this derives directly from the legitimising “ethical ai use” discourse, the white centrism of ai, of weak and gutless FOMO driven managers, who fucking REFUSE to prioritise student learning and the actual planet ahead of a self-serving careerism that involves subsidising pervert billionaires.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

5 Nannas aboard a tinnie first to break through the police line at Newcastle Harbour. Ship about to enter the harbour turns back …. we turned the ship around! #RisingTide #ClimateAction

Or rather destroying them by restructuring the workforce, so that poorly paid workers are made to service corporate-owned machines to foster the illusion of their 'autonomy,' ensuring wealth flows upwards...the Jacquard loom strikes again

“Reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.” Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)] zenodo.org/records/1567...

Nannas standing with First Nations Tiwi and Timor Leste in their battle to protect Country (Land and Sea) to stop Gas expansion disaster. Building communities of hope at The People’s Blockade #RisingTide #KnittingNannas #SeoofNations

Welcome to all the foolish carryings on at the end of the year - here is a cartoon about [insert unpleasant spectacle here] www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tonight on Spin Cycle on @3rrrfm.bsky.social we talk to Ben Smee from @australia.theguardian.com about their 2-yr investigation into alleged failures by police and courts in QLD DV deaths. And tomorrow we join Walk Against Family Violence. With @rachelwithers.bsky.social @theshufflediary.bsky.social

So many ideas, so little time

for the first time in its racist murderous history, an officer of the NSW Police has been found guilty of causing death of an Aboriginal person ❤️‍🩹name and pic of Aboriginal person in article💔 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

exciting news. Queensland Police have released police activity data that reveals exactly nothing about how many abusers have pleaded guilty, been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt, nor what, if any, punishments have been handed down. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

the carceral system is Frontier Wars.

So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.

Ms Ashwin said individualised care would be an important part of the new facility. "[We need to] acknowledge what happened to Aboriginal people in the past because it still affects people today and the ongoing generations," she said. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

These charges will all almost certainly be dropped. They are inconsistent with the Implied Freedom of Political Communication and just plainly don't satisfy the offence elements. Police laying and prosecuting such spurious charges makes it even worse. That's designed to be political by the police.

NSW police say DFV is 40% of calls. NSW Police cost $5 billion per year. NSW Police are the worst responders - survivors attest police are a last or non resort, saying the reasons are fear and mistrust of police, who regularly criminalise and endanger victims. Spend $2 billion on what works.

He hasn't "stepped down", it's a strike

"quietly" means the press gallery missed this, yet again, for over a month

on this logic all the alleged rapists could be sacked without notice. So as to you know cut off their income based on “serious” allegations. Oddly nobody is proposing that employed rapists be punished without a guilty plea or guilty verdict. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

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New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today Read more: archive.is/UHu9J

Hospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

the Minns government would sooner silence truth telling Blackfullas than <actual nazis> at the NSW Parliament. www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...

same as with the ingenia paper: even if you could make a behaviourally human-like model y— which you can't —, it would tell you nothing about humans that you didn't know already

> models give unsafe responses because that is not what they are designed to avoid. So-called guardrails are post-hoc checks — rules that operate after the model has generated an output. If a response isn't caught by these rules, it will slip through www.forbes.com/sites/weskil... 2/n

Just Saying 33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!! is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin” we are mining our way to extinction FFS how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray. #Auspol

“in my experience it is always people who don’t understand Ai who are enchanted by it” said Adio Dinika, who studies the human labour required to produce “Ai” slop at the Distributed Ai Research Unit. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Prepping for class tomorrow, here are some choice materials: "That's what you always say, we're supposed to go around being goody goodies, and they still kick us in the balls" (Babakiueria (1986): 23:35) #FuckThat - I look better in Blak. #Indigenous #Australia www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtz...

What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations. Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...

I have never noticed that demography is graphing the demos before listening to mighty @drdemography.com busting democratic-demographic myths on #SundayShot today. Mind blown!

There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.

these legal principles could and should protect the nurses who are charged for words about an imaginary Israeli patient that were made public in a similar (at least allegorically) way to Brown being paraded around by NSW Police and amplified by pro-Israel media outlets.

Barnaby Joyce’s enormous hat looks ridiculous and only confirms the rural adage, ″⁣the wider the brim, the smaller the property″⁣. Donald Hirst, Armadale The Age, letters

This week’s #SundayShot has @drdemography.com and @eddyjokovich.bsky.social plus an interview with @seankelly.bsky.social on the Quarterly Essay that’s got everyone talking. What’s not to love? Join us! And subscribe to us! youtube.com/@thesundayshot

the man who lost his shit on the public broadcaster at Victoria Police investigating catholic church rapists and “resigned” two days later.

A state legislature -- hypothetically, let's say, oh, Virginia -- passes one of the fuckshit social media age verification and parental consent laws that are proliferating like kudzu. But just requiring age verification and parental consent isn't enough Thinking Of The Children (tm) for them!

Another problem with this column/newsletter is the shallow and arguably disingenuous discussion of using AI chatbots for mental health. Even a passing familiarity with psychology should have anyone wondering about this claim:

trad media are still churning out copy like “hmmmmm can Elon Musk build an ai to rival Wikipedia? Only time will tell.” bsky.app/profile/park...

stealing and enshittifying human knowledge, attacking social connection, giving money to purveyors of slop for testing their black box bullshit machines, trashing the planet. www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

NSW Premier says he does not apologise for [yet more] hate speech laws - the first three versions did not, on any measure, reduce racism in NSW - after NSW Police chose not to criminalise any of the nazis chanting nazi slogans at NSW Parliament on 8 Nov 2025. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account

right to disconnect laws work for those who have the right. thepoint.com.au/news/251119-...

There is no downside

on top of causing mental health conditions up to and including suicide, add wasting police time to the apparently endless enshittification capacity and productivity wreckage built into OpenAi products. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Surprising absolutely no-one.

The reality is the fascist needed these kind of databases to be able to do what they are planning to do next which is raids against anyone they see as an enemy to their end goal of absolute power.

NEW: I have obtained, under FOI, a secret Department report that initially recommended the Targeted Compliance Framework - aka, the unlawful "mutual obligations" scheme It reveals that, like Robodebt, they recklessly built this thing to punish "entitled" frauds who never existed

This report is a masterclass of maladministration, contempt for the law, ideological malice - and plain stupidity The Department unshakably believes there are frauds in their system, but can't provide any actual evidence because they [checks notes] don't interact enough with people in the system

more ghastly abuse and exploitation of disabled people by those who are paid for care and support www.smh.com.au/national/vic... archive: archive.md/eFySP