Asher Wolf
@asherwolf.bsky.social
Amnesty Media Award 2014. Cryptoparty. Anti-Robodebt campaigner. Digital rights. Mutant network node herder. Completing a Master of Social Work. Devouring entropy https://www.patreon.com/asherwolf
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TODAY @ 16:00 CET - How can scientist respond to increasingly authoritarian governments?
Hosted by myself + policy officer Zsanett Papp, in this @egu.eu webinar Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.bsky.social ) explores how scientists can respond & safeguard themselves
More: www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
Hosted by myself + policy officer Zsanett Papp, in this @egu.eu webinar Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.bsky.social ) explores how scientists can respond & safeguard themselves
More: www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
How Scientists Can Respond To Autocratisation
<p>We live in an era of democratic backsliding and autocratisation, in which science is increasingly under politically-motivated attack. This webinar will provide an overview of how scientists can res...
www.egu.eu
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
TODAY @ 16:00 CET - How can scientist respond to increasingly authoritarian governments?
Hosted by myself + policy officer Zsanett Papp, in this @egu.eu webinar Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.bsky.social ) explores how scientists can respond & safeguard themselves
More: www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
Hosted by myself + policy officer Zsanett Papp, in this @egu.eu webinar Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.bsky.social ) explores how scientists can respond & safeguard themselves
More: www.egu.eu/webinars/646...
Ugh
🤖 As AI begins to shape decisions on who is detained and how facilities are managed, questions once reserved for science fiction have become urgent matters of law and ethics.
Can technology optimize detention without erasing what makes it humane?
Read more → bit.ly/3JAPmzM
Can technology optimize detention without erasing what makes it humane?
Read more → bit.ly/3JAPmzM
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ugh
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The world: Wow, things are pretty awful lately.
Some TV exec: We should clone Hitler.
Some TV exec: We should clone Hitler.
Sequencing Hitler's DNA was always going to be a bad idea, with little upside and plenty of downside, but the way it has been done as part of a TV documentary is particularly bad www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Sequencing Hitler's genome teaches us nothing useful about his crimes
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
www.newscientist.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The world: Wow, things are pretty awful lately.
Some TV exec: We should clone Hitler.
Some TV exec: We should clone Hitler.
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Almost a decade after one was recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Working with children check tracker established amid pressure on child care
Almost a decade after one was recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Almost a decade after one was recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Tik Tok trends mean both large supermarkets in Wangaratta haven’t been able to stock cottage cheese in days. Imagine if we could harness an inch of the energy that goes into food fads for political change instead?
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Tik Tok trends mean both large supermarkets in Wangaratta haven’t been able to stock cottage cheese in days. Imagine if we could harness an inch of the energy that goes into food fads for political change instead?
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US Catholic bishops really want to go back to the pre Vatican II era don't they?
Pope should blast em out like he did Opus Dei.
Pope should blast em out like he did Opus Dei.
Just saw the terrible news that US Bishops just banned gender affirming care at Catholic hospitals.
A reminder, from the reproductive justice front - For a lot of people, Catholic hospitals are their only option. Even places where they aren't, they sometimes set standard of care.
A reminder, from the reproductive justice front - For a lot of people, Catholic hospitals are their only option. Even places where they aren't, they sometimes set standard of care.
November 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
US Catholic bishops really want to go back to the pre Vatican II era don't they?
Pope should blast em out like he did Opus Dei.
Pope should blast em out like he did Opus Dei.
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strange how #ofcom does nothing about this; it is almost as if it only ever punches downwards...
X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
strange how #ofcom does nothing about this; it is almost as if it only ever punches downwards...
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speaking of botched 2fa, apple offers only SMS authentication or easily guessable "secret questions" as options for second factor beyond your password for iCloud and won't let you even use u2f enroll on web unless you have Apple devices!
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
speaking of botched 2fa, apple offers only SMS authentication or easily guessable "secret questions" as options for second factor beyond your password for iCloud and won't let you even use u2f enroll on web unless you have Apple devices!
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Repainted my nails, because Gender is a contact sport
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Repainted my nails, because Gender is a contact sport
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Entirely accurate depiction of global capitalism today by NT Socialists member Dani (Insta: enkidooby_doo).
