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Australian news outlets including the public broadcaster will be allocating a LOT of resources to covering Israel and Israelis this month, out of all proportion to the public interest and closely aligned with interests of the powerful. Evidence here:

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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 8h

More terrifying is that the techbros could probably make him a special chatbot designed just for him that they could program to tell him anything they want him to do.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.

Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year Total income Company Tax
2014-15 $3,389,399,798 $0
2015-16 $3,476,002,729 $0
2016-17 $3,715,263,715 $0
2017-18 $3,498,043,596 $0
2018-19 $4,360,612,850 $0
2019-20 $5,013,931,702 $0
2020-21 $4,070,327,153 $0
2021-22 $4,746,037,784 $0
2022-23 $6,257,384,778 $0
2023-24 $8,210,276,022 $0
2024-25 $5,117,008,013 $0
Total $51,854,288,140 $0

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 16h

every Australian government in every jurisdiction gives public money to adults - police officers, prison officers, welfare officers - who target and incarcerate and abuse children.

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Regarding the #Naza film and debate about war crimes vs genocide, the debate has been underway for a while, based on the documentary makers research, I published this in July 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1... People are beginning to understand the illusion of the war/genocide distinction.

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Elena Macdonald @elenalowana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As is the case anywhere else on the mainland, only the Traditional Owners of their place have the cultural authority and sovereignty to speak to their language, lore, and culture. Turrakana and Teralina are Paredarerme language, and there was no 'division' amongst our mob.

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Elena Macdonald @elenalowana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Laughably, they did report on it at the time – www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10...? – so it's not like they don't know about it! Although, the references to a 'divided' community in the article are not based in fact. The names were approved because they were legitimate.

abc.net.au

'There was more than one language': Tasmanian Aboriginal community split over dual naming

As regional Aboriginal community groups attempt to revive traditional place names, they are meeting resistance from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre which says there is only one authentic Aboriginal la...

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Elena Macdonald @elenalowana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want more detail on the names themselves, or to access a pronunciation guide, search them up on this website www.placenames.tas.gov.au#p1 Turrakana, and Teralina. Click detail, and you'll access the information and a link to the audio pronunciation.

placenames.tas.gov.au

Placenames Tasmania

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Elena Macdonald @elenalowana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It has been years at this point, of hearing some dual place names used consistently and repeatedly, and never hearing Turrakana or Teralina. At that point, the omissions become obvious, and harmful. There is no good reason to be omitting certain dual place names over others – and nor does the ABC

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Elena Macdonald @elenalowana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My peoples, the Paredarerme Nation, have two official dual place names: Turrakana/Tasman Peninsula, and Teralina/Eaglehawk Neck. For some reason, the ABC finds itself repeatedly incapable of observing or even mentioning these place names, despite taking great care with others across Tasmania.

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Elena Macdonald @elenalowana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Call out to anyone who cares about the way @news.abc.net.au approaches mob and deals with our place names and languages! Enough is enough. For some reason, reporting by the ABC in Trouwunna/lutruwita (tasmania) takes great care to observe some official dual language place names — but not all.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

lotta one-sides coverage of Israeli feelings this morning.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/09/2026

Everyone trying to sound reasonable like "I'm sure it's useful in *other* people's areas, just not in mine" just say it's not useful in your area and stop

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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AliceK - globalise the innitafucker @coalisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perth Children’s, Fiona Stanley and Royal Melbourne Children’s hospitals have all cancelled events which include first hand accounts of working in Gaza. The reasons; pro-Palestine bias and preventing Jewish staff from being upset The PM himself has refused to meet surgeon Mohammed Mustafa ⤵️

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hearing that Australians who are fortunate enough to have land in their own name want cuts to federal spending cool cool cool lets start with cutting the billions we give to landlords and their very pricey high school alma maters and the blue chip diesel subsidies and franking handouts💰

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

actual productivity would have to skyrocket to merely break even, given all the time and resources being flushed down the toilet on managing garbage tech in every fucking corner of the economy.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

but there is no use case for publicly available data enshittified by OpenAi tech.

OpenAl
Q
What happened with Services Australia Medicare Statistics Rep... V
When we do internal training and evaluation on our models, we assign them tasks drawn from a broad collection of research questions spanning many subjects, reflecting the kinds of detailed questions users might ask. This trains a model to find, interpret and analyse publicly available information so the model can be more useful to
people. Our models are supposed to answer these questions using publicly published statistics.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 28/09/2026

More important bogong moth reminders.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so giving away OpenAI tech development approvals so OpenAi can control data extraction facilities to develop OpenAi tech that will detect and protect us from OpenAi tech seems to be the logic here. You know, like shipping lanes to China. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

abc.net.au

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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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

recalling Australia is run by Anglo-Europeans. Almost all the law makers and judiciary and executive class generally are whites. Until recently, from the day these colonial institutions of power were set up, all were run by white males. The northern world is not better than us. They did this.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As we're back to school in the university quarter system, I'm grateful to the AAUP for gathering AI syllabus language: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul... and this article on LLM impacts on cognitive development: www.media.mit.edu/publications...

media.mit.edu

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

These data centers are financial poison even if you bought them cheap. The returns are awful, the debt is toxic, the ongoing opex is nasty because of the cost of cooling and the power demands, and 30% gross margins requires near-perfect conditions and constant revenue for 5+ years.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The AI industry is unsustainable in every way, and will likely also cause a financial crash of unprecedented proportions. Our legal system needs to find a way *stat* of holding the industry responsible: for $mismanagement; for stealing copyrighted material; for hacking orgs & companies; harm, etc

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not much economic benefit for who? Why build it at all if the benefit is from the building? They may as well dig holes and fill them in.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 11/08/2026

The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

youtube.com

Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm afraid the Doomer discourse has persisted for another week (UN "AI" briefing, etc) so in case you missed this when we first put it out earlier in this bananas news cycle, I'm reposting it: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

buttondown.com

What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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Equisapien Replicant of the Falcon Cult Replicants @eqspnrplcnt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They are testing the limits of what the establishment media will help them get away with.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this reads like the kind of machine text barfed up by OpenAi tech and copy-pasted by dull witted and hopelessly compromised white guys.

The Sydney Morning Herald
He noted potential benefits. The OpenAl rogue infiltration of a Medicare website illustrated one of the threats: "AI can improve lives, boost growth and productivity, and provide revolutionary breakthroughs in healthcare and other fields," said the PM. "But leaders of AI companies themselves have warned of the potential risks of allowing frontier Al to develop too fast without guardrails." He cited the Medicare breach, calling it unacceptable.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Crowding out

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On their online petition c.org/S6X65dRGZY please sign and share

c.org

Sign the Petition

Raise JobSeeker Above the Poverty Line Now

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I spent the day with grannies for action who are a bunch of older women who want to make a difference and think jobseeker is too low they are in their 70s and 80s and have been out collecting physical signatures for their petition id like to help by getting as many signatures as possible

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one of the things I hate most about patriarchy - which continuously causes harm to almost all women, at scale - is when powerful figures instrumentalise “women’s safety” to be more carceral-controlling and racist.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

brighten your day with this story.

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

By my clever and wonderful friend, @jessharwick.bsky.social

Cartoon by Jess Harwood making commentary about the *real* data centres we should support.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

can anyone recommend an interesting doco or other resource on the history of compulsory voting, preferably feminist perspective? @blairwilliams26.bsky.social is this up your alley?

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

explain why Altman is building tech to snoop around in government medical records, Andrew. The literal excuse is for the tech to “answer questions about Australia”. When strings of text featuring the word Medicare that require verification using some other search tool have no value.

In a statement, an OpenAl spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.
"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

in a discussion about slop machines in education today - most of us are being shoved into expensive, productivity-tanking, slop-legitimising policy frameworks - a colleague told me that one “use” students describe is “thinking partner”. With a thing that does not think. At a university.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product

A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we could have a royal commission and centre policing or we could just ban alcohol ads, ban gambling ads, jam all online promotion and delivery of gambling and alcohol products, and redirect the tax revenue to victim services. And see if that helps.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the whole point of LLMs is to add another layer of separation between the people doing the social harms and the harms themselves like hiring a consultant, the point is for it to do what you always wanted while you go "haha that thing has a mind of its own"

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These people (not "agents" - people) clearly have no intention to stop behaving so recklessly with the vast amount of computing power they have access to. We as a society have processes to address this, including "charging people with crimes when they do crimes".

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Next time Albanese or one of the usual stooges tell us about the Glorious AI Future, make sure to get clarity on which crimes are legal now.

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Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This has been all over my feeds this morning with lots of "AI gone rogue" narratives. This is also appearing in the wake of Mark Zuckerberg telling the UN AI has a chance of destroying humanity and the solution is tech companies self regulating. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...

rnz.co.nz

OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare data portal earlier this year.

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