AI washing of layoffs is real. I was surprised to see a wave of headlines today saying Oracle shrank by 21,000 employees due to replacing them with AI. A few months ago, it was widely reported the layoffs were to pay for data centers they’d committed to building for OpenAI but couldn’t get loans.

WhY DoN't MoRe YouTh PrOteSt?!?!?

Okay here’s how he can still win [1/n]

“The EHRC has now become a mouthpiece for the gender critical movement. It is using the language of “women’s rights” in order to interpret equality law to require the exclusion of trans and intersex people from public spaces.” - The Lemkin Institute for Genocide prevention & Human Security

‘Dr Huggins, who co-chaired the Queensland government's Path to Treaty panel before it was scrapped, said she viewed the Crisafulli government as comparable to the Joh Bjelke-Petersen regime. "They are eradicating, invisibilising us, and destroying our history and culture," Dr Huggins said.’

So how did it go for the agency? Swing an a miss. As per the decision: "media responses usually entail the production of vetted statements or general responses to questions, as distinct from documents that may contain the unvarnished and objective records". You love to see it. /10

I don't know how many of you have ever put in a media request, but they answer your enquiry, not your questions. They certainly don't give you the underlying documents. If you do ask, they direct you to FOI--usually because it takes forever. Here, for eg, is the answer EPA's parent dpt gave me: /9

But there's more! And this is my favourite bit. The agency said they charged because their scientists should be doing actual science, not sharing their science, there was already plenty of coverage about this event and I could have just asked for information through... a media request. /8

A long time ago, I asked the SA Environment Protection Authority for documents relating to the algal bloom under FOI. They charged me $1508.80. The SA Ombudsman just reduced that to $131.20. To celebrate my late-Friday refund, here's how I won this particular fight. /n

The whole last decade has been building to this exact op-ed by this exact person.

My favorite exchange from a Chotiner interview thus far. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

Losing 1 HP per step just due to how things are out there

updating my analysis

A lot going on here, not of it good, but as a public health researcher working predominantly with LGBTQ+ adults, the concept that autistic people don’t fuck is…. ??????

Trying to describe a landlord special to this bloke and getting the “he HWHAT” of a lifetime down the phone in return

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

It’s ludicrous that everyone accepts “defense spending needs to rise.” Why! What opponent are we supposed to be fighting where any fiscally plausible rise in spending makes a meaningful difference?

[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,

The thing about terfs is no terf has a normal reason for being a terf

As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion therapy needs to confront the fact that the NHS has been doing it for decades.

Congratulations to the New York Chicks

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

happy pride

This is the best episode of NGNM since Le Cowboy Antisémite.

The past years have seen horrendous attacks towards trans people. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. There is no Haskell without the trans people who have shaped it through the years. This June is a month of celebrations, but the struggle continues. ✊🏳️‍⚧️λ

sorry, children who want to use the library, we need that money to pay 580 people to play candy crush and stand around until they are called upon to storm the Capitol building

Forever thinking about this banger (Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta - The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions 1977)

If this episode title doesn't convince you to subscribe to the @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social Patreon, then I frankly don't know what could.

listen to @bloodwork.show

Save me, butch at the Yiros shop. Butch at the Yiros shop, save me etc.

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

You don’t believe that. You want to know how I know you don’t believe that? Because you cosponsored legislation that specifically says you don’t believe that

"mmMm cis pEoPLe getting SURGERY or HORMONES is just gender affirming care!" feels spiritually the same to me as "did YOU KNOW transmisogyny affects cis women too???" empty gotcha that still forefronts cis experience, a glib workaround for just talking about how we deserve control over our own lives

Me and miles putting together the most insane gay guy music video night imaginable for our wedding reception

james lipton IS shia labeouf IN curtis sliwa: renegade angel

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

If you’re not listening to November you’re missing out. To quote an old friend who saw me post a fast and furious meme and correctly deduced I was a KJB listener, “November Kelly is the best there’s ever been at Podcast”

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

If electricity prices went up 76% to subsidize the solar industry, people would completely lose their shit. But doing it to subsidize the Slop Industry is apparently kosher.

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Also do yourself a favour @thepointau.bsky.social has heaps of content from the good researchers at @australiainstitute.org.au on the Budget. And also a few graphs courtesy of me! thepoint.com.au

By my quick in the lockup calculation- the cut to the NDIS was roughly 10% in real terms. Absolutely brutal.