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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NAZA - the film Netanyahu doesn't want you to see - is coming to Australia. We're partnering with @madmanfilms.bsky.social for special preview screenings on 11 October in Sydney and Melbourne, featuring @sarahschwartz.bsky.social and Antony Loewenstein. Grab tickets here: www.madman.com.au/naza/

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What if the whole country saw the full picture? This is a national emergency. The impacts are already here. But the solutions exist. Communities are watching the People’s Emergency Briefing and discussing what to do next with neighbours and MPs #EarthDay Screenings www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sydney Uni. Kickin’ the free speech can down the road Kim Wingerei reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/sydney-uni-kicki…

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

House prices falling by a percentage not seen in 40 years does not mean house prices have fallen to affordable levels - it is just that we have seen them increase so much year on year, that falls seem significant BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE IT JUST MEANS THE HOUSING MARKET HAS BEEN BROKEN

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NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Six months of enterprise bargaining at Federation University but little progress so NTEU members are taking action today. Crushing staff workloads are adversely affecting students and the VC must act - you can tell him now: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fa... #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #HigherEd

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Students stand with staff at Fed Uni

If Fed Uni wants to be a genuine leader in cooperative education, it must start by cooperating with its own staff. We urge you to support our educators in their efforts to secure fair treatment and wo...

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” - James Baldwin. @theguardian.com you reported gleefully that Ed Millburn said the UK Labour government fell short, this is nothing to be gleeful about. This also isn’t falling short, it’s a derelection of duty

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just like an abusive husband smashing up his wife's possessions, the tech industry likes to act as if it's breaking things at random, as a chaotic byproduct of raw innovation, when it fact it's very clearly and systematically targeting human rights, worker protections and social safety networks.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's how and why Andy Burnham must bring water and other key public services and natural monopolies into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP (6/6) weownit.org.uk/research-and...

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How and why Andy Burnham should deliver public ownership

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What an absolutely ridiculous conversation England is having about its extreme ideological experiment with privatisation It's really not that complicated 9 out of 10 water systems worldwide are in public ownership (1/6) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield. We can lead him through it | Will Hutton and Andy Haldane

Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New record (..that probably won't last long): 80.4% instaneous penetration of RE in the NEM over the weekend. More than half it coming from behind the meter (..rooftop solar) 🔌💡 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“It’s an extremely challenging task. The rate of renewable energy rollout that is now required to hit that target is unbelievable” As in, not believable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Australia’s renewables transition is well under way – but meeting its 2030 target will be ‘extremely challenging’

A gap looms between the Albanese government’s goal of 82% renewable energy and planned solar and wind projects

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"... the first stage of the project could be powered by gas, with three major gas power plants within two kilometres of the proposed site" www.smh.com.au/national/que...

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Anthropic inks deal for $32 billion mega data centre in Queensland

It is the first deal signed in Australia by the maker of Claude, which is hoping to publicly list the company with a valuation of $2.8 trillion.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a way to prevent people agitating for more equitable distribution of wealth, politicians and journalists have spent years stoking racism, and are now either unwilling or unable to apply the brakes

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity

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AliceK - globalise the innitafucker @coalisdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Richard Flanagan: @albomp.bsky.social “we have as our prime minister a Benny Hill impersonator who rarely met a corporation for which he wouldn’t roll over - more Toto than Toto. In the noble tradition of online scammers, US AI corporations have persuaded…”💥 #auspol archive.is/202609171939...

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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It seems these universities are taking their cue from the Prime Minister and prioritising global tech giants over their own communities. The community is rightly worried about techno-fascist destruction of the environment, uncontrolled corporate power, and the social consequences of AI.

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‘Despicable garbage’: Students alarmed as Sydney universities roll out ChatGPT Edu

The city’s two most prestigious tertiary institutions have signed multi-year deals with ChatGPT within days. There’s a campus backlash brewing.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Meaningful antiracism work draws not on exceptionalism but on solidarity between different struggles. It centers Indigenous peoples, Indigenous sovereignty, and Indigenous liberation” by brilliant scholars (and my v respected colleagues) Lana Tatour and Noam Peleg: mondoweiss.net/2026/09/insi...

