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Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

Fucking. Ridiculous.

It’s so fucking gross that the first thought from these deranged losers is how dystopic scenes of war and bloodshed are a “massive opportunity” for Canada’s oil oligarchs to make a quick buck.

BREAKING: Aramco's largest refinery at Ras Tanura hit by projectiles. It is the largest refinery in Saudi Arabia and processes around 550,000 barrels per day.

Any prolonged outage will have significant impacts on Gulf oil supply

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

IRGC Destroys Second US THAAD System in Gulf, Wipes Out UAE Radar and $1.1 Billion Qatar Early Warning Shield — Iran Declares Missile Dominance - Defence Security Asia IRGC precision strikes reportedly destroy a second US THAAD system, its UAE radar, and Qatar’s $1.1 billion early warning system, exposing fractures in America’s Gulf missile defence architecture and ...

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries

This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.

defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...

There is a petition.

I actually don't have words as to how angry I am.

Wonder what happened in these countries that people on student visas in the UK found themselves needing to apply for asylum instead of going home post 2021.

UK Labour are heartless bastards & apparently have bo idea whats happening in the world.

Backing illegal US-Israeli aggression against Iran may be a mindless reflex for PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social, DM Richard Marles but they must answer for innocent lives taken with their complicity

Iran demands international action after attacks impact hospitals, schools Hospitals across Iran have been damaged by US, Israeli strikes - but no reports of direct hits yet.

Schools, sports centres & hospitals damaged by illegal Israeli-US aggression against Iran, including:
Gandhi Hospital
Khatam al-Anbiya Hospital
Motahari Hospital
Valiasr Hospital
Aboozar Children’s Hospital
3 medical emergency centres in the provinces of East Azerbaijan, Sistan-Baluchistan & Hamedan

Australian police are using criminal checks to punish critics of Israel Charges that fail in court are continuing to damage reputations

A core tenet of our justice system is the presumption of innocence. But for two years, police have been undermining this fundamental principle, inflicting lasting damage on innocent people whose only 'crime' is disagreeing with government policy.

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thanks for another great report, Michael! This is an appalling & easily avoidable abuse of SGARs

Calls for change as controversial product found in iconic Aussie spot: 'Unacceptable risk' It's feared they could be having a toxic effect around the surrounding area.

Pest controllers at Parliament House in Canberra are using controversial toxic second-generation baits (SGARs) to control rodents.

SGARs have been linked to the deaths of some of Australia's most iconic animals and birds, including owls and tawny frogmouths.
au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-ch...

The environmental regulation process propping up Maugean skate-endangering industrial salmon farming, is as diseased as the salmon produced by Salmon Tasmania

#ExtinctionFlavouredSalmon #ToxicSalmonFarming

Excellent FOI-based investigative report by Bianca Hall confirms that if you're WoodCIDE & persistently throw hissy fits about the "approval conditions" of your climate-destroying Gas project to 2070, the @albomp.bsky.social WILL capitulate AND obediently get on board w your media statement too

NEW Paper led by Fiona Hoegh-Guldberg on principles, concepts, & a framework for thinking through integrated biodiversity & water management at multiple scales in urban design

Nature-Water Design: Integrating biodiversity and water sensitive urban design

👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This story is bonkers. They honestly think words have multiple meanings and if they arrange them into a plausible enough sentence they are correct. I bet AI wrote the defence

The NT's Finocchiaro govt's gunning for some kinda Guinness world record in native vegetation-threatened species habitat land clearing

Just APPROVED: clearing of ~2,300 ha on Tandyidgee Station owned by Consolidated Pastoral Co

NO referral to Fed Govt for EPBC assessment🤯

Info via ECNT

Iran demands international action after attacks impact hospitals, schools Hospitals across Iran have been damaged by US, Israeli strikes - but no reports of direct hits yet.

Schools, sports centres & hospitals damaged by illegal Israeli-US aggression against Iran, including:
Gandhi Hospital
Khatam al-Anbiya Hospital
Motahari Hospital
Valiasr Hospital
Aboozar Children’s Hospital
3 medical emergency centres in the provinces of East Azerbaijan, Sistan-Baluchistan & Hamedan

In the modern day ALP the party donors always come first.

In second place is the party itself, followed by political self-interest.

Lobbyists, business groups and 'job creators' also feature highly.

The public, the law, the science, the ethics, and the environment aren't even a consideration.

