They are either hiding something or they are simply arrogant and in either case do not deserve their roles “serving” NSW. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I'm consistently impressed that Wired and Ars Technica continue to do great tech reporting despite being owned by Conde Naste. The duo's reporting basically killed the tech industry's covert effort to neuter a popular Colorado law making it easier and cheaper to repair your own tech:

My car's manual was looking rough, so I ordered a new one through Perfect Books. Proving that if I can get a 1974 Super Beetle manual from an indie bookstore in Ottawa, there really is no need to give your money to the Indigo, Amazon, etc. of the world.

if we use a framing of moral worth that describes virtue in part as a function of how difficult it is for you to work (a modest reïnterpretation of 'how hard you work'), a disabled person doing their level best deserves more treats than the median ablebodied person who can phone it in every day.

Orbán mattered for Australians. Tony Abbott is Andrew Hastie’s mentor. They’re both on Christofash ARC board in UK. Hastie might be our PM. Last week Tony Abbott sat on a Budapest panel with this creep from Heritage Foundation, Claremont. Stripping women’s equality. #Auspol youtu.be/EOu9Fby4pro?...

Surprise? Commercial health care has a role, but it does not seem to be in maintaining effective services to the community. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

“government-mandated transfer of wealth” Yup, that’s when ‘the market’ moves money somewhere and we need it somewhere else for something more important. You can call it whatever you want, but do it. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

rich woman makes speech about groups being targeted, ignoreforgets the first group so attacked… Way more dollars than sense. #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/202...

u never see this on a tradlife mood board

Thanks Rigmore Helene Berg

@cathywilcox.bsky.social #australia #auspol #duopolycon

"Astroturf groups have two main goals: they can function to confuse the debate over matters crucial to the public’s wellbeing, or they can distract by ginned up moral panics often directed at some vulnerable group." Lucy has the receipts on who they are and what they focus on. #auspol

"The real effect [of AI] was not the eradication of millions of jobs, but a more subtle and pernicious transformation of work and workplaces to reduce the leverage of workers and shift that power even further to their bosses."

Yeah right; NDIS is what, less than 20% of the cost of the supposed submarines. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

this is infuriating and inspiring simultaneously www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/y...

in a sense I AM sacrificing something, maybe my job, to stop this garbaggio so similar but less fash

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK "Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.” ~ Jeff Zentner

Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥 Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥

How about we sort the real crims instead of letting robots defund people’s ability to shower and stuff, Jim? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

I’d suggest ANY medical practioner advertising on social media is likely a grifting quack and should be summarily ignored. Not every one, mind, but a likelihood much >0. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Bit late to this perceptive bit of xenophobic brilliance from a node on the “back to the good old days for mediocre entitled white dudes” network Fucks sake, tony, slime mode is brighter and more beneficial than DJT #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If altman is involved, hard pass thank you very much. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

In which Ambassador Newman presents the Art of the Gaslight. Is he gonna comp us increased costs of living as a make-good for the stuffup? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Can someone type “war crimes” and “accountability” very slowly for the poor lil billionaire please? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🚨 Boycott Roll Call 🚨 Pinning this to track who's in. Full freeze or just cutting back. It all counts. 📝 Drop a comment: • What you're avoiding • Any workarounds or wins • Tips for spreading the word 📖 Full guide: psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet... Loud is leverage. Let’s be seen.

If we could get Masnick and the folks cited herein the same visibility and influence Haidt has built himself, we would be better off. www.techdirt.com/2026/04/03/t...

Even Microsoft admits that their free Copilot functions are not serious. www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

Yet watermelons and song lyrics are hate speech.

It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed." I wrote about it here.

I cannot overstate my disgusted lack of surprise at these revelations. Off to redouble my efforts to avoid giving any of these puffed up pricks a goddamn dime. www.techdirt.com/2026/03/31/w...

LO-fucking-L The banks aren’t going to forgo a goddamn cent, SOMEHOW it’s coming out of our ordinary poor people pockets. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

#GazaGenocide #SolidarityWithIranLebanonPalestine

#auspol #Australia #murdochGutterMedia

birds of a malignant, full of sh1t feather flocking together Altogether now: do we visit a goddamn thing this jackass promotes? #auspol #ffs www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

If the trusting level is <0, then the answer is “yes”. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

My bleeding heart goes out to the neoliberal version of higher education... #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

that ship left port a long time ago. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Listening to @reckless.bsky.social handing grammarly’s ceo his arse… However, Shishir appears to have a rather robust reality distortion field about who extraction really benefits…

"What happened to Grace Tame tells you everything you need to know about who holds power in this country and how ruthlessly they will defend it." Andrew Brown. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/grace-tame-a...

i almost kneejerked against the headline that sounded like gas industry agitprop. But reading the article, I kinda agree. Tho I think private/profit ‘care facilities’ need to be not a thing, generally. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hasn’t turned a profit in 10 years despite billions in subscription revenue, hm? And yet the chiefs are accorded fawning descriptions of their savviness… Maybe it is me, but there is something missing in the equation. #ai #auspol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“No defensible claim to “ethics” can sidestep the urgency of legally enforceable restrictions to the deployment of technologies of mass surveillance and systemic violence. Until [then], moral and political deliberation about computing will remain subsidiary to the profit-making imperative”

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