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Inside the Australian Royal Commission turning anti-Zionism into a crime

Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism has spent months letting Zionist witnesses deny genocide and recast Palestine solidarity as hate, laying the groundwork to criminalize protest, speech, a...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When masked thugs radicalised by racist hate blockade ports and threaten harm, the police make zero arrests, and the response of the government is to issue a statement sympathising with the protesters' aims and only mildly rebuking their actions, we have a big fucking problem.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This was clearly not an act of spontaneity. Dozens and dozens of men travelling down, all wearing black, all wearing masks is anything but a spontaneous protest. An infuriating response.

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the faculty of arts and social sciences, 0% agreed with the statement: “I trust the University of Sydney to act in the best interests of staff, students and the broader community.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘We have had enough’: thousands of University of Sydney staff walk off the job over AI and job security

Hundreds of university staff were stationed at picket lines, calling for stronger protections around the use of AI

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"International Criminal Court (ICC) and its personnel cannot be expected to weather this powerful storm alone." EU in Wicklow: "Pass the wine."

"International Criminal
Court (ICC) and its
personnel cannot be
expected to weather this
powerful storm alone"

SPECIAL PROCEDURES
UNITED NATIONS
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🇫🇷 FRANCE: “A photograph of Palestinian footballers playing on a makeshift pitch surrounded by the ruins of Gaza has been removed from a major sports photography exhibition in France following complaints from pro-Israel campaigners.” greatreporter.com/2026/08/25/e...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NYC street artists work fast….Fulton Street is now Parton Street 🙏 *Work by plannedalism(IG)

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

godzilla except it’s dolly parton: thread

A Godzilla sized Dolly Parton stepping on the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

redefining fuk Israel as antisemitic and redefining antisemitism as terrorism is work being done at the Royal Commission by accepting the IHRA definition of antisemitism and social cohesion as a defence against religious and ideologically motivated extremism.

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Hearing Block 9 will focus on strengthening social cohesion in Australia.
The Letters Patent establishing the Royal Commission define social cohesion as the national consensus in support of democracy, freedom and the rule of law and recognise that social cohesion provides the strongest defence against antisemitism and other forms of religious and ideologically motivated extremism.
Hearing Block 9 will hear from a number of witnesses about:
• How social cohesion can be understood and measured.
• Social cohesion and the human rights framework.
• Initiatives and programs undertaken by various communities, religious groups and organisations across Australia that seek to strengthen social cohesion.
• Social cohesion in the education sector.
• Government activities to promote social cohesion.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the alleged antisemitism to incarcerated without charge on terrorism grounds pipeline has been disrupted by NSW Supreme Court justice Desmond Fagan. You love to see it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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NSW judge says anti-Israel graffiti case went ‘haywire’ when vandalism was labelled antisemitic

Mohommed Farhat spray-painted slogans and torched a car in Woollahra. He pleaded guilty but supreme court judge says case appears to be a ‘miscarriage of justice’

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

The judge is "at odds with Segal’s antisemitism plan, which specifically highlighted anti-Zionism as potentially masking antisemitism as part of its call for #IHRA to be adopted. Fagan delivered a stinging rebuke to such assertions." Segal's govt-funded 'work' is based on Israel lobby lies. #auspol

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Shane Chowen @ukshane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Outstanding

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"It's not just the US. Watching the Starmer administration accelerate data centres, zoning and planning, usurping local councils and saying we want to build these things in greenbelts...under a vague conception of AI growth" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEf-...

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Naomi Klein: AI is a fascist idea

YouTube video by The Maybe

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 12/08/2026

I signed this letter because the science is crystal clear: we must keep oil and gas in the ground. Every extra molecule of carbon dioxide emitted drives us deeper into the danger zone. www.thetimes.com/article/c2bb...

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Don’t give in to North Sea oil lobby, climate scientists urge minister

More than 50 researchers have written to Miatta Fahnbulleh to tell her that the evidence does not support approval of drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Jillian Segal is weaponising the Royal Commission’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism to entrench it nationwide, writes Jeffrey Loewenstein (former chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission). www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-royal-...

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The Royal Commission’s blunder was in accepting the IHRA definition – Jeffrey Loewenstein

Jillian Segal is weaponising the Royal Commission’s IHRA adoption to entrench the controversial definition nationwide

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