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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · 3d

Little man

A white rabbit, tilting his head, lying in a bed

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 6d

Lunch time. I could buy this lunch for 40,000 people for the cost of this report nobody has written nor read, commissioned and then buried in the desperate thrashing of a department bargaining with the reality of what they've done to hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients.

I am holding up a banh mi sandwich in front of the sign outside one of Deloitte's offices in Sydney.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 7d

JustSumBloke got their notice to leave in March 2026.
With household income only carers and dsp they're not even going to bother looking for a private rental.
So any help with this would be greatly appreciated 🙂

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Donate to Help with bathroom for disabled young man, organized by Karl Tilcock

Updated 24-09-2025 Added pic of vanity unit we scored for $150. Thank you ❤️ … Karl Tilcock needs your support for Help with bathroom for disabled young man

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 12d

You will be able to see @chrisrudge.bsky.social & others interviewed about this on ABC 730 in a few minutes.

Hopefully we can finally have some mainstream discussion of the subject of the report, being the unlawful cancellations of the Centrelink payments of hundreds of thousands of recipients.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 15d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · 12d

Charging $9 for rice with Chinese food is a brilliant, if devious, business model.

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · 16d

Maximum comfort

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Ailbhe @toastpoast.bsky.social · Sep 14

The concerted effort by billionaires and politicians to manufacture and stoke hatred against us is absolutely the worst part about being trans, no question. but after that I honestly think the second worst thing is people wanting to talk to me about contrapoints

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Sep 14

Why are we not discussing how much RFK Junior looks like Leland Palmer and the implications of that fact?

RFK junior, noted anti vaxxer and well known piece of shit.

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Sep 2

That’s a much better technique than mine

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Sep 2

I bought a new mattress to help with my sore back, but the mattress is so heavy that I hurt my back moving it.

I’ve never felt so betrayed by furniture.

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Aug 23

Baby

A tabby cat lying flat with her chin resting on the side of her bed

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Aug 23

Tiny man getting dinner in bed. Living the dream.

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Jul 6

Little man

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Jul 6

Majestic

A somewhat overweight cat sitting on a retaining wall with her belly overhanging the side

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Jul 6

Little man

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Jun 15

Rotund.

A rather fat cat lying awkwardly in bed.

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · Jun 1

No such thing as too much cheese

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · May 31

Watching someone with a platform speak with such moral clarity on Palestinian children should not be so rare.

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · May 24

Cat: “This house ain’t big enough for the two of us”

Bun: “This house is barely big enough for you, tubby”

A cat and a rabbit facing off from different rooms separated by a hallway.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · May 26

i dispute the "no nazis here" claim about bsky, you can't open a post about gaza without finding rabid zionists

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · May 25

I loved Eternal, so this is great news

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Jimmy (no longer a dad in training) 🧔‍♂️✅ @jamescoyne.bsky.social · May 25

Hulk: HULK SMASH

Me, shy: smash? But we haven't even been on a date yet 🥹

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · May 25

I’m lying sick in bed, and I swear she’s just enjoying my suffering

A cat lying in a bed at the foot of a queen bed, looking smugly at the photographer

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · May 24

I thought my internet connection was down again. The rain has been awful.

Good to know you’re here most days, it’s a good reason to visit.

And hopefully I’m not adding to the annoying in either.

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Damien🐰 @rabidlagomorph.bsky.social · May 24

My faith in humanity persists, despite all evidence to the contrary

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