The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.

I spent 8 months waiting for an FOI from the NDIA on how they're using AI. This is what I found. Machine learning is used in developing draft plans for participants. Robodebt concerns loom large over the Copilot trial, but staff reported favourably on it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Some astonishing details in here. It’s like reading a recipe for pure corruption.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Corruption watchdog being watched by its watchdog again. Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks. The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️

We need to talk about Sudan. After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale. There is so much blood it can be seen from space.

'"No child is safe," said UNICEF chief Catherine Russell. "While the full scale of the impact remains unclear... estimated 130,000 children in El Fasher are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing & maiming, and sexual violence."' allafrica.com/stories/2025...

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these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way. No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

BTW this National Press Club story hasn't been reported in any major news outlet yet. Indies like Lamestream, We Used to Be Journos, Pearls and Irritations etc all over it.

More detail here on the NPC cancellation of a journalist who was booked to speak about Gaza. Incredible how badly our cultural institutions have failed us.

Hard to figure out sometimes whether submissions were made using AI, but then sometimes they make it fairly easy.

I started a project earlier this year looking at generative AI as a national security risk. Now that Sora is being publicly tested, more media outlets will have to cover and debunk AI slop and disinformation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A very interesting article on the language of birds with links to published articles. Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats theconversation.com/birds-all-ov...

Federal governments have known about the gross mismanagement and corruption in their offshore detention operations for years. Neither the NACC nor the AFP nor Home Affairs nor DFAT - who all know about it - have shown any desire to stop it. Serves their political purposes.

Labor during the election: “we’ll fully fund public schools” Labor after the election: “actually we meant private schools soz”

AI continues to innovate, finding new ways for businesses not to make money

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

In the same way Lego doesn't supply racing cars, castles and spaceships in their boxes .....

Chris Sidoti, former Human Rights Commissioner, at the National Press Club: “The Genocide Convention not only requires that we not commit genocide - it also requires that we act to prevent genocide.” #npc

It’s not just that the CDP was in and of itself unlawful. In a 3 month period the scheme issued 55k penalty notices “to 35,000 people, the vast majority of whom are Aboriginal” www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03...

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

i made a helpful reference

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

in related news i'm excited to announce that i'm selling sam altman's house unless he asks me not to

I love that the guy that threw his shoes at bush is into this

The world needs peasants. Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised.

gotta be insanely humiliating to be told "we don't trust you the way we trust the Ketamine Kid, who recently tweeted that Trump is on the Epstein list"

"Let’s put a stop to the same old partisan sniping and divisiveness about healthcare, defense, and who’s striking whom with a bulging sock full of US currency."

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views. In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster www.smh.com.au/national/why...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Reading AI slop has made my job orders of magnitude more difficult thanks I hate it so much: "Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers." hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Rather than ineffective and anti-privacy measures which will still leave vulnerable people exposed to harm, we need to adopt methods of ensuring child safety online that start with dismantling predatory social media algorithms.

The total cost of this catastrophic failure of ABC management – of surrendering the ABC's principles to pro-Israel lobbying – is over $2m in fines, legal fees etc. Hopefully boards and execs of cultural, health, educational institutions around the country take note. Silencing free speech can be $$

Few scandals better illustrate the cost of government secrecy than robodebt. But the newly proposed FOI bill will make it harder for the public to scrutinise the government and easier for secrecy to prevail www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907156...

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

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This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Move info on this website: olivia.science/ai by @olivia.science QR code goes here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

Age-verification is an invasion of privacy. The technologies behind it are gender- and racially-biased and least effective where it most matters - for those ages close to 16. It needs to be abandoned for methods which respect privacy and effectively protect children online. www.theguardian.com/...

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

Morning everyone.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok