I'm not so sure about this on the basis of a couple of two things: 1. Privacy, 2. Quality. Just like AI companies training thir AIs on any old junk (including really nasty people's speech), I'm not sure a couple of young blokes are my choice for house cleaners.

ladies, pay attention to what “centrists” and right wingers are doing and start getting angry. If we allow this bullshit to continue, young women in this country will have less body autonomy than a corpse!

Every time I watch adverts on a subscription service I already pay money to access a part of me withers and sharpens with rage.

Wow that spider has freakishly long and slender legs. Lets call it daddy

This is a semi-milestone in a US invasion of Australia. One nation was always a regressive, hate-filled, selfish movement. That hanson person is so unoriginal. Like with trump, it's the people behind her that should be the target.

"What does life look like in a world where imperialism, citizenship laws, immigration, war, racism and xenophobia all have an immediate physical impact? What does life look like when your future can be commodified, controlled, capitalised upon?" Mahvesh Murad reviews Isabel J. Kim's Sublimation:

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

When Rus invaded Ukr, I thought that war was likely to change. The mechanisation and AI thing seems to be it. I had wrongly thought the change would be hacking key infrastructure. War is horrible, both its cause (arrogant men) and its effects (pain and death). That's the most important fact.

"You simply cannot beat fascism by attacking the people that fascists hate."

"As much as you’ve looked down on me, I proceed onto the road to success I don’t know you, and you don’t know me Would you please shut up Don’t worry about me, I’m doing better than you" (We On, BTS) #musicsky youtu.be/p6CIxdvSl4E?...

Iconoclasm is a word that will be very useful

AUTHORS! If you publish through Google Play, there's a new AI "feature" to disable in Book Catalogue -> Advanced Options -> AI Options It's for allowing readers to summarise books. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Who have we become? Why have we allowed ourselves to become so protectionist and scared of others that the rise of the racist right and the dog whistles are getting through? We must take a stand and not let these horrible turns determine and define us. #auspol

This is who we are, mate. #Socceroos #Australia #AusvTur

Okay, here's an thing for today. One like, one very good SFF book starring queer people. I don't promise more that 30, on account of time, but who knows?

I'm always impressed by people who have the presence of mind in a moment they're being insulted, to be able to deliver a succinct and accurate response.

The Orwellian language of "self-defense" here is typical but it just seems so bleak. We bombed Iran, killed 168 school girls, and are taking out civilian infrastructure in "self-defense".

I genuinely believe that no society can survive if only hatred is seen as authentic and empathy in some way a performance.

Elon is an existential threat to democracy around the world. He is set to become a trillionaire this week and can use that money to prop up far right fascist movements across the world. Governments need to treat him as the threat that he is. Sanction and divest him of his property.

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

Thank god, someone has noticed that "AI content" is generated by AI providers, duh 😂 say hello, DSA. Also consistent with ancient German autocomplete case law , remember Bettina Wulff? www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Same question needs to be answered by the Australian govt. Useful to see the @climatecouncil.org.au submission to the Senate Inquiry, covering the massive water, power and emissions risks of data centres. #auspol www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/su...

All these corporations put in cost risk analysis. Is being caught doing shady and illegal things cheaper than the money we will make before anyone finds out, if they find out at all? From tech, to drugs, to food. Same thing.

Everyone! Get the fuck off of Facebook and instagram!

idk man it just sucks so much to exist in a media ecosystem where the throughline is that it’s not worth telling a story about anyone who is not conventionally fuckable

here is the core problem with “A Poirot That Fucks” as a concept (also looking at you, Kenneth Branagh): it fundamentally misunderstands that a crucial piece of why women and girls in often terrifying circumstances feel safe bringing their problems to him is that they don’t deem sexualized by him

Make no mistake, Samuel Griffiths Society is an #AtlasNetwork spinoff founded & funded by the same fossil/mining 💵💰to work covertly with other Atlas orgs, the IPA, CIS, Advance, like FedSoc. See what’s being done now to NZ: an Atlas govt is rapidly installing an authoritarian constitutional order.

I consider it a violation of my personal human rights to have to look at an ad at basically any time

Happy Pride Month to my magnificent LGBTQ friends and my magnificent LGBTQ enemies 💜

If you download the Duck Duck Go mobile app, you can turn on a feature called "app tracking protection". It runs even when the DDG app isn't open on your device. I was just reviewing the logs it keeps to see which apps are trying to track me and omfg Bookshop stop that shit rn! Bless you DDG

We’re in Banana Republican territory.

“this new tech gets it right 95% of the time!” guys: “fuck that’s good enough, gonna use that all the time” women: “yeah i’m definitely gonna get blame for that 5% and fired”

"You see, when the proletariat rise up, armed with torches and pitchforks, that's just the market speaking"

Yes, indeed it is.

I'm regrettably not perusing a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone street in Edinburgh, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

I did not understand the appeal of BTS (said neutrally) but watching Jimin flirt with that security guard doing her best to be professional... I get it now.

Vonnegut & Mark Twain are true prophets The tech-bro-oligarchs are specifically focused on eliminating genuine human to human contact. when we all live in bubbles while staring at screens we are so easily manipulated Dogs are good for fighting this. It cant take a virtual poop. You must go outside

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

far be it for me to gas up a billionaire but this is a good fucking opinion and should be the universal Democratic messaging

The right wing grifter train on social media is desperate to continue to sanewash this administration. They know there’s not an heir apparent and their sweet government money dries up when Trump is out of office. His support is being HEAVILY manipulated on social media, particularly twitter.

It may not solve all of the world’s problems, but I think we can all agree that having more bakeries, libraries, museums, and bookstores would be an important first step.

Yep.

I don’t want features to move. I don’t wan’t my car to be a surveillance device with driver tracking. I don’t want the manufacturer to be able to sell my data or to even have it. I want to know what features I’m getting and take them with me on every drive.

All Australians own the ABC. We should be cheering it on to serve us. We should hold it to account so that it serves us to the best of its ability (and please increase its funding). We should never let it be compromised by political thought, intention or motivation like other Networks have been.

We really were the fortunate generation. Born in the 1960s, we were the last to enjoy the benefits of post-war socialist policies. Free education, affordable (council) housing , a National Health Service that actually worked, and publicly-owned trains, buses, electricity, water services.