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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20h

Some thoughts I shared while in the UK, where Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has acknowledged that anti-genocide protestors "were right" but activists are still serving long prison terms for stepping in where their government failed. @astra.bsky.social

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1h

Watson, who spends that first Times journo Labour book loudly bragging about how he personally horked up that complaints unit horseshit hand-in-hand with some wingnut crank at the BBC because he was trying to decapitate his party in an election year, and also he was worried about racism or some shit

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PLDH @pldhnet.bsky.social · 8h

Need everyone to see this

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely essential reading. The specific focus is polarization research but everyone will benefit from this account of how anti-democratic forces disguise their efforts to rip out the very foundation they're standing on. It isn't 'just normal conflict within democracy', it's existential!

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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 7h

The Daily Mail used an image of ex-IDF soldier and right wing agitator Avi Yemini as an example of pro-Palestine protesters “clashing” with cops. Righto. It’s been more than 36 hours since this article went live and despite a campaign for a correction by News Cord, the image is still up.

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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 11h

On this day in 2012, Gillard made sure that single mothers with kids over 8 were forced onto Newstart rather than the single parent payment, setting the living standards on those kids and the safety of their mother back. Years later Labor raised the age back to 14, not the original 16.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 13h

It's even worse - he used to say his family escaped Castro, but then it was revealed his family fled the US-supported Fulgencio Batista. Now that it's advantageous to be a Western supremacist, he's pushing aside Cuban and going with Spanish.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13h

"The gas power buildout for AI could cost over $5.6 billion every year in health impacts Texas and Pennsylvania alone would make up almost a third of the health costs from gas burning plants" (this is the LOWER end estimate) earthjustice.org/feature/data...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13h

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again, I don't think anything shows the absolute moral cowardice at the heart of the Western political establishment than the fact that nobody can point out how close this guy is to American government power because we can't risk upsetting the Americans.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/10/2026

We have invented the mythical man month from classic software engineering book Don’t Invent the Mythical Man Month.

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

holy shit this might be one of the most offensive cartoons i've ever seen

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026

Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026

One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.

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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m sorry, but this is a fantasy. The *entire point of all this* for ten years has been 1) Absolutely fuck you, the left does not get any kind of power, ever, 2) We will do and say literally anything, whatever it takes, to ensure this never happens and 3) Britain does what America wants, full stop.

George Monbiot
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Let me try this once more.
It was a choice.
EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan.
OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc.
It was never going to be both.
Which one makes a material difference?
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Some people here don't seem to have understood the purpose of a political party.
It's not the same as a protest movement.
It is a vehicle designed to get into
government, to change legislation and make a material difference to the lives of people at home and abroad. 2/2

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

via EvolvePolitics

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obseyxx.bsky.social @obseyxx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Writing in 2005, Rafael Behr was very clear that Zionism was the political movement for a nation state in Israel. Writing today, Zionism is ancient, complicated, nuanced, many different things!

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

one of the reasons that make me think that capitalism cannot be reformed is that in the West the golden years of capitalism produced boomers, a generation of lowkey sociopaths.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you think you're a sensible moderate "bit of a lefty" journalist and you find yourself constantly thinking "well surely there must be some sensible way for the left to avoid the ire of my psychotic colleagues, why don't they just do that," I assure you, there is not, you're just their friends.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have no strong view on a preferred outcome here - “stop the massacre and destruction” feels like the immediate priority - but I invite readers to note the result of decades of nice libs wishing for two states is their own governments assisting in genocide, ethnic cleansing and massive destruction.

Opinion
The Guardian view on the Green party and Palestine: rejecting two states is no shortcut to peace
Editorial
Zack Polanski must defend Palestinian freedom while reassuring Jewish members and showing that his party can handle disagreements

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ACELE - Ah! No. This is a *contact microphone*, it's for recording *inside* solid objects. Contact Mike just beats people up.

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The idea the Greens were plausibly ever going to be invited to participate in the next govt by the Labour Party *under any circumstances* is levels of motivated reasoning & self-bullshitting we need to build a new scale to quantify

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Let me trv this once more. It was a choice EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan. OR thev could have ioined the next qovt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc. It was never going to be both. Which one makes a material difference? #GazaGenocide

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"More than 3,700 Australians are stranded in public hospital beds". Hospitals (run by states) clogged as massive NDIS cuts (by Feds) mean patients can't survive at home Claudia Weisenberger investigates #auspol #ndis #medicare michaelwest.com.au/stranded-tho...

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Stranded. Thousands in hospital beds as NDIS cuts bite home support - Michael West

Thousands of patients are stuck in hospital beds in a system that focuses more on who pays than on what benefits the unwell.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cory Booker — who is being floated as a 2028 contender, and who just the other day did not deny the possibility of wanting to become leader of the Senate Democrats — promotes the book of Brett McGurk, a chief architect of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestine:

Cory Booker tweet:
@brett_mcgurk
is one of our nation’s great experts on the Middle East and has spent decades working at the highest levels of diplomacy through some of the region’s most consequential moments.

I’m really looking forward to reading Brink and learning from his firsthand account of the extraordinary efforts to free the hostages, and confront the extraordinary challenges of the region.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All the brave students in America were already hounded out of a future for protesting against genocide, before this began. There are brave protesters everywhere, it’s just that the French have a modicum of actual respect for theirs, and so mainstream society actually bothers to defend them.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good news at last as Australias High Court rules that emissions from Australia’s coal exports (Scope 3) must be taken into account when approving coal projects in Australia. This is massive as Australia is the 2nd largest coal exporter on the planet. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Breaking: High Court rules in favour of climate in Hunter Valley coal mine case

Australia's High Court rules in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in a landmark climate ruling that could redraw how fossil fuel projects are approved in Australia.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think we should supply Hamas with weapons and sabotage Israel’s nukes, that’s a good start

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 06/10/2026

“The antisemites will become our most dependable friends, the antisemitic countries our allies.” —Theodor Herzl

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

a play in four acts

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

at my last job the company had an ex-FBI head of security who would follow up on any death threats and usually reassured me with something like “we looked into the guy and he doesn’t travel outside a 50-mile radius of his small Texas town.” whether that could be part of the issue, who’s to say

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

imagine what the avengers could accomplish if they didn't reject potential members for ideological impurity. like sure, we strongly disagree over ONE issue, but i'd still rather have the big space guy, whose glove has ALL of its powerful jewels, on MY side. but i guess they'd rather do litmus tests

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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Throwing hands at the AI bros with my comrade Sneha Krishnan www.anclogan.ie/a-machine-to...

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lots of powerful folk eulogising the late criminal, thieving liar (& author) Jeffrey Archer. So far no quotes sought from junior Tory staffers, wait staff, publicists & assistants (etc) about what it was like dodging the hands & leering suggestions of a notorious creep convinced he was attractive.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kv3-273, 1/1 2026 pyramid family

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Relevant again in Safeguard Mechanism review season👇 Also weird how carbon market advisors talk earnestly about need to "scrutinise how we ensure that carbon credits accelerate decarbonisation & don’t delay meaningful action”, but never share investigative evidence of offset proj integrity failures

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Learning about the horrible things trans women say each other made me so sad to learn about however it absolutely proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are women

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At some point we need to conclude that the waste, fraud and poor / bad outcomes for people is a feature, not a bug of voucher-based delivery of social services. It flows directly from the mode of economic organisation of the programs in their current forms. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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They built a business empire that cashes in on veterans. It's made millions

The companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Actually have you tried my ingenious method for protecting civilians from war criminals: shutting up and doing as I’m told

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