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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

p.s. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that all of this acceleration in the hype is a reaction to the succesful and broadening opposition to their wasteful, polluting, noisy data centers.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 07/09/2026

What Pauline's sponsors hate more than anything else is poor people's money staying in poor people's hands, hence their tireless efforts to destroy the compulsory superannuation system.

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'Economically disastrous': One Nation early super plan slammed

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has defended a plan to allow workers to divert some of their super to help pay the rent or mortgage.

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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ABC reporting Marles has said Australia wants to integrate more quickly with the US. On what authority does Marles commit our nation to integration with the most dangerous and aggressive nation on earth? What does this mean for our economy and trade with China? Madness!

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Process Driven @processdriven.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why do we get spineless cowards for leaders? Because we're a populace that cannot give up any convenience whatsoever. We cannot endure the slightest discomfort to benefit ourselves let alone other people. We are a soft, spoiled, ignorant society. Leaders? We have baby sitters. #auspol

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Anna Harper @annaharper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For those who may be unaware, the 400 old growth trees to be felled for the motoGP are in addition to 400 already felled for a golf course on the edge of Adelaide CBD. We are talking 1000 established trees to make way for sport. What about the natural asset value?

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Lanute @lanute.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"This scum, which exists in every society, rises to the surface in any transitional time, and ..merely expresses anxiety and impatience with all its might" Dostoevsky 1871 One Nation. #auspol #uspol

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Former government ministers are profiting from their association with massive defence contracts for AUKUS. Pyne. Morrison. Johnston. Fitzgibbon. Beazley. Kelly. We have to close the revolving door between government and industry. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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'Business is good': Defence insiders now lobbying for industry

New analysis by Four Corners shows the scale of Canberra's revolving door, where former government officials accept lucrative jobs in lobbying or the defence industry.

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DanTechnik @dantechnik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” This line hits different at the moment. Dune.

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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Lots of headlines noting Wong is "outraged" after Israel cleared itself over murder of Aussie aid worker Zomi Frankcom. Wong also said "outraged" in an April 2024 interview with ABC when Zomi was killed. Not outraged enough to expel Israeli ambassador or stop exporting F35 parts that kill people

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

That is, of course, the point. When the Albanese govt talks of "major reforms" and "getting the balance right", they really mean gving the wagering, sports and media lobbies what they want, with a few token restrictions. As with tobacco, a toxic industry can not be left to self-regulate. #auspol

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Dean from Australia @deanfromaustralia.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How are we supposed to respond to this in Australia when we are being told that any criticism of Israel is hate speech??? #auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So we are now at the book-banning phase of #ZionistMcCarthyism. The council has some explaining to do. Hopefully, the outcome from this stupidity will be the Streisand Effect, as Meg suggests. And a broader pushback against the dangerous notion that someone's hurt feelings justifies censorship.

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miggieblue.bsky.social @miggieblue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Based on the extreme heat & fires in the Northern hemisphere right now, I suspect we are in for a helluva summer here in Aus. Could our AUKUS $$ be better spent on buying more fire-fighting planes (among other things) to combat the bushfires which appear to be more frequent & ferocious each year.

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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🌊🔥 The oceans just experienced their hottest July on record. Rising temperatures mean more #MarineHeatwaves, shifting species and mounting pressure on marine #biodiversity. The ocean is sending a clear warning. 🔗 e360.yale.edu/digest/hotte... 🧪🌍🌐 #ClimateChange #MarineEcology

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tremendous insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration that the NSA/SecState was allowed to go down in a fireball but the person who posts AI slop for the President qualified as needing to survive at all costs.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The future we were promised: Flying cars The future we got: Pervert glasses with an app that can undress women in real time.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There is now this complete fantasy version of the pandemic where people who predicted under 40,000 covid deaths and advocated for herd immunity via mass infection were right about everything the whole time. Total mirror world stuff. But it’s common.

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 12/08/2026

It's not just that AI shreds books. It's not just that AI purchasing drives up book prices. AI is also wasting energy with the lowest quality book information sources. And crashing, or at least fatiguing, our websites. And misleading people about the value (not the same as price) of their books.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“It’s about stop defending the centre because the centre is way over in the right somewhere, and we never actually acknowledged that the centre got dragged so far right it’s sitting on Pauline Hanson’s eyebrows.” @amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol thepoint.com.au/new/260812-a...

