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

and you might think sexual harassment at work is about desire, or maybe a lack of boundaries let me tell you it is about shrinking the pool of competitors if it's a boys' club you only have to be better than the other boys to look good

I need more people to grasp that release the Epstein files and burst the Ai bubble are the same thing.

I was fortunate enough to bear witness to the signing of Victoria’s Treaty. This is what I saw and felt. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/publish/post...

Finished it in tears — it's a meteor. As a collection, all of it matters, all of it counts towards where it ends, and no revelation feels unearned. I loved all of it. It is time to Rot.

During #TransAwarenessWeek2025 we are featuring the wonderful Campbell X on the podcast. Campbell is an amazing trans filmmaker whose recent work focus on anticolonial reckonings, #LandBack and trans bodies. The podcast is also conducted by 2 trans folks, Han and me. queer-as.org/a-podcast/ca...

The culture of disposability around criminalized people set us up for this moment, and to fight fascism, we are going to have to rage against that culture of disposal. Submitting to it (or hiding behind it) is an egregious form of surrender.

recalling the Lee herself as Environment Minister appealed the federal court decision finding she, as minister, has a duty of care to future generations. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

police love using their weapons against members of the public who are exercising democratic rights. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Right now!

I cannot really see how their 'data centre watch' project can be separate from the company, given how one of their advertised services is essentially creating reports on local oppo against data centres for the companies that are building them archive.ph/RBPxF

"10a labs", a 'security research' firm employed by the big AI companies has begun collecting information and attacking organised opposition to data centres, framing them as "NIMBYS" and wildly exaggerating claims. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...

An example of job market impact. A possible 3% saving in time? Not getting 3% of the budget is it? pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/29/g...

Relax - Gator Days

🧶👵 are horrified at Israeli government’s crimes against humanity and their genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza. We abhor the use of deliberate starvation as a weapon of war, now being added to continued bombings and killings of unarmed civilians over many months. Come 🚣‍♀️ 4 🇵🇸.

NSW courts cancel the extension of a large coal mine near Mudgee on the basis of the Court of Appeal overturning the 2022 approval of MACH Energy’s massive Mount Pleasant mine in the Hunter Valley in July. Congrats 🥳 Mudgee District Environment Group! #ClimateAction www.smh.com.au/environment/...

New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...