Backing illegal US-Israeli aggression against Iran may be a mindless reflex for PM @albomp.bsky.social, FM @senatorwong.bsky.social, DM Richard Marles but they must answer for innocent lives taken with their complicity

Top donors of Advance Australia Australia | DonationWatch Since 2014, the Advance Australia has received a total of 329 donations exceeding A$1, amounting to a cumulative sum of A$10,620,237.00. Explore detailed information on major donors and donation trend...

Lots of info/data here: donation.watch/en/australia...

But you'd still need to hunt through connections. @anthonyklan.bsky.social's done a TON of research, so I await his expert list!: theklaxon.com.au/white-mans-d...

Env Dept: "recommended Plibersek overturn a decision by the Gillard Labor govt that the salmon farm expansion did not need a full assessment under national environment law, & order a fresh inquiry that could have scaled back or paused farming in the harbour"

Albo govt: EPBC Reconsiderations Bill

Big Oil & Gas will always do its best to make sure that it benefits from war, but they're usually not quite so literal about it.

"VG & Cheniere Seek to Expand LNG Exports to Leverage War Pricing."

marcellusdrilling.com/2026/03/vg-c...

So Nature Positive, @albomp.bsky.social!

Clark & Dawe material

"Peter Dutton was viewed as lacking connection with women & younger voters. Submissions urged a more empathetic and modern presentation of leadership."

"Mr Dutton acknowledged that he trusted the judgment
of very few of his colleagues & doubted the motives of many of them." 🤣

thank you! that would be tremendous 🙏

Warned of grimness by the early The Point live blog, I braced myself

But on first skim, I see touches of heroic diplomacy & hilarity (unintentional though that might be)

I do believe I'll enjoy the Coalition Review of the 2025 Federal Election by Pru Goward & Nick Minchin (download at link👇)

indeed, the Oct 2018 IPCC report was very much what hit me between the eyes...

Not once do the academics or the journalists writing the piece mention the fact that language models just get shit wrong *all the time*.

It is a really shockingly bad piece and shame on everyone involved. You're helping to create the air of credulous, key-jangling awe that justifies all this

In 2024 the San Francisco-based Anthropic deployed its model across the US Department of War and other national security agencies to speed up war planning. Claude became part of a system developed by the war-tech company Palantir with the Pentagon to “dramatically improve intelligence analysis and enable officials in their decision-making processes”. “The AI machine is making recommendations for what to target, which is actually much quicker in some ways than the speed of thought,” said Craig Jones, a senior lecturer in political geography at Newcastle University and an expert in kill chains. “So you’ve got scale and you’ve got speed, you’re [carrying out the] assassination-style strikes at the same time as you’re decapitating the regime’s ability to respond with all the aerial ballistic missiles. That might have taken days or weeks in historic wars. [Now] you’re doing everything at once.” The latest AI systems can rapidly analyse mountains of information on potential targets from drone footage to telecommunications interceptions as well as human intelligence. Palantir’s system uses machine learning to identify and prioritise targets and recommend weaponry, accounting for stockpiles and previous performance against similar targets. It also uses automated reasoning to evaluate legal grounds for a strike.

“This is the next era of military strategy and military technology,” said David Leslie, professor of ethics, technology and society at Queen Mary University of London, who has observed demonstrations of AI military systems. He also warned that reliance on AI can result in “cognitive off-loading”. Humans tasked with making a strike decision can feel detached from its consequences because the effort to think it through has been made by a machine. On Saturday 165 people, many children, were killed in a missile strike that hit a school in southern Iran, according to state media. It appeared to be close to a military barracks and the UN called it “a grave violation of humanitarian law”. The US military has said it is looking into the reports.

In the days before the Iran strikes, the US administration had said it would banish Anthropic from its systems after it refused to allow its AI to be used for fully autonomous weapons or surveillance of US citizens. But it remains in use until it is phased out. Anthropic’s rival, OpenAI, quickly signed its own deal with the Pentagon for military use of its models. “The advantage is in the speed of decision-making, the collapsing of planning from what might have taken days or weeks before to minutes or seconds,” said Leslie. “These systems produce a set of options for human decision makers but [they’ve] got a much narrower time band … to evaluate the recommendation.” “The deployment of AI is expanding,” said Prerana Joshi, research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence thinktank. “It is being done across countries’ defence estates … across logistics, training, decision management, maintenance.” She added: “AI is a technology that will allow decision makers, and anyone in that chain, to improve the productivity and efficiency of what they do. It’s a way of synthesising data at a much faster pace that is helpful to decision makers.”

This article and the academics quoted are a stunning illustration of how both media and academia have fundamentally failed to recognise how a random number generator is being used to widen the already-fucking-wide permission space for mass murder

Both now helping that project

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