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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Me on the PM’s speech: wonderful, just completely devoid of any reason why AI or these data centres are needed or will be of benefit.
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TownSeagull @townseagull.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/08/2025
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
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AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Being a Republican means demolishing the planet and still expecting to get invited to dinner. They don’t believe in cutting people off socially over politics—they believe in *murdering* people over politics. Keeping normal relationships with whoever’s left is how they tell themselves they’re ok.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In a bold move to cement its position, the new junta seized control of the main transport artery between the nation's political capital - which they now control - and its financial one, which they do not. Armed loyalists roam the site demanding to see freedom-of-movement papers. bit.ly/4fWlaKR
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Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak
President Donald Trump’s administration is taking control of Washington's Union Station from Amtrak, marking another federal intervention in the nation's capital.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/06/2025
Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 09/06/2025
Thirteen people trapped in cars overnight and hikers rescued as heavy snow falls across Victorian and NSW alps
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Thirteen people trapped in cars overnight and hikers rescued as heavy snow falls across Victorian and NSW alps
Travellers stranded in vehicles near Mount Hotham as bushwalkers rescued from Wonnangatta track and near Mount Kosciuszko * Australia news live: latest politics updates * Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here More than a dozen motorists and two hikers have been rescued after being trapped in heavy snow in the alpine region of Victoria amid a dangerous start to the snow season. Separately, bushwalkers were evacuated near Mount Kosciuszko in New South Wales as snow fell across Australia. Continue reading...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/04/2025
Dutton constantly and confusingly hopping around on EV, hybrid and combustion engine tax policy is, emblematic of a campaign that always wanted to be ultra-right, but has had to pretend to be moderate thanks to Trumpy factors New short bit by me for @reneweconomy.com.au
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Why Peter Dutton won’t stop backflipping on electric vehicles
Nine days from the election, Peter Dutton still hasn’t decided what sort of campaign he is running: The result: constant backflips on energy and climate.
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It was not that long ago that clinical trials enrolled mainly (or all) men, or that animal studies only used male mice. It was not that long ago that the NIH determined the need to focus research on women. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thinking about the sharp-pronged genius of @nkjemisin.bsky.social for absolutely no particular reason.
“But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/04/2025
There are more utes than tradies on Australian roads (3.1 million vs 1.9 million), our research found. Why? Scott Morrison's tax concessions that subsidise utes if you have an ABN, regardless of whether you work with lumber or a laptop. Good read about our politician's fixation with Ute Man:
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Ute Man is a more complicated hero than the Coalition makes out
Ute drivers have become a convenient hi-vis political icon for the Coalition but the increase in utes and SUVs in Australia outnumbers tradies as tax policies make buying big cars attractive.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Amidst fractious international relations, there couldn't be a better time to remind ourselves that #SFF and the imagination have no boundaries. I’ve always tried to take Anglophone readers beyond the few best-known writers into the vast depths China's SFF universe... reactormag.com/beyond-liu-c...
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Beyond Liu Cixin: 5 New Translated Chinese SFF Books - Reactor
Here are a few great works in translation publishing this year
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
democrats will continue to lose and lose and lose forever because leftists being rude online is "radical violence" but starving thousands of women and children to death is "policy" and guess which one they're committed to condemning
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it. TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/01/2025
Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist | Gareth Rubin
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Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist | Gareth Rubin
The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance This week will be like A-level results week for authors, but with added economic jeopardy. For a good whack of the 100,000 writers and translators…
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Byron Tau @byrontau.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.
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Byron Tau @byrontau.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
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Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.
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Chella Ramanan 🇬🇩 @chellaramanan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Shocking. The last time I checked (a while ago) authors earned £11k. Now it's £7k!!? The top 10% earn almost 50% of all author earnings. Female authors earn 41% less than men. This matters bc you either have to work 2 jobs or be rich to be an author. While Govt education devalues lit degrees/arts 😟
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.
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Other disciplines that have experienced male flight include:

Biology. While most STEM professions remain male dominated, 10 years ago biology became a 50/50 male/female split. By 2022, 62% of biology majors were women. Biology is now often considered the “easiest” of the STEM majors.

Interior Design. William Morris is considered the father of interior design. After finishing his education at Oxford, he began an architectural design school called “the Firm”— just for men. Many universities had interior design programs. Until women began to enter the design space, at which point it was relegated to a mere “hobby.” Since the influx of women, interior design programs have been pulled from almost all universities.

Teaching. In the 18th century, schooling in colonial America was reserved for the white and the wealthy. Most tutors were men who taught boys. By the middle of the 19th century, girls started becoming students and women became teachers. Consequently, men swiftly left the profession, the pay dropped and teaching was no longer considered a prestigious occupation.

