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Unproductive Radical 🇵🇸

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He/him, occasional writer, even less occasional musician. www.scott-hudson.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I feel like people so often forget the role of rich right-wingers buying up media outlets in the rise of Nazism in Germany.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026
Bizarrely, this is one of the six graphs illustrating "just how much we need A.I.".
Graph of wages and salaries 
Graph of after-tax corporate profits
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Disturbing 🧵 I work in DC, but it's part of my job that I don't speak to journalists; I prep people who do. One of the things that I've noticed is a significant deterioration in basic standards of practice, including respecting off the record communication and porting quotes from other contexts.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Word.
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Unproductive Radical 🇵🇸 @jstscottthings.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
For those in Melbourne tomorrow morning, One Nation id launching their State Electoral campaign and we are making sure they are met with the necessary outrage.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.
Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“
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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Refugees from the right are welcome, but not at the lectern. Go stack chairs. This isn't the next phase of your career. The next phase of your career doesn't involve a camera or mic.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Joe Blakey @joeblakey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🎙️I recently spoke with Sam Morgan about ‘A Caution on Climate Hope’ (paper by @marchudson.bsky.social and I). We dig into the assumed link between hope and climate progress, the problems with optimism and false hope, and whether hopelessness has its virtues. foresightmedia.com/story/s8Myti...
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Hope springs eternal for the climate?
On today’s episode of The Jolt: climate action and decarbonisation success is often intertwined with the need to stay hopeful. Is having hope all it’s cracked up to be though? Or could it be doing mor...
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wish people would stop trying to coin new terms. "Bias in training data" is what this is describing. "Developer bias in selecting training data causes LLMs to bias its answers to underspecified questions to the language used and the geographic location of the user." uxdesign.cc/ai-culture-u...
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The hidden culture layer in AI
Why AI gravitates toward certain cultural defaults — and what that means for the future of UX.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You know, Australia still needs guardrails against automated harms in public governance. The Albanese government refuses to implement it, even after the Robodebt tragedy and the aged care IAT scandal
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you build it, they will come.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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OG 2Tone @offbydesign.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Mayor Scott deserves his flowers just as much as Mamdani. He's doing a lot with less and cares heavily for the city but doesn't get the recognition.
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Unproductive Radical 🇵🇸 @jstscottthings.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
I wrote a little piece about Gambling as a worker's rights issue but also an issue in which a majority of people lose and Gambling companies, and those who they split the revenue with, win. We truly do not need another reason to alienate ourselves from each other www.loiter.au/australian-s...
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Australian sport is turning its players into pokies
The casino walls are creeping further around our stadiums. The players look more and more like poker machines.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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forbrukerradet.bsky.social @forbrukerradet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Har du lagt merke til at ting døyr litt for tidleg? Det har vi òg 👀 Det er tema for vår nyeste rapport. / Ever noticed how things tend to die a little too soon? So have we 👀 That’s the topic of our latest report. Les rapporten/read our report👉forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Patrick Lenton @patricklenton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is because trump has abolished all HIV dedicated international aid. The resurgence of HIV as an epidemic all around the world should be reason enough for all queers to push him out of power
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ha ha ha Ed you cowardly hypocritical loser.
Sheeran explained that he doesn’t use his platform for politics in order to be “a place of safety and sanctuary, to maintain diplomacy and keep conversations open”. Though this isn’t accurate: he performed at the Concert for Ukraine in 2022, signed an open letter to Theresa May about Brexit, endorsed Jeremy Corbyn and supported the equality act in the US.
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Aren't we all...
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: Leaked documents shows the Albanese government has floated 2 ways to let AI companies train their models on Australian content One would let companies like OpenAI and Anthropic do this without paying some creators if they strike enough deals deals with enough rights holders
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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The worn-out trick of the bourgeois hack-writer—not everybody reads a newspaper through to the end, but everybody sees the first striking words of an article....
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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“If there was ever a time to dust off the participatory mechanisms of our universities and bring them back to life, it is now.” David Brophy on the attempt to convene a Convocation for Gaza at the University of Sydney.
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A Convocation for Gaza: decision looms on historic meeting of alumni and academics - Overland literary journal
Convocation is only an advisory body, and holding one will still leave us a long way from the democratic university we need. But at a time like this, we need to make use of any mechanisms we have to c...
