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Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars

All chatbots are right wing chatbots. 🤷🏿‍♂️

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".

But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

Culture Crave @CultureCrave X.com Stellan Skarsgärd on his worldviews "My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody's worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I've carried around in my life. That's why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it" "In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It's not. It's only freedom to exploit people" (via @vulture)

VULTURE Vulture # @vulture Stellan Skarsgärd on why he protested for Palestine "right after" October 7: "The thing was that you knew what was going to happen. Because since 1948, they've been doing the same thing. If the Palestinians kill one, they'll kill ten. Plus they'll bulldoze the home of the family and friends ….. Every night, I think about it. Every night." - Stellan Skarsgärd, on why he protested for Palestine "right after" October 7

Good grief why is Stellan Skarsgård cooking so hard?

I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard

Screenshot of text from p. 7 of the Explanatory Memorandum for the Bill: "However, the dates of effect in the CCS system for three types of decisions concerning the reconciliation of CCS entitlements do not align with the dates of effect under the Family Assistance Administration Act. As a result of the discrepancy, individuals who have failed to meet the deadlines have either been over or underpaid CCS for up to two weeks. The retrospective amendments ensure that the relevant decisions for CCS reconciliations were validly made. The amendments waive any debts that may have arisen as a result of the misalignment. This prevents the need for recovery action to be taken against families who were overpaid. The amendments also mean that families were not underpaid as a result of the discrepancy. To mitigate any potential adverse impact on individuals, the amendments provide a mechanism for individuals to seek compensation if they can show that the retrospective amendments resulted in an acquisition of their property other than on just terms."

Dept of Education has been making incorrect Child Care Subsidy (CCS) entitlement decisions - says ICT system does not align with the law. Some people have been over or underpaid CCS for up to 2 weeks.
Bill will retrospectively validate previous decisions: parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...

With all due respect to Tom (seriously, not being sarcastic), I think he's wrong. Anyone who thinks this has not paid attention to how the successfully completely reversed the trajectory of trans equality in the UK in only 10 years.

They will probably manage the same with abortion.

Absolutely maddening that this isn't a bigger news story outside of NI tbh. Loyalists are literally threatening to burn shit down over dual language signage, but Palestine Action are the big scary terrorists that we all need to be talking about, right?

hailey @hailey.at if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

Are you trans, want to escape the UK, but only have a British passport? You can live in Ireland and get an Irish (EU) passport by naturalisation. No visa needed!

UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding.

Note: Healthcare is still free.

If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport.

👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it

authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

Public Service Commissioner cleared after lid lifted on secret investigations Complaints arose after public service robodebt inquiries.

Australian Public Service Commission Gordon de Brouwer was subject to two complaints and two investigations over his handling of the Robodebt referrals, he has now been cleared of any wrongdoing. Gee I wonder who made those complaints! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/903018...

We often don't call out good long term work in case it jinxes it i reckon 😂

This is the reaction of cowards.

But more importantly it is the result of lobbying by a far right extremist group which has managed to finally get their way after *years* of trying to destroy any trace of anything they disagree with.

I've learned a lot and become a lot less despondent about rail infra modernisation in Aus

Rewatching heartbreak high at the mo, almost up to the new series

Ben Grimm, Galactus, Susan Storm, Reed Richards and Johnny Storm celebrate with a sensible chuckle after killing Hitler

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

Swans defender Riak Andrew cops a 5 week ban for using a homophobic slur.

This is massive progress. 12 years ago when I was vilified on the @AFL field myself and my wife were the only players banned.

www.news.com.au/sport/afl/yo...

Everything public is a great step too

The headline says in bold capitals “FOR PITYS SAKE STOP THIS NOW” The sub heading reads “The suffering of little Muhammad clinging on to life in Gaza hell shakes us all.” The paper is dominated by a photo of Muhammad emancipated with tiny arms and legs and bones protruding. It’s horrific.

NEW: Today’s front page of the UK Daily Express is significant.

Few right-wing newspapers have been as pro-Israel and supportive of the Israeli military than this newspaper.

It seems even they now draw the line at the intentional starvation of children.

Disgracefully late, but significant still.

Ken Henry wants Australia's media to do a better job Ken Henry, a former treasury secretary, says the media has to hold Australia's political system accountable for its policy failures

If the media were better they wouldn’t be saying “your plan is great Ken”.
They’d be asking if “nature positive” actually means anything. And have offsets worked literally anywhere? And why try to privatise conservation efforts rather than simply funding them?
And what are your interests, Ken?

The casual gender essentialism in mother's groups really isn't talked about a lot. It's really annoying trying to be polite and not alienate people while explaining that no, monster truck shows aren't just for boys, or boys can like princess dresses, or kids might not even feel attached to a gender.

Guardian Australia Opinion: Yes, AI is getting scarier. So why do I need that loveless machine to tell me everything will be all right? By Van Badham

Van Badham finally finds her joy in sucking on a vacuum cleaner nozzle

Drew Hutton helped found the Australian Greens. So why has the troubled party booted him from its ranks? The former life member says his support of those voicing ‘trans-critical’ views is a matter of free speech – but others say it’s a question of what values the party supports

Very pleased to read the Greens have expelled or forced out more than 40 TERFs and bigots, and that Drew Hutton is soon to join them.

Very amusing seeing all these bigoted old white people sooking that politics has passed them by.

She won’t tell her husband not to spend the family money on supporting hate speech, but is happy to tell government, universities, media etc
Rightio.

Jillian Segal needs to be removed from any government appointed position asap

As I reported on Thursday, News Corp and the Liberal party were waiting for Segal’s report to launch a fresh attack on Khaled Sabsabi (and the new Sydney Biennale artistic director) accusing them of anti-semitism