Similar patterns of male flight have occurred in nursing, cheerleading, social work, architecture, gymnastics, library sciences and psychology.
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Jurious :|: The One With The Megabyte Tattoos @jurious.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I love Tumblr because things like this, Ursula K Le Guin's takedown of Watership Down, come on my dash and it's incredible and eye-opening and I am so angry at myself for not having the critical thinking skills to even have noticed this before...
Image of a block of text from Ursula K Le Guin's "Cheek by Jowl" in which she writes about Watership Down.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/12/2024
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies “Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 25/12/2024
Costco has 7% annual staff turnover (93% retention), an incredibly loyal and respected customer base, solid quality, and refuses to change its food court pricing much beyond what it was 3 decades ago. It’s the third largest retailer in the country. Capitalism doesn’t have to be cruel.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Cripes. Awful.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
So when mass shootings of average people and school children occurs, it's all "there's nothing we can do, these things just happen" but when a CEO gets shot, we need a special hotline, new safety protocols, and to lock up housewives over frustrated phone conversations. Got it.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As I’ve been saying for over a year: If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime. Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
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TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose
It's 'organized crime,' says one, as scribes from Shonda Rhimes to Robert King face a system where studio policy and law remain murky
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Ingrid Vaughan @ingridvaughan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Another woman is dead because a man is shit at his job. A woman customer service officer logged a DV call as a high priority but a male radio dispatcher downgraded it because he “believed call-takers were over prioritising jobs”. He was wrong. A woman died. amp.abc.net.au/article/1045...
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Sister’s triple-0 call before Lynn Cannon’s death given lower priority, inquest hears - ABC News
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lockit.bsky.social @lockit.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/10/2024
🦋 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! I recommend exploring our custom feeds, which are a little like hashtags but more interesting. We have them for academic and professional subjects, sports, cities, hobbies (e.g., gardening, baking), and many more. Search them in the sidebar under Feeds. 🧵
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Trish K @tkaz99.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
PSA 💙🫂
If your bf or husband is posting "your body, my choice" memes...you need to end that relationship for your own safety.
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Wow. These revelations about the longtime political group that actively worked to spread both the "It's all in your head!" story about M.E. and the "M.E. patients are abusing scientists for telling the truth!" story (both proven to be false) are enraging and also really important.
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Shell & BP have made £31.2bn profits over the last year If you were saving £40 per month, you'd have to have started around the time the dinosaurs were killed off to save that much www.theguardian.com/business/art...
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Shell’s half-year profits climb to £10.9bn after focusing on fossil fuels
Results anger climate campaigners as company grows gas business and pulls back on low-carbon energy investment
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
And "hallucinating" instead of "wrong". They've used language very cleverly to try to insinuate intelligence where none exists, so that they can hype their "general intelligence AI" myth to draw attention away from their wrecking of the jobs market and environment.
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Agreed. Perhaps the most insidious trick the AI industry played was getting everyone to use words like ‘training’ and ‘learning’, rather than ‘copying’ or ‘reproducing’.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 02/08/2024
There are places where this technology can do remarkable things, notably in bio research. But what’s happening now is not the rollout of knowledge engines for the betterment of the human condition. It is the fulfilment of the stupidest prophecy ever made.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 02/08/2024
Essentially they are too important for small considerations like fresh water, energy consumption or the creation of millions of tiny automated lie machines to stand between them and profit.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 02/08/2024
The current AI industry is the new oil: they demand the right to extract resources, to pollute both the social space and the physical environment, and they claim there will be massive dividends for society so they should not be required to make safe or to pay.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 02/08/2024
The point about AI training is that it is not a ghost in a machine learning by diligent study; it is massive corporate power expropriating work and asking to be excused from the law in exchange for goods it will not deliver and profit it will keep to itself.
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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't. www.zdnet.com/article/digi...
zdnet.com
This state is introducing digital driver's licenses. Here's what you need to know
Your physical wallet is being replaced piece by piece. Here's what you need to know about using digital IDs.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/07/2024
100% accuracy: “Open bargaining is good democratic hygiene, but it’s also a huge reality check on the way the world works. Few workers remain unmoved once they see how their bosses’ lawyer talks about them while rejecting a modest improvement to working conditions.”
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags. They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock. Consumers pay $2,780 per bag. The production of the bags costs Dior $57. Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social
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Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag
In recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 07/07/2024
I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 23/06/2024
Only 60% of Australians accept ‘climate disruption’ is human-caused, global poll finds
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Only 60% of Australians accept ‘climate disruption’ is human-caused, global poll finds
Exclusive: French survey of 26 countries finds fewer Australians than global average agree that climate change is the greatest health threat facing humanity Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australians are among the most sceptical around the world that “climate disruption” is being caused by humans and that the costs of tackling it will be less than that of its impacts, according to polling across 26 countries. Just 60% of Australians accept that “climate disruption” is human-caused, a fall of six percentage points from the previous poll 18 months earlier and well behind the global average of 73%, according to the results from French polling company Elabe. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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