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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 9h

Anyway, the most interesting thing (wch I want to follow up) is an ID provider based in Wigan spoke to the fact that ID exclusion in the UK maps to Reform voting intention - and that suspicion and misinformation was high. He called it "the next Brexit".

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion

Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

www.theguardian.com

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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 8h

Grab lots of popcorn: What’s just happened in Ofcom-vs-4Chan will be fun to watch…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/117326
#4chan #AgeAppropriateDesignCode #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #ofcom #surveillance #vpns

Grab lots of popcorn: What’s just happened in Ofcom-vs-4Chan will be fun to watch…

Various UK pro-censorship interests of the past 10+ years have painted the Web as a “Wild West” that must be tamed for civility’s sake… and arguably “4Chan” is and alw…

alecmuffett.com

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 9h

Winding back odometers is such an 80s crime. Almost nostalgic. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Used car salesman fined $25,000 for winding back car odometers

Alexander Thomas Hallett pleaded guilty to winding back a total of 648,000 kilometres on the odometers of seven vehicles.

www.abc.net.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe this is a business opportunity

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 7h

I said something to that effect and they looked at me as if I’d pissed on their grandmother

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 8h

So not only do NDIS participants have to navigate the NDIS bureaucracy - they also have to navigate the competence of third party contractors accountable to no one.

Oh and managing THEIR DISABILITIES.

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 9h

For all the students at the social work uni intensive who told me they now use AI at work to write up case reports:

NDIS participant’s bid for more support failed in part because two physiotherapists used AI to write letters used to back her claim to top up her package

www.afr.com/politics/bid...

Bid to boost $200k NDIS package rejected after AI use found

The National Disability Insurance Agency warned about cut-and-paste medical reports. Throw artificial intelligence in and the results are even worse.

www.afr.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8h

www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

The Agency says the Tribunal cannot be positively satisfied that, based on the evidence before it, the disputed supports are reasonable and necessary within the meaning of s 34(1).[67] The Agency also takes issue with the evidence of several witnesses, for example the conflation of impairments of other health conditions with the s 24 disabilities, the repeat of recommended supports as provided to them by the Applicant without critical analysis, and the use of artificial intelligence to produce reports without adequate quality control. The contentions of the Agency in respect of the specific disputed supports are considered below.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 9h

For all the students at the social work uni intensive who told me they now use AI at work to write up case reports:

NDIS participant’s bid for more support failed in part because two physiotherapists used AI to write letters used to back her claim to top up her package

www.afr.com/politics/bid...

Bid to boost $200k NDIS package rejected after AI use found

The National Disability Insurance Agency warned about cut-and-paste medical reports. Throw artificial intelligence in and the results are even worse.

www.afr.com

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

World's media today will be full of emotive stories about the release of ~20 Israeli hostages held by HAMAS for 2 years. There will be no similar stories about the ~2000 Palestinian hostages to be released by Israel, many imprisoned for much longer.

Racist, much? That's x100 racist.

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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 9h

A few years ago Qantas completely screwed me. I bought fuckqantas.com and redirected it to social media search results of people expressing their frustration. I feel like now is a good time to do something more with it. What do you suggest?

Bluesky

fuckqantas.com

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publicintegrity.bsky.social @publicintegrity.bsky.social · 10h

Centre for Public Integrity research director Gabrielle Appleby said parliament needed to lead on government oversight rather than purely leaving it to integrity bodies.

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#auspol

thewest.com.au/politics/law...

Senators urged to flex muscles to stop Labor inaction

A Greens senator has offered an olive branch to form an unlikely alliance to hold Labor to account as it fails to comply with document production orders.

thewest.com.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 10h

Ohmigods I was terrified by this too as a child

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 11h

What I don't get is why people living in poverty and struggling to survive don't simply dip into the $3 million in super they have squirreled away for tax minimisation purposes

'Eating mostly brown food': The 'devastating' juggle faced by a rising number of Australians

With one in seven Australians living below the poverty line, researchers and advocates say that COVID-era universal income is the solution.

www.sbs.com.au

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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 11h

Little shout out to my PhD student Joseph Alhassan, who is doing important research on climate impacts on farmers in Northern Ghana!

Social & Political Sciences, UTS @uts-sps.bsky.social · 11h

SPS PhD student Joseph Alhassan is currently in Northern Ghana, researching the impact of increasing heat on smallholder farmers, focussing on conditions of work and adaptation.

Joseph is part of the Too Hot to Work project, in the Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC).

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck em

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 11h

I wrote this back in June www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 1d

Punishing job applicants for something fully outside their control, like the decision of a company to hire them or not out of thousands of qualified applicants, is exactly the same as punishing someone for eg: how many people walked past their house today. It makes you a fucking inhumane monster.

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 5d

Labor's employment minister rep admits that payment suspensions "cause harm", but they're "an important part" of the (unlawful) mutual obligations system, because

"At the end of the day we want ppl to get off payments and find a job"

gross 'best form of welfare is a job' stuff from the ALP here

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

"If someone has a payment suspension & they want to challenge it & they believe it's either unfair or unlawful, do you hold all the information that you need in the system?"

DEWR: "In some cases the notes aren't detailed enough for us to make a full assessment"

extraordinary misadministration

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 13h

Funny seeing this in a document released under FOI.

It is very likely that eSafety's internal assessment and related correspondence will be
subject to FOI requests. We have sought to provide considered and consistent assessment
capable of withstanding public scrutiny.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 17h

"Centre for Public Integrity's Geoffrey Watson ... called for the exceptional circumstance test to be flipped and all hearings held publicly unless there was a good enough reason for it to be kept private."

Yup.

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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty much same at ABC, but at least some recognition of Palestinians- Israel has scandalous numbers of Palestinians prisoner, treated exceptionally poorly

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12h

Fairfax posting pics of every Israeli released hostage - while released Palestinians aren’t allowed to speak to the press - is very lopsided coverage

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Fairfax posting pics of every Israeli released hostage - while released Palestinians aren’t allowed to speak to the press - is very lopsided coverage

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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 15h

Here's the ad the Australian government will be running from Sunday, 19 October ahead of the under-16s social media ban kicking off on 10 December.

The tagline of the spot and its information campaign are both "For The Good Of".

eSafety is also readying a "suite of resources" for the campaign.

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