Tasmania's health department moves to block a coronial investigation into allegations of 29 falsified death certificates. So if not the coroner, who will investigate? The plan, obviously, is that no-one will.

I co-proposed/wrote the #codeberg vibe-coding ban and all I got was a lot of haters in my mentions. And a nearly 70% approval rate, with one of the highest voter turnouts the association had afaik (and one that's comparable to the last EU elections). 😎

It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.

It's so breathtakingly crass to treat the deaths of Americans serving in the military as some contest, a contest that, in your twisted, rotting mind, you think you can brag about winning. There is no reverence, sanity, solemnity, or decorum in this vile regime.

Zohran Mamdani was born in 1991, @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social. You two were born in 1963 & 1968, respectively. So you're both old enough to be Mamdani's parent. But oh, how this decent man from a younger generation puts the two of you to immense shame. THIS is Leadership. #auspol

He’s been trying to do it since his first term. Give the sponsors of 9/11 nuclear arms technology. He cancelled the no-nuke deal with Iran, gives nuclear arms tech to Saudi Arabia, and soon we will get nuked. The world ending never seemed so likely. To think people voted for this fool. #DumbFascism

It does make sense: OpenAI was losing ground and mindshare to Anthropic. They are running out of money but couldn't IPO because SpaceX ruined it. This "our model is a Cyberweapon" is advertising directly to the Pentagon.

Is a racist known as a anti-black/brown activist? Is a sexist known as an anti-woman activist? If an antisemite known as an anti-jews activist? 'Anti-transgender activist' is just a transphobe. There's already a term for it.

Gawd and I thought the Federal ALP were bad.

Why I love EU? I refound this image today. It is from when the Polish army of fire engines arrived to save Sweden from the largest forrest fire in Swedish history. At this point the Swedish fire departments had lost the fight against the raging fires. 1/3

everybody buckle up for the sentence "very few engineers working today fully understand the systems" to become more true for the rest of our lives than anyone can imagine yet

I’m surely not the first to come to this realisation, but the LLM industrial complex is to tech-life what MAGA is to politics: erode any and all trust in established institutions, people and practices for the benefit of the very few and worst people on the planet in the (poor) guise of freedom.

No, OpenAI's new magic models did not autonomously hack Huggingface. Per OpenAI's PR blog post (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/): "This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex […]

The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation.

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"If you really want an "AI strategy" for your country, it should be this: wait for the bubble to burst, then buy hardware and talent at fire-sale prices in the wave of ensuing bankruptcies, and use them to extract more performance from free, open source models."

6. They also examined rates of stopping treatment and of regret—and found both to be rare to nonexistent, stating: "Dutch research shows that 0% to 3.5% of people with gender dysphoria stop hormone treatment that they began as minors. No cases of regret were found in the studies."

5. The advisory also rejected the framing that treating transgender youth is a risky intervention while not treating them is a neutral default. Delaying care, the review found, carries its own harms. "Non-treatment is therefore not a neutral option"

Hanson, like many other reactionaries, has justified her Islamophobia in the name of women's rights It was always a lie obviously but lapped up by too many. Reactionaries only defend oppressed communities to punch down on others, divide us and strengthen privileges www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."

Two completely unrelated images, I’m sure. So glad our democracy can be bought 🙂

The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.

There's a reason why the Murdoch-owned Fox News instituted a daily COVID testing mandate, among other things: they know they're lying to the public, they know millions will suffer & die because of them, but they have insulated themselves from the consequences of their own actions, so they don't care

Also don’t wish to be a tinfoil guy but I can’t help but notice that this concern has peaked after a bunch of teens developed some unconventional geopolitical opinions

I am the super manly man in this race, and if anyone asks me a question I don't like I will run away with my hands over my ears saying "Nanana I can't hear you nanana"

The justification for saying no was that Israel would never say yes. In other words the Biden administration's position was that Israel is the arbiter of everything.

More people should be aware of the fact that in February-April of 2024 the PLO submitted a framework for a two year time bound negotiation track with Israel on Palestinian statehood and the US just flatly said no and didn't provide a counter proposal.

mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.

But…why would they hunt themselves?

One of my favorite essays this year was @cartoonshateher.bsky.social's "I Was Promised a Girlboss War," about Trump 2024 embracing the meme that Kamala was going to "send your sons to war" because she was a lady and would need to prove something www.cartoonshateher.com/p/i-was-prom...

Remember when Trump praised Putin for ensuring that Russia remained neutral in the war in Iran? tinyurl.com/4w9upv3k That was just five weeks ago.

Furthermore, the evidence shows that when center-left parties adopt right wing policies, it does not help them win votes. In fact, it only makes the right more powerful because its seen as a legitimization of right wing grievances. People will vote for the real fascists. UK Labour being the example

We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. So we talked to three Heritage Foundation interns at a Shake Shack in Stanton Park.

I'm so old I remember when he got Ernst's vote by promising DOD would pass an audit.

"They have installed themselves in influential roles in local Restore Britain branches across England. The far-right figures include individuals who have praised Hitler and used extreme racial slurs."

The Trump admin WITHHELD that nearly 100 U.S. troops were injured by Iran in the past 2 weeks. 400+ Americans have been injured. 18 service members have been killed. It's a tremendous sacrifice. But Trump can't even explain how America is better off or how his war will end.

“Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt” US tech giants are carrying $1.65 trillion in debt that does not show up on their balance sheets, more than the debt that does. and it uses the same accounting trick that brought down Enron.

🧵Re: barriers! Over the last 20+ yrs, Israel built a massive "security barrier" around Gaza, unilaterally creating a border. It includes a 23 ft wall with sensors & barbed wire, & a 500 ft "buffer zone" w/ motion sensors in the ground & watchtowers every 2 kms that have remote control machine guns.

Also, chart people, if you wanna get granular about it, real wage growth fell in both April and May of 2026. I don't think you can really discount the accuracy of people's economic pessimism when it's pretty easy to anticipate the negative effects that the Iran war will have on fuel prices.

This is less about being anti data analysis and more about the way that the flippant attitudes of the people who deliver their analyses can be broadly alienating to people with qualitative experiences that don't match their findings. Their desire is to scold and feel superior, not to educate.

the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...

if your software runs amok I maintain that the problem is you

"Oh no I failed to control my own software and am misrepresenting what happened to scare people and sell product" just doesn't make for a compelling headline

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Once you pass something like this you have a statutory basis to find more and more intrusive ways of enforcing it www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.

What would Jesus do? Would his teachings be more sympathetic toward an immigrant's baby or a right-wing politician trying to make us hate that baby?

I asked AOC about this and she said “they support a president who sexually assaults people, who is guilty on 34 counts, felony counts. So it's unsurprising to me that they are okay with and really take a blind eye. It's the culture of their party.”

He was impeached for being corrupt. His own office of lawyers resigned en masse because they thought he was a criminal. He was under federal indictment until Trump dropped the case. Did he think he could run for Senate and just…. Not have to talk about that stuff?