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Solidarity with colleagues at QUT and across Australia Teaching conditions are learning conditions!! bsky.app/profile/brke...

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 22h

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 21h

I wish I was in The Netherlands for this, looks great bsky.app/profile/unti...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How's that social licence for AI going hey www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The RBA board said it voted unanimously for a hike in response to higher prices from the AI investment boom and amid fears that firms would begin passing on rising costs to consumers. Bullock singled out the US war on Iran, saying it could disrupt oil supply longer than expected.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 29/09/2026

Yes exactly. The very notion of everyday use of “AI agents” is philosophically rotten. bsky.app/profile/tres...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29/09/2026

Did you know that 83% of Australia’s gas is used for exports? Australia Institute research shows that over the past 5 years the Australian government has allowed the export of enough gas to supply Australia for more than 20 years? A 25% tax on gas exports could end the gas shortages. #auspol

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...

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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis

There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good of the Albanese govt to give Wilson the ability to cut programs in the NDIS by 99% without having to bother with legislation...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A reminder that this year the unemployment rate has gone up 0.56%pts - roughly an extra 87,000 unemployed. So in 15 min when the RBA raises rates again just remember 35-44yos on Jobseeker are almost 10 times more likely to die than those not on welfare: www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Chart showing deaths per 100,000 by age
22-34yo: 17.1 no welfare; 137.0 on Jobseeker
35-44yo: 30 no welfare; 288.1 on Jobseeker
45-55yo: 83.4 no welfare; 427.0 on Jobseeker
55-64yo: 201.6 no welfare; 615.6 on Jobseeker

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2026

The Rs are doing a full-spectrum assault on the existence of anyone not cis and straight, and saying it is about "boys playing girls sports". And every D who looks at that and goes "yeah, I oppose boys in girls sports" is endorsing the effort. Because they're affirming "sports" is all the Rs did.

edsource.org

UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

Hey everyone remember how I was saying the AI X-risk criti-hype is a targeted project designed to kill regulations and further ensure an impatient rush on data centre contsruction www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say

Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 28/09/2026

More delays. All these broken promises about the Upfield line is for sure gonna be the thing that turns me into The Joker bsky.app/profile/abcn...

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 28/09/2026

Lugging my dusty old Wii U to campus for today's class/lecture. Gonna be a fun one! (see if you can guess what two games I'm showing. Hint, I'm only using the Wii U to run some Wii discs)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 28/09/2026

Really disappointing to see so many games colleagues repeating rhetoric that "AI" is "inevitable" Strongly recommend people engage with the history of "inevitability" politics: bsky.app/profile/leen...

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

first ever sub-20 low% olmec strat just dropped www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2nz...

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Sub 20 Spelunky HD Olmec (w/ Specs HD)

YouTube video by BlueRedNotPurple

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 25/09/2026

Totally, and it's been dispiriting to see my union (NTEU) sometimes adopt this kind of poisoned rhetorical concession in social media posts and other public communication bsky.app/profile/keta...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026

Reading about these creepy "network states" in NERD REICH by @gilduran.com right now. Disgusting.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 24/09/2026

fun addition to this: kotick didn't just threaten publications, he threatened individuals. One of his lawyers was tasked with keeping an eye on every post I wrote about him, and they'd hound ownership about them if they didnt like them.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So the war criminal Netanyahu gets to deliver a speech at the UN, but Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas is denied a US visa and can’t attend.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An AI did something it shouldn't, and a server wasn't secured as well as it should be. But that's no fun, the narratives require just one or the other. AIs are either tools or people, if the former their users are responsible for what they do, and if the latter we get to sue a robot. Now that's fun

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"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 week" writes @grogsgamut.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/8XEcLBYV

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading an article about AI agents and just struck by how much this technology is made by, made for, used by, is foundationally based on the assumptions of "manager brain" or "owners". You never do things, you have others do things for you, which now counts as yours. Delusional way to see the world.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What do I think? I think the people who perpetrated this atrocity are shit-hearted ghoul bastards and I hope they are carried off by squirrels

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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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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Journalists stop ascribing agency to large language models 2026 challenge

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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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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

”Israeli military officers describe hacking into young girls' phones and listening, waiting for them to exclaim with happiness that their father has returned. That moment, amid the pure and innocent joy of a child reunited with their parent after a long day, is when the airstrike happens.”

salon.com

"NAZA" could be the tipping point in the public perception of Gaza

As Gaza support builds, the film presents testimony Israel can't easily deny.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026

So much of this language is almost indistinguishable from the way Albanese speaks - focusing on free market mechanisms, techno-solutionism, constantly about affordability and reliability and downplaying and dismissing climate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Angus Taylor pledges to repeal swathe of climate policies, saying ‘Australia has done its bit’

Several measures were previously introduced or supported by Coalition, prompting claim Liberals and Nationals would ‘let climate change rip’

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026

Very common story across the world: construction of homes hitting a wall where data centres are sucking up resources. Also see: Australia www.brokernews.com.au/news/breakin... Anyway, great work abundance / yimby folks, you're doing a good job

brokernews.com.au

Data centre boom threatens to squeeze residential builders

CreditorWatch warns residential builders face rising risk as data centres compete for trades

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 23/09/2026

Also worth pointing out: Among other donors to this is a Notion exec bsky.app/profile/thev...

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 22/09/2026

Telling people to switch to a “more ethical bank” is like telling someone to Just Switch to Linux. Yes it’s important and good, but it also comes with frustrations and issues. (Australian friends, get in touch privately if you ever want a heads up on considerations wrt “green” Aus banking options)

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 22/09/2026

I don’t personally have this reaction because I’m so intentional about what games I play, but this is so valid and real. and imo it’s worthwhile for game devs to grapple with this kind of reaction bsky.app/profile/haus...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My understanding is that this is being used to suggest alt routes, which whatever. The bigger issue here is $875million to a private software company all so the government can continue to eviscerate staffing at a federal agency. So AI is the permission structure for that, as usual.

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My friend made a cool game on a game jam and within a month a slopclone of it is on Steam. This is happening every day for indie devs and I hate it.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“If home ownership rates had remained at their 1981 levels, the most recent data available indicates around 250,000 more households aged 25–34 would own their own home.” Cripes

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Brother I don’t care how much AI is helping you do your email job. That shit was made from mass theft and it’s going to collapse the fucking economy. Please lock the fuck in

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

Right this is what I find so maddening. As far as I can tell, the problems LLMs are "solving" are caused by a combination of increasingly constraining application design and learned helplessness. MS office used to ship with a version of Visual Basic!

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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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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 07/09/2026

tired: paying humans to collaborate with you wired: paying tech CEOs to further erode worker solidarity and burn all the bridges you walked to gain the privilege of being able to make creative work for a living, ensuring no one else can come after

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Their ‘plan’ is a massive rollout of US big tech and with a hope we get some construction jobs, and quarterly payments for the power and water they suck down. All we have to do is hand over complete control of our data and the keys to our finance, defence and government sectors.

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