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Author: UNIVERSAL PREDATOR paperback & ebook available worldwide https://books2read.com/universal-predator Universal Medicine cult buster {Benhayon v Rockett (No 8) [2019] NSWSC 169}

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · Aug 24

Cookers were an inevitable offshoot of the New Age, but before cookers were a heap of twisted pseudo-spiritual cults like Universal Medicine. This is me reading my memoir 'Universal Predator' about the time its leader, Serge Benhayon, took me to court for defamation #cults youtu.be/mcqETL6UlA0...

Universal Predator - Esther Rockett reads the first 2 chapters of her memoir

YouTube video by Esther Rockett

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1h

Workers are trafficked and forced into these compounds where they’re threatened and tortured. United Nations estimated at least 300k workers were being forced to carry out these online scams. Victims are usually tricked into transferring funds in crypto

Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1h

Those unsolicited messages you get on messaging services or social media DMs are often from these massive pig butchering scams run by Chinese mobsters in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and the Philippines. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

US seizes billions in bitcoin linked to 'massive' alleged scam

A Chinese national accused of being the mastermind behind one of the largest ever investment frauds has been charged in the US.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 2h

I still think Trump is knowingly engaging in market manipulation. He knows a single idiotic statement can tank markets, and that they bounce somewhat when he inevitably relents.

Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 2h

What possesses people to trade in crypto futures? 1.7 million traders were wiped out on Friday after Trump’s latest tariff threat against China triggered a huge sell off.

Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 2d

Massive crypto sell off amp.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...

‘My crypto life is over’: sell-off triggers angst on Chinese social media

Exchanges will forcibly sell a trader’s leveraged positions if their losses approach the amount of their initial investment.

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of thousands of tenants set to benefit as long-awaited rental reforms introduced to Victorian parliament.
New bill seeks to ban rent processing fees, require landlords to provide proof for bond claims & establish a portable bond scheme
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #springst #auslaw

Hundreds of thousands of tenants set to benefit as long-awaited rental reforms introduced to Victorian parliament

Exclusive: New bill seeks to ban rent processing fees, require landlords to provide proof for bond claims and establish a portable bond scheme

www.theguardian.com

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SBS Recommender @sbsrecommender.bsky.social · 16h

Gloriavale: New Zealand's Secret #Cult on SBS On Demand for a short time - expires in three weeks - especially interesting for its amazing survivor network www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...

Watch Gloriavale: New Zealand's Secret Cult

Watch Gloriavale: New Zealand's Secret Cult for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 2d

"The end result has been that domestic gas prices on Australia’s east coast have trebled, resulting in surging electricity prices that have put Australian households and energy intensive businesses under extreme pressure."

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

As was widely reported a month or so ago, Trump refuses to answer questions about his business activities and conflicts of interest as President and tries to intimidate the reporter - YouTube link youtu.be/sij89ENvZqQ?...

Investigating how crypto is making the Trumps hundreds of millions | Four Corners Documentary

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI John Lyons for ABC Four Corners probes Trump’s extraordinarily blatant corruption - also on YouTube iview.abc.net.au/show/four-co...

Four Corners: S2025 Chasing Trump's Billions

Donald Trump has long boasted of his wealth, is he now using his office to enrich himself and his family? John Lyons examines how a vast network of foreign deals, hotels and cryptocurrency have opened...

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · 1d

Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant months after dumping from Venice Biennale www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Creative Australia awards Khaled Sabsabi $100,000 grant months after dumping from Venice Biennale

Funding is a silver lining in a tumultuous year for the Lebanese-Australian artist from western Sydney

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 8d

It's laughably easy to remove the watermark from Sora 2 generated videos. 404 Media found dozens of websites and pieces of software that will do it.

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from another impending epic fail from Altman, will this fall under Australia’s social media ban given ChatGPT, like Roblox, is not social media?

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

"The more we have learned about the specifics of DNA associated with intelligence, the further away that goal has receded."

Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 2d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no one here under 30

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Calling investor lemmings

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 1d

Oura is raising new funding of $900 million as its valuation reaches nearly $11 billion

Smart ring maker Oura raises $900M from Fidelity | TechCrunch

Oura is raising new funding of $900 million as its valuation reaches nearly $11 billion

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11d

Social psychologists can know better than anyone in psychology that we do not want to let QRPs ruin trust in our science, again.

“Ultimately, contemporary AI is research misconduct.”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Pareidolia @pareidolia.bsky.social · 7d

- We lost our WiFi connection 🤷🏼

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Saritha Rai @saritharai.bsky.social · 5d

📢 📢 📢 A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues -- on AI data centers devastating energy grids around the world -- is a Gerald Loeb Awards winner! Woohooo!

Dont miss this read !

(Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
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AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems

New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Oh TRUST ME I know 😩
So many of these huge SUVs regularly cross into other lanes and either don’t know they’re doing it or can’t other cars or DON’T CARE

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: 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...

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Religion News @religionnewsblog.com · 2d

Australia: Two by Twos cult abuse victim speaks out at state’s cult inquiry as a conservative Liberal MP’s sister speaks out about coercive control in groups
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#cults #religion #news #religionnews #religionnewsblog

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Religion News @religionnewsblog.com · 2d

Australia: Liberal MP’s sister says father’s church is a ‘cult’ where ‘gay conversion’ practices may still be happening
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#cults #religion #news #religionnews #religionnewsblog

Liberal MP’s sister says father’s church is a ‘cult’ where ‘gay conversion’ practices may still be happening

City Builders pastor’s daughter tells Victorian parliamentary inquiry into cults of ‘grave concerns’ about church

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Brisbane, the white knuckle driving capital of Australia 😒
It’s not just road damage, big cars kill more people (hello Toyota Hilux), pollute more, and and produce more emissions from manufacturing larger components. Any emissions reductions from EVs are cancelled out by increasing size

Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 1d

Think I’ll buy an SUV the size of a PANZER for my runs to Woolworths Metro

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

check this out: here in Norway we tax cars (including EVs!) by weight

www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/wei...

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Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 2d

Adam Tooze also gives an update on Tony Blair’s activities since departing office. In short, he’s in very lucrative business providing consultancy to oligarchic villains, including Larry Ellison, all in on AI etc. 😒

Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social · 5d

The notion that Palestinians can be depoliticised for the convenience of more powerful overlords and surrender their society to what is portrayed as ‘benign technocratic rule’ is fanciful. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/o...

The Trump Plan for Gaza

Podcast Episode · Ones and Tooze · 03/10/2025 · 49m

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