this man is a menace. and Australia is doing business with him at the highest levels.

Norway gets shitty about enshittification. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

“The committed writer is a movement writer … The committed writer knows that they know very little, and that the way to remedy that ignorance is through solidarity with people in struggle.” For PEN Melbourne, André Dao on how a writer can make the world more free.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognising this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

The shambles that is, or rather was, Hyperloop. washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

How do we make sense of the complexities of our time when much of the media we once trusted publishes talking points rather than hold 'power to account'? Independent media has found its moment. In this piece I list the journos and outlets I have come to rely on. #auspol

Always prescient, even if it was released 13 years ago. youtu.be/0Fju9o8BVJ8?...

Regrettably, my film Forged from Fire, is no longer available on Vimeo on Demand. Hosting fees for on demand support is now well of AUD$500/yr making it totally unviable as meaningful platform supporting independent filmmakers. It's still available on @guidedoc.tv, public screenings and DVD!

Interactions with large language models blur the lines between what feels like human conversation and the more typical experience of using technology—which seems to be causing confusion even among what should be experienced and sophisticated users, writes Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball.

148 kids dead after US-Israeli forces bomb a school in Minab, Iran. An international war crime. 𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀'𝐒 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒 𝐔𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄? davidjohntyler.substack.com/p/we-bombed-...

Propaganda. The Albanese Labor Govt is pushing propaganda at us. What a betrayal 😞😞 #auspol

Life is still fascinating and the science of it even more so. I find listening to these folks discuss the phenomenon of decoherence not only awesome, it calms me. www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...

This is a very cool story. Perhaps even a beautiful story as described by @iandunt.bsky.social himself. pca.st/episode/fbd9...

@getup.org.au is fighting back. One N has questionable resources pouring in and some of that is being used to quash the efforts of groups like Getup who have booked billboards in key electorate where One N is gaining ground. Can you chip in to help their efforts? act.getup.org.au/act/one-nati...

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

Working on another book a great deal of info I'm in receipt of has yet to make it onto Wikipedia. Similar resources are scant or poorly structured. So, I've dug out my old wiki skills and become a volunteer editor. Thanks to @molly.wiki who reminds us how important, and cool, it is to do this work.

Wow. This is very powerful #auspol

Please watch and share! 🙏 “For each of us, this is personal, and when the IOC today disqualified Heraskevych for his ‘remembrance helmet’, in a certain sense it disqualified everyone living in Ukraine today.” — Ukrainian blogger Michael Sheitelman

2026 is reminding me of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and the brutal response to it. I produced this film during lockdown from mostly materials sourced online. It was screened at the 2022 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social vimeo.com/agarton/like...

This morning I woke to an entirely different country but one, that had been in the making. Yesterday, it was evident, things had changed, that frenzied, coordinated violence by the state speaks of the impunity we have been subject to these recent years. michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

African governments are moving early on AI governance through data, procurement, and automation rules, but the real challenge is whether these frameworks can bind beyond borders and shape global AI systems, writes Arthur D. Sidney.

Reupping coz climate. Also weather.

Exhibiting at Women of the Badlands, alongside many friends from Dunmoochin and Montsalvat is my sister, Grace Garton, who took on my Dunmoochin residency when I returned o/s for some months. I'm so proud of Grace & her exquisite, multi-faceted paintings, illustrations and intricate soft-sculptures.

Three more journalists murdered in Gaza by the government that cannot be associated with such acts for fear of upsetting supporters of said govt and their well documented crimes against humanity. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Bidayuh elder, Padawan, Sarawak. One of few women left in the region who wear brass rings around their arms and ankles, applied to them at an early age. No one seems to know when the practice commenced or why. Ian Urquhart filmed these same women in 1962/63, 40 yrs prior to the portraits I'd taken.

Dredging in Port Phillip Bay is changing the coast line around French Island, already suffering significant erosion due to the removal of mangroves.

Yes! It is! Although my music making is not a secret life, however, it's less public than it had been in former times. The joy of making music for the sake of the experience of conceiving a complete work, not as product but as an experience, is immense. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.

