Super interesting bit of work by @accessnow.org www.accessnow.org/wp-content/u...

Reposting ahead of the ban coming into force next week. tldr; I think a lot of kids will go to Telegram where they'll be at much higher risk of being exposed to some really truly nasty content than they ever were on Instagram and SnapChat. #auspol

Seriously, laying this bet now.

All else aside, there is something incredibly weird about the implication that it's fine to try to kill people with no due process once, and it only becomes a war crime if you fail the first time and try again.

Great RFERL piece by @mikeeckel.bsky.social and Ernist Nurmatov on Ilan Shor, A7 and A7A5, including findings from our investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social www.rferl.org/a/russia-cry...

Answering questions about the impact of AI on jobs in creative fields with platitudes about how 'there will always be a desire for human creativity' is such a cop out. The question isn't would consumers prefer human created content, it's how much of a premium are they willing to pay for it.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.

Genuinely what is the purpose of this. Let's do a real AUKUS review, with transparency and input from the crossbench. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

‘Drone operators are hunted. You feel it from your first day’: the female pilots on Ukraine’s frontline www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I was going to crack a joke about this but I'm actually too genuinely disgusted. Government spending on consultancies is obscene and a crime against Australian taxpayers. Hire your own people, do it in-house, it'll be cheaper and you'll retain the capability. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”

"10% of our revenue will come from criminals paying us for access to our customers" is an astonishing thing to put in writing

This is gobsmacking.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I can’t decide what would be funnier, if Musk had an actual conversation with his employees about how their AI needed to extol his own personal physical hotness, or if they just did it on their own hoping the boss would like it.

In her latest investigation, @elisethomas.bsky.social found that A7, a Russian cross-border payments service run by convicted criminal fraudster and money launderer Ilan Shor, has helped the Kremlin work to avoid sanctions—and looked at what can be done about it.

Why would a bank hire a thief to run a payments company? This was the question which I kept returning to while investigating the massive Russian sanctions evasion network, A7. I think I worked it out. Here's me in @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-e...

How cooked are we when even the banks are like “we’re making too much money off house prices”

Cool cool seems legit tass.com/society/2044...

Can we ditch the metaphor that you should think of ChatGPT and similar LLMs as "like an intern." If your intern is habitually confidently lying to you, you should fire them, and if they're constantly hallucinating then you should help them find medical help. AI is not like an intern.

The Russian government has just created a partially state-owned company with A7 and Promsvyazbank. We @cen4infores.bsky.social have published two investigations into how A7, and its convicted criminal CEO, is evading sanctions and laundering money via cryptocurrency and shell companies. 1/

excuse me what

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

"So look the sand's black and it smells like death and sewage but don't worry, we've tested it and it's definitely fine. Except for the microbes. Don't touch the microbes." www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Giving the Nazis days of nation-wide headline media coverage every time they do a ten minute photo op is not a good way to get them to stop doing photo ops.

For the first four months of its existence ASIO was named Australia's Security Service. It was quickly changed and we were robbed of a great acronym.

NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including: -Rudy Giuliani -John Eastman -Mark Meadows -Sidney Powell -Ken Chesebro -Christina Bobb -Kelli Ward -Jenna Ellis www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

This was really interesting. I want to know what the company plans to do when law enforcement comes and asks for recordings from inside the homes of particular clients from them, because it WILL happen. What do they store, what will they share? @kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social

I feel like a lot of pundits are really missing the obvious by pontificating about how Trump’s vote reflected a huge swing to the right and Mandani’s to the left. It’s much simpler than that: they’re both ‘fuck the system’ votes. It’s not left-right, it’s status quo vs literally anything else.

Boxed beef…? Is this the goon of meat, what?

I find it quite refreshing how Google was like "we're not building an AI data centre in Christmas Island" and Reuters was just like "yeah but they're lying though" www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

The man who has caused this will now be a trillionaire. 600.000 deaths, two thirds of them children.

This summer, Russia banned online searches for "extremist" information. Federal agents have now demonstrated that they can act against overcurious Internet users within a matter of hours. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

"How we choose to act now will determine whether our shared basis for reality — what we see and hear — remains trustworthy." Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...

the first what now

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

It is very funny that A7A5 hired a famous fraudster to promote them and even he was like "no I have no cryptocurrency, that stuff is super dodgy" www.cryptopolitan.com/catch-me-if-...

This translates extremely well into the Australian context too

wild that you would be gifted a name like Theophrastus Bombastus and choose not to use it

Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over? Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. www.ft.com/content/4855...

Hugh White hitting the AUKUS nail on the head with a resounding thud www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Deputy head of Russian nuclear weapons developer owns stake in Czech factory The Insider and @investigacecz.bsky.social detail Alexander Petrov's role in the Czech firm Roboterm and its Russian partner Reltec, which supplies state defense companies.