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Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks.

The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️

We need to talk about Sudan.

After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale.

There is so much blood it can be seen from space.

Sudan: Reported Massacre At Hospital in Sudan's El Fasher Leaves 460 Dead Horrific stories of mass-atrocities committed by the RSF militia continue to emerge, along with the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the North Darfur city of El Fasher in Sudan.

'"No child is safe," said UNICEF chief Catherine Russell. "While the full scale of the impact remains unclear... estimated 130,000 children in El Fasher are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing & maiming, and sexual violence."'

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these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

Anzac biscuit - Wikipedia

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

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.

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".

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.

Three citation urls that include the source being chatgpt.

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Chris Sidoti

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

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...

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.

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

i made a helpful reference

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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"

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...

"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."