Too cheap to meter? A stochastic analysis of projected future fusion costs arxiv.org/abs/2606.26536

Imagine everyone gives up on using aesthetics as reason to reject AI-writing. Instead, focus turns to normative reasons for rejecting AI-writing. Will an editing vs generating distinction end up something like Habermas’ therapy vs enhancement distinction?

Australian World Cup fans take to street with new chant: “Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald Trump is a sex offender.”

An open letter from the ACCESS-NRI Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) to federal ministers about the impacts of CSIRO job cuts on Australia's modelling capability, noting that "these job cuts will significantly degrade this capability, and impair our capacity to produce new climate projections."

@shobitap.org makes the case for expanding the scope of technology regulation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#CitationGate Moodsplaining: where some version of the Cool Kid (the cynic, defeatist, nihilist, proud-but-busted gamer of the system or just-plain-moron) explains the defense of scholarly standards as perfectionist witch-hunting.

“ ‘This isn’t a story about one bad agent or one bad API. It’s about an entire industry building AI-agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it’s building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe.’ “ www.globalprivacywatch.com/2026/05/the-...

Just published a new paper in Environmental Communication with interdisciplinary team where we identified the logical fallacies in a comprehensive taxonomy of climate myths. Paper (paywalled) is at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10...., free pre-press manuscript is at sks.to/deconstructc...

🆕 Is “right-wing populism” a myth? 🧚 @alexyates2000.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.com argue three reasons why the #Populist label is ill-fitting for #FarRight politics, calling for the more common use of precise but stigmatising signifiers

Opinion | NSW's anti-protest law brought in after the Bondi attack is unconstitutional, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled. Chris Minns should apologise — or resign, writes Michael Bradley. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/17/c...

How AI footage blurs evidence & content: “Generated video caters to an audience’s desire to see their beliefs in the form of evidence, and consume what they already believe as if it is being irrefutably established by real events” @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com/p/evidence-a...

Is private health insurance a rort surely not? $6.9B subsidies, $1.7B in combined profits Medibank, BUPA, NIB but underpay hospitals by over $1B #auspol Claudia Weisenberger analysis michaelwest.com.au/private-heal...

By me. A decade-old error in a paper trips up the contrarians. RealClimate: A reflection on reflection www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

My review of Rockhill's "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?" for @damagemag.bsky.social Few books have done more to legitimate the need for Western Marxism www.damagemag.com/p/western-ma...

Free public transport in Victoria in April. After years of Gov’t policy requiring one to own a petrol or diesel Ute driven everywhere, I’m sure this won’t start a culture war with fossil fuel snowflakes. 😳

How to be ‘Merica’s B***h. Or, FU Alcoa and extractive capitalism. youtu.be/FWrdQxmGlO8?...

Good news that ACCR will appeal the judgement in the greenwashing case it brought against Santos. "In our view, the judgment sets the bar for corporate communication about climate commitments well below market and investor expectations." www.accr.org.au/news/accr-to...

With petrol prices spiking, the Greens are calling on the govt to make public transport free for the next month - and use that month to invest in permanent measures to improve PT & safe cycling lanes. (As you can hear in the vid, the corellas are very supportive!) www.instagram.com/p/DWAnLghDOZs/

What if it was already well-understood that having no plan IS the plan? Produce failed states that are unable to be compliant allies for anyone and profit of the instability.

Turns out the straight or canal not open is far more impactful than temporary lulls when the wind is not blowing or predictable times when the sun is not shining. #renewablesnow

Australians are constantly told renewables will ruin the weekend, you won’t be able to tow your boat, and society will collapse into Mad Max territory. Meanwhile, as a little mayhem starts breaking out due to potential petrol shortages, not a peep about the link to fossil fuels addiction.

For all social science and humanities teachers, a good read on the effort by EdTech Corps to use AI inside education: destructive even if it’s ultimately an unsuccessful take over. theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...

I disagreed violently (apparently) and was called ‘religious’ and a breaker of scholarly norms. Maybe those terms suggest those committed to “AI will innovate” are the ones in the cult, with dissenters the norm-breaking heretics?