A few weeks back I interviewed famed forest protector, educator, songwriter and poet, John Seed about his pre-web activism on the internet and his vision - and hope - for the present and not so distant future for us all. youtu.be/c90SGUb318I

so cool, love the internet our tech overlords have built

Ukraine has been under Russian attack for several hours🚨‼️ Another explosion just shook Kharkiv. Explosions reported in Kyiv. Multiple explosions have also been reported in Chernihiv, where the city is experiencing power outages.

FFS!!! The President of Peace's dark blood magic on display again.

The last time I saw Ash was a good many years ago at an exhibition opening in Prahran. We chatted briefly about the intervening years, PhDs and teaching. We spent a lot of time together thru the 90s. He gave people like me a leg up no matter how indifferent our work was to conventions of the day.

Hello 2026. I baked a cake, cleaned the house, admired my roses and read the latest from Chris Hedges and Francesca Albanese. Perhaps the last bastion of hope is love and resistance. Somehow this both calms and excites me.

Statements of the form "the AI bubble will crash but the *technology* will remain" are vacuous. Stop making them. The useful tech is the transformer, which already existed and was useful. Generative AI brings no new usefulness to the table, even in business terms, without a VC-funded bubble. >>

A few months ago I got my turntable & records back from my ex & started buying vinyl again. I've moved all my music off streaming platforms, going all in on Bandcamp. Gave my cassettes away to eager aficionados. Sad about the amazing woman who had been in my life but happy about slow listening.

”There is no going back to where we were before Dec 14. Not only was Aust’s shaky sense of safety irrevocably shattered, the social contract Australians relied on their politicians to uphold, to place the nation’s needs above politics, has been destroyed by the Coalition.” @amyremeikis.bsky.social

"There's basically an economy around disinformation now" Maybe now could be the right time to start asking politicians and your organisation's social teams why they're actively assisting monetised disinformation schemes by retaining their accounts at X and doing free volunteer work by posting there

@ronnisalt.bsky.social making sense of the shambolic nonsense cleaving headline seeking outrage from tragedy and mourning. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

“Large language models are quietly reshaping the way people write research papers—& scientists are catching colleagues using #AI to do their work.” It’s very corrosive of the research & communication of it & our trust in #science. Generative AI & its rapid, unregulated evolution? flip.it/H6ayt6

2025's last #SundayShot is approaching and it is a good one. @zoedaniel.bsky.social & @dncameron.bsky.social join the panel & there are cameos from SO MANY MORE! Plus our ace Summer merch from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social is now on sale - a top Xmas gift for your favourite people. theshot.store

Who could've known that Flea's first solo release is a plea for love, peace and humanity. youtu.be/TmyjzvQv5bA?...

Screenshots from This Choirs Sings Carols produced in collab with First Impressions Youth Theatre, screening at Hildebrand Organic Vineyard, Sat 6 December, Cottles Bridge, Victoria. Details in 🔗tree!

Open invitation to a one-off free screening of my films KNOW ME and THIS CHOIR SINGS CAROLS on Saturday 6 December 2025. Details below: www.facebook.com/events/17977...

Surveillance in Ethiopia has evolved beyond a mere function of the state (and deployed against women, its effects, writes genderit.org, are particularly devastating).

What if we got raising kids all wrong? youtu.be/fAXgXP9JRDA

We honor the millions of Ukrainians who were starved by the Soviet regime and vow to never forget their resistance and loss. 🧵 1/2 ⬇️

IMHO, teachers too have become tireless filters of said AI use. This last batch of marking I did lead me through strange, weird territory, one student arguing prior to submitting an assignment that genAI was here to help them. All it would do is aid them in achieving a lower grade.

It's hard to not see this country sliding into chaos... it may take longer than others, but political timidity, incrementalism and cowardice is creating such a vacuum it beggars belief that Labour does not see it. They appear so removed from the lives of everyday people.

Balance mag invites journalists, writers, researchers, and storytellers to pitch thoughtful pieces on how technology will shape our lives and our planet in 2026. . balance.commonedge.asia/opening-2026...