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80 years and still learning, scientist, activist in past lives. Admire scholars, thinkers, artists, workers, and some politicians (of the non-craven type). AI free zone
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- 'Hanson is 71 years old and has perpetuated the backwards stereotype of a huge part of this country. Queensland has problems just like the rest of Australia, but they’re not what Pauline says they are. They never were. She’s a poison that has made us all sick.'
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaSuppliers just blurt out whatever they can to try and drum up demand for their product. This is wishcasting but it's not entirely impossible their fantasies come at least partly true here..... www.reuters.com/business/ene...
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaA reminder! George Lakoff came up with the 'truth sandwich' concept during Trump's first term. It's not magic but it's good basic information hygiene and should be the default when fighting against bullshit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_s...
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpna"AI doesn't work" is incorrect. It functions perfectly as a plausible-looking bullshit generator used by fascists and pseudoscientists to inflict major damage on societies.
- NEW: NEW: HHS is working on an AI tool to analyze VAERS—a database of vaccine injury claims to which anyone can make submissions—and "generate hypotheses." This is from @emilymullin.bsky.social:
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaThey ignore whatever makes them uncomfortable. They also ignore that the FBI works *with* this transnational criminal syndicate, not against it -- and that an array of online propagandists who defend the FBI was created foremost to protect Epstein's network and the full extent of their crimes.
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaIt's often the same people: dual Russian-Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. This dates back to the USSR and Semion Mogilevich (whose Israeli passport was procured by Robert Maxwell) to today's oligarchs like Roman Abramovich, who got Israeli citizenship after Russia was sanctioned.
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaHaving literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaThere's two main reasons there's a segment of society against UBI 1. THOSE people, CERTAIN people will get FREE THINGS!!!! THAT I AM PAYING FOR!!!! This thinking is wrong and bad. If one truly believes that...more money is being spent on all the other bullshit that doesn't help. 2. Divorce.
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaA bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaWhat's interesting is that at the time this was thought to be true but it turned out it wasn't. Yes, men in Congress in the 1970s freaked out about divorce rates from basic income pilot data. They screwed up the analysis. It was later discovered that relationships improved. bsky.app/profile/scot...
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaAnother reminder that being aggressively anti-fossil fuels on climate grounds is *also* something that helps ease the crippling $$ impacts of fossil fuels on our lives. Anyone telling you these two priorities are at odds is 100% lying for nefarious reasons. www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaMeta has dropped $65 million into two super PACs to boost pro-AI state candidates in California. Big Tech is working overtime to ensure they get a bailout if — or when — the AI bubble bursts. We can’t let them get away with it. youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaThe comms rep just had no ability to comprehend that AI takes in the information that already exists in the world and repackages it. Our reporting had yet to be published and therefore wasn't out in the world hadn't been ingested by any chatbot. And they just... believed the chatbot.
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaImmigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato. Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaBesides being costly, means-testing creates potentially lethal false negative errors and non-takeup issues that universality eliminates in favor of non-lethal false positive errors that can be addressed via the tax system Universal basic income and healthcare and progressive taxes are the way to go
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaIt is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
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- Yes, pathetic
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaThinking of sending all my posts here to Jillian Segal before I publish them. Perhaps Bluesky could just let her moderate the whole site. Can't be too careful.
- 'The ongoing moral collapse of Labor as led by Anthony Albanese is a symptom of this bigger problem and also proof of concept. More than any other party in the world, Australian Labor were handed an opportunity after 2022 to take a different path and they have completely squandered it.'
- "Hanson passes herself off as an 'ordinary' Australian but she is little more than a stalking horse for various economic elites, a strata to which she herself is desperate to belong. Hanson isn’t patriotic; she is entitled." tdunlop.substack.com/p/one-nation...
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaThe sooner Australia substitutes "Jewish Community" with "Zionist Community" in every media and political message, the better. It is simply white supremacy hiding behind Jewishness. It needs to be called out and exposed for what it really is. Zionism = antisemitism. #auspol
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpna‘The People vs Robodebt’ won Best Documentary at the AACTA Awards
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpna“The old principle is being gradually broken down, argued by many international lawyers that head of state immunity doesn’t apply to what are called atrocity crimes, that is genocide, war crimes” Commissioner Chris Sidoti #Auspol #Genocide www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
- This is a fabulous essay. 'What technology takes from us – and how to take it back' Essential reading
- Can’t stop talking about this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece about the ways the tech industry has tricked us all into trading connection for convenience and how to break free of it. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaIf you want to understand the philsophy/ideology/plan Tim is referring to, I explain in this post (see Group 3) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
- I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaThe year has really started now. Aus Environment Minister considering new coal mines. FFS. @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/260205-...
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaMy post on why blaming childcare subsidies (and govt spending generally) for inflation is absurd #OffTheCharts #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaIt's only 10.30 and Penny Wong can't explain why we don't have the legal responsibility to arrest Herzog, CGT changes on the table, 3 indies voice concerns about what his visit will do to cohesion, Hanson is back after her senate suspension and the Libs/Nats are still a mess. live.thepoint.com.au
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpna"History will remember this as the moment Australia blinded its own law, allowing returning IDF soldiers to pass unexamined and exposing fairness before the law as a deliberate lie." Any journalists in this country diving in to get to the absolute bottom dregs of why our govt is sanctioning this?
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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- Yes, very 'deeply meaningful' .. Honestly I cannot believe the cognitive dissonance going on here
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- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaThe GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/
- Reposted by did:plc:fczlo5iplo3woacvr7nhfpnaThe Washington Post was consistently doing some of the best climate reporting out there in recent years. This is a huge loss (h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
