Eddie

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

Consultancy firm charging $440k for an AI generated report with huge errors? Ethical, apparently.

To the NACC: can you tell us why there haven't been any public hearings into the Robodebt matter?

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NACC says: No comment.

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Genuinely cannot wait for this, it is going to redefine the ways a game can suck ass

😭

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

You said it, Ronni.

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
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Always remember - gas companies hate selling gas to Australians and none of the proposals for new gas fields (which are not needed) will be for domestic use.

So do not buy any of the spin.

Dr. Agarwal is among more than 20 researchers who have left their work at Meta, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other big A.I. projects in recent weeks to join a new Silicon Valley start-up, Periodic Labs. Many of them have given up tens of millions of dollars — if not hundreds of millions — to make the move. As the A.I. labs chase amorphous goals like superintelligence and a similar concept called artificial general intelligence, Periodic is focused on building A.I technology that can accelerate new scientific discoveries in areas like physics and chemistry. “The main objective of A.I. is not to automate white-collar work,” said Liam Fedus, one of the start-up’s founders. “The main objective is to accelerate science.” Mr. Fedus was among the small team of OpenAI researchers who created the online chatbot ChatGPT in 2022. He left OpenAI in March to found Periodic Labs with Ekin Dogus Cubuk, who previously worked at Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s primary A.I. lab.

1) This is some pretty remarkable shade thrown at the big AI companies by a startup that's hiring away their researchers

2) That those researchers are giving up millions to do this indicates a rising level of discomfort with OpenAI/Meta/Google/etc's moral standing

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Article naming Tony Blair to be with Trump in the “Board of Peace”

Not sure I could come up with three people I would trust less with the lives of Palestinians than Trump, Netanyahu and Blair

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.

i told my landlord they're releasing the amelia earhart files and he lowered my rent 50%. i told my grocer and he gave me a free nectarine. i told my doctor and he said i didn't have to pay for the visit. try it. you never know who out there has been waiting for this moment.

Nope, he has always refused to answer the question.

What's worse about Hastie though, is that like Morrison, he's an opportunistic narcissist.

And he's funded, endorsed and adored by Gina Rinehart.

Andrew Hastie - without the ugly drinking and the scandals - is Gina's new, improved Barnaby toy.

You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.

The performative mourning driven by social media, was from blueprints sitting there in large conservative think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, waiting to be deployed

The alleged outrage was at its core, manufactured recreational grief-bait

My latest in The Shot

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ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post Dispute began when radio presenter’s on-air shifts were cut short in 2023

The ABC really just stepped on every rake.
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brain rot | noun | mindless digital content; the fixation on it and harmful mental effects of it

Head of the AMA, Danielle McMullen: "There are no studies showing that paracetamol use in pregnancy causes autism."

Any journalists giving one iota of credence to Trump's claims deserve to be sacked for propagating lies.

Single frame. Gaza. Destruction zone including distant Palestinian flag on a heap of rubble, a distant fire. A few wanderers. Foreground, two skinny kids sitting, one with phone, one with bag and pot. First scary: “Wow. Israelis able to take out specific targets in Iran with incredible accuracy…” other kid says “Just like here.”

Target.
My @smh cartoon.

What a shock that all the journalists who for two years smugly said they wouldn’t call it a genocide unless the UN does, are still not calling it a genocide after the UN did

Matt Friend is absolutely amazing! If you look away from the video you would swear it’s these people actually talking. Although he also has the facial expressions down pat! What a talented guy!

A little comic relief for a Saturday! 🤣🤣🤣

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

If you’re canceling subscription services with giant companies with ties to terrible people, you should think about replacing them with a library card. Many library systems give you access to physical media (some of which you can’t find on streaming!) as well as other great stuff.

10/10. No notes.

ASIC Chair Joe Longo explains why ASIC didn’t punish fmr ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott

“In Aus we don’t lightly ban ppl from their employment, we don’t lightly send them to jail, we don’t lightly impose penalties on them or ruin their reputation”

Unless you’re a whistleblower, then you’re screwed

The hit piece commissioned because they were scared of our ad: