iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good to know that actually the godawful state of basic IT security wrt cars is only because of China and EVs. Thanks, ABC! Hey next time the usual Sinophobes pitch you a story idea, why not run it past literally anyone else before you beclown yourselves www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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We asked a cybersecurity expert to remotely access a BYD. It was too easy

To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 05/08/2026

Something that’s been lost in the NAPLAN reporting today: the equity gap in our school system is growing. First Nations kids, kids living in poverty, and those in regional, rural and remote communities are falling further behind. Most of them attend an underfunded public school.

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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Long overdue, reforming the CGT discount and negative gearing won’t fix housing affordability overnight, but these two tax concessions cost the budget a bomb and make housing more expensive for literally everyone." @ebonybennett.bsky.social #HousingCrisis #AusPol

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Working hard will not buy a roof over your head. If you can't inherit one, you're screwed

Australia has been in the grip of housing crisis for years.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/04/2026

sorry folks but we genuinely need to return to 2013 (insufferably replying SOURCE??? to everything)

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

404media.co

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I fully expect Vile Kyle and Jackie O will have a teary heartfelt on-air reconciliation. This all appears very contrived, esp. the fawning attention from the mainstream media for a couple of nasty radio shock jocks that nobody listens to. #KIISfm #radio 📻

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Took me a minute to work through this poster - found near Preston Market Melbourne

Questionable Wall poster in the style of an Australian Defence Force recruitment ad, but subtly featuring controversial former Afghanistan soldier Ben Roberts-Smith and with caption - Join the Fight Against Greenland.

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 13/02/2025

Australia's global share of corruption small, wouldn't change the world if we ignored it And, poverty? A small share, so let's not worry The housing crisis, too. Not most of us, so let's keep negative gearing Aus share of global CO2 emissions minor Action on these issues benefits Australians

Jon Kudelka: ... SO I SAID TO THE PM "THE GAS INDUSTRY WILL HAVE VENGEANCE!" AND HE SAID "WORSE THAN ACTIVELY BRINGING ABOUT THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSE?' AND TO BE FAIR, HE HAD A POINT.

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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Melissa McIntosh is more worried about kids singing about being locked up than kids being locked up.

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This amazing shoey thread - >

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Why on earth do we suddenly care so much about what the Nationals Party are thinking. Irrelevant minor party easily swayed by the wind. Oh I mean coal, or what ever it is Gina wants this week…

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Wolf-Peter Schill @wpschill.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Ferien-Servicepost für alle Eltern: Heute wäre ein sehr guter Tag, um die Brotdosen aus den Schulranzen zu holen 🥪

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/12/2025

Just to demonstrate how much worse it's going to get: O'Neill ensured Woodside quickly became Australia's ExxonMobil. Constantly playing dirty, attacking activists and campaigners, just living in the worst muck. I hope BP's ready to get muddy. ketanjoshi.co/2025/03/15/f...

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Fossil fuel companies aren’t giving up on greenwashing

Are companies really giving up on greenwashing? No, they are not – and I would to explain why that’s never going to happen. Please click!

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Please pay your freelancers before Christmas.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/12/2025

Have seen this "explainer" urging a soft, cautious response to gun law reform in Aus shared a few times now, but no one seems bothered the author is affiliated with the gun lobby theconversation.com/why-can-some...

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Why can someone in suburban Sydney own 6 guns legally? New laws might change that
Published: December 15, 2025 8.37am CET
Author
Suzanna Fay, The University of Queensland
Suzanna Fay
Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Queensland
Disclosure statement
Suzanna Fay has received funding from the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia for a research project in 2018 and the University of Queensland.
Partners
University of Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Good morning @leesylou.bsky.social my other Alaska contact informs me you have a good load of snow coming your way. Hope you have lots of cans of beans or what ever it is you do for breakfast there

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 03/11/2025

"It doesn't matter whether the National Party believes in climate change, I promise everybody's insurance company believes in climate change." - co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

For those following climate misinformation in Australia - this is absolute GOLD- from The global climate accountability mob @drilledmedia.bsky.social - who have been analysing the Australian Senate Committee on Information integrity on Climate Change and Energy - drilled.media/news/austral...

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In Attempt to Spam Climate Information Integrity Investigation, Australia’s Climate Skeptics Score an Own Goal

In attempting to thwart the investigation, anti-climate and anti-renewables groups revealed important information about themselves and why such an inquiry was necessary in the first place.

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The state appears to be struggling at washing away injustice

A Banksy artwork about injustice found on a wall near a courthouse in the UK has been washed away by authorities, except a dark foreboding silhouette remains, showing a ghostly figure with a hammer threatening a small man on the ground holding a sign or perhaps a tool.. the clean up has turned the picture into something new and striking

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

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Barry Tucker @btucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Corporate governance of USA (& elsewhere) began with Lewis Powell's 1971 memo to US Chamber of Commerce, regarded as a blueprint. Read a Greenpeace analysis of blueprint & what's happened since: www.greenpeace.org/usa/greenpea... The New Corporation is an update: www.bing.com/videos/river...

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Greenpeace Analyzes the Lewis Powell Memo: Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy - Greenpeace - Greenpeace

Forty years ago, not only was Greenpeace formed, but a then-obscure corporate lawyer (later appointed by President Nixon to the Supreme Court) drafted a memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of…

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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Every weekday I curate the best articles and commentary on the top news and issues of the day from our excellent independent news media publishers - who do the actual heavy lifting in public interest journalism. Sign up to TrueNorth here #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

excellent read- phoenixing is a gold mine for dodgy company directors and urgently needs to be shut down.

