Reposted by willaLec robBins @alecrobbins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026looked up mine and this is killing me lmao 1035356830
Reposted by willTim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 07/10/2026If One Nation's immigration cuts had any chance of lowering rents, Phil Coorey and the entire better-than-you political class would be screaming bloody murder on behalf of property investors and landlords. Instead he acts as if One Nation's in-house economics team (me neither!) has credibility. 45116
Reposted by willBenn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 16hCold Stone Creamery considers anyone that uses the term, "Large", as opposed to the highly accepted and more accurate term, "Gotta Have It®", THE ENEMY! 1319218
Reposted by willspencer @spencer7-5.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It is really annoying that all discussions of “restorative justice” have centered around a gaming youtuber and not a woman on death row with two botched executions 101203256
Reposted by willKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff. 25950422
Reposted by willtoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 190113933094
Reposted by willAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 06/10/2026Religious liberty will always be framed as religious people’s right to freely oppress and exclude others 293455624
Reposted by willAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 9042001687
Reposted by willBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026It should be noted, though, that these dragnets are *incredibly* poor value for money, as the British Transport Police discovered after subjecting millions of travelers to facial recognition in train stations, without catching *a single suspect*: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comTrial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrestsFreedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert 26513
Reposted by willJarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 03/10/2026Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 191330456
Reposted by willGilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.ec.europa.euEuropean Commission - Have your sayEuropean Commission - Have your say 2837134160
Reposted by willDani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous. 4336722563
Reposted by willAnthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Once again - the problem isn't "ooo AI models are too scary and powerful". It's that the developers of these products are irresponsible dolts, who have absolutely no intention of changing how they behave. Stop making excuses, use existing laws and make them responsible for their own actions. 1024398
Reposted by willTim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 04/10/2026There are early signs that the fire season in Victoria and Tasmania could be bad. This seasonal outlook for rain (left) and temperature (right) over the next three months is not friendly. There is lots of time to pass until fire season down here - and things will shift! - but this is a bad start. 38329
Reposted by willJännät @jaennaet.fi · 03/10/2026"Either this is gross incompetence from Google’s Finnish project company, […] or gross disregard for Finnish legislation, or at worst both" Knowing Finns, the project company was probably more than happy to help Google break environmental laws, so this is probably not down to just incompetencefuturism.comGoogle Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center ProjectGoogle is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments. 25840
Reposted by willeggu 🔜 kupocon metropom prep @egguv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026gloriosa et generosa #ff7 5453199
Reposted by willAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The RBA media team is becoming known for contacting journalists and media outlets critical of its decisions and decision making process - but the criticism doesn't actually go far enough. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...thenewdaily.com.auHouseholds in pain – but our budget crisis has an obvious answerAustralia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one. 18244105
Reposted by willdan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right 63112902557
Reposted by willKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026back in my day intentionally fabricating data for use in scientific inquiry was sternly frowned upon 19029
Reposted by willDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/10/2026If you can stomach it, here's a detailed reported story from @dropsitenews.com on the schoolchildren that the US bombed in Iran. However angry you are, it's not angry enough.dropsitenews.comMassacre at Minab: The School That Became a GraveThe bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story. 6249114
Reposted by willGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The only answer to “will we need a recession to get inflation back to 2.5%?” Is “No, what a stupid thing to ask”. Michele Bullock did not give that answer. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...theguardian.comIf turbocharged petrol prices are driving up inflation, then why are Australia’s unemployed on the line? | Greg JerichoAvoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker 36723
Reposted by willGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Richard Marles’ best mate talking about “shared values” 1510536
Reposted by willHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The problem that we need to solve isn't rogue AI, it's that companies increasingly think they can just price crime into the business model and get away with it 350888
Reposted by willKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026Noting that this isn't definitively confirmed but very likely Jacob Coxon's former Twitter account, here's what he has to say about climate change. The world's media hung off every single word uttered by this one guy for two weeks 129225
Reposted by willDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195412208
Reposted by willNick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Haha they’re such small time grifters. A shed, ffs.theguardian.comOne Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private propertyEmail to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery 1215845
Reposted by willDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249752754
Reposted by willAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352223815
Reposted by willKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026The insufficient growth of renewable energy in Australia is was bad before the data centre boom, but that insufficiency persists even as the target finish line moves further and further away as projected demand grows. 25923
Reposted by willshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position 3469681801
Reposted by willCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843451194
Reposted by willJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234071270
Reposted by willSarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A truly heartwrenching moment. I think the ambiguity in the original Japanese was beautifully preserved. 7903187
Reposted by willDr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This year's El Nino, or "little boy", looks like being a monster. Ocean temperatures are forecast to rise by 4C, the largest in at least 1000 years.theguardian.comHuge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by FebruaryNew report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis 66124
Reposted by willDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460681070
Reposted by willjupi 🐻 comms closed! @drkcat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026girl with an aetheryte earring #minfilia #drkart 10491317
Reposted by willHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026He's also really not alone in this. We wrote a bit about this in various places of our book, Why We Fear AI - variations on that theme are common across the tech billionaires Here's some examples from Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, etc 1157
Reposted by willParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1533461490
Reposted by willPup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If an individual Australian did this they would get a jail term. Because a US company did it….nothing of real consequence will happen www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auBreaking: OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM saysPrime Minister Anthony Albanese says an Open AI agent gained unauthorised accessed to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal. 1315549
Reposted by willLady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I honestly can’t get over this. He disclosed to chat GPT that he had bipolar disorder THEN chat GPT introduced religious aspects to their discussion. The civil complaint alleges that chat GPT is targeting delusional content when it learns a person is delusional because it increases interaction. 213653