We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

116 legal and policy experts have now opposed Labor’s new powers for police to recommend cutting payments from people without them even having been convicted of a crime. Cops shouldn’t be anywhere near welfare law and Labor should withdraw this amendment. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/treat...

It’s crazy that the marketing wing of an Aussie gambling company runs a large platform dedicated to radicalising teen boys into the alt-right pipeline as a way to get the kids illegally gambling, and it doesn’t get any coverage in Aussie media

Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could. Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Slovenia's parliament had approved a law in July, allowing assisted dying after a 2024 referendum supported it.

This is the way.

New Yorkers are tired of being asked to believe in a system that has delivered little for them. They want a politics that can see the scale of the crisis, and actually start to tackle it.

So the BOM weather site cost 96 million bucks? At $200 an hour, that’s 482,000 hours to build a website? That’s 13,888 weeks of work. Someone’s taking the piss.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

"Israel continues its fascist descent" via Red Labour

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Holy f@$k! “ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.” This whole video is jaw-dropping.

“If Australia is serious about supporting Ukraine and upholding sanctions, it must follow the UK and EU by announcing a ban on imports of fuels refined from Russian crude and shutting down the backdoor channels that continue to finance Russia’s aggression.” Isaac Levi, CREA

Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate: "This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"Our default, too often, are marches and rallies. Yes, these can be symbolically powerful, but unless they’re part of a broader strategy to shift power — by withdrawing cooperation, applying economic pressure and disrupting key functions — they rarely force change on their own."

And we now know that Epstein and Bannon were involved with Farage. It sounds like a massive treasonous fraud was perpetrated on the British people. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

But what this really reflects is the consistent loading of extra costs onto electricity bills and not gas. It is essential that the government reverses this, and begins removing levies from bills - whether to taxation or rebalancing on to gas.

Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented. That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water. Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.

Not mine. Not good. But…

New @dataforprogress.org polling shows a majority of US voters (55%) SUPPORT the phaseout of fossil fuels, including a majority of Dems (74%), voters under 45 (69%), and Independents (57%). @governor.ca.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social

This is the latest recapitulation of the story of the wealthy elites vs. American democracy in @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social's new book, The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History.

HEY FRIENDS For @thepointau.bsky.social, I decided to do the unthinkable and just actually check whether Australia's gas exports are being a magical climate solution and displacing shittonnes of Asian coal You know what I found, but you will enjoy me saying it: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery. This will get someone killed sooner or later.

This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.

As anticipated, Green Left (Socialist People's Party, F) candidate #SisseMarieWelling has been made Lord Mayor of #Copenhagen, ending 100 years of Social Democrat rule. Despite radical left #Enhedslisten receiving the most votes (again), right-wing parties pointed to #Welling for the role. #KV25

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. 'Far-right watch: the neoliberal think tank director platforming ethnonationalists'

Let history repeat.

On the appalling story of Derek Elias, who has spent four years trying to alert the government to the bad things happening at Home Affairs

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

what's "funny" is when I see this stuff covered by the press, the idea that regulatory capture and corruption is directly responsible for poor security standards/hacks, isn't even a concept that shows up anywhere on the page

It seems worth getting very crisp on whether the presumptive 2028 Republican nominee for POTUS agrees with his boss that members of Congress should be killed.

Devastating floods led to a 4.3% global reduction in annual rice yield from 1980 to 2015, new #ScienceAdvances research finds. https://scim.ag/4iiwfYd

It's almost as if the left are peaceful and the right are aggressive even though the right try and claim it's the other way around.

Canberra bends over for Prabowo, acting blind while West Papua screams in the background. #AusPol #WestPapua Read more: asiapacificreport.nz/2025/11/20/c...

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Israel continues to block aid and materials into Gaza for shelters, thus purposefully denying conditions necessary for life as winter comes on. They are continuing the genocide in full view of the world.

We don't need more hope in machines. We need *courage*. 5/n

This is the problem with trying to inspire hope using the message "we have the solutions": such a message may inspire the kind of techno-optimism that actually fosters political *dis*engagement. 1/n

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Study of all-electric properties in Birmingham, with heat pumps and solar, shows they use less energy at peak times than expected, reducing stress on the grid “We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is the real black hole in sovereign budgets. Just start seizing all assets registered to offshore LLCs.

Looking to finish what they started.

The surveillance state needs to be destroyed and privacy rights restored. The only people who need surveilling are the politicians and their donors.

Tesla's Supervised Robotaxis in Austin have now reported 7 crashes to NHTSA in just 300,000 miles. That's a crash every 43k miles, despite Tesla's "Robotaxis" having a supervisor who has their finger on a kill switch!

The cost. My @smh @theage cartoon.

This is what climate change looks like. What used to be snow is now rain, and when the rain falls it's heavier so more goes to runoff. The result is drier conditions, even during wet years.

She went to HR about him 5 times before she was murdered