Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️ 8218179
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.bbc.com/news/live/c6... This is starting to sound like an episode of #SlowHorses. I blame Lady Dibbc.comRAF Fairford incident 'clearly involves' foreign actor, says US secretary of stateThe secretary of state, who did not provide further details, was speaking to US media after five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences were released on bail. 020
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026To quote Mandy Rice Davies: “They would say that, wouldn’t they” #AI 020
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One interpretation of this is Mike Myers’ Dr Evil going “Oopsie!” the other is Dr Who’s Cybermen on the march. Neither is good for humanity #AI www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comHeads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidentsSam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres 020
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI’s alter ego “oopsy!”static.klipy.comDr Evil DeviousALT: Dr Evil Devious 000
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t... Whenever I read of AI going rogue I get a mental image of Sam Altman as Mike Myers’ Dr Evil, going “Oopsie” (with a smirk)nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government WebsitesThe company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission. 130
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Trump beggaring the world as he trashes the USA’s reputationtheatlantic.comLenders Don’t Trust the United States AnymoreBlame Trump for rising borrowing costs. 010
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 25/09/2026Canada has chosen conventionally powered submarines over a South Korean bid. Could the KSS-III offer Australia a faster, less costly alternative to its AUKUS submarine plan? It deserves examination, Kym Davey writes. #auspol #AUKUSpearlsandirritations.comKorean submarines may save us from the AUKUS shamblesCanada’s decision to acquire conventionally powered submarines raises a question for Australia’s AUKUS program. Could South Korea’s KSS-III offer a more affordable and timely alternative to the planned nuclear-powered fleet? 34516
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnSydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026EV trucks wont work because Australia distance or some other excuse, well, The Electric trucker is driving an EV truck around the world departing in a few day, of course, across Australia as well. youtu.be/dEF6lOQxfeUyoutu.beMy Journey Starts: In 80 Charging Stops around the WorldYouTube video by Electric Trucker 2216
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026www.smh.com.au/world/north-... Sam Altman on the Medicare hack “Oopsie! 🫢”smh.com.auOpenAI boss refuses to answer Medicare hack questions after Trump-Xi dinnerSam Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach or why it took so long to report. 000
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A sad day. My good friend, the Adelaide philosopher Chris Mortensen has died after living for years with #Parkinson’s. It gradually stripped him of all life’s pleasures, including the great South Australian wines. A bugger of a disease 020
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comAlbanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inboxPrime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach 7338127
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnOz Wiltshire. @ozwiltshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Crisafulli must be paying out of his own pocket, otherwise it's taxpayers money and tax payers have a right to know. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auQld premier refuses to reveal cost to install Gabba wicket into new stadiumBrisbane's renowned Gabba cricket pitch is set to live on with a plan to preserve and install the wicket into the city's new Olympic stadium, but the premier has refused to reveal how much it will cos... 043
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnBRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026JUST IN: 🇪🇸🇮🇱 Spanish PM Sánchez says Netanyahu continues to commit a massacre in Gaza. 33019
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnEuan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026UN Security Council member Russia is currently attacking Kyiv with ballistic missiles. Loud explosions in the Ukrainian capital. 14524
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnMaranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BLATANT FOREIGN INTERFERENCE... 3269
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@carljstevens.bsky.social But I find the hard mode more logical than the other version 110
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026theconversation.com/from-mumbai-... My review in @theconversation.com of Neha Kale’s A Foreign Returntheconversation.comFrom Mumbai to Perth and beyond, Neha Kale considers, art, colonialism and ideas of homeNeha Kale’s A Foreign Return: on art and habitation is an unusual blend of memoir and art criticism, spanning continents and time. 000
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Connections Puzzle #1192 🟨🟪🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 fell into an obvious trap for my first guess, then rethought. 000
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The current debate about the trajectory of #AI reminds me of Dr Who episodes about the coming of the Cybermen. Where is the good Doctor when we need him? 000
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnStéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The quiet words are once again being spoken out loud: Lebensunwertes Leben "life unworthy of life" 1157
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026these thieves have a future as art critics www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comA constipated baby and a kid that looks like Boris Johnson: why would anyone bother stealing a Renoir?The chocolate boxiest of all the impressionists has long had his haters – even Manet thought he was rubbish. Little surprise then that the thieves ditched two works on the way out 000
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The week after the UN declared the 🌎 would miss Paris’s aim of 1.5 global warming and is on track for disaster the boss of Santos gave a boastful speech at the #NationalPressClub talking up the “need” for more gas - as though global warming wasn’ an issue. Not seriously challenged #auspol 043
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In Osnabrűck of all places! That’s the home town of Erich Maria Remarque who wrote “All quiet on the western front”, and where they negotiated the treaty that ended the 30 Years War. People go there to honour peace, not warmongering 000
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.haaretz.com So Netanyahu was told of the threat before October 7. Ouch!!!!haaretz.comHaaretz - HomepageHaaretz- Breaking News, Analysis and Opinion From Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World 000
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Anita Perrottet told ICAC ““I reject that. I’m not lying,” change the punctuation to reveal the truth #nswpol 120
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnSirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“Under these laws you can be locked up and interrogated in this country without ever being charged or even suspected of a crime. A fourteen-year-old can be detained and questioned by ASIO with no lawyer and no court oversight and then when released they can’t tell anyone.” #Auspol @news.abc.net.au 27148
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/08/2026One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked. The Israeli army bombed an ambulance carrying wounded people to a hospital in the Gaza Strip during the war of extermination two years ago. A video that the world must never forget.💔😪💔😢🤬🇮🇱🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️ 63422
