Meet the author - Sean Kelly Sean Kelly will be in conversation with Amy Remeikis on his new Quarterly Essay, The Good Fight. What Does Labor Stand For? In this subtle and brilliant essay, Kelly explores whether Labor is still up...

Everyone is paying attention to the toddlers having a meltdown, we really should be looking at what the supposed ‘adults’ in the room are actually doing. That’s what actually matters.

Come and have a chat to Sean Kelly and I about it at ANU Meet the Author

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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.

Bovino is emblematic of the moral bankruptcy of the Trump admin's immigration policy — one that treats hardworking men and women here for decades just raising their families and trying to live a normal life the same as the few actual hardened criminals who pose real, genuine public safety threats.

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.

“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

Wow: the Trump administration is for the first time ever designating four "Antifa" groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

This is a big step. Until now, they had only pursued a domestic terrorist org designation, which has less teeth than FTO.

a quick thread of some of the references to Australia in the newly released Epstein documents that I found

Epstein was texting with someone (potentially Steve Bannon?) who said "The Australian Cardinal could be the worst" on the day that George Pell was convicted of sexually abusing two choir boys

YouTube video by Ette Media John Laws’ lasting legacy

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An exchange on twitter. controlla.xyz: If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans lesliejandersonwriter: If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!

I love this.

Just a reminder - even if the LNP had not decided to dump the net zero target, they would still be irrelevant to what the Govt can do.

"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!

A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge

The American government removed 2 monuments to Black American Soldiers in the Netherlands. Now the *Dutch* government is demanding they be returned.
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show.

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pretty weird that our second most populous state will treat 14 year olds like they're adults, but won't let them on social media until they're 16. feels like a bit of dissonance there

This is a good lesson for Australia. If you can't do anything in a 3 year term, you can't do it in 4, or apparently 5. The problem is not the term length, the problem is the culture and incompetence of the politics of the people who rise to the top in our parties.

Oh jeez that is seriously fucked up.

In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.

They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.

This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
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Whitlam’s legacy is one of possibility and hope. He showed us what a brave, grown up Australia could look like. Whitlam showed us what a brave, grown up Australia could look like.  And 50 years later, you have to wonder – is it even possible to make Australia brave again?

“Whitlam knew the role of government and how to wield it. But he also knew the role of leadership. Of not allowing mealy mouthed vested interests to narrow the debate window to a reflective strip”

Great piece on @thepointau.bsky.social by @amyremeikis.bsky.social

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Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

How much money do you think a private school linked to Scientology should get from the NSW Government?

In 2022, the Athena school with only 55 students received total Government funding of over a million dollars.

Gorgeous from @mikepbowers.bsky.social

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The foreign election interference that no one wants to talk about.

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social

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You've got your flagrant cowardice, your too-clever-by-half DC-brained tactical maneuvering that fools no one but impresses reporters, your fealty to bipartisanship in an era when your opponents are dumping diarrhea on your head, your insane belief in the power of symbolic votes ... everything.

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain).

Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

BREAKING: At least two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack east of Gaza's Khan Younis, Al Jazeera’s team on the ground and Wafa are reporting.

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At least some people’s lives have improved in Donald Trump’s America.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.