Widespread use of risk profiling by law enforcement, social security and migration programs is incompatible with international human rights law and must be banned, Amnesty International said in a new report which includes Australia’s Robodebt Scheme as an example www.amnesty.org.au/amnesty-repo...

Mississippi residents sued xAI and SpaceX over noise from a data center power plant qz.com/mississippi-...

#AI #Gaslighting

Renewables a compromise. There's still the water wasted, the heat islands, the creative theft, the loss of critical thinking skills, child porn, and the chatbot suicides to hate. #ai #moratorium

Fair to say this was written in anger, frustration and despair. The NDIS cuts, and the way they are being done, are cruel. They cannot be supported. www.deepcutnews.com/p/health-min...

hearings start today on the NDIS cuts in new legislation - huge day of evidence of how harmful this is for disabled people from disability orgs www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCOn...

“The #Albanese response so far has largely been around setting voluntary “national expectations” of AI #datacentres & infrastructure – a remarkably weak approach for a voracious industry with such enormous economic, environmental and social impacts.” #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI data centres are here in Australia.

Ugh. I didn’t stop eating meat nearly 40 years ago because I didn’t enjoy it (animals are very tasty). I stopped because the moral cost was simply too high.

Americans Are Starting to Really Hate Data Centers—and It’s Making the Tech Industry Nervous gizmodo.com/americans-ar...

Katrina Ong (b.1987) Land of the Rising Sun. Acrylic on canvas, 2024.

Academic research means reading 1 article, which leads you to a book and 6 other articles, which lead you to 17 articles and 4 book chapters, and oops now you’re an expert in the 1990s feminist criticism of Taylorist management philosophy, a thing you didn’t know existed until 3 days ago.

chuffed.org/project/... The above link is where you can make a donation to the AUKUS public inquiry. We still need your financial support to conduct the inquiry. The list of eminent Commissioners are attached.Let your voice be heard!

here's the joint submission from ALL the national disability representative organisations - tldr stop, go back, do not pass pwd.org.au/ndis-amendme...

Happy Mabo Day, Australia. www.indigenous.gov.au/stories/what...

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

The Games stadium no one voted on. In scenes reminiscent of the Joh era of Queensland, Premier David Crisafulli & Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie have sent police in to forcibly arrest protestors & destroy the Goori Camp Embassy at Barrambin Victoria Park. #qldpol

"This briefing examines how standalone #GenerativeAI systems, based on unlawful #web scraping, are in conflict with international #HumanRights law (IHRL) and standards through their #design, #development and deployment.": buff.ly/O8NHofc via amnestyusa #AI #plagiarism #GenAI #copyright #data

Am going through the NDIS bill. @markbutlermp.bsky.social is bringing in changes that are the precise definition of cruel. Just a sick joke of a "progressive" government. The cuts to social, economic and community participation will destroy lives.

Australians with disabilities copped the biggest cuts in the budget. Yet conservative media’s heart bleeds for the wealthy - by @grogsgamut.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Sorry. My @smh cartoon.

Petition EN9864 - Protect access to reasonable and necessary supports under the NDIS www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... Don't forget to confirm the link in your email

We demand the immediate release of all #flotilla abductees AND THE 10,000 #Palestinian hostages in Israeli prisons. canadaboatgaza.org/2026/05/20/b... 🔻ACTION: freedomflotilla.org/action%EF%BF... 🔻SIGN PETITION: canadaboatgaza.org/petition/%EF... 🔻SUPPORT: canadaboatgaza.org/donate/ #FreePalestine

We are so lucky to live in a world that has bobtail squids. 🦑📷 cr1970 (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Need help making a submission on the new NDIS Bill? DPAC Australia has you covered with their template. You have until next Friday 29th May. The detailed version, or the quick, no-spoons version can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #Auspol #NDIS

I've read 21 out of 100 on the list. How many have you read? www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5

#auspol #Australia #MayDay #EatTheRich

Pleas have been entered in separate cases under Qld Premier David Crisafulli's speech criminalisation regime. Liam Parry entered not guilty. Jim Dowling told Magistrate Ross Mack the charge was insane. It was noted alongside a not guilty plea. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

“Sometimes people need to make the tough choices,” said the man too scared to properly tax gas companies chaser.com.au/national/alb...

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? ~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 🖋 📖 #greenwitch #books #learning #reading #stephenking #truth #facts #sciencefiction #peace

About 25 people charged so far under Queensland Premier David Crisafulli's speech criminalisation. 2 so far heard in Brisbane Magistrates court. There's an implied freedom of political communication in Australia which the High Court acknowledges. #qldpol humanrights.gov.au/resource-hub...

From the [Brisbane] River to the Sea ... 🍉

We've been through this before, Queensland. We'll get through it again, Queensland. #qldpol youtu.be/jOHUGW2EjC4

Australian PM, @albomp.bsky.social, refuses to add ALT text to his pics on this site. Blind and low vision Australians are Australians and should have equal access to the information provided by their PM. Accessibility is a right. #accessibility #AusPol

This happened to @4zzzradio.bsky.social in the 1980s. Community subscriptions and sector funding saved it. Admittedly 4ZZZ did spend some time broadcasting out of a caravan on Mt Cootha.

Important safety service for First Nations kids in custody defunded by racist government keen on locking up kids. #DontTrustTheLNP #AusPol #QldPol

One of many reasons to boycott Amazon and this kind of exploitation.

Activism is also community. #KnittingNannas #Environmwnt

Space never disappoints visually. But you can't live there. #Jupiter #NASA science.nasa.gov/image-detail...

Chat cheep-ity FTW

The High Court dismisses former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's bid to challenge the outcome of his failed defamation case. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant. His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack. @iranscreenshot

Explains a lot. #Inequality #Power #Corruprion #EnvironmentalDestruction #ClimateChamge #DelusionalBillionairres

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says

become ungovernable d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/44803208/ori...

A wonderfully weird creature you'll find deep in the endangered Chocó Rainforest of Ecuador. It's a moss-mimic walking stick insect (Trychopeplus laciniatus). #insect #camouflage #rainforest

Lebenserfahrung. (The act of gaining a different perspective that comes with living a life. Direct translation is life experience, but there is more nuance to it than simply that.)

All going swimmingly for the AI takeover. #AIsucks www.livescience.com/technology/a...