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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 03/10/2026

Opposing military aid to Ukraine is not a ‘non-violent’ position, it is an explicit selection between the two available positions, both violent. You can’t say ‘we oppose Russia’, without then explaining, with what?

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 03/10/2026

‘“The Greens have been clear from day one that we’re a party of peace and non-violence, and we don’t support military aid to the Ukraine,” Shoebridge told…’ I will also say there is a pattern of politics to people who use the definite article in relation to Ukraine

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And this does actually generalize! The purpose of practice is frequently so that your big pattern matching organ knows what normal looks like and starts throwing up red flags when things aren’t going the way they should given where you thought you started.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But when shopping, I encourage you to consider the total package. Sometimes you're not just buying a product, but also good service, a fun day, and a memory. After all, it's through shopping at these places that they will continue to exist. Video: Creutz in Nice, France (IG thenorejectionguy)

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ChristineSaysHi @christinesayshi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not surprised: $800 a fortnight won’t pay rent, run a car or buy groceries all at the same time. How do people survive? And if there’s a crisis, omg. Many on Jobseeker are older, unwell, not able to manage or get regular work. It can happen to anyone. So much cruelty in the decision making 😞

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either

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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I keep on saying that the primary use case for AI is as a liability shield. As long as they can maintain the fiction that the AI is an independent agent, they can argue that they aren't responsible for its actions. This seems like a place where some very simple laws could fix the problem.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

But that’s not the case. People set AI up. They are the ones who set harmful things in action. And so they are the ones who should be held responsible.

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Yellow Readis @yellowreadis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just like Machine Learning has been for decades - in civil, electrical, mechanical & chemical engineering. Certified engineer = liable for stuff you approve.

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Railmaps @railmaps.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@railmaps/117295139… European Tram Driver Championships - Live now!

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Yellow Readis @yellowreadis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Still worth getting the flu vax if you haven't. My mum didn't - it happens, life gets busy. We are hoping she makes it. She is the healthiest person I know, and one of the fittest for her age.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

Imagine if, instead of regulating drones (which we did!), we instead decided to let drone companies self-regulate, and ALSO dedicated tons of money and time to "problems" like "what if, in 1000 years, hyper-intelligent dogs learn to fly drones into mailmen." This is what we are doing with AI.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

It becomes a LOT easier to argue to the general public that we shouldn't let the AI industry regulate itself when you can ALSO produce clear evidence that much of the AI industry appears to be steered by genuinely crazy weirdos with anti-social and anti-human ideas.

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Kimista @kimista.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The NGV's stained glass ceiling. It's so magical to lay there and watch the light move across the room. It's so enormous and impossible to take it all in at once. (It's the largest stained glass ceiling in the world, but I'm not sure there is much competition.)

A photo of The Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria. The stained glass ceiling is about 13 metres high, 15 metres wide, and 51 metres long. It has an abstract rainbow pattern with tall poles holding up sections of the ceiling. The light is gently shining through the window.

A closer photo of the stained glass showing the various patterns, shapes, and colours.

A wider photo of the hall showing people laying on the ground looking up to the ceiling.

A shot of the full length of the ceiling all 15m wide and 51m long.

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 06/09/2026

"I'm posting too much of this one thing" no, no you're not, you're being beautifully you in a sea of greige, please never stop being weird and wonderful and passionate and excited about the things you love

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 30/08/2026

A few days ago I published a piece about conspiracy theories that "failed". Then a fella asked a question that turned out to be much more consequential than it first appeared. "Is there a mathematical model for how misinformation spreads?" It turns out there are quite a few.

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Daniel Bowen @danielbowen.au · 06/09/2026

Sorry not the best ever video, but: dolphins in the Maribyrnong river this morning! #Melbourne 🐬

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The antihistamine thing has been referenced a few times since the updated COVID shots are rolling out, so bumping the reminder (please read the entire thread before "correcting" me, it's also pinned on my profile)

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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 03/09/2026

Tech overlords might stop pretending algorithms are human if we treat them legally like they are

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss.

