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Gamer, wine w*nker, foodie, dad, sport, emotion and military culture academic. C₈H₁₀N₄O₂ addict. My (co-authored) book on abuse within the ADF is out now www.mup.com.au/books/warrior-soldie…

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1h
Very important that Australia has its own controlled access to abusive, energy-wasteful and incorrect computation Doesn't matter if it's harmful or socially corrosive, as long as it's Australian www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Push for big tech to pay for Australian-made AI
Union figures and leading academics want big tech companies building Australian data centres to help fund the local AI industry through a levy.
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Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ ᵃᵘ ᶜᵇʳ ᶜᶠᶜ @richardtuffin.bsky.social · 15h
National Bogong Moth Day would be a worth public holiday every year. Certainly better than having a day off for the Melbourne Cup!
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• Visuals: A line of small, abstract cartoon figures and moths are marching from left to right on a patch of green grass against a light blue sky.
	• The figure on the far left holds a tall pole with a large moth model on top, resembling a parade float.
	• One character wears a full moth costume.
	• Other characters carry small signs. One sign reads "THANK A MOTH" and another reads "SAY NO TO PORCH LIGHTS."
	• A character toward the right holds a green flag that says "BOGONG."
• Text: Speech bubbles at the top read: "Surely bogong moth migration season should have a public holiday and some sort of parade or festival... Bogong Moth day!"
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• Visuals: The background is a solid off-white. In the bottom right corner, a single cartoon moth is holding a smartphone, seemingly reading the text.
• Text: The main caption reads: "Remember - these moths are not an inconvenience they are a blessing. EVERY MOTH IS PRECIOUS. Perhaps they are a sign that all is not lost..."
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 13h
I am left shaking by the dangerous power held by those who have so casually dismissed the need to consider the consequences of their actions, or rather inactions. The world is not safe because of their choices. It it time to take away their power.
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 17h
Some people… please get your dog Off the table at the cafe.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joint statement from Senator David Shoebridge and Senator Steph Hodgins-May
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a civilian academic at a military institution I cannot stress how important we are to the development of the trainee officers. We improve capability by teaching them to think.
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI models appear to be showing the talent of spirited toddlers and wilfully obtuse law undergrads to ignore the rules that are meant to bound their behaviour. It’s almost as if philosophers, logicians and legal theorists should have been in on the ground floor …
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@keanebernard.bsky.social secret Santa sorted for you….
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One thing the Australian government could do to show they're serious on AI policy is to pursue the AI companies who stole the entire country's creative output to feed to their slop machine.
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24/09/2026
"If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage," Oransky said, "then they should probably stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap."
medpagetoday.com
Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?
'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can't help but notice the contrast regarding the measures Australian governments are willing to take to stop youth crime against the open arms they present to the copyright thieves and data hackers that are AI companies
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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The myGov website security system when it’s…
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dear universe can you just let me be for a moment, really can't take another thing going wrong just now. Signed, me.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you happen to be free at 0830 U.S. Eastern time (New York) Thursday, please join this online event! I’ll be discussing military ethics issues for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, along with my friend and colleague Cian O’Driscoll. info.carnegiecouncil.org/experience-o...
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Listening to Conflict: Human Experience of War
Join Carnegie Council for 'Listening to Conflict: Human Experience of War,' an upcoming event in the Ethics Empowered: Leadership in Practice series.
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ok then, so hunt people down and fuck them up just like those goons... coolio. US media is utterly cooked.
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No, no email finds me well, ever. WTF is with this inane greeting. Can you all just stop it please.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is an extraordinary act of direct foreign interference by the US embassy in domestic Australian politics. The Australian government should publicly respond by rejecting efforts by the US embassy to dictate how Australia legislates for a digital duty of care.
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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is our tool for manipulation and any attempt to thwart us interferes with our freedom to have our speech drown out everyone else's speech. Perhaps we could just tell them to fuck off? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
theguardian.com
US warns Australia that imposing digital duty of care on big tech would be seen as censorship
Trump administration expresses ‘serious concerns’ that forcing firms to allow algorithm optout would infringe Americans’ free speech
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Spending the day doing a literature review screening that requires title and abstract reading is a godawful nightmare with the enshitification of the web and all the journal databases. So many more clicks, captcha and prove you are human stuff. #sigh
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Non-Canberrans may not recognise this as a National Library. Great work from David Pope
A cartoon of the National Library of Australia in Canberra with a machine hovering over labelled "AI corp" and a man in a suit approaching a woman out the front with a speech bubble saying "Hey Australia! We just want the same sort of sweet deal you give the gas companies"
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Then fucking do something about it which is not approve more fossil fuel extraction. For fucks sake.
theguardian.com
No avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New York
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 20/09/2026
Elite athletes, musicians, actors & more often use cultural importance as an excuse for why they're exempt from cutting their emissions. In this new analysis led by @manuelsuter.bsky.social, we argue the opposite: visibility and influence should raise the bar, not lower it! Read more:
nature.com
The climate responsibility of cultural influencers - npj Climate Action
In socially influential fields such as elite sport, music, and film, cultural relevance is often invoked as a special moral status that exempts them from genuine emissions reduction. We argue that vis...
