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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also the Australian Government: "They unintentionally broke into our car, took it for a joy ride, and set it on fire as they drove it off the cliff. But we won't be pressing charges because we're just glad they told us, and we want to have a seat at the table." /s #auspol @albomp.bsky.social

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@albomp.bsky.social it wasn't a "misaligned model". It was reckless and unaccountable leaders of a company. The language they use is chosen deliberately to wash their hands of responsibility. The only way to deal with antisocial entities is through cold hard consequences. #auspol 👇👇👇

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@albomp.bsky.social - further evidence that Big Tech are not acting in good faith, and our Australian creatives are their victims. It's time for consequences, not compromises. Stealing from one person is a crime. Yet stealing from *every* Australian is...?

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reading press releases from AI foundation model companies at the moment be like: "We built the world's most powerful Puppy-Crushing Machine™️. We opened the door and *somehow* 🤷‍♂️ it got out and started crushing actual puppies. It must be sentient! --- you should give us money"

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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

Alt: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect - "We're all trying to find the guy who did this"

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🤣 'like strapping a weed whacker to your dog and putting it in your back yard and saying “yeah it’s going to help with the weeds back there,” and when the dog chases a squirrel and hurts a bunch of people claiming that it “went rogue” or was “misaligned”' 🤣 - Stealing this analogy!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can we stop describing crypto as an industry. That implies it creates something meaningful.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@albomp.bsky.social - *we* are the so-called "long-tail" - Australian independent creators who are being exploited! Creating an artifical cartel of corporations who get paid for content would be an abdication of responsibility to Australian creators. #auspol @davidpocock.bsky.social

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In other news: Cleaners reportedly found copies of the Necromicon thrown out from the second floor of a whitehouse window.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@albomp.bsky.social - then we do the Australian thing and tell OpenAI to take a long walk off a very short pier. We are holding *all of the cards* - they want our land, our water, our electricity, our stable democracy and our IP. They can go stick their ultimatum where the sun doesn't shine.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@albomp.bsky.social 😡😡😡 20% minimum reservation AND our fair share of royalties. Anything less is failure. This isn't rocket science, and the status quo doesn't pass the pub test.

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Market Forces @marketforces.org.au · 11/09/2026

A fossil fuel development of this size is outrageous. Starting large scale extraction and combustion in the 2030’s would be actively choosing a path of catastrophic climate breakdown. Tell ANZ, Westpac and Macquarie not to give another dollar to this climate bomb at marketforces.org.au/beetaloo/

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Beetaloo: Fracking the heart out of Australia - Market Forces

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why yes, I do want to put my head in a blender. How did they know?

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Jensen Huang: I farted in the gas tank, and now this car runs on pure AGI. Tech journalists: Take our money! #ai #tech #technews

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Opt-in algorithms are a good first step. But it needs to go further. We must have simple, full transparency around how the opt-in algorithms work They must be free from manipulation for corpoate self-interest. And we need choice around how they operate. #auspol @albomp.bsky.social

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Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I’m really angry that our government is not doing more to protect institutions, knowledge, facts, science, etc, from disinformation. I’m even more angry that they/we let nefarious corporations, political & foreign actors spread disinformation & hate to mentally harm our most vulnerable. #AusPol

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🫣 Why are we fracking anything? Seriously? Haven't we learnt from the toxic geysers of Texas?

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No more softly softly, tinkering at the edges @albomp.bsky.social If our democracy is to survive, let alone thrive, our federal lobbying system needs a full-scale exorcism. #auspol

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publicintegrity.bsky.social @publicintegrity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From gambling and gun policy to Big Tech and fossil fuels, lobbying plays a powerful role in shaping public decisions. But Australia’s federal lobbying system remains opaque, unequal and poorly regulated. 1/ #auspol

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"funded by a soup of primordial capitalists, private credit funds, and public endowments that should have their executives fired, ideally into the sun." 🤣 Ed Zitron laying the smack down 🤣

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Netanyahu won't let something as inconvenient as a peace process get in the way of his bloodthirsty imperial ambition. It would be a bitter irony if Trump's hubris is the thing that finally brings about consequences.

Al Jazeera:
'Speaking to his cabinet Sunday, Netanyahu vowed that “as long as I am prime minister, no Palestinian state will arise” and emphasised that Israel would not abide by the US-backed plan.'

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've come to the conclusion that economic "Productivity" is a weasel word. It allows politicians to blame workers pay stagnation on industry regulation and corporate taxes. (I'm looking at you @jimchalmers.bsky.social !)

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@davidpocock.bsky.social - a harrowing collection of first-hand accounts on how AI is decimating workers rights.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"I do believe they might want to see a professional about a split personality disorder, tho." Admittedly, us consultants are a weird breed. 😅

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Well kids, we burnt the planet to give you this sentient toaster. Enjoy. <billionaire rockets take off to private eco-habitat on the moon />

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Great thread here. False anthropomorphism of Generative AI leads us to misapply the technology. We impute cognition to it, and so use it in the wrong way for the wrong tasks.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

$18bn reasons why we need a gas export tax… www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... Go to ourgas.com.au and write to your local MP and tell them to stop the great gas scam.

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Gas giants to reap $18 billion war windfall, reviving export tax calls

Australia’s gas companies are poised to cash in on a huge revenue surge in the fallout from the Iran war, intensifying calls for higher taxes.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Reminder: every accusation is a confession.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 06/08/2026

I'm from one of the places in the "golden gulag" (Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 2007). As scholars and activists have pointed out, the promises of the data center builders share similarities to the rural prison builders. Same propaganda ("jobs! investment! good for the local economy"), same likely reality.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@albomp.bsky.social What are we doing to stop the flow of foreign money and propaganda campaigns into Australian politics? And what are we doing about the complicity of social networks in their promulgation? This is one of the key challenges of our age.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🤦‍♂️ Tell us you're out of touch with reality without telling us you're out of touch with reality. Is it any wonder we have such bad decision making, when we've built entire systems of double speak to pretend economic decisions don't do what they actually do?

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 25/07/2026

In his latest book, Toronto-born science fiction author and tech critic @doctorow.pluralistic.net argues that AI will make us all reverse centaurs, or assistants to machines, if it succeeds. 🤖 @crof.bsky.social writes. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

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Cory Doctorow Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | The Tyee

The writer sees a shaky future for a technology that has many of us in a lather.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm so exhausted of manufactured victimhood... Act like a jerk, Get consequences, Benefit from martyr status.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Pet Peeve #1935 - Gratuitous plastic wrapping. What genius came up with "snack" bananas? Bananas cut in half and then shrinkwrapped. It's not like Bananas come in smaller sizes naturally wrapped or anything! Thank you supermarket chains. There is a special place in plastic hell waiting for you.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tell us again how the guy who is opening three low-cost grocery stores is definitely the BBEG who's "trying to dismantle American institutions".

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Condescending Willy Wonka Smile

Alt: Condescending Willy Wonka Smile

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So...An AI lab deliberately set up an unmonitored, autonomous, unpredictable cybersecurity attack process with system and network access...And when it, *checks notes*, committed a cybersecurity attack they said they didn't know and hyped their "state-of-the-art" capabilities ahead of potential IPO?

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@edzitron.com - apparently the scariest thing in my inbox right now 🤣 (I was searching for an unrelated email from someone else, but it looks like Ed has achieved a monopoly on the scary things)

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 28/07/2026

this is a great argument that maybe we have the risks backwards

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AI safe. A critical event that may result in the extinction of Homo sapiens is possible, but the danger is not in open models, or China making faster progress than the US. The danger is that a few CEOs (everywhere in the world) without the required background and
legitimacy are in the position of making hard choices for humanity at large. They were not selected to do so; it was just the randomness of events that created this setup. They can't speak for everybody, given the stakes, just because they have GPUs and money. This is the first thing that should be fixed.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Part of this Australian superannuation fiasco involves a severe misdiagnosis of the issues facing musicians. The problem is not a lack of super. It's a *lack of any income at all*. Reclassifying contractors as employees cuts the legs out of some of the few paid opportunities going around.

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Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Elon, of course, being the world's leading expert on "unrealistic" expectations.

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