government knew and how it's responding. The delay between OpenAI's agents hacking this site and our Government being told is unacceptable and shows these corporations must be brought to heel.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The PM is in the US mugging for selfies with the guy who stripped regulation from some of the world's most dangerous AI companies, while a US company linked to the Trump administration hacked arguably Australia's most sensitive database in a serious attack on our sovereignty.
OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says
By political reporter Erin Handley and staff
Topic:Cyber Security

Posted about 3h agoabout 3 hours ago, updated 8m ago8 minutes ago
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Anthony Albanese stands in front of flags during a press conference. 
Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent hacked a Medicare statistics reporting service portal.

In short: 
The prime minister has had a "frank" discussion with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman after an AI agent breached an Australian government website. 

The company did not notify Services Australia of the incident until three months after the fact, via email.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Labor Government says not to worry about the OpenAI Medicare hack because they have referred it to the Labor-controlled joint committee on AI for inquiry 👀👀👀
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AUS PM Anthony Albanese didn't have to get a selfie with a man found liable for sexual abuse. He chose to do so. Maybe Scott Morrison's wife Jenny could explain to him why this is so offensive. 😔 #auspol #VAW
US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Anthony Albanese
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AUS FM Penny Wong failed to mention her good friend Israel: • Israel isn't a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). • Israel won't allow the UN or the Int'l Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect its main nuclear facilities. • Israel won't even admit that it HAS nuclear weapons! #auspol
Tweet on X by AUS FM Penny Wong:
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty has underpinned a decades-long global norm against nuclear testing that benefits all states. It’s in every state’s interest to maintain it. That was my message at today's CTBT meeting at the UN as we push for the Treaty’s entry into force
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When Donald Trump celebrates war profiteering, peddles conspiracy theories, threatens Iranians with annihilation, calls for a coup and slanders the ICC, what does our Prime Minister do? He takes a selfie with him. Seriously cringeworthy stuff.
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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OpenAI just “happened” to hack into our universal healthcare system data and isn’t foreign interference? It’s going to take a lot of podcasts to try and distract from this, @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
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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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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
Some 150 Catholic priests and friars, a bishop and nuns from around the world have marched to the Vatican to call for an end to what they called the "genocide" in Gaza.
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Priests, nuns march to Vatican to demand end to 'genocide' in Gaza
Some 150 Catholic priests and friars, a bishop and nuns from around the world have marched to the Vatican to call for an end to what they called the “genocide” in Gaza.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Penny Wong declares that aid workers "must always be protected" and that AUS is about "practical action". I don't remember any practical action after Israel murdered Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom or the IDF abused humanitarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla. 🤔 #auspol #SanctionIsrael
Text of a tweet on X by AUS FM Penny Wong: Aid workers must always be protected, especially during conflict. Today I met with @ignaziocassis, whose leadership on this is deeply valued. With partners, we are turning political commitment to the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel into practical action.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AI is the biggest technological breakthrough since nuclear - and it's currently controlled by tech bros, not sovereign states. There's an urgent need to put guardrails around AI before the most powerful technology on the planet gets out of hand.
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Australia joins global push for controls amid fears of runaway AI
Anthony Albanese and more than 20 other world leaders issue an urgent plea for global guardrails to ensure AI remains "under human control".
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost-of-living issues that drove Die Linke’s victory.' jacobin.com/2026/09/die-...
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German Centrists Are Smearing Die Linke as Antisemites
Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost...
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Data centres are critical infrastructure providing services like emergency response, air traffic control, robotic surgery and hospital services," Ms Dennett of Data Centres Australia said. I guess she's still at the "telling stupid, obvious bullshit" stage. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Victoria bans data centres from residential zones and near schools
Data Centres Australia said the changes were "disappointing" and would impose restrictions on data centres not applied to other industries.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Saudi Arabia is a murderous dictatorship. It is guilty of heinous war crimes in Yemen. Years ago, I went to a Yemeni refugee camp. I met little kids who drew pictures of what Saudi bombs did to their loved ones. Shame on the British government.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 21/09/2026
The evidence we have obtained suggests that the Lennons could have broken multiple laws in their dealings with Casual Basement/DLDI. This includes bankruptcy fraud, perjury and acting unlawfully as a shadow director. Read the full investigation here: hopenothate.org.uk/the-shadow-d...
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The Shadow Director
In March 2021 Stephen Lennon declared himself bankrupt, announcing to the world that he had no assets and no means to pay his debts or the mounting bills from the Jamal Hijazi libel case. What he fail...
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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MP Josh Wilson taped over Woodside’s sponsorship logo on the Fremantle jersey. If he, as the assistant minister for Climate Change, is protesting a mining company sponsoring a footy team - wait til he hears about what his government accept from Woodside. #auspol
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/09/2026
Epstein survivor Liz Stein: I did sit with the FBI and it was terrifying at 20 years old, right, in 2008. I just remember feeling interrogated and I felt like I was up against the wall and I was going to be brought in for prostitution charges. So I didn’t even think that they would believe me.”
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Prime Minister thought he may as well make it official - Labor is run by and for Newscorp and the 1% - so he has appointed former Newscorp exec under hard-right Lachlan Murdoch to plum NY diplomatic job
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
A mocked up FBI wanted poster with six variations of Bugs Bunny dressed as hilarious women

Left to right:
Classic housewife bugs bunny in a peach dress with French curls and a blue bonnet 