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear ABC News, You continue to publish appalling headlines that minimise men killing women as "women die". Word choice matters. Your editors need to use the words died, killed, or murdered, accurately. #DV #VAW #crime #journalism
Australian ABC News headline:
Three women die in domestic violence-related incidents across NSW
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very good new album… #punk #Australianmusic
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SONGS IN THE KEY OF WRESTLING by BIG NOTER on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 11 Songs
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Being hit by an SUV or ute increases the chances of pedestrian or cyclist fatality by 44% or 82% for children
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 15/09/2026
A friend is examining a PhD. They messaged me asking, 'why is it so nerve-wracking?' I think it's b/c if the PhD is good, you face someone who knows more than you about their subject.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FFS ABC, she did not apologise
Screenshot of ABC news front page: "Hanson apologises if she caused offence by Indigenous Australian remarks"
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Restaurant whose gimmick is that instead of ordering dishes, you have to first LARP in the attached dungeon as an adventurer and defeat the terrible monsters the dishes are made of, looting other ingredients as well. Each meal takes about 12 hours of dungeon crawling.
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Honoré de Ballsack @mnurkic.online · 11/09/2026
Free @kels316.bsky.social! Whatever he said, they had it coming!
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So very proud of my brilliant Honours student who also won the University Medal! #UNSW
Very proud me, wearing my ANU PhD garb with my student holding her medal!!!
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Looks like time to reup this old cartoon again for those irrepressible TERFs out there.
Scene is a public bathroom with a row of sinks and a row of stalls. A woman in a "Terf Patrol" hat and tshirt is standing on a ladder looking into a locked stall. She's saying "Just checking your genitalia to make sure you're not one of those creepy perverts who lurk in women's toilets"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Imagine if the media took the words of climate scientists as seriously as it does that rando from Anthropic… Air pollution and climate change from fossil fuel use are literally killing millions of people every year, but sure, let’s focus on the idiocy that “AI is going to kill everyone in 10”.
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Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A new poll shows that Australians don’t think that the federal government’s proposed digital duty of care is sufficient to protect the community from illegal and dangerous content. The numbers are extraordinary.
australiainstitute.org.au
Digital duty of care laws don't go far enough - poll
A new poll commissioned by The Australia Institute reveals overwhelming support for digital duty of care laws which go much further than those announced this week, including harsh penalties - like jai...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
God almighty Once again, I am begging Dems not to freaking throw trans kids under the bus in the hope of pleasing those mythical “centrist” voters (time.com/7296246/tran...) & once again I am tapping the freaking sign about trans athlete’s & women’s sports (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41633803/)
Groundbreaking study finds no evidence that trans athletes are “a threat” to women’s sports
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 08/09/2026
So fucking much of the Ai stupidity needn't have happened if just tech bros had actually been made to take a philosophy class instead writing the humanities off as "stuff I obviously already know and if I don't I'm sure it's gay."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you don't want the ridicule, don't be ridiculous
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Friendly reminder to get your skin checked and undertake regular screenings. Looks like I can cross off a BCC from the “Aussie sun has done what to your skin” bingo card.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 04/09/2026
Goth-geeks, our time is now!
nerdist.com
Netflix Developing RAVENLOFT Series Based on Classic Goth D&D Setting
Netflix is developing a live-action series based on Ravenloft, the Gothic horror D&D setting about the vampire Dark Lord Strahd von Zarovich.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The number of scandals in and around big-time behavioural economics stuff warrants serious consideration eh?
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Car drives are excellent. So are (well chosen) podcasts to prompt discussion...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
dukechronicle.com
‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 02/09/2026
A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
theguardian.com
A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@mrverbal.bsky.social
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
She nailed it.
comicsands.com
WNBA Star Bluntly Rips Anti-Trans Former NBA Player Over His Bigoted Antics in Viral Video—And She's Totally Right
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The wilful undermining of expertise and agreed on truth will destroy our society. If nothing can be trusted we only have the loudest and / or most charismatic with any influence. That way lies madness.
theguardian.com
‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament
Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 5 artists you’ve seen at least twice The Decemberists Regurgitator Pixies The Dandy Warhols Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Rounding out our Adelaide food odyssey was Restaurant Botanic. Stunning food, perfect presentation and balance, showcased Australian produce beautifully. Very hard to fault. Must be in the frame for 3 Michelin Stars. #finedining
Caviar dish…
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DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Today has been amazing and awful in equal measure. But, we are finishing with an astounding 2001 Rockford Basket Press. #winewanker
Red wine in a glass with a bottle of Basket Press, Rockford, Basket Press, 2001
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I note Ben Folds is playing at Llewellyn Hall in Canberra in January with the CSO conducted by Benjamin Northey - reckon for people living here that is going to be pretty amazing...and I'm sure that is part of an aussie tour so worth checking out...
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