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Occasionally, it occurs to me that one day I will have to despatch my assassins to remove this upstart challenger, lest the world realise they have younger, smarter, much handsomerer alternative to my shitposting as a service. I think that day has arrived.

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Concerning. Australia’s nuclear facilities at Lucas heights are used for the production of medical isotopes critical for Australian Medicine. It would be a huge deal if they have moved into work relating to the weird proposed AUKUS nuclear subs, even a perception it is defence related is alarming.

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The results are in: ✅ The Greens’ ‘right to disconnect’ laws are good for workplace productivity and employer engagement. Remember then all those employer groups (and the Coalition) were acting like the sky would fall in 🤣

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

i find the various flight tracker apps really useful. I didn't realise there is also this - An Earth wide 3d tracking viz of satellites and space junk - mesmerising.. and also disturbing platform.leolabs.space/visualization

platform.leolabs.space

Low Earth Orbit Visualization | LeoLabs

A visualization of satellites, debris, and other objects tracked by LeoLabs in low earth orbit

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Really important new research from Melbourne Disability Institute about disabled people who don't get NDIS support, showing how many need extra support. Also, that disabled people are so damn poor. disability.unimelb.edu.au/home/project...

disability.unimelb.edu.au

A comparison of the characteristics of people with disability in Australia according to whether they received NDIS funding

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Huge news - EU court takes a massive swing at the entire “tracking based advertising industry” the big dogs of the internet - hoovering up what we do online AND where we go in real life - and selling that data on. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X are all on notice www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

iccl.ie

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis

EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thanks to the @australiainstitute.org.au doing the lords signage work in the Melbourne CBD - Big Gas is indeed taking the piss - big ups to @ebonybennett.bsky.social and the gang

Huge LED billboard with Melbournes Flinders st station clock tower, sign says “Big Gas is taking the piss” with detail about gas companies getting more than half of OUR gas for free. From the Australia Institute

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Switzerland turns rail tracks into solar powerplants. Peter Dutton announces this would pose a serious threat to Australian native railway hedgehogs that like to live in the ballast rocks www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-...

swissinfo.ch

Switzerland turns train tracks into solar power plants

A Swiss start-up’s system to install and remove solar panels between train tracks is now being tested. The technology is attracting interest from other countries.

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Aaron Smith @aaronsmith333.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Liberals are putting Family First 2nd on their Senate how-to-vote. Family First will: – Allow religious schools to fire gay teachers – Deny women reproductive healthcare options – Strip rights from gender diverse people What are the Liberals doing?

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

An Uncommon Sense listener texted in about @oaf.org.au's excellent #TheyVoteForYou site It's a terrific resource for examining the voting record of politicians Here're ones who've voted consistently AGAINST no new fossil fuel projects—who do you spot? #AusVotes 👉 theyvoteforyou.org.au/policies/260

Screenshot from the They Vote For You website (by OpenAustralian Foundation) showing the 69 Labor and Coalition politicians who have Voted Consistently AGAINST No New Fossil Fuels

Includes so-called pro-environment Labor MPs like Josh Burns, Josh Wilson, Sally Sitou, Alicia Payne, Kate Thwaites etc

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Wrong question. Should be: Why is the Coalition distracting us with stupid policy promises, instead of committing to fix the enormous damage they've done to housing, tax policy, and growing wealth inequality from Howard & Costello onwards? #ausvotes #ausvotes www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

abc.net.au

Is a home deposit now worth thousands in lost super at retirement?

With home ownership more out of reach than ever for younger Australians, some are pondering whether their retirement fund would be better off used now, to buy a house.

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A/Prof Ben Beck @beckben.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Great to see the new Footscray Rd bridge open! Part 1 of the new 2.5km elevated veloway @bikewest.org

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Bratislava @nondescriptive.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It's hilarious that CSL/Australian pharmaceuticals are exempt from the tariff ~a week ago they were specifically talked up as targets

Guardian screenshot. Text "There were some exemptions to the tariffs, although those sectors could still be caught by future policy announcements.

Trump’s wall of tariffs is likely to raise prices and cause chaos for business
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Australia’s largest pharmaceuticals group, CSL, said “at this stage” its products were not subject to the 10% tariffs.

“CSL is continuing to assess the broader impact of the tariffs and will monitor further announcements by the US government,” the vaccine maker said."

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Auspol Alert: Baby kissers about

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Maggie M @maggiemight.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Yes! Past time to make the #polluters pay!

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Look. I made the same mistake once, but I was organizing a dinner not bombing Yemen.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/03/2025

It's Women's History Month! All March, we're highlighting women who've taken valuable steps for technology, privacy, security, and free expression for us all. We encourage you to learn more, get inspired by their accomplishments, and tell us about women in tech that you admire.

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is a cool summary of the current Australian music industry. Who cares about the mega festivals stupidly relying on the tired cliched “Sydney sound” or the big international masters of spotify algorithms - it’s the local stuff that is working - and the centrepiece of this is community radio

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Chris Dubrow @dubrow.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is something Australian Universities should get hyped about. If key talented US research partners are losing funding, facing insurmountable restrictions or losing the will to carry on, let’s get them over here to continue their work unhindered www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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Europe looks to poach US researchers as Trump cuts funding

Twelve EU capitals want programs to bring over American scholars.

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