Wonderful artwork by NT Socialists member Dani (Insta: enkidooby_doo). Pretty much sums up the state of the world today. Help us build a movement to overturn this rotten system and build a society that puts people before profit. Join today: victoriansocialists.org.au/join
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Entirely accurate depiction of global capitalism today by NT Socialists member Dani (Insta: enkidooby_doo).
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If this is what the email is like, imagine what their Signals would contain
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If this is what the email is like, imagine what their Signals would contain
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Scott Ludlam wrote a few things a few years back on “state capture” and it really sums up Australia’s craven giveaway of fossil fuel resources to foreign corps
Australia Institute research shows the gas industry pays ZERO royalties on more than half the gas exported from Australia.
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports.... Australia is getting taken for a ride."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
#auspol
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Scott Ludlam wrote a few things a few years back on “state capture” and it really sums up Australia’s craven giveaway of fossil fuel resources to foreign corps
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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An Aboriginal elder has slammed Andrew Forrest as a state tribunal into plans to alter a WA river hears critical evidence.
'Don't hide behind lawyers': Elder blasts Andrew Forrest in WA river case
An Aboriginal elder has slammed Andrew Forrest as a state tribunal into plans to alter a WA river hears critical evidence.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
An Aboriginal elder has slammed Andrew Forrest as a state tribunal into plans to alter a WA river hears critical evidence.
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This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
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Amid Japan’s surge in bear attacks, a torrent of AI-generated videos is adding to anxiety
Amid Japan’s surge in bear attacks, a torrent of AI-generated videos is adding to anxiety
Videos show schoolgirls fighting off animals, while others show people feeding bears, with some so realistic that users struggled to distinguish between fact and fiction
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Amid Japan’s surge in bear attacks, a torrent of AI-generated videos is adding to anxiety
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I was only 16 when I arrived in Britain, but the Home Office decided I was 26. It left me homeless and afraid for years.
A single Home Office mistake left me homeless for four years
www.bigissue.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I was only 16 when I arrived in Britain, but the Home Office decided I was 26. It left me homeless and afraid for years.
I’m so itchy and sneezy right now and not sure if cos picking wildflowers earlier or the wind blowing around pollen
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I’m so itchy and sneezy right now and not sure if cos picking wildflowers earlier or the wind blowing around pollen
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Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago, his Rainbow PUSH Coalition said this evening.
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson hospitalized
"The family appreciates all prayers at this time," his Rainbow PUSH Coalition said.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago, his Rainbow PUSH Coalition said this evening.
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I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time.
for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time.
for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
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Under the federal Lobbying Code of Conduct, departing ministers face an 18-month “cooling-off” period, during which they are barred from lobbying on matters they handled in office. Ordinary MPs and senators face no such restrictions... satpa.pe/w1ihfpZ
Where are they now: The politicians who lost their seats
Almost 40 politicians lost their seats or retired at the last election. Some have since become lobbyists, been elected to state parliaments, returned to the bar or become publicans.
satpa.pe
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Under the federal Lobbying Code of Conduct, departing ministers face an 18-month “cooling-off” period, during which they are barred from lobbying on matters they handled in office. Ordinary MPs and senators face no such restrictions... satpa.pe/w1ihfpZ
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Never forget (or forgive) the NYT, that in 2016 these were the only email they cared about 4 days before the election.
(also forever FU James Comey)
(also forever FU James Comey)
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Never forget (or forgive) the NYT, that in 2016 these were the only email they cared about 4 days before the election.
(also forever FU James Comey)
(also forever FU James Comey)
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One reason you need a public editor, representing the readers and their rights.
The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
One reason you need a public editor, representing the readers and their rights.
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During lockdown I made biwashu with nature-strip loquats and the cheapest white spirits I could find at Dan Murphy; must do it again, that stuff got me through some hard times
Japanify: How to Make Biwashu (Loquat Liqueur)
After making my umeshu and bottling it up for indulgence in October, I became restless. I wanted to make more while I waited for three months. But this time I wanted to try another fruit. After discus...
umamimart.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
During lockdown I made biwashu with nature-strip loquats and the cheapest white spirits I could find at Dan Murphy; must do it again, that stuff got me through some hard times