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnDrop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Senator responds. #AusPol #Israel #Zionism 03019
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 23/08/2026www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... David Farley gave an interview that made him seem reasonable and responsible. But for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, being reasonable is a mortal sin #auspolsmh.com.au‘Unbelievable’: Hanson intervenes after One Nation MP claims migration target ‘not too different’ from Labor’sDavid Farley sought to redefine the meaning of net overseas migration in an interview on Sunday morning – but he and his boss were about 100,000 people apart. 154
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Strands #903 “An epic journey” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 000
Reposted by Joanna Mendelssohnstranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Hillel Newman refuses to apologise to Zomi Frankcom’s family for her killing—shamefully crawling behind "legal ramifications" instead of basic human decency.😳 Showing the world exactly the kind of accountability Israel offers. Calling it cowardly is an understatement. 3019564
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 21/08/2026@cathywilcox.bsky.social So sorry to hear you say that you’re leaving the Nein network but no one should have to endure a campaign like the one the Zionists confected against you. Please keep on making + publishing your brilliant visualisations of the follies of our politicians+ pals. You’re needed 143
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 20/08/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... @albomp.bsky.social Please end the ongoing scandal of allowing Australian citizens to serve in the murderous IDF. Their dishonesty & their deeds show that Israel is not to be trusted & having Israeli ex-soldiers in Australia is a danger to all #auspoltheguardian.com‘An insult’: Zomi Frankcom’s family issues strongly-worded statement as Israel rejects criminal investigation into her killingPenny Wong calls in Israeli ambassador as PM expresses ‘outrage’ over IDF decision 0122
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 20/08/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This cartoon is worth looking at just for the image of Pauline Hanson pretending to be Mary Magdalene (also explains why no one needs to own a gazillion guns)theguardian.comAustralia was famous for having no guns – what happened? Do we have a gun problem now? | First Dog on the MoonOne guy in Sydney has 371 of them. Who needs 371 guns? 010
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 20/08/2026michaelwest.com.au/first-nation... A bit of a contrast to the media coverage of the #Antisemitism inquiry #auspolmichaelwest.com.auAustralia's hierarchy of grief: $131M for one inquiry, empty chairs for First Nations - Michael WestFirst Nations witnesses brought Parliament evidence of a terrorist bomb and death threats. Government sent empty chairs 000
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnWyvernsrose #RaiseTheRate @wyvernsrose.bsky.social · 18/08/2026NSW Supreme Court criticises IHRA definition as 'detached from reality' dlvr.it/TV3mnh 012
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnDr. REBTOZ @rebtoz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026'Before the current conflict, the overall literacy rate in the Gaza Strip& the West Bank was approximately 97%, ranking among the highest globally.' AI These are the people who Itamar Ben-Gvir says are sub human& 30-40 Gazans should be killed each day. This person should be tried, jailed4murder. 013
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnLarissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The entire Labor party should hang their heads in shame today. In one foul deal with the Liberals, the PM has abandoned vulnerable Australians and given predatory gambling companies the freedom to overrun our sport and screens. 22333113
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 17/08/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... In many Australian towns (+ Tasmania) Coles & Woolworths have a monopoly on supermarket shopping. Now they want to take your identity along with your money for substandard overpriced product (don’t call it food)theguardian.comShoplifting crime wave?! Putting facial recognition technology everywhere will fix it | First Dog on the MoonSupermarkets Coles and Woolworths promise not to abuse this technology even though facial recognition algorithms have known biases 020
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 17/08/2026www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... I don’t know why Senator Steele-John thinks government ministers have a conscience #auspoltheguardian.comJordon Steele-John calls NDIS cuts 'out of line with Australian values' – videoThe Greens senator accuses the government of preferring to back gas exporters instead of the disability community 141
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnGuardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 17/08/2026Shoplifting crime wave?! Putting facial recognition technology everywhere will fix it | First Dog on the Moontheguardian.comShoplifting crime wave?! Putting facial recognition technology everywhere will fix it | First Dog on the MoonSupermarkets Coles and Woolworths promise not to abuse this technology even though facial recognition algorithms have known biases * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading... 3199
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 17/08/2026www.themonthly.com.au/share/5c2ac9... This article reminds me of what membership of the Labor Party used to be like. It was why so many from across the community joined – and why so many left when the apparatchiks took total controlthemonthly.com.auTop prop and copThe storied footballer and policeman who spent his final years seeking to improve others’ lives through his local party branch 011
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnDon Kirkland @donkirkland.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Using algorithms to make health and life decisions will only result in deaths. Computer tech is rotting our administrative capacity. Regional and local decision makers will always do better than centralised computers because they are better able to see the actual issues. 031
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnDr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We need legislated standards of transparency and clarity about how computer algorithms are developed, tested, and used in social services. In the meanwhile, the Integrated Assessment Tool for age care services should be put on hold. 13914
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnDr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The government's use of algorithms in aged care and the NDIS raises worries about a repeat of the tragedies of Robodebt. 1306
Reposted by Joanna MendelssohnDr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Community members have been raising concerns about the new aged care algorithm for months. I've met with the Minister and written to him repeatedly to draw attention to these concerns.abc.net.au'Why are they making it so damned hard?': A blind 96yo vs the aged care algorithmUsing expert analysis, evidence revealed by bureaucrats at Senate estimates, and documents obtained under FOI, Four Corners reveals the fullest picture yet of the secretive algorithm affecting the liv... 86015
Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 17/08/2026www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... This is an odd article in @theatlantic.com In Sydney (Australia) the combination of needle exchanges + a clean injecting room (nurse+counsellor) at the epicentre has seen a huge reduction in both visibility + health hazards caused by #drugstheatlantic.comThe Cities That Said Yes to DrugsPolicies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.” 011