Dr Ingrid M
@ingridm.bsky.social
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Dr Ingrid M
@ingridm.bsky.social
· Jul 30
Former cop who tasered 95yo woman avoids jail after appeal
An appeal against the non-custodial sentence handed to a former NSW police officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home has been dismissed.
www.abc.net.au
if everyone before the courts was shown the same leniency as killer cops, we could shut down all the prisons.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
the carceral system is Frontier Wars.
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
the carceral system is Frontier Wars.
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So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
So ... a dangerous abuser accuses his partner or ex-partner of a violent crime (this is common) & get the cops to charge her, usual delays until it's dropped/heard and now the govt will cut off the accused's entitlements, making her - & her children - wholly dependent on her abuser? Get out of it.
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Ms Ashwin said individualised care would be an important part of the new facility.
"[We need to] acknowledge what happened to Aboriginal people in the past because it still affects people today and the ongoing generations," she said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"[We need to] acknowledge what happened to Aboriginal people in the past because it still affects people today and the ongoing generations," she said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Stolen Generations survivor celebrates approval of Perth's first Aboriginal aged care facility
The 100-bed facility will be constructed on a site where Stolen Generations were taken to against the will of their parents.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Ms Ashwin said individualised care would be an important part of the new facility.
"[We need to] acknowledge what happened to Aboriginal people in the past because it still affects people today and the ongoing generations," she said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"[We need to] acknowledge what happened to Aboriginal people in the past because it still affects people today and the ongoing generations," she said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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These charges will all almost certainly be dropped. They are inconsistent with the Implied Freedom of Political Communication and just plainly don't satisfy the offence elements.
Police laying and prosecuting such spurious charges makes it even worse. That's designed to be political by the police.
Police laying and prosecuting such spurious charges makes it even worse. That's designed to be political by the police.
Wagga Wagga-based artist Michael Agzarian is contesting a charge of 'offensive language' over an artwork reading 'Death to the IDF'
www.deepcutnews.com/p/can-you-sa...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/can-you-sa...
Can you say 'death to the IDF'? NSW Police say no.
A Wagga Wagga artist is contesting a fine for 'offensive language' – a case that could have major implications for free speech in NSW.
www.deepcutnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
These charges will all almost certainly be dropped. They are inconsistent with the Implied Freedom of Political Communication and just plainly don't satisfy the offence elements.
Police laying and prosecuting such spurious charges makes it even worse. That's designed to be political by the police.
Police laying and prosecuting such spurious charges makes it even worse. That's designed to be political by the police.
NSW police say DFV is 40% of calls. NSW Police cost $5 billion per year. NSW Police are the worst responders - survivors attest police are a last or non resort, saying the reasons are fear and mistrust of police, who regularly criminalise and endanger victims.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis, writes Katherine Berney.
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
Australia knows how to end violence against women. What we lack is the will to pay for it.
Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.
womensagenda.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
NSW police say DFV is 40% of calls. NSW Police cost $5 billion per year. NSW Police are the worst responders - survivors attest police are a last or non resort, saying the reasons are fear and mistrust of police, who regularly criminalise and endanger victims.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
Spend $2 billion on what works.
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He hasn't "stepped down", it's a strike
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
He hasn't "stepped down", it's a strike
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"quietly" means the press gallery missed this, yet again, for over a month
on this logic all the alleged rapists could be sacked without notice. So as to you know cut off their income based on “serious” allegations. Oddly nobody is proposing that employed rapists be punished without a guilty plea or guilty verdict.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
"quietly" means the press gallery missed this, yet again, for over a month
on this logic all the alleged rapists could be sacked without notice. So as to you know cut off their income based on “serious” allegations. Oddly nobody is proposing that employed rapists be punished without a guilty plea or guilty verdict.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
on this logic all the alleged rapists could be sacked without notice. So as to you know cut off their income based on “serious” allegations. Oddly nobody is proposing that employed rapists be punished without a guilty plea or guilty verdict.
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
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Hospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as Israeli airstrikes continue, medics say
‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent days
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days, medical and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory have said.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
the Minns government would sooner silence truth telling Blackfullas than at the NSW Parliament.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
NSW Premier's Department threatens to fire First Nations musician over 'No Pride in Genocide' slogan
Department targets performer over pro-Palestine messaging on guitar
www.deepcutnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
the Minns government would sooner silence truth telling Blackfullas than at the NSW Parliament.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...
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same as with the ingenia paper: even if you could make a behaviourally human-like model y— which you can't —, it would tell you nothing about humans that you didn't know already
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
same as with the ingenia paper: even if you could make a behaviourally human-like model y— which you can't —, it would tell you nothing about humans that you didn't know already
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> models give unsafe responses because that is not what they are designed to avoid. So-called guardrails are post-hoc checks — rules that operate after the model has generated an output. If a response isn't caught by these rules, it will slip through
www.forbes.com/sites/weskil...
2/n
www.forbes.com/sites/weskil...
