Who the fuck would listen to Howard push back against gun reform in the wake of the biggest tragedy in decades (and no one is saying it’s just gun reform which is needed, ofc hate in all forms, including anti-Semitism is horrendous) and come to the conclusion that THIS is the take?!

With the social media ban starting in Australia today for Australians under 16, it was great to sit down with @antmandan.bsky.social to talk about what the ban entails, and what it'll mean for Australian teens and their parents. open.spotify.com/episode/6IES...

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o... “The political and cultural winds in the US have shifted sharply in the right’s favor – and many media companies are proving that they are not pillars of principle so much as extremely sensitive weathervanes.”

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

www.theguardian.com/environment/... It can be done. And Anglo fossil fuel magnates will continue to lose customers before they accept the change, so really governments are the ones who need to clear the path forward by (properly and greenly) regulating the transition!

A naked descent into authoritarianism is weirdly boring because what’s being debated is fundamentally uninteresting. Is the antifa legion burning down Portlan real or not? Well, let’s have someone look out the window over there. No? Okay. Facts are settled. It either matters or it doesn’t.

Head of the AMA, Danielle McMullen: "There are no studies showing that paracetamol use in pregnancy causes autism." Any journalists giving one iota of credence to Trump's claims deserve to be sacked for propagating lies.

“The wave of demands are outlined in one of almost 150 submissions to a parliamentary inquiry examining the prevalence of climate change-related misinformation and disinformation.” One of the biggest concerns I have is that environmental interests are misidentified as misinformation 😠

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

i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"

Contrary to Trump’s claim that “the radical left causes tremendous violence,” sociologists find that right-wing extremists account for the vast majority of attacks and deaths from domestic terrorism. buff.ly/XOaVJUZ

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

What the fuck is this timeline

Fascinating.

Is it still AI when Elon Musk is just dictating the responses?

“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

In The Hobbit, the dragon Smaug is described: "Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floor, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems & jewels, & silver red-stained in the ruddy light."

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

News Corp's Courier Mail linked a teen girl's suicide bullying on social media as part of its campaign for the <16 ban. But the child's parents said she wasn't bullied on social media. Which News would have known if they contacted them before publishing.

I’m a foreign government/criminal and I can’t wait to carry out my nefarious ends by filing FOI requests and waiting 6-9 months to get highly redacted documents as long as they aren’t exempt for a wide number of reasons including national security… beware 😈

oh no foreign actors and criminals are RORTING our information!!

We just released a *big* working paper on Voice AI and Authenticity as part of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society @admscentre.org.au It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done Check it out at Australian Policy Online here: apo.org.au/node/331920

Voice technologies are being rapidly integrated into AI systems, raising new questions & intensifying old ones, across everyday life. This paper surveys the history & current developments, highlighting emerging responses in real-world settings. apo.org.au/node/331920 #AI #VoiceTech #Authenticity

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” The story behind the Dylan Thomas classic and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/24/d...

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

Does Australia supply weapons to Israel? The government has consistently denied the claim and criticised “misinformation” surrounding exports, arguing it has “raised tensions in this country”. So what do we know about Australia’s role in the F-35 jet's supply chain, and what constitutes a weapon?

Proud to be here—free Palestine 🇵🇸

Such a loss, so young 😔

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Holy shit! #warcrimes

Anyone who says that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East” (cough cough Aus Zio Fed) should remember that democracies protect journalists, not blame and target them www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Had a really great chat to ABC RN MediaLand on Friday!

A very simple thing you can do is stop linking to the NYT. I know they do some good reporting but they are also actively upholding facism and working to subvert democracy and shaping your world view. It is more work but it is better if we start starving harmful institutions.

Legacy media are not a solution to the problem of democratic erosion. Legacy media are part of the problem of democratic erosion.

SUCH AN IMPORTANT ARTICLE! So glad to see this out there.

As I found in my PhD research, a focus on "broken promises" means a focus on dishonesty rather than policy, and accountability as performance rather than social progress (which favours the powerful/status quo). I am honestly glad to see Chalmers point this out. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This (practice in general, not just this instance) is the most profound emotional and physical abuse of hungry people trying to avoid starvation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I guess the govt could approve *more* gas fields...

DARVO (also citing openly FR think tank’s misinformation is really gross) (also terrorist seems more political a word than genocide)

“If the land is excluded from Australia’s greenhouse accounts, the emissions cut since 2005 is paltry – just 1.3%. Which is a long way from the Albanese government’s legislated 43% target.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Australia kept reducing emissions at the pace we did during the lockdowns, we would have gotten to net zero in 2030, instead....

Couldn’t see a single mention in SMH today of the Albanese Government’s approval of the enormous Woodside gas project on the North West Shelf…huge carbon emissions, destruction of the world’s oldest rock art…not news I guess. Excited to learn a Norwegian princess moving to Sydney though #climate

CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

unions: they get the job done

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... oh yeah it's that climate change thing again