This is happening in neighbourhoods all over America . It's happening to visa holders in Australia too. Dragged out in the middle of the night, no media, just a blurb a few days later, someone's brother, father, mother, sister has been shipped off to Nauru

How we should all refer to Twitter from now on

Regrettably, I have been writing about explicit deepfakes on and off for the last half decade, and public nature, openness and scale of what is happening on X with Grok is off the charts. At the same time, Grok is claiming a surge in app downloads in multiple countries around the world

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

Why is the Australian Government still using a site that shows CSAM on prompt? Seems like they actually don't care about kids at all. ( they don't. Not yours anyway)

What happens if we discover a cow that shits diamonds? What happens if we find a shrmip that sneezes faster than light speed? What happens if blah blah blee blee pee pee poo poo?

What’s happening on X with AI generated sexual images is problematic, not because it’s porn but because it’s non-consensual, harmful content being published by X. And for those wondering, Section 230 DOES NOT protect it.

this is how every outlet should refer to X

United States has got to go.

Video games, rap music, rock and roll, and horror movies have been demonized by the media for YEARS. But ChatGPT gives a how to guide on making CSAM and committing suicide and it’s crickets

It is amazing that global financial and political powers have decided that these people are building something worth trillions of dollars

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

Every discussion that presupposes data centers should be allowed to come online when infrastructure isn't ready is framing the issue incorrectly. Homes and businesses should not suffer. Governments should be pushing back, doubly so because this is such an obvious bubble.

I am a non-seroconverter for the measles vaccine. This means I have no immunity to measles despite being vaccinated multiple times. By ensuring your vaccinations are up to date you help limit the spread of measles, which by extension protects non-seeocoverters such as myself

I do not believe in the death penalty for humans. I do support the death penalty for corporations. When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

Getting grok to publicly strip a woman’s likeness online or alter her image isn’t just horrifying at the level of the individual, it’ll be used to get us fired, too. It’s a technique to keep us in the home popping out babies because we lost our teaching job when some guy sent porn of us to our boss.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Churches: we support calls for a Royal Commission *looks at pile of Australian RCs with clear, specific recommendations that churches failed to implement or fund, and human rights injustices they've not apologised for* Bub, eat the RCs you already have on your plate and then you can have some more

I cannot stress this enough but the internet was a mistake. It could have been many things but we made it this. We are not the people for this kind of power. www.fox9.com/news/minneso...

A big part of what keeps me going are the small people in my life. Their unbridled joy at small things makes me want a future for them where they can keep enjoying those small things. So we continue despite the horrors because there is always also joy alongside.

A computer cannot have the mental illness, therefore a computer cannot make art

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

What grounds me in my community work aside from parenthood: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality”. - James Baldwin

"We urge all parties to support dialogue and diplomacy"? What kind of nonsense statement is this? The US just bombed them with no cause, kidnapped their president and his wife, and declared that they would be running the country in order to secure its oil for themselves.

we have to face the prospect that the best thing for the world (not by a marginal amount but by leagues) is the expeditious end of the american imperial project

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

Why the fuck are we still in an alliance with this regime?

The US is an authoritarian regime so I guess Brazil can bomb Florida and kidnap the fascist in chief now? This is how it goes, right?

where the fuck does this put US allies' defence obligations, if Venezuela retaliates? surely we'd (CA/AU perspective here) decline, saying that we don't go helping the US in wars it started, and no, "fentanyl and cocaine" do not constitute a military attack. right? right?

I do not want my country Australia to be an ally with the US, I didn’t before and more than ever I don’t now.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

How about business leaders first institute all the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry?

Too bad, slopguy

What amazes me is how quickly people are losing either the confidence or the willingness to complete basic human tasks.

i’d like to just say the popular social media generating CSAM is also the leading platform for bigots to claim without evidence that trans people are a danger to children

That’s unfair; it also convinces people to kill themselves.

Purdue misses the plot. I’ve got thoughts about my alma mater’s new “AI competency” requirement.

So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves

👇🎯 Oh, you enjoy public services & national parks & infrastructure & the US military’s nuclear umbrella? Yet you paid no federal taxes last year, because your money is all in the Cayman Islands? 🤔

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Melbourne & Geelong facing likely water restrictions means Victorian councils should reject all new AI-fiddling & other private data centres which use vast amounts of water for no good reason. We need our trees & gardens.

Happy new year to the Crown Melbourne workers taking industrial action x

When "confused" Trump supporters say "I thought he was just gonna deport the criminals" you need to remember we arent talking about criminals as a legal term. We are talking about criminals as a *social* classification.

Saved lives *and* screwed Sky News? Put down your glasses, we have found the Australian of the Year

Each time we refuse, we make it easier for others (and ourselves) to refuse again. We can also make positive statements about what we value: authenticity, accountability, human connection, and credit where credit is due (e.g. to artists for their work). >>

The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer. Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble. Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026. Happy New Year!