Make your bed. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Today's favourite headline

Lunch break throw back

Some thoughts from @cazuarina.bsky.social and I about some of the key elements and drivers involved in the complex issue of information integrity, with a particular focus on climate change and energy in Australia. Timely with the Select Committee into this issue having new public hearings this week.

Must read

In other news, I am officially ‘under examination’

ICYMI Further analysis on the Senate Committee hearings this week

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Love me a good infographic

Michael Mann shared this on LinkedIn, with a comment that included the word 'Woah'. unreplug.com/blog/dear-mi...

Yesterday's Senate Select Committee certainly had its moments. If you don't feel like experiencing the full nine hours, give the final 40 minutes a go. youtu.be/VwuqxfyCYj0?...

Senator Malcolm Roberts is not Atlas Network himself but he is part of the decades-long climate disinformation project. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Dear Uma everyone dealing with Malcolm Roberts at the latest Senate Select Committee hearings deserves a medal for patience... not least @doctorkarl.bsky.social

A must watch.

I could not make it to march yesterday in support of protestors in Iran, so I listened to this podcast again. And I really recommend it.

Bezos undermining the Washington Post feels big because it has been swift and dramatic. But let's not forget that in the US, UK and Australia, using more of a boiling frog strategy over decades, the Murdochs have done far more damage to the 'news' industry. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal This timeline sucks

Now is the time of monsters

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I can only view a few of these at a time

I had a chat with @pardisyarahmadi.bsky.social about the situation in Iran, and the horrors hidden behind and by the digital blackout. If you'd like to know more about the context and how you can help, have a listen.

I’d like to think Prince would be proud.

Not a date to celebrate

Relatedly

Top marks to Gareth Hutchens and the ABC for publishing this.

Woah, comprehensive. Make yourself a cuppa and settle in. #atlasnetwork #thinktanks

Is there an option to listen to Triple J’s hottest100 without the commentary?

Compelling

Interesting approach.

Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time "All 98 editorials opposing climate action were in right-leaning titles, incl the Sun, Mail, Telegraph, Times & Express" By Josh Gabbatiss & Sylvia Hayes www.carbonbrief.org/...

Sharing here on a friend and colleague's request. That is, getting information out.

New paper out with @snurb.info and Simon Copland, where we analyse Sky News Australia through the lens of network propaganda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NASA: we are about to cross the threshold above which the worst cascading impacts of catastrophic climate change will occur

@punterspolitics.bsky.social has a look at the IPA

Meanwhile

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

And in other news... this timeline sucks.

No surprise, but dear Uma, how depressing.

Hello 2026. Thanks for the rad cloudscape.

@birmo.bsky.social comes close to addressing how this 1000-year-long week has felt. aliensideboob.substack.com/p/what-would...?

This is a useful 🧵

Ahmed al Ahmed.

Oh hi! Just me, my buddies, & our CIESJ Faculty awards for sustainability (digital climate communication & sustainability policy) with @carlylubicz.bsky.social & @riedlinm.bsky.social. Cheers to the @qutdmrc.bsky.social team who worked on this report; particular thanks to @antmandan.bsky.social 🥹🙏

Drop in and say hi! I'll be onsite on Saturday 6 December #Meanjin #Magandjin #Brisbane

File under: unsurprised. For those who still, whatever the reason, must/choose to face the hellsite, you can play the location game yourself: click the three dots next to the follow button, then 'About this account' will show you what country it derives from.

Glorious writing. (Ghastly AI-slop illustrating.)

"A little party never killed nobody?" Clearly Trump never made it to the end of "The Great Gatsby"