Catherine

Ok everyone agrees I get at least 48 hours to be obnoxious about this

i reckon you can tell when someone spends too much time with LLMs by the way they post. There's like an over-confident, staccato delivery style that comes from having a constant pep talk from a robot yes man.

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

Starving people to death is the most obviously inhumane act a state could perpetrate. Yet our government does nothing. Israel’s supporters say nothing.
Do they think people will not notice, or ignore it?

Australians are so funny man, they will pat themselves on the back for “rejecting Trumpian hate” at the election and then watch their PM unveil a highly Trumpian plan to ban, cancel, fire and criminalise people who oppose Israeli apartheid and genocide.

Envoy's antisemitism recommendations summarised Tom Crowley profile image By Tom Crowley As Courtney mentioned, the government will "carefully consider" all of these recommendations but does not yet have a position on them. They are extensive, but here's a broad summary: Education - a greater role for the Envoy to resource and educate the community, schools, businesses and public institutions about antisemitism and to embed an understanding of antisemitism in law enforcement, government agencies and the school curriculum. Universities - call to withhold public funding to universities or those within them deemed to "facilitate, enable or fail to act" on antisemitism, and an inquiry into "clusters" of antisemitism if encampments continue into 2026. Media - a new role for the Envoy to encourage media organisations to "avoid accepting false or distorted narratives" and encourage public broadcasters to "accurately and positively" represent Jewish history and culture and make programs that support "social cohesion".

Arts - a recommendation that there be protocols for arts festivals and organisations to respond to antisemitic incidents, with public funding able to be withheld similar to universities. Policing - a permanent standing arrangement for law enforcement agencies to co-operate on investigating antisemitism, similar to the Avalite taskforce set up after the Adass synagogue attack. Online hate - stronger regulation of online hate speech and algorithms, and the ability to support "trusted voices" to refute antisemitism on social media, plus a review of hate speech laws. Migration - screen visa applicants for antisemitism and ensure the Migration Act effectively facilitates visa cancellations for antisemitism.

Israel is a fascist state committing genocide in broad daylight, and we're going to let their propagandists overhaul our education, media, and immigration policies just to ensure Australia keeps supporting that genocide.

Nobody wants this!!! I hope none of you are sick of me complaining about "A.I." yet because I am never going to shut the fuck up about it.

If you use "A.I." to publish something it has to come with the professional death penalty. You cannot work in news ever again. Yes I know that's not how it actually goes – so many plagiarists are still thriving – but if it is up to me you are fucking done. Pack up your shit and hit the bricks.

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

I for one I think it's cool and good that the largest engine of speculative wealth in America went all in on robots that lie to you to tell you what you want to hear just in time for people to be coming to terms with the tremendous social alienation and loss that was the pandemic.

Taste Is the New Intelligence Why curation, discernment, and restraint matter more than ever

open.substack.com/pub/wildbare...

🌹 Beautiful Cabin Crew, Scarlett Johansson 💋💋: Post-slop: four prompts and responses These people don’t know what art is, so they will never truly be able to kill it. Not in the way they think, anyway.

I’ve got a long essay on AI slop and fascism and the rest in the new @meanjin.bsky.social

Wrote it back in Jan but the core stupidity of this grifting industry has not changed. Check it out!

meanjin.com.au/essays/%F0%9...

I need this website yesterday

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded, including an email from a journo at The Australian sent 20 minutes before she was told.

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.

There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza Babies such as Siwar Ashour are suffering from malnutrition as crucial supplies run out amid Israel’s total blockade on aid Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment. The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised the deliberate starvation of Gaza when she appeared on the BBC this week, was only 2.5kg when she was born on 20 November last year. Continue reading...

There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza

Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Benitez in Conclave

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

Journalists have been burned alive inside tents from bombs dropped by Israel. The footage of this is horrendous – and yet we are watching human beings live this every. single. day and our leaders and media do nothing.

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

I’m literally teetering

The resumption of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with the full backing of the US government, is an outrage. Israel’s ongoing assault will only deepen the devastation and suffering already inflicted on Gazans.

“I could not live with the level of violation I felt against my core values - that the artist’s voice must never be silenced.”

Artist Lindy Lee’s statement after her resignation from the Creative Australia board, following the dumping of Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s artist at the Venice Biennale.

Instead of defending its artists, Creative Australia hangs Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry

Opinion | "Creative Australia has hung Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry ... its actions reveal an institution ill-equipped to navigate the current political climate, let alone to defend the rights of artists against partisan attack," @beneltham.bsky.social and @catrionamp.bsky.social write.

Just a week after announcing award-winning Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s pick for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has capitulated to media and political pressure and dumped him.

“An outrageous overreach that threatens the very foundation of independent arts funding.”

National Association for the Visual Arts comes out swinging after Khaled Sabsabi was dumped as Australia’s artist for the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Inside News Corp’s backfired 'UNDERCOVERJEW' operation The Daily Telegraph planned a story featuring an ‘undercover Jewish man’ using covert recording eyewear. CCTV footage shows it didn’t go as planned.

Wow, Daanyal Saeed has the scoop on the pre-planning behind that botched News Corp antisemitism sting on the Cairo. Someone has leaked the assignment brief 👀https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/news-corps-backfired-undercoverjew-operation/

#BREAKING All five artistic teams shortlisted for the 61st Venice Biennale have released a joint statement in support of winning duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino who were dumped by Creative Australia following media and political pressure.

The group calls for them to be reinstated. #auspol

I don't think anyone is demanding that every person needs stacks of film, VHS, DVDs and Blurays but the fact is, owning physical media is the only way to guarantee access to what you wish to see in the future. We are seeing streaming getting yanked on a whim and it's only going to get worse.

ABC staff ‘disgusted’ by handling of Lattouf case The ABC must commission an independent inquiry into the broadcaster’s independence from outside interference and apologise for allowing external pressure to influence the dismissal of Antoinette Latto...

ABC staff say the broadcaster's handling of the Antoinette Lattouf case "destroys any hope that the ABC intends to address the systemic racism identified by the Janke review of last year" www.meaa.org/mediaroom/ab...

Gardening Australia's Costa holding a spade

'So, you've dug yourself into a hole, and don't know how to get out. Well up next, our guest presenters from ABC senior management and their legal team will show you how you can - just keep digging!"

got news that a genocide is continuing. i'm gonna use this to score political points against a small group who didn't vote as enthusiastically as i wanted them to and made some posts i disliked.