Mathieu O'Neil

Go judge Immergut!

University leaders keep saying we need to prepare our students for an AI future. But this is basically what the technology is good for. This and burning up the environment while raising everyone’s utility costs.

Have not read the paper so unsure what those citizens are disgruntled about but if for ex. their economic concerns (unemployment? healthcare costs?) are unaddressed any amount of deliberation won't matter... bad of me to speculate know

No way, deliberation never fails ;-) [to read later..]

Same playbook, same funding sources. The IPA is not alone! 'Kirk promised oil and gas companies he’d fight “the myth that fossil fuels are dirty,” and target the “leftist professors” on college campuses who “perpetuated” the “myth.”' #auspol #climate

[Eventually Stewart stops interrupting with 'jokes' and] the wonderful #MariaRessa reminds us that Duterte now sits in the Hague awaiting judgement. The key is to stand against authoritarian encroachments as its much harder to regain lost rights than to defend existing ones. #auspol

Every one can do this

How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and...

Biden and his entourage and the feckless Dems: words fail.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Who commits more domestic terrorism: left-wing or right-wing extremists? I compiled a brief literature review using various sources including the FBI, DHS, GAO, and academic studies.

The facts: far-right extremism is now the predominant domestic terrorist threat.

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Not every day you can get something worth reading at an airport bookshop...

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

Horst Wessel 2.0: a made-up conspiracy...
US people and institutions with a voice better speak up. It's happening.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

What's the status of governance reform... at UC @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social ?

Wondering what the good old right thinking folk of Xitter are currently discussing lately reminds me why l left and also makes me ask "why oh why do not-insane journalists, pols etc remain on a platform which is being explicitly and blatantly manipulated by an (apparent) sociopath!?"

Israeli conductor condemns his country in extraordinary Proms outburst - Jewish News After condemning the "atrocious and horrific" situation in Gaza, Ilan Volkov told The Times that he would not work in Israel for the foreseeable future

'a number of audience members had specifically booked tickets to that Prom in order to support an Israeli performer [...] Volkov responded to the hecklers by telling them “You can go if you don’t want politics. Politics is part of life.”'
www.jewishnews.co.uk/israeli-cond...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Protecting Big Tech, not free speech Trump and Farage are using censorship as a cloak for disinformation

“Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate.”
www.ft.com/content/62b1...

If the rockingest US bands in the last decade or so - La Luz, Cherry Glazer, LA Witch, The Coathangers, Die Spitz, etc - are all women + the greatest techno DJ in the world (Fernanda Martins) is also female, does this mean there is still hope for humanity or is this just salve on our wound? #music

"Trump is attempting a fascist power grab, out in the open, for all the world to see — and Democratic leaders and their wonks don’t feel like it’s worth their time to even warn the public about what Trump is doing, or what he’s likely to do next, let alone try to stop him." #bluerose #democratic

'Just suppose that the great majority of Trump voters are not oblivious or deluded, that they more or less understand his policies and like them, as well as his performative cruelty, vulgarity and general jackassery.' #democracy #failure #whatnow

Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge

We were always at war with Oceania? The lunatics have taken over the asylum? The foxes are in the henhouse? Terrorists pardoned and prosecutors fired! (gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...

Whatever government contract Microsoft has with the #auspol government, now is the time to burn it.

www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...

OOF: 'This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredThis is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have done to the world.'

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

Intense: 'The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust' 'The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people.' www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

What good does repeating the obvious do? Asking for a friend, like #auspol

Somehow all the happy talk about how much "productivity" will be unleashed by the "AI revolution" always forgets to mention their massive environmental costs #auspol

LOL

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A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Download link here: zenodo.org/records/1569...

Good playbook for scientists and researchers to navigate changing social environment in certain areas. Thanks, EU🇪🇺

Newsom announces agreements to embed AI products from Big Tech into state colleges, high schools The announcement comes amid massive hype and significant concerns over the “generative AI” technology that can produce text, video, sound and computer code in response to prompts from u…

Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing??

(I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop)

How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say?

www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...