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Amy Remeikis says ‘civility politics’ is being weaponised to shut down debate

Civility politics is being weaponised to shut down genuine debate while allowing misinformation and powerful vested interests to maintain their influence, argues the Australia Institute’s chief politi...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2026

DR Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly, with the death toll surpassing 2,000. Confirmed infections have reached over 4,300.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sure seems like NSW is criminalising political expression here

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Israel’s plan is for endless war on Palestine and its neighbours. The world needs to see this and act with sanctions and isolation. Without this there is no path to achieve peace with justice.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Leaked video from an ICE camp details people suffering from tuberculosis, a never ending “flu” & conjunctivitis. ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event. These are concentration camps. They’re a breeding ground for disease which will lead to preventable suffering, disability and death.

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026... “It will not surprise you, that the Times & BBC were both, at least according to the historical review by McDonough, censoring criticism of the appeasement policy, & Hitler himself, who was sensitive to critical reporting even when it came from other nations.”

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Appeasement of authoritarian voices dooms us to repeating history

No matter how much we know about history, we are doomed to repeat it. Appeasement of authoritarian voices will get us there faster.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it to her. No Parliament ratified it .. Nobody asked you." Andrew Brown #auspol #antisemitism michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...

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The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for - Michael West

Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. Andrew Brown

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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yeah this would be me😉

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K.R. O'Connell 🇦🇺 @29rory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

a pro-Israel activist had already registered a party called "Free Palestine" #Auspol

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Earth Visitor @earthvisitor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Victorian Electoral Commissioner has urged voters to do their research before casting their ballot, after a party with a deliberately misleading name was successfully registered ahead of the November election. #auspol #vicpol

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.

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The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)

And how to disempower the oligarchy

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

'Hungary shut down its Paks nuclear plant for the first time in 44 years after the Danube's water level dropped too low to cool the reactors, cutting 40 %of the country's power generation overnight.' oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

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Europe's Electricity Prices Spike to €500 a Megawatt-Hour as Drought Bites | OilPrice.com

Drought has forced Hungary to shut down its Paks nuclear plant, sending European electricity prices spiking to €500 a megawatt-hour.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Every one of those 100 people are advertising they are.vile, cowardly mobsters Yet how will the Gov, police, prosecutors &courts respond compared to how peaceful protestors (with no previous convictions) demonstrating against Israel’s shocking conduct in its war on Palestine have been dealt with ?

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“Mr Zelenskyy is now calling on his Western allies to urgently raise production of air defence missiles & send them. But already shortages are having real implications for Kyiv in its war & prompting tense conversations in the US over its continued conflict with Iran” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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As US burns through interceptors, Ukraine looks for backup elsewhere

Ukraine has reported that it could not defend itself against a recent barrage of ballistic missiles from Russia, which analysts say comes down to the US war with Iran.

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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Now can we dump AUKUS & close Pine Gap??Nothing like being a target for the US forever wars. #dumpaukusnow #shutpinegap #auspol

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How we say good morning….

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is what book burning looks like in the AI age.

Anthropic had a choice: it could have secured copyright permission to use existing e-books. This would have required the “legal/practice/business slog”, as Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO phrased it, of managing copyright. Rather than engage with the texts’ owners, Anthropic first chose to use pirated sources instead, a decision informing the company’s $1.5bn out-of-court settlement with authors. When that approach seemed too complicated (or, as the court decision phrases: “Anthropic became ‘not so gung ho about’ training on pirated books ‘for legal reasons’”), Anthropic turned to destructive scanning. As it happened, the judge ruled that using proprietary material to “train” an LLM did not, in and of itself, constitute an infringement of copyright. To the court, it would seem, “training” a corporate product is equivalent to training any human, teaching how to read in order to learn how to write.

Should we be surprised that destroying printed texts seemed easier to Anthropic than working with their human authors? Either way, the decision to use destructive scanning turned the issue into one of logistics. Under US copyright law, the “fair use” doctrine allows you to make “transformative” use of copyrighted works without the owner’s permission. Anthropic took printed books and scanned them, “transforming” or remediating them into a new, electronic format. They then disposed of the original printed copy: the “destructive” part of destructive scanning. Along the way, Anthropic’s vendors had already sliced the spines and edges of the books, to scan them more easily before destroying them. “One replaced the other,” as Judge William Alsup wrote, noting: “There is no evidence that the new, digital copy was shown, shared, or sold outside the company.”

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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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