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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 18h

I get why it’s confusing, but “everything an LLM says is a lie, including the truth” is, I think, a good frame for dealing with them.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · 14h

This feels like a riddle with two guards

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 18h

I get why it’s confusing, but “everything an LLM says is a lie, including the truth” is, I think, a good frame for dealing with them.

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 14h

Very proud to see my friend and comrade, @howardfmaclean.bsky.social, named as a finalist for the 2026 ACT Young Australian of the Year, thanks to his work leading @greatercanberra.org.au!

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Canberra Times front page - "Faces of Inspiration", including Howard Maclean among other ACT nominees for the Australian of the Year awards

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14h

"PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts"

Damning work by @skyelark.bsky.social on this govt's secrecy
#OffTheCharts #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts

If he doesn’t change course, the Prime Minister may end up leading exactly the kind of 'shadow government' that he derided his predecessor for.

thepoint.com.au

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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 1h

just casually not monitoring the email address for your 000 system not working, nbd

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13h

And the ALP is using this massive polling to do nothing.

Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 1d

#Newspoll Fed poll
TPP: ALP 57 (0) L/NP 43 (0)
Primary: ALP 36 (-1) L/NP 24 (-4) GRN 11 (-1) ON 15 (+4) OTH 14 (+2)
Preferred PM: Albanese 54 (+2) Ley 27 (-3)
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit... ($) #auspol
poll of 1265 voters, 27-30 Oct

www.theaustralian.com.au

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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 1h

imo they knew that they could secretly trust Dutton to do SFA on climate change, but don't think the same for Ley. also his.. other credentials burnished over the last decade.

which makes it easy to substitute for ON, yup

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 14h

Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system.
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 1h

not good!

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 22h

ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients

The tax office’s increased reliance on Recoveriescorp has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdog * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian Taxation Office has awarded the private debt collector Recoveriescorp more than $42m in contracts as part of a hard-edged campaign to pursue some taxpayers, including welfare recipients. The size of the contracts, published on the government’s tender portal, shows how much the ATO has come to rely on the third-party collector in recent years, which has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdog. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 22h

ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients

The tax office’s increased reliance on Recoveriescorp has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdog * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian Taxation Office has awarded the private debt collector Recoveriescorp more than $42m in contracts as part of a hard-edged campaign to pursue some taxpayers, including welfare recipients. The size of the contracts, published on the government’s tender portal, shows how much the ATO has come to rely on the third-party collector in recent years, which has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdog. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 12h

I think more people should be scandalised that the ATO is using private debt collectors. Those debt collectors are not usually the most scrupulous entities around.

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 12h

the Coalition dumping net zero and going harder on immigration to chase One Nation votes is not likely to help them if they ever want to win enough seats to form government again - and this (complicated) chart shows one reason why!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

scatterplot showing electorates, with the winning two-candidate preferred % vote at the 2025 election on the Y axis and the one nation primary vote on the X axis. there are far more marginal labor and independent seats in areas with a lower one nation vote

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El Yobo @elyobo.bsky.social · 12h

I do not understand the psychology of someone that wants cafes further away from them.

Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 2d

"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.

No corner coffee shops: Toronto committee waters down neighbourhood retail plan

It’s the second time in less than a year councillors balked at allowing certain businesses to open on some residential streets

www.torontotoday.ca

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 11h

incredible

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 7h

are these untouched? whose photos are these?

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grateful gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 16h

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

Another family, the Hares, also moved from Abilene, Texas, to Russia to shield their three sons from what they say are harmful elements of American culture.

“It was the promise of a country that would not promote the LGBT agenda. We liked the fact that LGBT is basically outlawed here in official ways,” Leo Hare, 62, told NBC News via a video call from the family’s new home in Ivanovo, Russia.

Russia has strict laws against the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relationships,” which have in practice banned public displays of LGBTQ identity, including wearing or posting the rainbow flag on social media.

They say their initial plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through just as they boarded the plane from Texas, and the family spent a bitterly cold winter caring for chickens, horses and rabbits on a farm 70 miles south of Moscow in exchange for free board. At one point, they even had to bring the goats and their newborns inside their cabin to keep the animals from dying.
Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord's son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg in what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said.
The couple went to the police and the local court to file complaints about their lost money and with their concerns that they had been swindled, but say they have received no help from law enforcement officials. NBC News contacted Domodedovo police for comment but did not receive a reply.

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 16h

excellent look back at decisions to screw over early childhood services, including those who warned about what would happen, from @garethhutchens.bsky.social

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Australia's scandal-ridden childcare sector a legacy of 'golden age' of reform

The decision by past governments to push Australia's childcare industry in the direction of marketisation and corporatisation has left a lasting legacy.

www.abc.net.au

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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 16h

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

ATO is paying private debt collector $42m to pursue taxpayers, including welfare recipients

The tax office’s increased reliance on Recoveriescorp has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdog

www.theguardian.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

would you like to experience schadenfreude so intense you might die of joy

grateful gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 16h

www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine

As many as 1,500 “ideological immigrants,” including 127 Americans, have applied for temporary residence in Russia in the last year.

www.nbcnews.com

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 21h

After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion

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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 2d

“And for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays. Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

Great line: a single-use plastic of the mind

Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 2d

“And for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays. Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Shaun Lambert @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social · 23h

h/t violetblue @ bluesky.social

The sickos meme but with Commander Sisko from Deep Space Nine looking maniacally into camera

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

The sickos meme but with Commander Sisko from Deep Space Nine

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

Fwiw, it’s nice to have a place to chat during a live event. That was one of the things that Twitter was great for. Before the dark times. Before the empire.

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