Sexy snow bunny bugs bunny in a form fitting yellow ski suit & red lipstick 

Classy rocket bra bugs bunny in a pink blouse and a choker and red heels and a blue skirt 

Green nightgown bugs bunny looking alluring 

Cavewoman bugs bunny in an orange tattered one piece slip making a come hither expression 

Flapper bugs bunny in a red dance outfit and a big bowler hat
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Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There's a part in the report about job creation: "Industry estimates suggest that data centre construction has directly and indirectly supported more than 9,000 jobs to date and this could grow by an additional 18,930 jobs through to 2030". except 2/3 of those jobs are in the buildout phase.
a chart showing the jobs created by data centre construction. it shows 4,190 direct and 4,940 indirect jobs from data centre construction. of these, 2980 direct and 3690 indirect jobs are attributed to build out.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Leeser is just talking Common Sense inre public schooling amirite? Further, a kindergarten place at Cranbrook -- site of his own, private, high school education -- costs a mere $35,526, & just $52,470 in Years 11 & 12, so it's not like parents don't have choices eh! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'Western values' and 'national pride' underpin Coalition's education reform plans
The Coalition's proposed education overhaul also includes plans to fast-track teaching accreditation and possibly create pathways for military veterans to help tackle classroom discipline issues.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For Ed Sheeran, it seems to be all about Ed Sheeran, and how anything affects Ed Sheeran. #StopTheGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
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💧Bee - Difficult 🐝🌿❤ @belindajones68.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Frank's got two bios - one for one website & another for another website Now, why on earth would Frank omit that he works for Jillian Segal from his main Liberal Party bio? Seems to me like a fairly important detail to leave out when you're a candidate 🐝 #auspol #insiders #VictoriaVotes #VICVotes
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"No government will ever care about you except for your ability to do work. Talk to your neighbours, care for each other" Spotted in Somerset, UK
"No government will ever care about you except for your ability to do work.
Talk to your neighbours, care for each other"
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some nice use of graphs by @edhusicmp.bsky.social :-) in his questions to the RBA (the RBA was very much, oh look it's all a bit technical... but yeah people are doing it tough... but err productivity will solve it!)
Phot of Ed Husic holding my graph of real wages
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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When did genocide become political? When were we “both sides” about genocide? I don’t remember people saying we should look at Pol Pot’s policies or we should take into account attacks made against Hutu leaders by Tutsi people. It’s not political. It’s a crime against humanity. #freepalestine
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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This 🧵
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16/09/2026
Today marks the fifth anniversary of our nation-leading legislation, CEJA. A greener future shouldn't come at Illinoisans' expense. My administration will continue to prioritize climate equality and sustainability without sacrificing job creation or raising costs.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolute suck sh*t, Ed Sheeran
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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think we can all say we weren’t expecting to defend Macklemore and Miss Rachel for saying killing kids is wrong.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Glad 60 Minutes is doing a Jacob Wohl story literally nine years after I reported on that guy. One time he was pretending a scam website he was running wasn't his, so I called the number on the website and it went to his mom's voicemail. Jacob is like training wheels for investigative journalists.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why are Labor prioritising debate on the "Regulatory Reform Omnibus" today when AI catastrophic risk is becoming more and more apparent. It's time to step up and start dealing with it!
Greens call for debate on frontier AI models that ‘may make us extinct’

The Greens have gone from zero to a hundred in the Senate this morning, immediately moving to suspend standing orders to push the government to debate and legislate safety testing and transparency on frontier AI systems that could make us go extinct.

Senator David Shoebridge is moving the motion which also calls for the government to push for a global treaty on AI regulation with middle powers, including Canada, Singapore and France.

He tells the Senate the government could legislate an “ethical AI industry” that constrains the frontier model.

This morning Sam Altman and Elon Musk called for the sector to pump the breaks on “reckless” AI development

OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development
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Shoebridge says:

I’ll tell you what the Greens think we should be talking about, not the Regulatory Reform Omnibus Bill, but the fact that major players from the AI industry across the world are saying we need to slow down development of frontier models because it may make us extinct …

I can’t believe anyone would vote against this motion, and I can’t believe Labor would say ‘no we don’t want to deal with an extinction risk’.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Pamela in CA @pamica.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I like presidents who don’t lunge at female reporters. He’s a danger to himself and others (all of us).
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Therrrre it is.
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s all speculative and for GenAI which no one needs Best follow on this issue that I’ve found is Ketan Joshi Keep up the fight!
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Jac @cultofjack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tasmania has two AI data centres currently being built and the government has tabled a document showing four more are being considered. Why the fuck would Tasmania need 6 “data centres”? What is going on? Is it just ridiculous amounts of money? We need to stop this. Now. #auspol
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/09/2026
Some sacrifices are too profound for words. On 9/11, the men and women of the FDNY showed us what extraordinary courage looks like — answering the call when our city needed them most.
Mayor Mamdani, FDNY Commissioner Bonsignore and other officials stand with their hands over their hearts. In front of them, portraits of fallen FDNY members blow in the wind
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
'But [former VicRoads road construction engineer Jeff Moran] said that since the Liberal Kennett govt privatised road construction & maintenance in the mid-to-late '90s, the necessary ongoing maintenance was often neglected.' I am shocked. Shocked & stunned. Etc.. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Former VicRoads staff blame privatisation for state's crumbling roads
Former VicRoads staff say privatisation and road-building techniques are behind the horrific state of Victoria's roads.
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