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/elbo... 2/

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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Yellow Readis @yellowreadis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of my step-dad's favourite songs. He loved to pop it on at parties. I much prefer Bryars' "Sinking of the Titanic' album myself. But it's an interesting song/album for long car trips...

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Yellow Readis @yellowreadis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It is bad - keeps redirecting off major roads to backstreets when driving. And is utterly useless when walking. Pokemon go (despite the negatives), is a genuinely better way to find things while walking - shops, but particularly, parks, churches and walking tracks. Google prefers ugly longer roads

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Clip Art > Science > Failure > Cute My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

Title:
Clip art > science > failure > cute

Image:
A series of science-related items (glassware, robots, fires, scientists) with smiley faces labelled this:

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

apostrophen.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/t... I’m genuinely never not thinking about this, and all the little ways a queer reader can spot when a book isn’t written by us or for us, as well as the frustration when cishet readers object to being “taken out of the fantasy” by reminders of queer reality

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The Shoulder Check Problem

Like a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh…

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Rebel @rebellionista.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish I could bill NDIS for all the support I provide for my son, but no, that’s not allowed. I have to do it for $10 a day. Makes me feel so valued. Not. He refuses support, so it all lands on me, am I valued by society? Nope.

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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Interesting warning from Justice Beach to the government in a robodebt ruling published yesterday on what it means in the future re AI. www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

252. This Robodebt debacle is something that we have to learn the lessons from or should I
say Commonwealth ministers and their departments have to learn the lessons from.
253. Surely ministers must properly inform themselves of the technical and legal complexities of automated systems and schemes to which members of the public are
to be subjected. Such a motivation and skill set are not optional extras. Further, the concept of being a responsible minister does not mean finding a public servant to take responsibility for the policy that you have sought to push through. And nor is the role of a minister simply to educate yourself about the policy through a one page document. And nor is the intellectual exercise simply limited to following the instruction on a "post it" note, which tells
you where to place your signature on the executive minute.

254. Now when dealing with automated processes and systems, any moral hazard problem becomes magnified. If you have not conscientiously and diligently taken steps to either master the detail yourselt, or made sure that others reporting to you have done so, you are likely as in this case to inflict real harm on others in imposing automated systems or processes. And as in this case, the relevant ministers and their departments had the freedom and control to take great risks with Robodebt and its implementation,
yet they were insulated and detached from the consequences of such risks if they came to fruition, which they obviously did.
255. Now why am I making these points?
Robodebt is over as a system or process, although not of course for the victims and their families, many of whom are still suffering significantly in its aftermath, and some whose spirit only remains in our
memory.

256. Today we of course have generative artificial intelligence. And we will later move into artificial general intelligence. The benefits and rewards of such systems will be several orders of magnitude above the types of automated systems that we have seen in the past. But the complexity and risks of such systems and processes will be equally if not more magnified or amplified.
257. Surely the lessons learnt from Robodebt can be put to good advantage, not for the technology as such which is morally neutral, but for its human designers, implementers and controllers.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Can anyone remember the name of the Sydney punk band circa 1990-1993 that had a song called "Menzies Was a Union Lawyer"?

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Yellow Readis @yellowreadis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"verify your age" I watched the abc's live coverage of Voyager's flyby of Neptune & Triton.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Therefore, this Dicastery, in the faithful exercise of the functions entrusted to it, considers it necessary to state that this act constituted the delict of schism, with the canonical consequences for the sacred ministers and lay faithful involved. Indeed, as was already declared in 1988, "such disobedience-which implies in practice the rejection of the Roman primacy—constitutes a schismatic act" (cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei, 3).

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4bubbles.bsky.social @4bubbles.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Maternal line indigenous so 60000 years or so already here. All other influences english via NZ, cornish tin miners, scottish captain who owned his own boat and brought out family and his siblings families. Viking parentage somewhere back in these 3 lines as I have Duputreyns Contracture.

