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Billy @billyidles.bsky.social · 4h

This kind of thing coming from American liberals is why the international community must contain America whether or not they shake off fascism. They are always going to be at most one election away from deciding Alberta separatists are “pro-democracy forces.”

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 9h

Got AI to fix it, did they? How many revisions will it take before “oversight failure” ceases to be accepted by the govt?

Claw every dollar back and ban Deloitte from govt consulting and tenders.

Better yet, sue them for breach of contract or prosecute them for fraud.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11h

It's still going. The republished Deloitte report into the Targeted Compliance Framework is STILL full of slop references. How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this?

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More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report

Paul Karp
NSW political correspondent
Oct 14, 2025 – 5.31pm

The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on.
Two academics have questioned the relevance of citations of their work in the new report, raising concerns that Deloitte merely substituted out false references to works that don’t exist in favour of real works with no or very limited relevance to welfare compliance, which was the subject of the report.

The republished report also incorrectly cites work by Australian National University’s John Braithwaite by giving the wrong publication year and repeatedly omitting his co-author.

Officials from the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, while unhappy about the use of AI and errors in the original report, told a Senate estimates hearing last week the recommendations in the Deloitte report had not changed and would be taken up by the department.
Details of errors will further embarrass Deloitte and the department as both parties claimed to have checked the references of the rewritten report. The academics say the new problems call into question the quality of the research used to back up Deloitte’s effort to recommend how to fix IT systems for welfare compliance.

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Craig Harvey @internetofzings.bsky.social · 2h

FapGPT

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 6h

'Are my kids alive?' The Palestinian freed from Israeli detention to find his family killed - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-freed-israel-detention-family-killed

'Are my kids alive?' The Palestinian freed from Israeli detention to find his family killed

In November 2024, Haitham Salem was arrested. MEE talks to his cousin Alaa about what happened when he was released

www.middleeasteye.net

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4h

i’m no expert on corpse logistics but does israel thinks the palestinians have had access to a morgue fridge for the last year or two? those bodies are probably underneath the building israel bombed on top of them.
so now they’re going to use collective punishment?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4h

In one corner we have Pornhub refusing to store users' PII & government IDs because of the myriad security problems inherent in that situation

In the other corner, openAI very much wants to store your government ID attached to your gooning chats

OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract

Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

www.cnbc.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4h

Lmao I wonder what percentage of charGPT users who willingly upload their government ID to openAI for gooning purposes are aware that until 3 days ago openAI was under court order to store all users' chats lmao and at any time could be court ordered to do so again

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4h

"The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions"

Welcome to the Anslopocene

www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 1h

There's a long tradition of it.

I used to buy my hotdogs from an ex-con who had previously been the NSW Minister of Prisons.

Rex Jackson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2h

The tyrant that Albanese and Wong keep trying to ingratiate us with keeps ordering extrajudicial murders

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 1d

well at least the latest data leak means we can call the pm personally to tell him we dont think we should have to give doxable information to the kinds of websites that weren't able to securely hold his phone number

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 14h

'In the encounter, which Murton filmed, an officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”'

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 5d

But they don't want the unemployed to get a job.

Government economists want the unemployment level to be around 5%, and they make sure it is, to keep wages and inflation down.

#auspol

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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 10h

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11h

Is there an explanation for why Palestinians are "prisoners" and Israelis are "hostages"?

Is the implication meant to be that the Palestinians were 'criminals' being punished through imprisonment?

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scobbold.bsky.social @scobbold.bsky.social · 10h

Yes but on ABC they also referred to Palestinians as "detainees". What quaint euphemism. 2000 of them released without further comment or reunion footage.

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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 11h

Back on the generator once again. Yay Tasnetworks.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 18h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11h

It's still going. The republished Deloitte report into the Targeted Compliance Framework is STILL full of slop references. How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this?

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Netpol @netpol.org · 12h

'The UK is leading by bad example, abusing the international standards to which it itself agreed by bringing in these draconian laws that are designed to stop protest against any of the issues that are uncomfortable for the UK government." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

www.theguardian.com

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