While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

France has added Musk’s Grok to an ongoing cybercrime investigation after it produced French-language posts echoing Holocaust denial about Auschwitz.

Aboriginal grindstones as old as 32,000 years old have been unearthed in central New South Wales, making Aboriginal people some of the world's oldest bread-makers. However, like many Aboriginal stories, this story has been ignored and displaced by Australia's colonial narrative.

"you can't solve every problem by giving poor people more money" "actually we did a study that shows you ca-" "AHAHAHAHAHA 😅 pop that in the bin. Anyway, as I was saying....."

Albanese loves to tell us about his poor, blue collar, working class upbringing. He has been in politics his whole life. He now lives in a multi million dollar cliff top home (some say mansion). Do you really think he is going to push back on the system that got him there for you? For us?

This is also part of why they want AI so bad, btw. To turn all current and former stars into immortal slaves, forcing them to say whatever propaganda they wish, all while never having to pay another human to do art ever again. This sort of shit is the stopgap.

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#WestPapua barely gets mentioned — shocking, right? Indonesia colonizes it, Australia cheers from the sidelines, and the Dutch suddenly develop selective mutism whenever their colonial skeletons start rattling. But sure, let’s all pretend it’s “complicated.” #Netherlands #AusPol

Western democracy is at a crossroad. 40 years of toxic neoliberalism gutted public utilities & govt service delivery, created unprecedented inequality & concentrated obscene wealth in hands of a few…corrupting the democratic process. Yet deeply institutionalised old white men still prevail #auspol

A follow on from a previous post on fossil fuels. We, the rich countries, do not give a shit about who suffers the most for our greed. As long as we avoid the catastrophe all is good.

On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.

‘That is, the Australian people are not allowed to know what is being done, with their money, in their name, because it’s acknowledged as being damaging.’ #auspol

Free to read. Our political leaders are still allowing the fossil fuel industry to destroy our planet. The hardest truth of all is that we are doing this to ourselves. But just keep shopping. #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22143/...

A scroll through PM Albo's tweets: • USA: shared values • South Africa: cooperation • EU: shared values • India: friend and partner • Ireland: shared values Is the "shared value" skin colour? 🤔 #auspol

Conducting a state funeral for Graham Richardson demonstrates @albomp.bsky.social puts loyalty to the party above ALL else. Let that sink in, Australia #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Trump rewarding the aggressor 🤦‍♂️. #auspol

WTF @jimchalmers.bsky.social - the gov currently subsidises fossil fuels to the tune of $15b while science gets cut? How are we going to be ‘future made in Australia’ with no investment in what makes us smart as a nation? You are fuelling a more stupid Oz, as shown in the inc in PHON votes #auspol

“A third of Australian families are food insecure. NDIS is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, we have committed up to $368 billion to buy nuclear submarines that will be built in the United States.” theaimn.net/asset-stripp...

On hosting the next COP; "Clearly, the PM's heart was not in it at all. He has not attended a single one of the four climate summits that have taken place during his prime ministership." LNP & Labor: a choice between climate-deniers or climate pretenders. Australians deserves better. #auspol

“The debt of gratitude Australians owe CSIRO for Aeroguard alone can never be repaid. Which is why it’s so alarming to watch its funding – and its people – bleed away,” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute. Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...

'Questioned on this at the Press Club, Manook disavowed any knowledge of these facts, rather than denying the reality of them – a subtle but definite shift on the coal lobby’s previous stance.' bit.ly/4ouzk93 #auspol

I feel like I'd have slightly more sympathy for the "no you always have two options and you always have to vote for the slightly better one" approach to doing politics if I didn't live in a country where that isn't true and people keep pretending it is anyway? I also don't like how it normalizes...

"We need to go moderate to bring the right over and get things done" >accomplish nothing but capitulation for an entire year >fascist president immediately swayed by one conversation with a socialist

I genuinely thing that US-Americans do not believe the rest of the world to be real. "Isn't it better if the administration is in the hands of people who are just as genocidal as conservatives but who believe in rainbow capitalism and DEI?" is not an opinion someone with a soul would espouse.

Anytime anyone says there are no lgbtq+ in x country. Remember there are just as many lgbtq+ people in those countries as everywhere else. The only difference is They are not allowed to be themselves openly. usually because that country is extremely repressive towards lgbtq+ people.

The Northern Territory has made widespread cuts to free legal representation, leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court. Read more: satpa.pe/fVgZ6se

The Flayed Man’s Tale~ another concept design for @realgdt.bsky.social incredible FRANKENSTEIN! Always a wonderful collaboration with Guillermo and the amazing Mike Hill, working over in-progress body sculpt pics & trying different head/ jaw designs (originally a screaming skull in early concept)!

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

I have felt for quite a while that at least a part of anti-migrant, anti-refugee behaviour from successive governments is pulling the drawbridge up ahead of an increase in climate-caused refugee movement. And you know what? It's not gonna save us, lads

genuine appeal to feminists who are haven't realised it yet: trans women are on your side. TERFS aren't

✦if you want someone crazy like me #jayvik #arcane

The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.

I guess the only way to protect cis women is… to make sure they get harassed as well as everyone else?? Real “only way to save the village was to destroy it” vibes. I already know two cis women who have been harassed in toilets for being tall (and way more trans women and men who get this daily).

So damn good.

Really excellent point that often gets lost in the (deserved) mockery. These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators. The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.

it's always tragic when people with moral OCD never realize that the feelings of Shame over having Transgressed are coming from inside the house; that's not the lord god or some psychic projection of cancel culture dog, that's just *you*. you are in fact hitting yourself!

Leading anti-trans writer Kathleen Stock (whom Rowling is “proud” to call her friend), now comes out with this gem on abortion. Who could have foreseen that TERFs would attack bodily autonomy? All of us did. All of us. Transphobia rots your brain.

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As a child of the 1970's, I grew up on beer and cigarette ads. Fortunately long gone. The ubiquitous gambling ads of today have taught children, teens & young adults that you can't enjoy any sport w/o a bet with your mates. And PM Albo does nothing. 😠 #auspol #GamblingAdBan #SocialMediaBan

Labor's big lie about rolling back FOI is that it prevents public servants providing good advice. Bernard Keane has the evidence that that's garbage.

all this talk of rich people and pedophilia has got me thinking about the fact the upcoming social media ban for kids in australia doesn't include 4chan again. 🤔

Helping ur best bro stretch.. 👀💦 #jayvik

PM @albomp.bsky.social sounds like a befuddled 80yo 2GB listener, not the PM of a progressive Labor Govt. The #SocialMediaBan is an insult to engaged teens who use social media to learn about history, politics, world events, science, music, art, film, sport. Yet still no #GamblingAdBan? 🤔 #auspol

They (Labor) don’t know and don’t truly GAF as long as ‘business’ is happy 😔 #auspol

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Today's #ferdiefriday is theatre-flavoured. #ferdinandkingsley