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Migration is fascinating!

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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

To paraphrase Paul Hogan, how did you get to be an Aussie? Me: possibly Vikings raped and pillaged York. My known ancestor, born in Halifax, was a highwayman. Got caught. Sentenced to death. Transported instead. You?

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Yellow Readis @yellowreadis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ok, search has failed me. Does anyone know how to change the background colour on the new #google #calendar? Mine turned pink, and I can't change it. it ignores system colours completely.

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Decodïng Trolls @decodingtrolls.net · 26/06/2026

⚡️We start with the figure almost everyone meets — the Pick-Up Artist. Learn to read him and you can read the bully, the scammer, the recruiter, the sooth-sayer. Tricks aimed at boys, at grown-ups, at the elderly. Learn one, you've learned them all. 1/2

Card 'The Pick-Up Artist — the charming stranger running a script'. Six tells, you only need some: backhanded compliments, instant 'you're so special', hot-and-cold, rushing you, peeling you off from your people, tiny steps that add up. Name it, and its power halves — the spell only works while it's invisible.

Card 'The six tells'. Some or all is the signal: negging (a put-down dressed as a compliment), love-bombing (closeness rushed too fast), push-pull (hot then cold), urgency ('now or never'), isolation (peeling you off from friends), boundary-creep (small yeses nudged into bigger ones).

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🇦🇺 WyndhamVic @wyndhamvic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One single initiative that I, and I'm sure everyone within 40 km of Melb, would pick as the big game changer, is the level crossing removal project. There are no traffic jams or endless waiting where they were once a bastard bottle neck grinding suburbs to a halt. $Billions saved in productivity 👍

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 25/06/2026

Cruelty becomes harder to see when it looks procedural. Nobody is responsible. The form was wrong. The rule changed. The file was delayed. The system decided. Bureaucracy can become a weapon.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 25/06/2026

The goal is not always to make people believe one specific falsehood. Sometimes the goal is to exhaust them. When people are overwhelmed, they become easier to move. Confusion is not always a mistake. Sometimes it is the method.

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kymbathewhitewolf.bsky.social @kymbathewhitewolf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Most of us have trod the easier path of not having the people around us and our own bodies oppose us… Let us be more supportive of those among us who face these incredible challenges. ❤️❤️❤️ 4/4

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Geoff A. @pseudonymice.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Perhaps a corollary to "don't let the perfect be enemy to the good" would read "don't let the evil be ally to the optimal."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/06/2026

No—blue books, in-class exams, locked down browsers, etc. won't fix this. Nothing will replace the research, reading, thinking, organizing, writing, and revising skills that students developed through the good old fashioned research essay that has been the core of higher ed for countless decades.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/06/2026

When I assign a research paper, it's not because I want an essay I can use to evaluate the student ex post. It's because I want the student to have the experience of going through the process of all of the above steps, perhaps iteratively, that is necessary to write a good research paper.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/06/2026

DON'T SHARE THIS, IT'S AI FABRICATED It's fake - the media outlet almost certainly used generative AI to write this and it pulled from a "parody" acct (www.instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/) The more you share this, the more you help the pro-AI bros say this is all fake www.youtube.com/live/ho_Zmwg...

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“We have to look at the macro-picture of our planet’s future,” Bezos reportedly stated during a recent tech symposium. “Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place. Sometimes you have to prioritize the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down.”

The striking remarks have left the internet deeply divided, sparking fierce debate over whether the statement represents a chillingly pragmatic view of technological progress or a completely detached tech-utopian ideology.

#ai #aidatacenter #datacenter #jeffbezos #politics

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lacerantplainer.bsky.social @lacerantplainer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🧵11/ At its best, NAFO represents civic participation in the digital age. It encourages people to become informed, challenge disinformation, donate to worthy causes, and stand in solidarity with those fighting oppression. It reminds us that democracy is not self-sustaining and needs to be defended.

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