Yes, women think the Coalition are sexist, and migrant communities think the party is racist, but that's burying the lede: four in five young people loathe it.

Yep. Humanities are so cheap to teach. In Australia, we've been subsidising STEM ed for decades. That doesn't stop management from chiding our units CONSTANTLY because, eg, we didn't quite make the 60% return they insist on...

China is the biggest customer of oil that flows through the strait of hormuz (Saudi Arabia is the biggest supplier) www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

ONE THIRD of Australian Greens voters are 'open' to voting for the viciously racist party.....the word "racist" shows up once in this Guardian podcast ep covering the polling (I checked the transcript to be sure). Not discussing racism in white left spaces in Aus is a pretty huge mistake.

How is there always a tweet

Gee, ya think.

Albanese would 100% have backed the Iraq War if he was PM. Would have supported it harder than Howard. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"I'm on X for real time news"

LOL. Conversely, I also found Hegseth calling MIT "woke" hilarious as someone who went there for undergrad and postdoc and saw my academic advisor and my hiring committee chair in the Epstein e-mails. 🫠

“The enemy” is literally anybody who doesn’t kowtow to the Trump regime, and the “ideology” they are against is just learning anything, because they don’t like educated and informed people, they want to just control everything people hear and believe, and learning stuff undermines all their scams.

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN THAILAND Thailand is living one of the most extreme months in history with records smashed all 28 days of the month. Today Bangkok had a minimum of 28.3C HOTTEST FEBRUARY NIGHT IN HISTORY

Advocates fear My Aged Care funding algorithm could become Australia's next robodebt www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Did you know: The USA Department of Defence has NOT been renamed the Department of War. The President has merely authorised “War” variants as alt names. He can’t rename it. Which means… Pete Hegseth *IDENTIFIES* as the Secretary of War, but that’s not his real name. 😂

Gareth Hutchens' article gives some background on advisory council members & donors to racist hate-mongers Advance Australia but here's more info on Advance's millionaire & billionaire funders

Racists freely doing racism at racist Australian conference in Sydney "speakers at the Advance conference issued warnings about communist plots, "cultural replacement", and "civilisational identity" "Abbott delivered a speech with the title 'Mass migration across the Anglosphere must cease'"

😯😞

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

surely we can teach the children how to ethically use this product designed for unethical use by unethical people

Is this bad

An Australian tech firm sold $17m in language data to the US military. Its million gig workers weren’t told they might be working for a defence force that was killing civilians in their own country. buff.ly/CBiPq66

1982...

"Unfortunate but inevitable" 😜 More on the completely unworkable grant time-frames ARC recently introduced (up to 16 months!) & the 'oh well, maybe it'll improve?' responses provided by ARC reps in Senate Estimates. By @jsresearchpro.bsky.social for @resprofnews.bsky.social. No paywall.

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The treatment of the hunger strikers by the British state is truly barbarous they've been convicted of no crime, are being held w/o trial, & have been on remand for over twice the remand custody limit they've been subject to degrading & humiliating treatment, & are now in a critical state

Zuhrah is in a critical condition, now on day 50 of her hunger strike she could die aged only 20. In 1981, Irish republican Martin Hurson died on day 46. The government has refused to engage & reverse the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

"A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult."

Which is, I should say, really freaking cool in my opinion, but it does drastically narrow a LLMs' utility, a limitation which is being ignored by the flimflam salespeople who have fooled so many others into integrating it into all aspects of academia and commerce.

Gen AI does not process concepts. It tokenizes words and then performs matrix math on those tokens. The tokens have no semantic value or context (beyond the matrix math), only syntactic.

Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0

Yup 😢

This really sucks, and we are underestimating the massive demand for AI-free *anything* out there. It's a massive cultural, political and business opportunity, though one that'll require effort and the skills of old-school journalism, verification and fact-checking

Yup..

Powerful words and petition from the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social. Please read and consider signing. #auspol #nswpol #antisemitism #racism #GunViolence #diversity #community jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

And I am really over lazy or complicit journalist writing shit like "The Jewish Australian community feels..." When they are almost always quoting the self-appointed bodies and individuals who are 'representing' the views of Australian Jews far less than the talking points of Benjamin Netanyahu.

WTAF US now killing its own kids

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Since there seems to be files getting deleted from the Epstein release, I've made all four dataset zip files available for download. These are the files as they were originally released. (Downloaded within minutes of them being made public) ~3GB in size drive.proton.me/urls/P0XVG30...

There is, "incompetence," level stupid, and then there is, "Oh my god, you must work for the Trump Administration," level stupid.

On this day (Dec 21) in 1990, the United Naions General Assembly said yes to a "International Negotiating Committee" to bash out the text of a global climate treaty... allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/20/d...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

i quit my last job to avoid working on underwhelming AI features that no one wants. That's an option.

Some has been worse than others, but the essential through-line among all of them is just shrugging off the fact that THERE IS NOTHING TO INDICATE PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTS LED TO THE ATTACKS as if that question is so tiny and irrelevant it can be fully ignored archive.ph/7t5VL

December 20, 1969 - newspaper article headlined "Scientists Caution on Changes In Climate as Result of Pollution” The first in Google News’s archives to unambiguously use the phrase “global warming” to describe the phenomena. allouryesterdays.info/2024/12/19/d...

Public buildings will be increasingly important as cool, safe gathering places during heatwaves and other extreme weather events, which people (mostly the global rich) are making more frequent and severe through climate change, largely by burning fossil fuels. h/t @chrisbaraniuk.com

No, 2025 is the year that the future of energy became assured by the fastest transition in human history was locked in bsky.app/profile/prof... Businesses committing to not pursuing net zero will lose advantage and money Fossil fuels end when we decide they do Next 5 years will look like this

And it's not just the disease deaths of babies that RFK Jnr & his idiot minions will cause. It's miscarriages, stillbirths, sterilisation, child brain injury & suffering to survivors. Millions used to die, we fixed it, & toxic male ego is going to make millions die again. Vax up, it's coming.

"we articulate how catalysing influence amongst wealthy people, associating low-carbon lifestyles with wellbeing, and promoting the adoption of low-carbon technologies can support emissions equity for net-zero."

Mainstream media launders power. It's been decades since it's held it to account.