I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.

"On Sunday, the police found a single knuckle duster through the warrantless searches. They did not clarify how many searches they did to find it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ag business folds because of repeated extreme weather events yet no one mentions climate change in this article… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

One might ask pointed questions why Australian newspaper editors so consistently make the same category error about Pauline Hanson. They pretend to believe she has authentic political commitments when instead she's simply a skilled grifter extracting cash from the biggest rubes in the country

Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Loving that AI productivity boost! "the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs." www.afr.com/companies/pr...

apparently the Telegraph has written about the state of modern D&D and I have to say it is sad to see one of the bastions of modern fantasy being ideologically captured by lunatics and forced to pump out a steady diet of divisive wank. D&D on the other hand seems largely fine though

You glorious, brave lot, sticking your oar in to remind the billionaire bastard companies that Australians want the government to stop fannying about, start taxing giant fossil fuel companies and make the country run on renewables as much as possible.

Let them cook cake

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

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.

if everyone was treated by courts as leniently as violent white males are treated by courts, a lot of violent white males paid public money to brutalise incarcerated people with impunity would be out of a job. bsky.app/profile/pete...

To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine. We executed multiple members of that crew.

The superb parrot breeding season has just wrapped but the field season still hasn’t finished - gang gangs are up next! The team is getting pretty tired🫠

The thing is, you can find horses just about any place. Wild horses, even. You can find snow gums, corroboree frogs and pygmy possums pretty much only in one place. So, to me, it makes sense to do our best to protect these unique species and landscapes, even if that comes at a cost.

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...

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

For those unfamiliar, this involves: - Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew - Burning them for energy - Capturing the carbon that results from burning - Transporting the carbon - Injecting it underground - Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least

The Australian government claims it will meet its 2030 emissions target almost entirely due to an assumption that it will meet its renewable energy target. This is an input to the projection, not an output. It's honestly very hard to see how this will happen.

The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

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.

Israeli group B’Tselem notes that, since a supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has: * killed 345 Palestinians, * denied food to 70% of the population who need it, * demolished a further 1,500 buildings. All of this is in blatant violation of the agreement.

Joyce confirms what everyone knows, and becomes officially defective.

"Americans": inaccurate, chauvinist ❌ "USians": clunky, twee ❌ "Seppos": literally perfect, no drawbacks ✔️

Have we reached peak dysfunction?! The NACC handed $1.1M to MA Services - the firm running a Nauru security operation linked with the Finks bikie gang. They're also guarding the ACIC who are literally tasked with taking down bikie gangs🤯

Re. last post: I guess there's the answer. He was just desperate not to have the legislayfail again. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Had Ablo finally accepted that he doesn't need the Coalition's permission to legislate? Or did just really need to have his EPBC laws passed this time around?

Isn't it great that because our gas market is open to the world, our electricity prices have gone up because Russia invaded Ukraine and sent gas prices soaring?? www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

It's the last day of parliament and I am all out of fucks to give: Party that refused to properly negotiate on laws now bitching about laws they refused to negotiate properly on live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

"PM actively involved in talks with Greens to broker EPBC deal" Oh, well that's the kiss of death, then. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

why don’t women trust police? Well here they are breaking into a home to pepper spray a woman and tie her to a stretcher and tasering her dog in what NSW Police refer to as “welfare check”. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

I remember thinking at the start of Labor's second term that they had all this political capital, why weren't they using it? Turns out they're happy to burn down their capital to ash for the most abhorrent shit imaginable

"The research also found Peter Dutton was the least popular major party leader the AES had ever polled, dating back to the study's beginning four decades ago in 1987." Least popular *so far*. I feel like the legacy parties still have fresh depths to explore. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

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.

One of the most authoritarian governments of the modern age. Which is saying something. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Steve is in the garden. In a tree. Hiding from the postman. I really have no idea why he needs to hide from a postman, but I don't ask questions.

Incredible. They just want people dead, more expensive insurance and no, this won't make cars cheaper in the long run because if the company wants to sell the cars outside of the US, they have do the development work anyway.

Apparently I'm in Hell. Bad enough that my team want to do a themed, team Christmas card, they're now talking about using AI to generate the final result.

As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"

Escalating disappointments until Gough’s angry ghost hurls a thunderbolt and incinerates the lot of them.

"What sort of monster makes casinos pay tax and bans them from money laundering?" chaser.com.au/business/bil...

"Victoria police expand warrantless search powers over large parts of Melbourne with no reason given" This doesn't seem like something a police force should just be able to declare... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia Institute research shows that Australia is expanding gas and coal, with 94 new fossil fuel projects in the pipeline. We need stronger environmental laws that stop new coal and gas projects. Sign our petition to fix our environmental flaws: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/strong_envir...

as Kristin and Mayi point out, the threshold for cutting off income is not the weight of evidence but “seriousness” of the allegation. Meanwhile, state governments increase penalties to move more and more charges into the “serious” (usually 5 or more years max imprisonment) category.