The Ministry of Truth has its own Newspeak approved lists of words, banned words, and doublespeak phrases eg. 'not clean'. Western countries everywhere are becoming more authoritarian.

More accurate headline: 'Homeless people punished for government policy failure.' #homelessness #nswpol #auspol

Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death

Why do we have 'homeless camps' in Australia? Could it be the landlord (rent-seeking) class? Our billionaire 'philanthropists'? Bad policies that tax and pursue individuals but leave loopholes for companies?

I don’t trust that these people are going to helped when I see phrases like “offered opportunities to connect with support services.” We do provide “opportunities to connect” in this country—usually it means providing a phone number. Whether there’s anything at the other end is another matter.

A Party of Independents Sounds Like a Contradiction. It Isn't. The majors rigged the donation laws & walled off the Senate, then act baffled that anyone builds something new. A party of independents is not naive idealism. It is strategic. Here’s my take 👇 open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

War games. My @smh cartoon.

He kept coming back, repeatedly (in the way AI often loops) to this idea of AI (specifically Claude) representing "a position without an address", and it became increasingly clear to me that there was some odd mystification happening. Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.

I love team models where you value the different skill sets that others bring. *bland face* No. Not subtle.

Newly compiled data from the Parliamentary Library reveals Labor currently has 297 active contracts with KPMG - total value of $653 million. Despite multiple scandals, the Government continues to employ KPMG’s service. This government is completely addicted to KPMG.

AI fatigue.

Jarrod might be little bit racist.

My latest article in The Shot After spending obscene amounts of taxpayer's money on luxury travel, office refurbishments and airfares from their homes to their Canberra office, I examine the high price Australians have paid so far for an impotent NACC #auspol #NACC theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

It’s time we genuinely put education, research & societal benefit back at the heart of what we do, & that staff & students are supported accordingly. I compare my undergraduate experience in the 90s to my time as a Professor now & it’s incredible what’s been lost & traded away for a focus on $.

the future they imagine for you is one in which you have nothing, own nothing. you will rent your life, and live at their pleasure. this is the world they fantasize for us.

The divisions politicians sow for their own ends, cost lives. Lone wolf actors are emboldened and feel legitimised by the 'clever' tactics of our political classes, who see social divisions as wedges to exploit. Never forget: Breivik thought John Howard and Costello were white christian heroes.

The biggest threat to our lives is not “non citizens”, not the brown people living next door - it is the blood sucking bullshitting tax free billionaire grifters who own our politicians. So of course The Age bury that ACTUAL NEWS but inconvenient truth somewhere past page 20 in the business section

Today AI kept offering to emulate my tone for me in a document I was working on. I'm somewhat perplexed. I am trying to imagine that the supposed gain was productivity/time... but how was it going to imagine what I was going to write?

How goes the world today?

Living rent free.

Not sure India will take this laying down. 'I will come home safely': Indian sailor's last words to wife before a US strike killed him

This is #Australia If you don’t like diversity, don’t come here or live here. But admit what you are.

Functionally, this is climate denial. Coal is dangerous: running coal plants for as long as possible results in people dying, or being severely harmed, by the impacts of climate change. Australia's energy industry has such a serious problem in denying this reality - it is such a toxic problem

We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

So adamant is the #Albanese Govt to keep #AUKUS nuclear waste plans secret, they initiated a Fed Court appeal to overturn an Administrative Review Tribunal transparency win. Are we seeing another nail in the coffin of Freedom of Information and what is left of government transparency? #auspol

So this past week alone the Albanese Labor government and Labor state premiers have cleared the lands of one newly discovered peacock spider not found anywhere else on earth, a rare burrowing bee, not found anywhere else and koala habitat as well as black cockatoo lands for Alcoa

Out they go! My @smh cartoon.

- @fionakatauskas.bsky.social today

My son to me: So, in the trolley problem, you wouldn't flip the switch and kill the one to save the five? Me: In the Hitler problem, I'd find a way to change history without having to kill him. My son: what are you doing today? Me: my best.

Governments worldwide, choose to silence climate activists rather than face up to making the changes we desperately need to survive. "As the climate crisis escalates and ecosystems collapse, the government is choosing not to address the crisis, but the people who sound the alarm" @xrnl.bsky.social

Well worth a read! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Linda Reynolds is astonishingly blind to the fact that it is her own actions that trashed her reputation. Suing and bankrupting a young woman she concedes was raped in her office consigned her forever to infamy as a truly terrible person, something of we're reminded every time she whines to the Oz.

Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

This. I'm absolutely going to use 'liquific' now. Words are things we say and write. If we say and write them, we have them.

Ireland is doing the right thing I wish Australia would stop its love affair with the murderous Israel

Sue Barrett: ACT ONE: HOW THE SYSTEM WAS CAPTURED This is not how it got broken. This is how it was built. Headline 1: YOU PAY MORE TAX ON A BEER THAN BHP PAYS ON $21 BILLION OF YOUR GAS #auspol

gut-wrenching stories from provider Sylvanvale about impact of NDIS cuts [sub 430] 'The 50% reduction to community participation supports is a harsh and sharp tool, which will reduce scheme expenditure, however it will have a severe impact on the most vulnerable' www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

"Charlie Pickering and Australia’s legacy comedians are the perfect embodiment of the problem: overpaid, risk-averse gatekeepers who savage a four-part podcast by Grace Tame while happily gorging at the ABC trough and staying silent on genuine atrocities." This is a great read.

Just saw this sentence and it explains stuff "Cost of greed crisis"

I've been surprised how progressive people have blindly championed Forrest "Why would we listen to Andrew Forrest on any matter of public policy when a) his primary interest is in deifying himself; and b) his disgraceful behaviour towards counterparties like Yindjibarndi people is on naked display?"

I'm all for work-life balance and present parenting, but yeah... I think the Secretary of Defence should be doing his reboot of National Lampoon's European Vacation on his own time and his own dime.

Baby Bonnie (who is not, in fact, a baby). Or you can call her 'snook'.

Here's me. "Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities"

Meet Enoki!

Who do politicians really serve?

British actor Anthony Head, known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso, dies aged 72

The right is in a frenzy destroying decades of liberal progress. They’d let a dribbling chipmunk run things for that