University leaders keep saying we need to prepare our students for an AI future. But this is basically what the technology is good for. This and burning up the environment while raising everyone’s utility costs.

No way, deliberation never fails ;-) [to read later..]

Same playbook, same funding sources. The IPA is not alone! 'Kirk promised oil and gas companies he’d fight “the myth that fossil fuels are dirty,” and target the “leftist professors” on college campuses who “perpetuated” the “myth.”' #auspol #climate

[Eventually Stewart stops interrupting with 'jokes' and] the wonderful #MariaRessa reminds us that Duterte now sits in the Hague awaiting judgement. The key is to stand against authoritarian encroachments as its much harder to regain lost rights than to defend existing ones. #auspol

Every one can do this

Biden and his entourage and the feckless Dems: words fail. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Who commits more domestic terrorism: left-wing or right-wing extremists? I compiled a brief literature review using various sources including the FBI, DHS, GAO, and academic studies. The facts: far-right extremism is now the predominant domestic terrorist threat. 🧵 Thread with references:

Not every day you can get something worth reading at an airport bookshop...

Horst Wessel 2.0: a made-up conspiracy... US people and institutions with a voice better speak up. It's happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

What's the status of governance reform... at UC @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social ?

Wondering what the good old right thinking folk of Xitter are currently discussing lately reminds me why l left and also makes me ask "why oh why do not-insane journalists, pols etc remain on a platform which is being explicitly and blatantly manipulated by an (apparent) sociopath!?"

'a number of audience members had specifically booked tickets to that Prom in order to support an Israeli performer [...] Volkov responded to the hecklers by telling them “You can go if you don’t want politics. Politics is part of life.”' www.jewishnews.co.uk/israeli-cond...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

“Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate.” www.ft.com/content/62b1...

If the rockingest US bands in the last decade or so - La Luz, Cherry Glazer, LA Witch, The Coathangers, Die Spitz, etc - are all women + the greatest techno DJ in the world (Fernanda Martins) is also female, does this mean there is still hope for humanity or is this just salve on our wound? #music

"Trump is attempting a fascist power grab, out in the open, for all the world to see — and Democratic leaders and their wonks don’t feel like it’s worth their time to even warn the public about what Trump is doing, or what he’s likely to do next, let alone try to stop him." #bluerose #democratic

'Just suppose that the great majority of Trump voters are not oblivious or deluded, that they more or less understand his policies and like them, as well as his performative cruelty, vulgarity and general jackassery.' #democracy #failure #whatnow

We were always at war with Oceania? The lunatics have taken over the asylum? The foxes are in the henhouse? Terrorists pardoned and prosecutors fired! (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...

Whatever government contract Microsoft has with the #auspol government, now is the time to burn it. www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...

Intense: 'The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust' 'The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people.' www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

What good does repeating the obvious do? Asking for a friend, like #auspol

Somehow all the happy talk about how much "productivity" will be unleashed by the "AI revolution" always forgets to mention their massive environmental costs #auspol

LOL

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Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Download link here: zenodo.org/records/1569... Good playbook for scientists and researchers to navigate changing social environment in certain areas. Thanks, EU🇪🇺

Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing?? (I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop) How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say? www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

One week left to submit your abstracts to the "Democracy Reimagined: Advancing Democratic Resilience and Renewal" international conference happening in November! More details here www.delibdem.org/new-projects... and below 👇

'And uh, when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet, no water comes out. You’re washing whole – water barely comes out it’s ridi – this was done by crazy people. And I wor – wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can’t just change it.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

LOL thread is gold, no, dope, no fire, wait

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

I seem to have gone off social media (apart from YouTube (and l am reliably informed Reddit is interesting but l can't muster the enthusiasm (sign of age or wisdom, not sure)))

Brilliant article www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

High-five, cinque! "l am ashamed to have visited. There are some experiences that journalism cannot excuse. I add nothing to the record by having gone [lists various grotesqueries] All of this is possible, but none of it makes my visit worthwhile." #Dubai newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Superman in full-on Virilio mode: «You call these cars? They're nothing but accidents looking for a place to happen»

The emperor's clothes are on fire

New MRT stations in Singapore have interesting names... #Canberra

Exploring Singapore's wondrous (yet weirdly dystopian) Flower Dome during #IAMCR25 with members of the Oz Contingent. Photo by @dhutchman.bsky.social at left, then yrs truly, David, Mia, Chika, Renee.

Shame on top EU diplomat Kaja #Kalas who according to 'several diplomatic sources [...] did not endorse any one of 10 sanctions options drawn up by her team, after an earlier EU review found “indications” Israel was in breach of human rights commitments.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Time for the Butlerian Jihad already

@nidhalaigh.bsky.social are you feeling elated

Education is necessary and grand, legislation is even better. I donno, force AI merchants to pay for the carbon they generate?

Axel Bruns' take on the panel l co-chaired with Holger Heppner (and presented on information literacy in) at the #botsbuildingbridges workshop in Bielefeld.

Turns out that Bielefeld _does_ exist, and I’m here for a workshop of the #BotsBuildingBridges project. We’ve started with a detailed overview of the project’s activities, which I’ve liveblogged here. I’ll speak tomorrow about our work on polarisation and practice mapping. snurb.info/node/3328

Florian Mulhe describing the aims of the #botsbuildingbridges project at start of closing workshop in ZiF Bielefeld. @snurb.info doing his academic blog on the left side. There are many other people such as Rob Ackland and Elena Esposito present, you just can't see them as they are on either side.

‘This decision is a capitulation to one of the most powerful fossil fuel companies operating in Australia today: Woodside,’ writes Carmen Lawrence #ClimateCrisis #auspol

Need proof Big Gas is ripping Australians off? Inpex exported ~$54 billion in gas from the NT Inpex also HASN'T PAID A CENT in ❌Royalties ❌Petroleum Resource Rent Tax ❌Company Tax 🎙️ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Historical responsibility to the world abandoned