I just saw a newly installed / unmodded Windows 11 desktop and I do not understand how people can live like that.

Scandals that should disqualify him from the captaincy for life: 1

Teens with disabilities might end up losing contact with friends and online communities due to being banned from social media. People working in the disability support sector say it is worth considering an exemption for teens with a physical disability.

OpenAI estimated that around 0.07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” 0.15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”

It was already struggling but Trump 2 pretty much pulled the plug on Godwin’s Law hey. RIP to an online staple.

I knew Australians were champion wood choppers but I did not know the team is called the Chopperoos vt.tiktok.com/ZSUT59...

The Netherlands are cutting back intelligence sharing with the US over human rights concerns. www.msn.com/en-us/ne...

Just how creepy are the big tech platforms you use every day? The 2025 RDR Index assessed the transparency of 14 tech giants and 43 of their platforms on critical issues affecting people’s rights to free expression and privacy.

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

The most magnificently (entirely accidentally) hilarious content you will see all week is American bro wrestling podcasters stumbling through geopolitical analysis as they struggle to grasp why an Australian crowd would boo their national anthem.

Remember the good old days of “alternative facts”? What a time.

Underrated element of One Battle After Another is the car selection for every character. It is perfect. The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

I for one am greatly relieved that the US government forced the sale of TikTok to a US company, ensuring such powerful data gathering tools can not be used for evil.

I may have said this once or twice before, but fuck Google

Stop using Google everywhere you can imo

Never starting is the key to becoming unstoppable.

From the moment Trump was elected, centre-left/progressives around the world have been fixated on how to reach new audiences via content creators those audiences trust. The US Democrats seem to have found a way to do it in a remarkably untrustworthy way.

You are the product etc

Cops are again simultaneously saying the crowd was small—a mere 1/10the size the organisers claimed—and squealing that their resources were stretched to the limit, endangering everyone else in the city. Copaganda is not just for Xmas kids.

The difference in tone between 7 News reports on the Gaza genocide protest marches in Melbourne and Brisbane is *wild* vt.tiktok.com/ZSAAPt... vt.tiktok.com/ZSAAP5...

Follow @paulbiggar.com and @techforpalestine.org to divest from these companies. Stop using their tech, don’t invest in them. Ethical alternatives are being developed right now.

Outstanding. “We Can’t Have Greece Become a Playground For IDF Soldiers": Israeli Tourists Traveling to Greek Islands Met With Pro-Palestine Protests

G'day, you should strongly consider ditching Windows. Microsoft cloud used in Israeli mass surveillance of Palestinians: Report

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

What’s the charge? Assault with a sandwich? A succulent, footlong sandwich?

Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows

Truly. Why take real substantial action to stop the slaughter of children when you can ask for applause for doing what 3/4 of the world has already done!? People say Australia doesn’t innovate, but turning participation trophy culture into foreign policy strategy is real outside the box thinking.

This government wants applause for recognising Palestinian statehood—finally, after dozens of other countries already have—while still sending weapons components to Israel. What if the best way to help Palestinians is to actually stop helping Israel kill them!?

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI - and we know this because of whistleblowers disgusted with Meta's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza www.dropsitenews.com...

There a few more cruel things you can do to a Gen Xer than tell them the opening of REMs Losing My Religion sounds like it is sung by Donald J. Trump.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/24/l... #auspol Stop supporting Israel

The ALP should be demanding a refund from the image consultant who said Albanese (💩PM) should wear a double breasted suit jacket.

The US abruptly ending funding for digital groups, independent media, and online trust and safety programs has put in jeopardy the long-term viability of global digital rights, free expression, and an open internet. The EU (and AUS!) need to fill the void. www.techpolicy.press...

Thank heavens the government has banned Senator Faruqi from being part of overseas delegations. Take that, Israel.

It’s her family’s trust

This is by far the best exploration of the 'out of nowhere' success of the Zohran Mamdani campaign in New York. www.dropsitenews.com/p/zohran-mam...

The flagship reform proposal of the Albanese goverment was of course the Voice to Parliament. There is something so sadly Labor-centrist-appeasing-the-right perfect about appointing one of the principle funders of its defeat to a far more powerful and less accountable role to try to stifle criticism

I enjoy reading about Americans enjoying Taskmaster, it feels utterly but delightfully incongruous. defector.com/sure-we...

Dave Hughes posted a video asking “what is it with entitled English wankers?”. A perennial question for the world, sure, but if you want to avoid them you’re going to struggle at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon.

This is a truly amazing piece of both sidesism. Writing about the lack of reliable reporting in Gaza yet omitting Israel’s national censor, the ban on foreign journalists, or the record number of journalists they’ve killed is a remarkable accomplishment. www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Jan6 psychos in the US have made a gamified app with (scam?) crypto rewards for dobbing in brown people to ICE. It also offers “undocumented immigrants with no criminal history” “a large reward” “through self reporting”. Real darkest timeline shit. https://iceraid.us/

How many years after the peak of Beanie Babies did we see the first “remember this craze? This guy still has 18 boxes of them in his shed!” story? And how long will it take for the same thing to happen with Labubus?

In fact, Israel is rewarded with weapons and diplomatic cover. That's not about security. It's about giving Israel full impunity. And now, the hypocrisy is on full display.

Israel has killed over 55,000 thousand people in Gaza. Israel has bombed 5 of its neighbours. Israel is the only nation in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. Israel is a rogue state that is taking advantage of the fact that Western countries refuse to take any action to stop it.

Where can I find odds on when Dorinda Cox will first say ‘the Greens political party’

“OMG you locked in 70 years of intense carbon emissions *and* devastated 50000 year old rock art? I like the cut of your jib, Albo.”

For those of us ancient enough to remember 15 years ago when it was all Nick Clegg's fault, it seems he took the wrong lessons. Destruction of the arts will be his fault. www.theverge.com/new...

From us all, Watt and Albanese are stealing: - $200 billion of resources to gift to Woodside without charging royalties - 50000 years of heritage by blasting away the oldest art on the planet - A liveable climate for every future generation There’s never been a heist like it.

Well congratulations Labor. You’ve done it. Put both the future and 50000 years of heritage at risk for the benefit of a few shareholders. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

“In practice, the Data Consortium would provide a one-stop shop for agencies to cheaply purchase access to vast amounts of Americans’ sensitive information from commercial entities, sidestepping constitutional and statutory privacy protections,” theintercept.com/202...