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😞 Let me know if you need to vent at some stage.

Conspiracy Nation: Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson deep dive into the strange beliefs and hidden worlds of their new book Conspiracy Nation

Very excited to host a conversation with @arielbogle.bsky.social and @cameronwilson.bsky.social at UNSW to discuss Conspiracy Nation, their new book out now. Come join us as we talk about the book, their experience writing it, and buy a copy while you're there!
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I wouldn't go as far as agreeing with them ...

LEO Satellites are superior to NBN's Skymuster & other players are entering the LEO Satellite market, including a Canadian telco Telesat.

It's also a relatively small customer base - NBN's Skymuster service has less than 80,000 customers.

And a quarter of Australian companies were not complying with their basic modern slavery reporting requirements, because there is "no significant enforcement framework," according to a Federal Government review led by John McMillan in 2023.

Good luck!

(I'm hoping something good goes in the former Shakhari site in Carlton.)

“Before attendees file in, or when one colleague asks another to hang back to discuss a separate matter, AI notetakers may pick up on the small talk and private discussions meant for a select audience, then blast direct quotes to everyone in the meeting.” 🙃

The past year has also been the first time in a decade that I don't receive CommsDay every weekday :)

(I missed that Amazon Kuiper has now got a carrier license.)

The ISPs selling Skymuster will be pleased to have another option for rural & regional customers.

Amazon's project kuiper has signed a deal with NBN to provide the LEO satellite service to replace the much maligned Skymuster from next year.

I've also been in spaces where people say stuff so meaningless but they get celebrated as visionary because they mastered corporate speak. It's really bleak.

Elon isn't a genius. He just knew how to build hype and say shit to willing ears

More seriously: they're tapping into something else - whose "genius" gets recognized.
Every woman has had the experience of saying something, it being ignored and then a man saying it and that same thing being celebrated.

Stupidly rich people apparently genuinely worried how they will survive retirement with just $3m in superannuation plus all the money in other investments that they use to minimise tax. I have no tears left to cry.

The grift isn’t subtle anymore

How about saying "we will not tolerate any intimidation towards asylum seekers, racist and xenophobic violence has no place in our society", instead? How about hearing the worries of those of us who are concerned by the ever rising xenophobia in the country?

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

Incredible work.

Governments are becoming increasingly secretive. Here’s how they can be made to be more transparent As freedom of information disclosures decrease and less documents are available for public scrutiny, we need better ways to hold politicians to account.

"Labor spoke a big transparency game in opposition, they have done little in government. We need to demand that they do."

A very useful overview on what can be done to make our Government more transparent:

The Chair & Deputy Chair roles are yet to be appointed, however, ALP & Coalition MPs & Senators have now been appointed to the important Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence & Security:

This, of course, is arguably already unlawful. Australian Privacy Principle 11.2 requires personal info that is no longer needed to be destroyed or de-identified. Some well placed complaints to the regulator might be useful here. www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/priv...

The EM suggests harms intended to be addressed include risks arising from:
> exposure to harmful content, including content such as drug abuse, suicide, and self-harm,
> harmful features such as persistent notifications & alerts which have a negative impact on sleep, stress levels, and attention.

This point highlights the lack of clarity from the Government about what specific harms the minimum age laws are intended to mitigate ...

It's been the default for so long, sadly.

In the gap between words and deeds, Albanese is confronted with an urgent problem The prime minister's address at Garma this weekend contained strong commitments on economic development and land rights, but what was left unsaid became a talking point.

The prime minister's address at Garma this weekend contained strong commitments on economic development and land rights, but what was left unsaid became a talking point.

“The Coalition must refrain from pursuing culture war issues and respect the intelligence of the Australian people by formulating nuanced, meaningful policy,” it said.

Our 2025 Voltaire Award winner, Dr Mo, will be featured on the ABC’s Australian Story tonight:
abc.net.au/news/program..., profiling his extraordinary work both providing and advocating for medical care for the children of Gaza.

This over-takedown of content needs to be taken into consideration as Australia's moves forward to legislate it's own "digital duty of care".

Liberty Victoria's Voltaire Human Rights Awards Dinner 2025 Liberty Victoria's Voltaire Human Rights Awards Dinner 2025, a celebration of free speech

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We are proud to announce that the recipient of this year’s Liberty Victoria Voltaire Human Rights award is Dr Mohammed Mustafa.
He is an English-Australian emergency physician trainee, humanitarian, and former international athlete of Palestinian heritage.
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Mo has nightmares about Gaza. His dream is to open a children's hospital there Mohammed 'Dr Mo' Mustafa might only be a junior doctor from Perth, but he's got the ear of leaders from around the world as he tries to turn his dream of a children's hospital in Gaza into reality.

Mohammed 'Dr Mo' Mustafa might only be a junior doctor from Perth, but he's got the ear of leaders from around the world as he tries to turn his dream of a children's hospital in Gaza into reality.

The deadly $10b illegal trade that could wipe out legitimate businesses We can now conclude that the strategy of taxing and banning nicotine addiction out of existence is a complete failure. The result is organised crime making about $10 billion a year in revenue.

We can now conclude that the strategy of taxing and banning nicotine addiction out of existence is a complete failure. The result is organised crime making about $10 billion a year in revenue.