🔴 Russian aerial attack kills 10 in Kyiv. At least 10 people were killed and 56 injured during one of Moscow's largest assaults since the 2022 invasion, as rescue teams search for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed residential building in the capital’s Darnyts'kyi District.

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...

As it says in the article ‘nothing lasts forever’. The Trump Regime will fall. But please do what you can to hasten the fall, American friends, because this is some seriously messed up bullshit.

“we’re “imputing intentionality to this thing that intends nothing..because, in a state of nature, we don’t encounter sentences that don’t have writers..” We ignore what it gets wrong, or indulge its “hallucinations”, which is just a fancy word for “errors”” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The old Australian internet, before the Web, was an exciting space to be. We Pegasus Networks - helped produce this doco. Many of the people and projects interviewed used our ICT servers. youtu.be/d16go7hA7a4?...

This important long form piece by @anatolitis.bsky.social lays out the crisis taking place in so many workplaces. Some of my students are pushing back - yay - but a number of friends & colleagues my age are all in with AI, even shrugging at the data centre burden we're expected to shut up and slop!

“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”

Portrait of Putin by artist, WEFAIL, known for "painting monsters". #UkrainianView wefail.art/products/por...

"artistic activity" can now get you killed. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Truly though: why is this a war? What is the rush? Why scramble madly to suffer the socialised harms of a building where the benefits are both offshored and privatised? None of this makes any sense, it's just 3000 CEOs yelling because the people around them are yelling www.afr.com/companies/fi...

The cruel insanity of this continues with impunity.

The Guardian is increasingly on the nose but this literal whitewashing of an offensive unfunny public figure who out to be in decline is a nosedive I hadn't seen coming.

I don't know how effective some of these petitions are but Getup has ramped up of late and seems to be making a serious dent, along with many other groups and independent media, in the rise of the far/extreme right. getup.to/JznOzWs7Cqm3ca

As I said earlier, Australians shouldn’t believe the bullshit our body politic pushes that we’re leaders of anything We’ve been outpaced by many countries who have grabbed the future while political leaders here drown us in parochial mediocrity and keep us in the past

In my 20’s I wrote pages and pages in my journals on the attributes of individualism. I was wrong. “We mistake the sophistication of our arguments for the health of our thinking. We are not thinking clearly. We are thinking elaborately. Those are not the same thing.“

The race to build superintelligence isn’t about replacing jobs—it’s about REPLACING HUMANITY. Transhumanism, longtermism, accelerationism, and the other Silicon Valley ideologies want to create a new species of “posthumans” to rule the world. This will not end well for us.👇

'One of Australia’s most senior bureaucrats is working alongside pro-Israel supporters to bring the selection of research grants into line with new controversial hate speech laws – a move researchers fear will have a “chilling effect” on their work.' www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

Dave's latest exposé in The Shot Shocking theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Molly Crabapple's *Here Where We Live Is Our Country* is one of the most important, timely, *salient* works of history I've ever read. It's a history of the Jewish Bund, a socialist, internationalist org that once dominated Jewish political identity: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320... 1/

"The Wall Dancers, searching for freedom and connection on the Chinese internet."

RUSSIAN COGNITIVE OPERATIONS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES The operator of Russian cognitive warfare, the Social Design Agency (SDA), operates under the direct control of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, specifically the First Deputy Chief of Staff, Sergei Kiriyenko⤵️

"The shared myth-making around the black box of AI cultivates useful confusion about what can and cannot be known. It helps to cultivate the systems as more mysterious, even sublime, than they really are"

An hour after the strike, Yevhen - who sold his property to open a café in Podil district, #Kyiv, near the Chornobyl Museum and officially opened the venue yesterday - was already back at work, serving coffee to everyone through the shattered windows.

“Putin can barely even pronounce the word “hooray” properly anymore, mumbling his words, yet he still keeps “winning” against residential buildings with his missiles. He launched his “Oreshnik” missile at Bila Tserkva. They’re genuinely deranged,” - president Zelenskyy.

Reports of Russians using depleted uranium in drone munitions!

Missiles fired at Kyiv that travel 10 times the speed of sound! Every district is damaged. Massive, unrelenting, monstrous bombardment.

⚡️Update: Damage reported in every district of Kyiv amid massive Russian missile, drone attack. Officials reported that over 40 locations in Kyiv have sustained damage in the large-scale overnight Russian missile and drone attack on the capital.

'AI is sold to us as seamless automation. But behind every “intelligent” system are workers sorting violence, moderating trauma, and absorbing the psychological cost of keeping platforms functional.' Actions against the empire of AI. airesistlist.org

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

In his response to a call for a Royal Commission into the Killing of Australian Women&Girls, "what Albanese failed to consider is that a lot of people who have experienced violence, or are living it, want to be able to tell their story. They want the national attention...to see something being done"

A petition calling for a Royal Commission into the Killing of Australian Women & Girls was derired by a cowardly @albomp.bsky.social as a waste of money. Link to petition 👇 Two of my granddaughters died in circumstances that had been poorly, to put mildly, investigated. c.org/C8dzjcbWKs

@ronnisalt.bsky.social writes: "Even if Pauline’s supporters say they want the truth, they don’t seem to care that she’s not telling it. Some truths are just too truthful, apparently. They just want the reassuring, warm-in-the-pants moments that sound good shouted out in a boozy pub..."

GetUp's campaign to reform the press council hits the ground running! getup.to/5eGAe4UPCl9JHm

"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self pity. no need for silence. No room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." ~ Toni Morrison

@timdunlop.bsky.social writes: "A genuinely Labor budget, in the old sense, would more likely ask: how do we shift power and resources from capital to labour? How do we cut rents, strengthen unions, rebuild public housing, and reverse a forty‑year transfer of wealth upwards?"

Holy moly this is great

Circa 1999/2000 I performed at Electrofringe, This is Not Arts Festival in Newcastle, Australia, under the name LOST TIME ACCIDENT. I've just released a recording of that set exclusively on @subvert.fm. Artist page🔗in profile ⬆ and live in Newcastle👇 www.subvert.fm/andrew-garto...

Substack has already begun turning the screws on its contributors. If you're unbothered by the platform's open embrace of neo-nazi content, then at least consider your own risk. It is only going to get worse from here. Get out while you can. www.theverge.com/tech/927294/...

“The world that we live in now has not equipped most people for a return to the small & repeated nuisances of past technologies. Yet, at the same time, relentless convenience (or being sold the idea of relentless convenience) warps the brain in ways that make nostalgic cravings somewhat inevitable.”

@timdunlop.bsky.social writes “Governance, in the sense of actually attending to the conditions of people’s lives and the quality of democratic representation, has become residual.”

@jeffsparrow1.bsky.social responds to Gawenda's "bizarre and scurrilous feature" in The Australian. overland.org.au/2026/05/jour...

more of this everywhere

If the lesson of these wars is that empire, occupation, imperial machinery and industrialised violence against civilians are unconscionable and catastrophic - that lesson applies today just as much as 1915. Lest we forget means nothing if it only looks backwards.

Just read this in full. This absolutely rules.

digital supremacy

The Copyright Amendment Bill 2026 passed in the Senate recently. @elliottbledsoe.bsky.social describes how this "new Act will introduce a limited liability scheme to activate productive and creative reuse of orphan works in Australia, ending a long-running failure of our copyright system."

I think these arguments of Abbott's and Rinehart have little to do with BRS. They're more about eroding social norms, eroding empathy, eroding the significant role Australia once played in international human rights, promoting the line we should care less, think less or not at all and buy more.

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