I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
PSA. The people asking for disabled poor people to "share" their experiences for their orgs to collect & use are not doing so out of the goodness of their hearts. Your experiences and insights have value - including monetary value. They get grants & build careers out of your suffering.
We've shut down the busiest pedestrian intersection in Naarm/Melbourne because our government invited a genocidal war criminal to our country
Clearly it’s time to appoint a permanent officer in the government to look over all the festival programs. Some fellow in a centralised office where all the art can be submitted beforehand, to make sure it’s socially cohesive. Some kind of Chief Approver, if you like www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
“We can’t eliminate SARS.”
We can, and we did.
“Well poor countries can’t do it.”
Poor countries eliminate bad diseases all the time, with some outside help in the past. Yeah. Even airborne ones.
The only reason we have COVID-19 circulating is because rich countries said so.
Oh that’s great to know-we’re going east side so should be ok
Thanks, I was worried about battery longevity outside but don’t really have another option
We’re getting the sigenergy batteries this week-do you have yours installed outside?
To be clear, to talk of one section of society "reclaiming" land which was stolen by our settler-colonial state and whose sovereignty remains unceded, and when settler-colonialism is at the heart of the current racialised rupture, is just grotesque
I’m so sorry, I hope you can get some answers soon
Little note in the new Bill on Hate Speech
Good thing there will never be a Minister who acts in bad faith when they go about banning groups.
Adelaide Festival Board & Premier Peter Malinauskas made a race-based consience choice by erasuring the 10,000+ First Nations people who were massacred by British soliders, Aust police & settlers during 1788 to 1930. Some single massacres resulted in 100s of deaths.
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Pages of links to buy books to support authors who have pulled out of the Adelaide Writers' Week.
From Avid Reader in Qld.
#AusPol
#booksky
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Melbourne & Geelong facing likely water restrictions means Victorian councils should reject all new AI-fiddling & other private data centres which use vast amounts of water for no good reason. We need our trees & gardens.
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors.
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Mr Gideon Haigh on why the ongoing, incompetent and dull-witted enshittification of the State Library of Victoria is so heartbreaking, so stupid, and so dangerous. Please share. www.cricketetal.com/p/an-institu...
No. Will not. Never will.
Thank you for all your work
I know I am exhausted and sick atm, but reading the 'progress' report on the disability royal commission is utterly shattering. a new plan and the ndis fraud work. that's it. 10,000 stories and 4.5 years.
www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️🩹
History.
Alice Pepper becomes the first person from the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria to sign the Treaty.
A ceasefire is not “fragile” when 104 people are murdered. It is over.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
ah, we're back to NDIS fixing jurisdictional fights, plan delays and cuts via media
'‘I’m being punished’: Emily is healthy enough to leave hospital but she can’t because of NDIS funding cuts'
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