Angus Taylor talking cost of living pressure in Canberra’s wealthiest suburb - “hard times hit everyone” he said - is code for “you folks will be OK?

“A complete joke” After the starting gun fires, Australian researchers have to wait 2–3 years before even starting the race. Really clear article explaining the impossibly long new time-frames for Australian Research Council grants. By @liammannix.bsky.social

Yesterday, Trump tried to justify the attack on Iran with rehashed claims of "election interference" from 2020 and 2024. Here's my 2 cents on what that was all about: katestarbird.substack.com/p/the-electi...

Australia, where 40% of homes have rooftop solar and install cost is $0.50 cents a watt installed in a week versus $3.30/watt installed in six months in the US. 🤦‍♂️ www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...

On the embedded politics of LLM’s and AI. Or, channeling Golumbia’s critique of cyberlibertarians. tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...

New report by @ketanjoshi.co showing climate benefits of AI are wildly over-stated. ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

Below is from Barnaby Joyce. Apparently he is was asked if he agrees with his One Nation leader (Pauline Hanson) that there are no good Muslims. Is this speaking in tongues or just how bigots ramble on?

For those of you keen for more revelations from the oil-drenched #AtlasFiles 🔥⛽️☠️here’s the full clip of me at the #Auspol Senate hearings on the organisation and funding of climate and energy disinformation. Fun answering questions from Sen Roberts (?!) & Canavan. ✊🏼 youtu.be/VwuqxfyCYj0?...

Nuclear Sabre Rattling is back. But consider that for nuclear deterrence to work, you must assume rational response to threat of annihilation. Yet the entire article emphasizes growing unpredictability. Nuclear deterrence is a flawed theory. archive.md/68lgT

Taylor & Hume, the new Liberal leaders, are again claiming nuclear power is the route to lower emissions and abundant power. Time to re-up analyses showing the Libs are energy policy fibs. @australianlabor.bsky.social

Just a thought, but if your anti-protest laws are illiberal, they were never “designed to foster unity”. The division is a feature not a bug?

Taylor & Hume leading the Liberals is like Burke & Wills looking for the Gulf of Carpentaria. @australianlabor.bsky.social

Australian Government revenue from tax on beer exceeds the revenue from tax on oil and gas extraction. We’re just getting drunk to cope with being ripped off by fossil fuel interests?

If @albomp.bsky.social can’t mock Taylor as opposition leader, Albo would be even more out of touch than inviting Herzog.

Vale Jon Kudelka, editorial cartoonist (1972-2026), who amongst other things skewered climate denialists and requested those “reasonably well informed and not a complete dill” to join him. FYI @michaelemann.bsky.social

“If the intention was to make Isaac Herzog feel at home by surrounding him with violent, racist thugs, then take a bow Chris Minns”. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

This White House “Don’t Panic” press release is written by folks who can’t help being Paul Verhoeven’ Starship Troopers (1997) while trying to be Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959).

When the entire USA becomes fly over country.

21st Century Nuclear Logic: reduce safety guidelines & environmental protections. Increase worker risk. Relax security & accident reporting. Yet reactors will still be uneconomic, lack resilience to outages & accident risk, and blow build times. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

@mattpolprof.bsky.social uses Mann’s Dr Faustus (1947) as guide to modern far right fascism. Including the rejection of the ‘machinery of scientific witness’, replaced by power alone deciding reason. jacobin.com/2026/02/mann...

What Abbott is technically saying is that because a legal ruling by a judge had a political consequence with which Abbott disagreed, Abbott wants to overrule the judge. It’s Abbott trashing the separation of powers, not the judge. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The ALP /antisemitism envoy’s Uni Rpt Card proposal “risks destabilising campuses, narrowing civic space, and weakening … democratic principles”. @albomp.bsky.social should rethink. @unimelb.edu.au should reject it. mvmau.substack.com/p/from-inqui...

Cathy Wilcox #Herzogout

The disgraced Antisemitism Envoy will harshly police and defund Australian universities that allow criticism of Israel on their campuses. Meanwhile, that same disgraced Antisemitism Envoy feels free to make huge donations to fund hate groups such as Advance, to sow discord in our community.

Season 2 finale of #severance is Winston in Rm 101 at the end of 1984. Discuss