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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We need to reintroduce the distinction between software company and tech company. a software company makes and sells software and may enjoy some economies of scale a tech company creates a software front-end to labor exploitation, is extraordinarily costly to run and requires regulatory capture

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poverty kills. The level of Jobseeker kills. It is a choice governments make every year. It is a choice the RBA makes when it decides more people need to be unemployed www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Screenshot showing deaths per 100,000 by age

Not on welfare; on Jobseeker
22-34: 17.1; 137
35-44: 30; 288.1
45-54: 83.4; 427
55-64: 201.6; 615.6

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dang. I feel like they should know?

A screenshot from an email inbox showing an email from Australian Red Cross Lifeblood with the subject line: Where does your blood go, Ben?

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think if you genuinely care about these (mostly) women, you should listen to what *they* have to say, rather than painting them as hapless, semi-feral, Stockholm syndromites who need to be subjected to police violence and incarceration "for their own good" as this and so many other articles do.

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pobbles be *Bonkin* in the Fryers Ridge State forest right now. #frogsky

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Kiwis have always prided themselves on their ingenuity and innovation - we even had AI grifters *before* it was cool.

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Mike Riversdale @mikeriversdale.co.nz · 21/08/2026

Technology defaults, sure, whatever app company. Relationship defaults, I dunno, this is what's meant to happen, no? Society defaults, yeah, I s'pose it's what we all do. Behaviour defaults, um I've always been like this, isn't everyone? #default #100ThingsIKnow

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Check And Change The Defaults

Life has so much to be going on with eh, so much easier to just go with the defaults and keep trundling on. Technology defaults, sure, whate...

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Seriously these hazing rituals in elite sport are getting out of hand

A screen capture of the Radio New Zealand news website, showing a thumbnail photo of some rugby players and the headline "Two debutants named in All Blacks to face Sharks"

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"

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The ChatGPT browser is already dead

ChatGPT Atlas didn’t even last a year.

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A reminder of the privilege I have to be able to mostly avoid intentional use of these systems. All too easy to fall into thinking this is all a (enormously profligate) techbro distraction, but as always it's the folks who have no choice that feel the negative impacts most keenly.

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Used to read threads like this and think "yeah whatever, everyone experiences all of these things, it's just Forer effect" 'til I met someone who said "surely nobody does that?". Anyway my 2 cents is if you have an ADD diag, maybe look into narcolepsy too, big turning point for me.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

NO WAR WITH IRAN!
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West.
You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together
& we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you
& your government is much bigger than the difference
between you & me.
And the difference between me
& my government is much bigger
than the difference
between me & you.
And our governments are very much the same...
—Marjane Satrapi

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Eid Mubarak! Wishing our Muslim siblings and comrades a joyous and blessed Eid al-Adha. Our thoughts are especially with those observing Eid amid war and genocide. We will continue our work for their liberation and peace for all.

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Enjoying this (vicariously) now before someone at big-telephone finds out and ruins it by trying to get in on the action.

aftermath.site

Australia's 'Payphone Tag' Game Is An Excellent Use Of Public Infrastructure

Pokémon Go x The Matrix

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"People always used to ask me why we named our company Allbirds - well many years ago a VC asked me - " what do you most want to see completely eradicated from the earth?". We're excited to announce that now, with the help of AI, we finally have the chance to decisively answer that question".

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Someone, somewhere in the deepest hells of a big four consultancy is working on a PowerPoint slide right now that charts the rebound of whale populations under the heading "(re) unlocking the bio-fuel potential in cetacean-lipids" unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...

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UK ‘green’ jet fuel imports linked to illegal Amazon deforestation

A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation.

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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

So glad we spent decades teaching kids they should be entrepreneurs.

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Or at the very least its ability to constrain its worst impulses.

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Oh that card? Don't worry about it, not even load bearing! The house is fine!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/03/2026

Making the grid cheaper to use is one of the most equitable and just forms of climate action. An EV helps the guy who can afford an EV, and a parking spot, and a driveway charger. A grid connected wind turbine helps anyone with a power point

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I feel like I'm getting a lot of questions about radiation danger that are addressed by my unprompted assertion that there is no radiation danger

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Was worth doing age verifyication just to find this out tbh.

A screenshot of a bluesky DM showing that the author has been added to the "AI haters list"

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Anakin Padme meme: To defend the civilians being threatened by US and Israeli military aggression?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Truly a perfect news alert

NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 07/03/2026

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Also according to the article "you can keep serial killing for another 18 months while we consider your petition to be allowed to murder people"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/02/2026

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I feel like I've gone insane reading this. The imagery in the article shows surrounding city blocks reduced to rubble, and we're hand-wringing over the corner of a cemetery. I guess 100 year dead Australians are more newsworthy than Palestinian lives. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australia vows to repair ‘distressing’ damage to war graves in Gaza bulldozed by Israeli army

Satellite photographs show rows of gravestones removed and soil disturbed at the Gaza War Cemetery where more than 250 Australians are buried

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Dang some of these are absolutely seared into my childhood brain. Farewell Bob.

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Not 50 yet, but on a slippery algorithmic slope towards "buying tools and making jigs for building garage storage for storing the tools and jigs you need to build garage storage"

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

So the urban myth is true! Someone *is* poisoning Halloween candy (the manufacturer).

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2026

So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.

Rubbish paper "Is Pee Stored in the Balls" with broken diagram, broken, table, and bullshit text.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

*whispers* hey. hey i have a question confidence to do what

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Anyone at the so-called #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay rally in #Naarm #Melbourne today, please be careful when leaving the rally. Large numbers of fascists reported near #Flinders, assaulting anyone travelling to/from the protest. This alert just went out, please share widely. Thanks 🙏

ALERT
PASS THIS AROUND
Large numbers of racists around Flinders, walking in large groups and intimidating people.
If you're leaving the main invasion day rally, make sure you
1. 'N Have a buddy/group
2. Remove political clothing (if
you're not keen for a face off).
This includes flags, caps, flip your shirt inside out
3. Stay vigilant and message chats with whereabouts of particularly roudy groups of men

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Legit curious as to what Gramsci would have made of a "commemorative" bumbag with his name on it. bsky.app/profile/work...

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

So they're going to build a little prison at the hospital? In a country where building a hospital appears to be almost impossible. So instead they're building a prison, which can always be afforded.

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

As a horrified onlooker I appreciate David's excellent writing on the specific socio-historical stuff playing out in the US rn, but "that guy" sure as hell exists here too, and there's no shortage of self-interested numbskulls who'd love to wind him up and "front toward enemy".

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I know this is far from the most important thing about this but... Is my guy wearing a raincoat at an official state event? Paging @trufelman.bsky.social

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I, BS @thebenshaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Feeling very fortunate to have friends and community that will take us and our various animals in after a (to be totally honest, underprepared) escape from the situation in central Vic. Our power going out was the last straw. Hoping everyone out there has been able to find safety.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 09/01/2026

without revealing your age, get off the internet

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