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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Unproductive Radical 🇵🇸 @jstscottthings.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026
God forbid immigrants spend ludicrous amounts of money on courses to extend their visas (which they are also paying ludicrous amounts for). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Labor shuts down course linked to student visa misuse
The federal government is preventing new enrolments in a graduate diploma it fears is being used by non-genuine international students to switch courses and prolong their stay in Australia.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Be aware.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
To get back to March 1996 level, Jobseeker would need to go from $808.70 a fortnight to around $1,050
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 22/08/2026
Shabana Azeez: ‘The most disgusting thing I’ve seen on The Pitt? American coffee’
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Shabana Azeez: ‘The most disgusting thing I’ve seen on The Pitt? American coffee’
The Australian actor on posing as a patient for medical schools, having multiple birthdays on The Airport Chaplain and the song ‘nobody likes’ by the Strokes What is the most disgusting thing you saw on the set of The Pitt? I mean, American coffee. It’s bad over there. The de-gloved leg was gross. I saw a full vaginal birth. I drilled into a skull! Continue reading...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness
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Solidarity @solidarity-aus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just four sleeps until Resist and Rebel in Melbourne. Sessions on Palestine, the teachers' rank-and-file rebellion (with Fight The Crisis activist Lucy Honan), how we can stop Hanson, and fighting imperialism. Saturday from 9.30am, 2 minutes from North Melbourne station. solidarity.net.au/resist/
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Unproductive Radical 🇵🇸 @jstscottthings.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026
Just to place the current ABC's coverage in historical context. No this not (just) a product of a threadbare budget and conservative turn. The public broadcaster has a history of protecting authoritarian regimes if it benefits the Australian State. S: The Reds - Stuart McIntyre
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Now why is it not opt-in?” said Minton. “That’s what everybody here is spamming in chat. I get it. ‘Let me opt in versus making me opt out.’ There’s an honest answer, and I think most of you can probably appreciate this: If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That’s honestly the answer.”

This was followed by a torrent of all-caps chat responses that included “THEN DON’T ROLL IT OUT,” “SO WHY EVEN DO IT,” and “IF NO ONE WOULD OPT IN THAT MEANS NO ONE WANTS IT.”
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Unproductive Radical 🇵🇸 @jstscottthings.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
Solidarity with Public Health workers on strike today in Victoria!
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
2003 was once exceptional. Now it's average. 2024's record will be average by the mid-2040s. The extreme summers of the 2040s don't bear thinking about! 🌡🥵😬 #ClimateEmergency After @edhawkins.org & @stottpeter.bsky.social using ERA5 + CMIP6.
European summer temperature, June to August, over 10°W-40°E, 30-50°N, the region Stott et al. used for the 2003 heatwave, relative to 1961-1990. The black line shows ERA5 observations from 1950 to 2025, rising from about zero in the mid-twentieth century to 2.75°C in 2024. Grey shading is the 5-95% range of 34 CMIP6 models over the historical period, blue shading the same models under SSP2-4.5 to 2100, with the running median in white. Two dotted lines mark the 2003 summer at 2.06°C and the 2024 summer at 2.75°C, each dropping to the year the model median reaches that level: 2027 and 2045. Model region approximated by the IPCC AR6 Mediterranean and West & Central Europe regions, weighted 0.75 to 0.25.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I remember being dismissively assured it wasn’t true, that this crank zillionaire is funding basically unlimited vexatious litigation
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Then the lawsuits will keep coming.
Should any female patient or member of staff require funding to fight this assault on their legal rights, apply to jkrwf.org
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BREAKING >> Staff at an NHS trust received an email on Wednesday telling them there would be "no immediate changes" to its policies following new statutory EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces....
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026
Finally, there's an *economic* coin-trick: "AI will destroy jobs." Sure, yes, AI is destroying jobs. But there's a vast difference between "You got fired because an AI can do your job" and "You got fired because your boss was convinced that the AI can do your job, even though it *cannot*." 45/
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Narrative™️, though. It cannot fail. It can only be failed.
2017 tweet, I swear to you, if we had the power to indoctrinate we would start by indoctrinating our students to read the syllabus
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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hip hop history suggests that the distinctive vice of plagiarism isn’t exactly cheating—pretending to be original when one isn’t—but ingratitude (or at least a vicious lack of pietas).
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 04/08/2026
Daycare that doesn’t bankrupt you is a socialist trap
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Unproductive Radical 🇵🇸 @jstscottthings.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
I mean this is the thing. It, like all literature books with screen adaptations will be bought en mass and read by few. Which is such a shame. Source: My copy of The Odyssey collecting dust next to my bedside.
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Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US
The nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem is flying off shelves at bookstores and libraries after the blockbuster film came out
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.
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