Got to say, did not ever expect to be able to preface the name "Michael Eisner" with the phrase "I am pleasantly surprised by", but such is the world in which we are currently living... www.businessinsider.com/disney-forme...

Depressing that in the current cultural moment this headline feels like a gesture of radical empathy

One day in the books, one more on the docket for To Be Continued...! Registration is still open: ubalt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... On tonight's program: panels on Franchises and Legacies...

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/46ILa9z

Of course 5:30pm on a Friday is when you do your presser for a story you want to be gone... "Optus’ network failed for triple-0 calls, contributing to three deaths, CEO says Optus’s CEO, Stephen Rue, says the telecommunications company had an outage affecting triple-0 calls." YIKES YIKES YIKES

Happening 👏🏻 today 👏🏻

Sure, why not; an IP film about attempting to find fulfillment and self-determination only to be confronted with one's powerless in the face of forces you can neither comprehend nor imagine feels like as good a comment on the current cultural moment as any... www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/th...

The fact that the UK is built on a class system that prioritises the high classes is not a secret. The main issue is when they try to pretend social mobility exsists by forcing universities to measure 'graduate outcome' as if a university degree can erase hundreds of years of class advantage 🤷‍♀️

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

"These submarines will lock us into the warlike activities of nuclear weapon states. "It is a complete repudiation of decades of Australian anti-nuclear weapons policy." - The Hon. Doug Cameron, former Senator for NSW #auspol @dncameron.bsky.social

The hit piece commissioned because they were scared of our ad:

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

They are literally canceling culture

Turns out it's a lot easier to turn it all into state media when there are like 5 media companies instead 5,000.

Younger adults on social media are much more likely than older users to say social media is important for finding like-minded people and getting involved. pewrsr.ch/41Rz37x

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

“Approving new fossil fuel exports is destroying the future. It isn’t just a betrayal of our Pacific neighbors, it is a betrayal of all Australians, putting the profits of foreign-owned fossil fuel corporations ahead of our wellbeing, security & prosperity,” said @richarddenniss.bsky.social. #auspol

If anyone feels up to doing a little bit of good activism from home this Friday, here's the contact information for the WSJ and the journalists who wrote the article pre-emptively stating the shooter was trans. The trans community deserves a redaction and apology. Thank you to anyone who helps.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

What are we doing here? Why must we continue to legitimise this woman? Even if these actors disagree with her gender conservative views, their participation furthers the narrative of her work as genius - which she takes as proof of the value of her intellect and ideas deadline.com/2025/09/harr...

We’ve made a submission to the OAIC in response to proposed changes to the FOI Guidelines. We shared ways to make FOI easier to understand, protect applicant privacy, and work better for public platforms. See here: www.oaf.org.au/2025/06/24/o... #FOI #RightToKnow #Transparency

The FOI Amendment Bill 2025 makes it harder to hold govt to account: bans anonymous requests, adds a “transparency tax” fee, and expands secrecy. Parliament must reject it. 👉 www.oaf.org.au/2025/09/08/2... #RightToKnow #FOI #auspol

Feeling old as I pine for the days when an Internet search returned useful information.

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

"This must be how Penelope felt on those interminable nights spent over her loom..." - me, unpicking a thread from my beginner's cross-stitch kit

Amazed they held out as long as they did, really: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

incredible email to Meanjin subscribers. no notes

YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.

Guys! Guys! Guys! A reporter actually read the datasets!!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A privacy expert who quit the advisory board over privacy fears says biometrics pose a serious concern to user privacy www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The Islamic University of Bandung’s student body says security officials ‘brutally attacked’ the campus with tear gas.

Keep their voices alive.

The Australian public deserve to know what the Government knows about the risks of climate change, especially when our governments are spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies. For more info on the risks of climate impacts ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima...

Sure, this piece from @roycerk2.bsky.social is depressing AF, but it is very well written. What you need to know about the algal bloom in SA: "a spreading, imperialistic, green-tinged cloud that began to sweep through the ocean."

Ley is drowning. She has been swept up by the hard right in her party (most of them) and has no ability to swim against the current. The LNP is irrelevant and becoming more entrenched in that position every day.

🎉 noyb WIN: YouTube ordered to honour user’s right of access The Austrian DPA has sided with noyb and ordered Google to fully answer the complainant's access request in accordance with Article 15 GDPR. More information 👇 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

Goodnight, loon Goodnight, all those waiting for The News to come soon Goodnight, "proof" of life Goodnight, garbage wife Goodnight, weird hand bruises Goodnight, red hat losers Goodnight, nobody Goodnight, cow And goodnight to the internet whispering "let it be now"

And this is the man protesters this weekend we're holding up as a champion...

The Trump administration tried to snatch unaccompanied minors from foster homes, put them on planes and deport them illegally, on the weekend, during the night lawyers worked through the night to prevent it, while kids sat on the tarmac words fail me

i hope they never stop using floppy disk icons to indicate saving your file. doesn't matter how obsolete they are it's like honouring someone with a portrait on your currency.

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Watched the Thursday Murder Club and found myself... underwhelmed? An excellent use of Pierce Brosnan and Jonathan Pryce, and a surprisingly effective use of Richard E. Grant; but almost everyone else felt incredibly under utilized - especially Naomi Ackie. Overall, just surprisingly light on charm?

Video shows a blanket knitted by Irish activists as a tribute to Palestinian children killed in Gaza. Each square of the blanket represents 10 of the nearly 19,000 children killed by Israeli forces in the besieged enclave.

📣 Hey Australian gamemakers! Screen Australia's Games grants close in 6 days! A reminder to get your applications in! 💪 🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100k 🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30k 📆 Applications close Thu 28 Aug, 5pm (AEST) 👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

Guy who doesn’t understand anything says you shouldn’t either.