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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 2d

Clueless AI can’t summarize
machinesociety.ai/p/clueless-a...

Everyone is using AI chatbots to condense complicated material into simple, short, digestible nuggets. Here's why this is a bad idea.

machinesociety.ai

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14h

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 12h

Wonder if they report fines due to misleading practices?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 12h

Wonder if they report fines due to misleading practices?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

ACCC alleges Microsoft 'deliberately hid' cheaper Microsoft 365 subscription

The consumer watchdog is suing Microsoft for allegedly misleading about 2.7 million Australians over its Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

www.abc.net.au

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 3d

“the tech giant told subscribers..they must pay higher price to maintain their subscriptions, which would include Copilot..The ACCC said Microsoft misled customers by not disclosing subscribers could retain their..plans, without Copilot, at their existing lower prices”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

ACCC sues over allegedly misleading Microsoft 365 subscription hikes

The consumer watchdog is suing Microsoft for allegedly misleading around 2.7 million Australians over its Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

www.abc.net.au

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers

Call and demand a refund and reversion to Classic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bH... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251028-aus... - podcast

time: 7 min 08 sec

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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 14h

Just think they’re doing this globally, how many other places don’t have an ACCC to stop the bullshit

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Bevan M @motbevron.bsky.social · 14h

Really great to hear, Australian competition regulator going after Microsoft for misleading pricing (and shoving Copilot down our throats)

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...

Why the ACCC is suing Microsoft

Podcast Episode · 7am · 28/10/2025 · 16m

podcasts.apple.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app?

What?

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21h

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h

A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors.

The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 1d

Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

I'm Still On X For The Engagement

I Signed Up For StormFront Because That's Where The Influencers Are

I'm Staying On TruthSocial Because I Can't Let The Right Fill The Space

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

It's genocide. That's all it has ever been.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate "powerful" strikes in Gaza.

Netanyahu says remains returned by Hamas are body parts of a hostage previously retrieved in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the remains of a hostage returned by Hamas overnight are body parts of a hostage who was recovered in Gaza by Israeli troops almost two years ago.

bit.ly

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 1d

It is deeply distressing to see that Israel has resumed aerial bombing of Palestinians in Gaza despite a supposed ceasefire. The world must not turn its gaze away.

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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 2d

@nickfeik.bsky.social just wanted to make sure you didn't miss this latest development. Truly, incredible stuff.

'We know what we're doing': Ferry operator doubled down before $9m blunder

The operator of Tasmania's ferry fleet told the state-owned operator of ports, "They're our ships, we know what we're doing", before botching design specifications, an inquiry has heard.

www.abc.net.au

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Strap in ...

Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 2d

It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...

Fesshole screenshot: I may have nearly knocked out my gynecologist by shooting a speculum at his head. It wasn't my fault. He made me laugh, my muscles contracted, and suddenly my twat was a cannon.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

The Albanese Government has come in for criticism today as a Centre for Public Integrity report card marks them as failing on six of seven transparency measures.

@thepointau.bsky.social #auspol

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

Goodness gracious - part 2

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows

Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 3d

"... because the US relationship matters more than some domestic politics about environmental reform."
– Labor's Foreign Minister Penny Wong
#auspol #EnvironmentLaw #environment

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writing about how the "for profit" child care model has totally failed.

But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet....

thepoint.com.au/news/251028-...