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Rafiq @rafiqcopeland.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like they’re doing a version of an ANZAC biscuit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_b...

Anzac biscuit - Wikipedia

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 4d

BTW this National Press Club story hasn't been reported in any major news outlet yet. Indies like Lamestream, We Used to Be Journos, Pearls and Irritations etc all over it.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 5d

More detail here on the NPC cancellation of a journalist who was booked to speak about Gaza.
Incredible how badly our cultural institutions have failed us.

Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine

Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".

www.lamestream.com.au

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 5d

Hard to figure out sometimes whether submissions were made using AI, but then sometimes they make it fairly easy.

Three citation urls that include the source being chatgpt.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 6d

I started a project earlier this year looking at generative AI as a national security risk. Now that Sora is being publicly tested, more media outlets will have to cover and debunk AI slop and disinformation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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Eddy Cannella @eddyc.bsky.social · 8d

A very interesting article on the language of birds with links to published articles.

Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats theconversation.com/birds-all-ov...

Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.

theconversation.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 10d

Federal governments have known about the gross mismanagement and corruption in their offshore detention operations for years.
Neither the NACC nor the AFP nor Home Affairs nor DFAT - who all know about it - have shown any desire to stop it. Serves their political purposes.

Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person

The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals

www.theguardian.com

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 10d

Labor during the election: “we’ll fully fund public schools”

Labor after the election: “actually we meant private schools soz”

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 12d

AI continues to innovate, finding new ways for businesses not to make money

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

CNN @cnn.com · 12d

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

www.cnn.com

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Daniel Cohen @danielcohen.bsky.social · 11d

In the same way Lego doesn't supply racing cars, castles and spaceships in their boxes .....

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 11d

Chris Sidoti, former Human Rights Commissioner, at the National Press Club:

“The Genocide Convention not only requires that we not commit genocide - it also requires that we act to prevent genocide.”

#npc

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12d

It’s not just that the CDP was in and of itself unlawful. In a 3 month period the scheme issued 55k penalty notices “to 35,000 people, the vast majority of whom are Aboriginal” www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12d

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 15d

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 13d

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k

Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

www.abc.net.au

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13d

in related news i'm excited to announce that i'm selling sam altman's house unless he asks me not to

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 13d

this is not gonna go down well

www.reuters.com/technology/o...

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 14d

I love that the guy that threw his shoes at bush is into this

Muntadhar al-Zaidi
@muntazer_zaidi
South Korea throws shoes at criminal Netanyahu
#Gaza

[video of protesters throwing shoes]

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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 17d

The world needs peasants. Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised.

The planet, and human social life, depend on peasant farmers | Aeon Essays

Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised

aeon.co

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 17d

gotta be insanely humiliating to be told "we don't trust you the way we trust the Ketamine Kid, who recently tweeted that Trump is on the Epstein list"

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22d

"Let’s put a stop to the same old partisan sniping and divisiveness about healthcare, defense, and who’s striking whom with a bulging sock full of US currency."

Asking Me to Stop Beating You with This Sock Full of Quarters Will Only Further Divide Our Nation

The social bonds that hold us together are fraying, and sadly, many of our citizens no longer trust the institutions that govern us. Right now, the...

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 18d

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.

In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster

www.smh.com.au/national/why...

Why Jimmy Kimmel would have never been cancelled in Australia

We need to be careful about how we separate true hate speech from satirical speech. In America, it seems, differentiation is out of favour.

www.smh.com.au

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 18d

Reading AI slop has made my job orders of magnitude more difficult thanks I hate it so much: "Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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