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David Peetz
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Researcher, FASSA. Employment relations; labour markets; economics; pol science; gender; climate & finance; science; birdies. Carmichael Fellow at Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute, but views mine. Meanjin (Brisbane) & Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). .. more

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h
80% of Americans say we should prioritize regulating AI, yet Trump could soon enact an executive order blocking all state AI regulations.

Why?

Look no further than the AI industry's massive lobbying war chest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtkNL4v2ks
Big Tech's AI Power-Grab
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, the pain, the pain…..

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d
And if ever an illustration was needed as to why university chief executives should be elected, it’s in the ABC story...

insidestory.org.au/elect-the-vi...

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d
I would love to know which specific development proposals of these capital-city universities had experienced such frustration that a watering down of national environmental protection laws was necessary.

Any answers, VCs?

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d
In case anyone still doubted just how out of touch university VCs had become with the interests of staff and students...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Australia's top universities seek changes to key environmental reform
Australia's top universities have aligned themselves with oil and gas producers, miners and developers on a a key piece of environment legislation, drawing the ire of dozens of academics.
www.abc.net.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d
It’s a tough contest.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 3d
How Bruce Lehman enshittified the planet.

Yes, he has a similar, but differently spelled (and pronounced) name. And he’s worse.

pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/d...
Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 3d
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:

Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 4d
When the local Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and Jewish Federation oppose actions taken in the name of combating anti-semitism, you’ve got to ask yourself “is this Administration really attacking universities because the *universities* are anti-semitic?

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 4d
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."

An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4d
Is this 2025 United States or 1938 Germany?
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 4d
Harvey at 90: A @versobooks.bsky.social series of short essays

davidharvey.org/2025/11/harv...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey’s ninetieth birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled contribution on urban ge…
davidharvey.org

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 4d
If you’re thinking “I really should use a search engine other than Google, but it usually gives me good enough results”, read this.

Then you’ll finally do something about it.

pluralistic.net/2025/11/25/o...
Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into “junk insurance” (25 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 5d
One for our times.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 8d
Time for heads to roll, roll, roll.
picketer.bsky.social Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8d
$100 million for a failed website (that has no registered users / password access / consumer data / paywall / ecommerce etc etc etc) is truly insane. $78 million for "design"!?!?! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Total bill for BoM’s new website came in at $96 million
In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.
www.smh.com.au

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8d
$100 million for a failed website (that has no registered users / password access / consumer data / paywall / ecommerce etc etc etc) is truly insane. $78 million for "design"!?!?! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Total bill for BoM’s new website came in at $96 million
In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.
www.smh.com.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 10d
I was once a senior public servant. FOI laws don’t discourage frank, fearless advice. They discourage BAD advice.

Bureaucrats mostly hate them (a lot) because they take up so much time. But it’s nothing to do with not wanting to be seen giving frank, fearless advice.
crikey.com.au Crikey @crikey.com.au · 10d
Labor is using robodebt to justify curtailing freedom of information laws. It's grubby, self-interested — and easily disproven.
Behind Labor's Big Lie about FOI
www.crikey.com.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 10d
Labor is using robodebt to justify curtailing freedom of information laws. It's grubby, self-interested — and easily disproven.
Behind Labor's Big Lie about FOI
www.crikey.com.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 12d
Unbelievable that it’s STILL malfunctioning, after all these months of failure.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 19d
Correct.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 19d
Attention current and potential PhD students in industrial relations and WHS.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 21d
Hurry! Applications close this weekend.

teacho.com.au/2025/09/29/a...
Dr Daryll Hull Memorial Fellowship In Industrial Relations 2026-2027 | Teacho
teacho.com.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 24d
Excellent news for Uni of Canberra. I hope they can deliver in properly supporting this great initiative.

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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 25d
Delighted that the University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med...
UC launches newly established Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas and appointment of inaugural director
UC to establish the Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas, and Prof Frank Bongiorno AM to take up Donald Horne Professorship as Centre director.
www.canberra.edu.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 29
As our dependence on digital technology increases, so does our vulnerability (in the deadliest meaning of the term) to a Carrington event.

theconversation.com/solar-storms...
Solar storms have influenced our history – an environmental historian explains how they could also threaten our future
From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped human history.
theconversation.com

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · Oct 29
A better start to a journal book review? Fight me.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 28
Chances are a fair bit of the training is on “how not to…"

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 27
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davidpeetz.bsky.social David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 26
The old site will only be available for a few weeks/days, I presume.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 27
AFAIK it’s only on the legacy site, to which there are no obvious links, and which will presumably be decommissioned in the fullness of time.

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · Oct 27
Exxon Sues California, saying that requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
Exxon Sues California Over New Climate Disclosure Laws
www.nytimes.com