Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

“To pretend that this visit from the president of a rogue genocidal project, booed at the Olympics and reviled around the world is apolitical is, frankly, insulting. “Do we get foreign dignitaries from any other nation into parliament to speak for mourning Australians during any other tragedy?”

New Australia Institute research shows Australian high schools are the most expensive in the OECD. "I can't see any policy case for taxpayers giving money to a school that can afford an air-conditioned equestrian arena." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

The NSW govt needs to elect a new public. Police say this one is not acceptable. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

We couldn’t possibly change the date. It’s just not something we do.

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Feeling pretty nervous given our recent second half performances. Should be winning this though. Come on you #SaintsFC

Entertaining game - should be ahead. Norwich a threat too. Ref losing control of it a bit - they should have a couple of yellows at least. Fraser a poor substitute for Fellows - he always wants to go backwards. #saintsfc

@minniesmum.bsky.social excellent interview with ASRC about Nauru at 26:00

BRILLIANT Well done Iceland!!! www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

This is one of the most confronting things I've read in recent memory. Despite the title, it's not about the environmental impacts of AI - it's about extreme tech oligarchy. Does anyone have an argument or three to refute it? It seems logical to me. open.substack.com/pub/theturni...

Gotta feel for the umpire there - two incorrect decisions in a row! #TheAshes

Israel is continuing to bomb children with impunity during the ‘ceasefire’.

can we just say this out loud? Climate change = horny male media editors going absolutely nuts with the skimpy fun-in-the-sun pics

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Tool used as a cudgel to discipline workers is popular with execs and management. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

“There is no good #Zionism; it is a racist ideology, a violent ideology,” said Miko Peled, the son of a prominent Israeli general who later aligned himself with the Palestinian cause. He added: “There is nothing to justify, nothing to excuse what Israel does.” Via @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social

There is no ‘ceasefire’ - don’t be fooled.

Great guide on what NOT to give your family for Christmas!

Current stack! On book 95 for 2025. Full titles in alt text. #booksky

“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”

This is one of my favs...

Evergreen.

$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement. It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it. www.wisn.com/article/meta...

Things that make generative AI dangerous: 1. Job market impact. As a cutting measure it's being used to generate "boilerplate". This is putting writers out of work. 2. Stock market bubble. When this inevitably crashes it will take out pension funds and savings. 1/

I’ve already seen this Black Mirror episode.

Be a Dave

Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??

True story. Via @xkcd.com

Would we allow tobacco lobbyists to attend a lung cancer conference?

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

An excellent article that explains why GenAI produces flat, repetitive and soulless writing with “an abundance of verbs and adjectives and a clear shortage of nouns, a clear sign that they are going around in circles to say little.”

Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws? • Chevron • BHP • the Minerals Council of Australia • the Business Council of Australia Who doesn't support the new laws? • Australian Conservation Foundation • Greenpeace • the Climate Council • the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

Bastards. #AusPol

AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins." —A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR... www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

Our very own ACCC is taking Microsoft to court for tricking people into paying higher fees for AI garbage that no one asked for. You love to see it

This appears to be good news.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Current stack! On track to hit my goal of 100 books in 2025. Currently on book number 85. Full titles in alt text. #booksky #libraries

“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” @hypervisible.blacksky.app www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...

A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland

What did I just watch? What an absolute shambles. Still has got a lot of explaining to do. He’s running out of time I reckon. #saintsfc

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

“At this point I am accustomed to the lies, to the cruelty, but I will never understand the detachment. It’s deeply alienating.”