2/n
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
> models give unsafe responses because that is not what they are designed to avoid. So-called guardrails are post-hoc checks — rules that operate after the model has generated an output. If a response isn't caught by these rules, it will slip through
www.forbes.com/sites/weskil...
2/n
www.forbes.com/sites/weskil...
2/n
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Just Saying
33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!!
is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin”
we are mining our way to extinction FFS
how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a
it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray.
#Auspol
33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!!
is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin”
we are mining our way to extinction FFS
how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a
it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray.
#Auspol
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
“in my experience it is always people who don’t understand Ai who are enchanted by it” said Adio Dinika, who studies the human labour required to produce “Ai” slop at the Distributed Ai Research Unit.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
“in my experience it is always people who don’t understand Ai who are enchanted by it” said Adio Dinika, who studies the human labour required to produce “Ai” slop at the Distributed Ai Research Unit.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Prepping for class tomorrow, here are some choice materials:
"That's what you always say, we're supposed to go around being goody goodies, and they still kick us in the balls" (Babakiueria (1986): 23:35)
#FuckThat - I look better in Blak.
#Indigenous #Australia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtz...
"That's what you always say, we're supposed to go around being goody goodies, and they still kick us in the balls" (Babakiueria (1986): 23:35)
#FuckThat - I look better in Blak.
#Indigenous #Australia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtz...
Babakiueria Full Movie 1986
YouTube video by Aussie Movies
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Prepping for class tomorrow, here are some choice materials:
"That's what you always say, we're supposed to go around being goody goodies, and they still kick us in the balls" (Babakiueria (1986): 23:35)
#FuckThat - I look better in Blak.
#Indigenous #Australia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtz...
"That's what you always say, we're supposed to go around being goody goodies, and they still kick us in the balls" (Babakiueria (1986): 23:35)
#FuckThat - I look better in Blak.
#Indigenous #Australia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtz...
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What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations.
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago
An environmental archaeologist investigates deep-time, mythical, and contemporary relations between seals and Orkney Islanders.
www.sapiens.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations.
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
I have never noticed that demography is graphing the demos before listening to mighty @drdemography.com busting democratic-demographic myths on #SundayShot today. Mind blown!
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I have never noticed that demography is graphing the demos before listening to mighty @drdemography.com busting democratic-demographic myths on #SundayShot today. Mind blown!
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
these legal principles could and should protect the nurses who are charged for words about an imaginary Israeli patient that were made public in a similar (at least allegorically) way to Brown being paraded around by NSW Police and amplified by pro-Israel media outlets.
"Police want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F*** Israel F*** Zionism t-shirt. But Andrew Brown, wants his day in court."
#freespeech #auspol #antisemitism #Israel
michaelwest.com.au/anti-zionism...
#freespeech #auspol #antisemitism #Israel
michaelwest.com.au/anti-zionism...
Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West
Police want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F@#* Israel t-shirt. But Andrew Brown, wants a court battle.
michaelwest.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
these legal principles could and should protect the nurses who are charged for words about an imaginary Israeli patient that were made public in a similar (at least allegorically) way to Brown being paraded around by NSW Police and amplified by pro-Israel media outlets.
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Barnaby Joyce’s enormous hat looks ridiculous and only confirms the rural adage, ″the wider the brim, the smaller the property″.
Donald Hirst, Armadale
The Age, letters
Donald Hirst, Armadale
The Age, letters
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Barnaby Joyce’s enormous hat looks ridiculous and only confirms the rural adage, ″the wider the brim, the smaller the property″.
Donald Hirst, Armadale
The Age, letters
Donald Hirst, Armadale
The Age, letters
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This week’s #SundayShot has @drdemography.com and @eddyjokovich.bsky.social plus an interview with @seankelly.bsky.social on the Quarterly Essay that’s got everyone talking.
What’s not to love?
Join us! And subscribe to us!
youtube.com/@thesundayshot
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Join us! And subscribe to us!
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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This week’s #SundayShot has @drdemography.com and @eddyjokovich.bsky.social plus an interview with @seankelly.bsky.social on the Quarterly Essay that’s got everyone talking.
What’s not to love?
Join us! And subscribe to us!
youtube.com/@thesundayshot
What’s not to love?
Join us! And subscribe to us!
youtube.com/@thesundayshot
the man who lost his shit on the public broadcaster at Victoria Police investigating catholic church rapists and “resigned” two days later.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the man who lost his shit on the public broadcaster at Victoria Police investigating catholic church rapists and “resigned” two days later.
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A state legislature -- hypothetically, let's say, oh, Virginia -- passes one of the fuckshit social media age verification and parental consent laws that are proliferating like kudzu. But just requiring age verification and parental consent isn't enough Thinking Of The Children (tm) for them!
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
A state legislature -- hypothetically, let's say, oh, Virginia -- passes one of the fuckshit social media age verification and parental consent laws that are proliferating like kudzu. But just requiring age verification and parental consent isn't enough Thinking Of The Children (tm) for them!