the laughable idea that giving NSW Police more powers can solve social problems. archive.md/2025.10.10-0...

“the benefits <for society are going to be> gigantic” said a member of the billionaire class who are the only people to benefit from extracting money and stealing data to further enshittify and impoverish everything and everyone while trashing the planet. futurism.com/artificial-i...

They are not redeemable, they are not your friends, and if you would call the American police for any reason other than, "I literally have to because of a car accident or because there is a dead body here and I don't want to get in trouble," then we cannot be friends. That includes wellness checks.

Ive sat in on DV response training courses 4 cops & they spent the whole time shooting spitballs at the ceiling, making jokes about abusing their own spouses, arguing w the presenter in a "less a question more a comment" way, & the women bragging they were even harder on hysterical victims than men

First casting convo with the company doing the ABC series about Robodebt. It’s weird to chat about how a casting call for someone to play yourself will be shaped

like fucking clockwork.

Next month, the world's lesser bureaucrats will again make their annual pilgrimage to fancy hotels in an exotic place, to share platitudes and make vapid promises ... this time in Belém, Brazil, on the Baia de Marajó, actually an abandoned mouth of the Amazon. www.google.com/maps/place/B...

I now allocate a tutorial to critical ai literacy, in the weeks before a major essay is due. Most students know the slop is slop, and quickly learn it is planet-boiling slop. If unis can not educate students about ai what the fuck is the point is my view. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Thirty years of concentrated international effort and cooperation has now had this much effect on "the great moral, economic and social challenge of our time" (Rudd, 2007):

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Not one government has told Israel to stop kidnapping their citizens in international waters and let them bring baby formula to starving babies. What a shameful time to be alive

“potential” lol the purpose is data extraction to be used for corrupting collective human knowledge, and memory.

Rupert Murdoch has met every Australian Prime Minister since Billy Hughes

*glances over at my son who is currently using social media to chat with biologists on Bluesky and iNaturalist* tortured, eh? I think News Corp Australia is terrified of what social media has done to its users profit margin and all it can do is pathetically invoke moral panic. The kids don’t care

I think @drspacejunk.bsky.social will enjoy this one.

hearing the Opera House forecourt has a limit of 6,000 people and can say as someone who was at Farewell to the World in ‘96 and Gravity Stairs in 2024 lmao what the fuck are they talking about🤡

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

HR representatives say the AI is a ‘natural fit’ for the Partner role. “It ticks all the boxes,” a People & Culture spokesperson said. “It lacks personality, it bills relentlessly, and it even refers to staff as ‘resources’ without hesitation. It’s basically born for leadership.”

To the surprise of no-one, the National Press Club wasn't expecting anyone to actually investigate.

If you only knew how much of tech's energy is devoted to building better tools for abusers

let’s not memory hole the time a zionist group doctored and circulated a video to make false claims about activists at the opera house on 9 October 2023 and the two women who exposed the hoax have been removed from their positions at the ABC and NSW Police, one of them unlawfully.

incredibly powerful speech wow what a legend. My parents are super healthy for their age and this feels like the most salient words I have read in a long time. Thank you Dr Louis Peachey❤️

Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

How many more deaths in custody will it take for this government to act? Silence and inaction kills. No more delays, no more deaths.

When incarceration and deaths in custody happen disproportionately to our people, how can that ever be seen as anything other than suspicious? Make no mistake: deaths in custody are part of the ongoing genocide waged against our people.

Passing away at the age of 30? 25 deaths in custody, this year alone? At least 610 deaths in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission? And not a single police or prison officer ever held accountable? That sounds suspicious too.

The WA Department of Justice claims "there were no suspicious circumstances" involved in his death. But dying in custody? That sounds suspicious to me.

Over the weekend, another young man's life was stolen by the system. At just 30 years old, he died alone inside the walls of Hakea prison. To his family, I send my love, solidarity, and strength. We must demand justice for his life taken too soon by this violent system.

“School is no longer an environment where the active, positive presence of students is encouraged, or where the knowledge gained and labour performed within are valued.” Mark Yin on the context behind the carceral responses to AI cheating.

"Most of my neighbors, friends, and family [..] have fallen victim to the ongoing genocide." "I am [my neighborhood's only living] writer, and my mission is [..] to honor the people we lost." "In their honor, I wrote the book, North Gaza Massacres: Jabalia Camp." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

the illness y’all are looking for a diagnosis of is literally nationalist capitalist patriarchal white supremacy. that is an illness that came with settler colonialism along with small pox and tb. in Indigenous beliefs it is soul death. not a mental disorder.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

according to this poll, the political class - major party politicians, corporate media outlets, institutions like Creative Australia and the ABC when they yield to orchestrated pro-Israel campaigns - represent about 20% of the general population on Gaza.

“nothing to indicate a terror incident” lets take a wild guess - he is white with an uncriminalised history of violence against one or more women. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Amazed at the number of guys who are willing to give interviews about how since they didn’t find love with women they found love with the computer that’s poisoning people in black neighborhoods

Department of Defence emails show that a website dedicated to Australia's role in the global F-35 supply chain used by Israel to maintain its jet fighters was removed at the start of the war in Gaza.

Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm

This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

this has been bugging me all week and I lacked the knowledge and education to articulate it respectfully. Thank you so much for putting this thread into the world.

While Goodall received her PhD in the 1960s, it was not until the 2000s that Ugandan Emily Otali became the first African woman to complete a PhD on chimpanzee behavior. The networks that facilitated European and North Americans researchers impeded the same opportunities for Africans (9/10)

Leakey told Japanese primatologist Junichiro Itani that he could take over Gombe research in 1961, but when Goodall decided to stay on, Leakey denied them access, and the Japanese researchers spent several years exploring nearby sites before establishing long-term research at Mahale Mountains (7/10)

When Goodall began her research in 1960, she was not alone in the forest, but accompanied by game scouts in her fieldwork—Adolf, Saulo, David, and Marcel—and back at camp she and her mother had the company of a local cook and his family. She would have relied heavily on their local knowledge (6/10)

Goodall was the first to scientifically document chimpanzee using tools, but anecdotal reports date back to the 1600s. Leakey sought funding for her research from a tool company, and it's likely he was aware from local anecdotes that the "discovery" of chimpanzee tool use was a possibility (5/10)

Goodall’s research was facilitated by British colonial networks. When she began working as Leakey’s secretary, two women Leakey sponsored, Jill Donisthorpe and Rosalie Osborn, were studying gorillas from 1958-1960. Goodall’s fieldwork built on the insights they had learned. (4/10)

What the narrative leaves out is the contributions of the local Tanzanians who assisted and facilitated Goodall's early research, as well as preceding and concurrent research. Nat Geo created a story about a lone white woman alone with chimpanzees, erasing the Africans that were beside her (3/10)

Trump is not clever, he is powerful. The world is not responding to what Trump says about Gaza but to who is saying it. Sarcasm is no substitute for analysis of imperial white patriarchy.

Sunday Shot starts at 10am today, with me and Jo, @marquelawyers.com.au, Julianna Schultz, and an interview with Grace Tame www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbl6...

Hard rubbish but for phrases

Such refreshing honesty and the most direct acknowledgement I've seen of its type on the trip. The hut and surrounding park also details Karinbal connections to the region, including dreaming of key sites like Lake Nuga Nuga and a protected scar tree in the park with good signage.