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Temple Connolly

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Not a hugger. Opinions are mine, unless they're yours.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 2h
Read an interview last week with an author who described how bad the Nazis were at politics pre-1933, and systematically exploded all the socio-economic explanations for their rise to power. 'So why did people vote for them, then? For the violence. They wanted political violence.'
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Wyth regard to Artificial Intelligence, Ich am generallye on the syde of the Pope" -- thanke you, science fictioun, for gettinge me readye to saye thinges lyke thys wyth confidence
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen stated that good journalism focuses on “Not the odds, but the stakes”. Speers is master of the odds: horserace political reporting that is all about politics, personalities and polls, and largely ignores consequences for the nation. #insiders #auspol
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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jess Wilson, whose spending proposals top around $70bn, now saying there’ll be no new taxes under an LNP government. Strange.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tornado going through Ulladulla earlier this afternoon via @ozforecasting__ on TikTok
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maria Ressa was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize (with Dmitry Muratov) for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for #democracy and lasting peace." She is the first Nobel laureate from the Philippines. Happy birthday @mariaressa.bsky.social 🥳
A color photograph of Maria Ressa, born October 2, 1963, the pioneering Filipino journalist, co-founder of Rappler, and co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. She is standing at a dark wooden podium, captured from the chest up. Smiling broadly with an expression of joy and animation, she looks slightly to the right of the frame. She wears thin, rimless eyeglasses, a black turtleneck, and a textured, patterned blazer in shades of cream and light pink or soft orange. Her right hand is raised forward with her palm open and fingers extended in a welcoming, expressive gesture, while her left hand grips the flexible neck of a black microphone attached to the podium. The warm, soft-focus background suggests a grand indoor lecture hall or auditorium with architectural details. The bright, direct lighting emphasizes her optimistic and commanding presence, reflecting her historical significance as a fearless champion of freedom of expression and democratic resilience.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Receiving lifesaving medical care" after a botched execution is the most American thing I can possibly imagine.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pentagon Begins Alerting Possibly Millions of Service Members About Personnel Database Breach gizmodo.com/pentagon-beg...
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Pentagon Begins Alerting Possibly Millions of Service Members About Personnel Database Breach
It's not clear how many of the over 3 million troops and others in a breached Pentagon database lost information like Social Security numbers to hackers.
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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Older adults hospitalized for COVID at increased risk for stroke, data show" A study of 1.2 million people aged 50+ found COVID hospitalisation was linked to a 23% higher stroke risk, rising to 35% in the first 3 months after infection. Vaccination had a 21% lower likelihood of experiencing stroke
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Older adults hospitalized for COVID at increased risk for stroke, data show
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Richard Chirgwin @rchirgwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is how you do it, Australia.
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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I think the story of our era will be of a political class that were not only not up to the times they faced, but often wilfully blind to them.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whelp. After 15 years of me saying “every shark swimming through a flooded city street after a storm photo on social media is fake,” we may finally have a real one. I’m awaiting confirmation from folks with better eyes than mine. abcnews.com/video/136803...
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Shark spotted in New Jersey floodwaters during nor'easter
A dogfish shark was spotted swimming through floodwaters in Surf City, New Jersey, heading up a resident's driveway and then toward Barnegat Bay on Saturday.
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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Controversial Sydney data centre project pulled amid community anger
A controversial proposed data centre has been withdrawn by its developer after it became a flashpoint amid growing opposition to the AI infrastructure development across the country.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re buying subs from the US because insane nutters on Govt think we need to defend ourselves against China, which the US is proposing to sell weapons to…
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Australian Government gonna use AI to write legislation? Have some self-respect.
screenshot of a contract notice listed on AusTender that shows Office of Parliamentary Counsel paying $44,000 to Larrison Pty Ltd for "in-house Legislative Drafting Tool Proof of Concept"
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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is absolute bullshit in so many ways. It’s like saying we need to have nuclear weapons to have ‘a seat at the table’ regarding controlling their proliferation The lobbyists have clearly gotten to the major parties www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say
Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Ms Game was One Nation's party leader in South Australia, and policy adviser to Pauline Hanson for eight years. But after having a front row seat to its operations, Ms Game said she would not vote for ON at the next election” "It's not a party, in truth," she said” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'Insidious money grab': Aspiring candidates slam One Nation processes
Former One Nation candidates reveal they’re walking away from the party after witnessing its operations behind closed doors.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know one way of stopping AI agents from accessing Australian government data would be by making them have MyGov accounts.
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Patrick Lenton @patricklenton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That will do it
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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The RNLI aren’t traitors; they’re heroes
📝 A guest essay...
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
two-panel meme comparing Halloween decoration choices using two photos of a woman's expressions. Top panel: A disgusted expression labeled "Buying plastic skulls and skeletons for Halloween." Bottom panel: A thoughtful, approving expression labeled "Using natural and compostable billionaire bones."
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But sure, trust the tech bros 😕 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Australia not alone as OpenAI agents hacked other websites
OpenAI says dozens more third parties were affected by rogue agents bypassing website security controls, as new traces reveal days of attempts to access Australian health data.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 26/09/2026
The point at which you start to sympathise with the Pope rather than Galileo
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Konstantinos Komaitis PhD @kkomaitis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Part II is out — This second part goes back to the beginning, asking what these companies originally understood about people and how the metrics that once measured their success gradually became the definition of it. www.techdirt.com/2026/09/25/t...
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The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Taskmaster S22 is not my favourite so far. Love the energy of Chloe Petts & Nina Conti. Isy is aspiring to Lucy Beaumont unhinged. But Ayoade & Lucas seem to think playing it as "I'm too good for your silly games" is enough. Killing the vibe, and not in a fun Jack Dee or Julian Clary way.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Sarah @charminglydaft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kind of love this guy who came over with the San Francisco 49ers and says actual truth about the AFL instead of the nonsense we get fed here x.com/grantcohn/st...
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Grant Cohn (@grantcohn) on X
Instant reaction to the AFL overturning Lashay Neale’s suspension.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 24/09/2026
Holy fucking shit this is an absolute nightmare; @theford.bsky.social, @cutewriterguy.bsky.social, @drspookyer.bsky.social, @ranaawdish.bsky.social, and the rest of my friends who have any sort of published written works…heads up.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These arseholes never clean up after themselves
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If just 600 more people had been unemployed out of a labour force of 15.55m, it would have risen to 4.7%
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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