Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Through excesses, gap fees and exclusions, they [Private Health Insurers ]have quietly transferred billions in financial risk onto you as the consumer." Claudia Weisenberger on the #PHI scam #auspol michaelwest.com.au/how-private-...

Opinion | The newly founded White Australia Party is in the High Court defending its right to have a political presence. As Michael Bradley writes, it's a sombre test for the government's terrible, authoritarian lawmaking. Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/21/w...

Well done SMH, this is how you report lies -as lies

The rise of a political organisation with no policy framework and an appeal based solely on disgruntlement and prejudice says nothing good about routine politics … but perhaps more importantly the political media’s determination to report politics as reality TV.

I interviewed this bag, described as “the world’s first paper bag actress”. I left exhausted. “The bag didn’t say anything”.

everyone knows polls are not real life ... right?

why does the ABC love the sound of TW's voice; and, it seems, his neo-absolutist version of everything?

@news.abc.net.au Tim (omg why) Wilson 'more people than houses which means prices go up again' - like this is an absolute and cannot change ... the ABC reply

I've been microdosing "thinking" lately. Every hour for one minute I "use my brain to think about stuff.". I believe this will put me at a competitive edge over 99.6% of the human population, if my calculations are correct.

The power of suggestion. Occupy your-damn-self.

The list of Nobel Peace Prize requirements: 1. Don't start a war. 2. Don't brag you will destroy a civilization. 3. Don't violently force others to give you their prize.

The way these "AI checkers" work is very, very simple. It feeds part of the text into an LLM. If the LLM predicts, correctly, the missing text, it scores that as proof the LLM produced the text. And LLM's literally stole *every fucking book and forum post ever fucking written* to train on.

hi👋🏼what corporate media call “polls” are a commercial product that is commissioned and paid for ~ by corporate media ~ to use for generating coverage and wielding political influence.

In a sign of how well AI adoption is going, I noticed that Adobe is referring to manual edits I made by hand in Lightroom Mobile as “AI edits”. “Nobody wants this so we will pretend they used it”

Great to see reports of more recoveries from treatment centers set up for Ebola patients. The road is long in the gight against this outbreak. Every step forward in the right direction matters. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Another cartoonist telling it like it is! #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Sanders: What Mamdani is doing is showing that you can have a democratic socialist, progressive ideology and run a city.

🚩 marked safe from performing at the 250th concert.

Walt Whitman, born on this day in 1819, on how to really own your life www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/29/w...

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency session on Lebanon tomorrow based on France's request.-Al Jazeera

The battle for AI sovereignty. Has Australia already lost? https://michaelwest.com.au/the-battle-for-ai-sovereignty-has-australia-already-lost/ #auspol

It’s almost as if all this surveillance is geared towards keeping the “wrong people” in the areas designated for them where there are fewer resources and social protections.

"Subclinical" That's doing the heavy lifting 🦠😵 Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on subclinical myocardial injury in the general population: the Trøndelag Health Study academic.oup.com/eurjpc/artic...

Popping down to Cash Converters to put three second hand submarines I saw there on lay-buy for a billion dollars. Anybody want anything? #CancelAUKUS

"You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.” Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.

Amazing story this morning on AM about a conservative legal organisation, the Samuel Griffiths Society, lobbying the govt on High Court judge appointments. AG Michelle Rowlands refused to comment. Lobbying govt for judicial appointments should be illegal.

Bring back single function devices. And gas stations that only sell gas. Thanks. #SmartIsDumb #PlannedObsolescence

om word ... imagine if you are in the US Army Band right now

yes: the nuclear power is for the a(not)i, not for you

Julian Assange: Digital archives allow history to be erased with a single click. The next: "Page not found." The next: "This never happened." Don't trust the cloud.

"Inside the Julian Assange Archive are sealed Belmarsh prison bags marked "DO NOT ISSUE" — letters of support that never reached their intended recipient." Assange Archives May 29

Significant challenges in the Bundibugyo virus hotzone insp.cd/sitrep-mve-n...

Privacy isn’t dead. Tech companies just made it really, really easy to trade away for convenience. They want you to feel that just tapping “accept” is easier and provides more value than unspecified future harm from sharing your data. theconversation.com/privacy-isnt...

GenAI companies have not seen their products reach wide enough adoption to eventually hold a market hostage and start raising prices to the obscene numbers they would need to be even one tenth as profitable as they've promised their investors.

Then the @WHO data suddenly stop including a key metric - suspected cases. And of course this leaves conspiracists to wonder if the numbers are so bad that the WHO won't publish them for....reasons 🙄

🔥𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬: why should a family in Ireland pay more for electricity so a billion-dollar tech company can pay less? 💵

Pay careful attention to the SHAPES of the scales on this saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). See how they're regular on the neck & back, but irregular polygons on the face/head? Why do you think that is? As of 2012, we have an answer! A special process guides scale formation on the head.

Great news: the courts will have a chance to rein in the abuses at Camp East Montana, the infamous tent camp built on Fort Bliss in El Paso. I have known seasoned veterans of this field who visited the camp and came away saying it was one of the worst ICE detention centers they’d ever been to.

yes finding results that include instances of a couple different references is the kind of useful thing Google was once capable of doing

We have to stop data centres from being built.

Heartbreaking scene: the endless need for increased shareholder profit has profaned all that is sacred, and ruined the magic of your childhood with endless sequels and remakes to monetize every human emotion.

WHO’s Tedros calls for a community-led fight as a rare Ebola strain spreads rapidly through conflict-hit eastern DRC. 

Australians told to take the bus as mining diesel use soars https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australians-told-to-take-the-bus-as-mining-diesel-use-soars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australians-told-to-take-the-bus-as-mining-diesel-use-soars #auspol

“An internal briefing prepared for NHS leaders in February 2026, seen by Democracy for Sale, says that even after ‘optimisation’, ‘processing time is reported as taking 4-5 minutes’ while similar processes take only ‘30 seconds’ with current systems.” https://goodlaw.social/i108

With drones’ limited range, what enemy do you think Trump plans to use these against?

University students bioremediate Agent Orange chemicals manufactured for Vietnam War from Sydney waterways

As a gentle reminder: Do not go to the window after a bright light or loud boom*. Glass injuries were a major effect of the 500kt Chelyabinsk meteorite 2013 Feb 15. *there may be more or other booms that implode your window ASS TO THE BLAST, TIMMY!