Fergus Ryan

This powerful message to our representatives in Canberra and the rest of the world:

This drone footage of the march for Palestine over the Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday.

🎥 ahmed.bassal.official

#Australia #auspol #Palestine

UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds Exclusive: university staff report being pressured to change teaching and are told that Chinese surveillance is rife

UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds – The Guardian: ‘reported instances of harassment from colleagues and pressure from university administrators related to the financial consequences of damaging relations with China.’

A pro-social use for LLMs.

Nayib Bukele could now rule El Salvador for life His supermajority in the legislative assembly has removed the constitutional barriers to unlimited re-election

El Salvador’s legislature has voted to remove the term limits on the office of the presidency. Bukele can now rule for life [$] www.economist.com/the-americas...

Australia's trial of age check technologies has been handed to the government, the people behind the trial say.

Interesting it flags about "evolving findings".

lmao

Karen Middleton on Insiders predicting that Australia is likely to recognise a Palestinian state before the UN General Assembly in September to avoid the diplomatic awkwardness of abstaining or voting against a recognition resolution.

'Right moment'? Australia risks losing power and respect on Gaza Power isn’t always earned, but respect is. Wait too long and you end up diluting both. It's a lesson for Labor on the horror in Gaza.

'Right moment'? Australia risks losing power and respect on Gaza

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Where is the reporting of this in Australia?
Where are the condemnations of it by Israel’s supporters?
It’s an Israeli minister stating his intention to genocide.

What’s Behind the Youth Unemployment Statistics Beijing Just Decided to Stop Publishing? This week, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced it would cease collecting data on youth unemployment. The news came after nearly a decade of poor job prospects for Chinese people ages 16-24...

Xi was forcing the stats dept to hide unfavorable employment numbers before it was cool

Get ready to learn to speak Chinese economic data alternatives, buddy:

This gives me hope for US China relations since both countries now produce official statistics in the same way, continuing the convergence between the two governments

Molly Roberts excellent book _Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall_ provides helpful analytics for this moment of Trumpian rule.

Traditionally, censorship operates through fear -- journalists are scared to report and citizens scared to share for fear of the state.

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

Exciting! UNSW is hosting Ariel and I to talk about our book CONSPIRACY NATION on August 13th and it's freeeee!

You can register for the event here.
events.humanitix.com...

Sorry America, but it's not Australia's fault that your healthcare system is failing you | John Quiggin Donald Trump has blamed ‘freeloader’ countries like Australia for the high cost of medicines. Unfortunately the grim statistics tell a different story

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

河北人从小就被植入“当好北京护城河”的记忆；
河北人非法进入北京会遭到追捕；
河北人只能从事高危工种直到干不动了就强制退休；
河北人遭到歧视。
所以河北人是复制人。

The journos banned from 7am podcast + ABC staff fire up + Our picks of the week First of all, here's what we have for you this week: * Killer Grabs: Quotes from around the traps. * Exclusive: Schwartz Media bans journalists from appearing on 7am podcast— By Scott Mitchell * W...

For those looking for a Friday wrap of cracking media yarns rn, we've got a couple.

- Schwartz Media bans journalists from appearing on 7am podcast
- Why the ABC finally issued a statement about Gaza

www.lamestream.com.au/the-journos-...

Daily Telegraph Front Page calling out ALbanese for not meeting Trump like 20 other world leaders

Absolutely stellar journalism by the Daily Telegraph, criticising Albanese on it front page for not having met Trump on the very day Trump announces Australia is getting the lowest tariffs of anyone

Beijing officials say 31 older people trapped in a senior center died in floods Beijing officials say a group of older people trapped in a nursing home that flooded were among the dead in powerful storms that lashed the city and neighboring provinces.

Thinking about the 31 elderly people trapped in the senior care facility in Miyun, Beijing that died. CCTV had triumphantly featured rescue videos from that same nursing home three days prior with no mention of the deaths-- apnews.com/article/chin...

I wonder what Kudlow would have said about the idea of a $900 billion economic fund directly managed by President Obama. I suspect he would have correctly called it socialism.

I spend way more time in Readwise reader than any social media site

Socialism with Chinese characteristics has delivered nationwide high speed rail, cutting edge AI and EVs, and sent people to space but cannot devise a system to make sure construction workers get paid for their labor

Dilan Esper@dilanesper•1d g China basically took over Tibet, which had been independent. Since then, they have meddled in the country's religion, and invited Han Chinese to move in and change the ethnic/religious composition of the province. And yet, nobody is seriously saying China must pull out of Tibet. 288 t7 374 O 3.7K 1hl 259K Jesse Anderson @THEZONEEEEEE Follow This doesn't seem like a

real ones know that this is eerily similar to when Madds Mickelsen asked his kids if he should be in a Rihanna interview

HUGE NEWS DUA LIPA X HELEN GARNER

Three figures: Emmanuel Macron stands bold with hand aloft saying “We will recognise Palestine!” Kier Starmer with a finger slightly raised, says “We will recognise Palestine - unless Israel stops killing Palestinians.” Anthony Albanese with a finger barely raised says, “We’ll recognise Palestine when we’re ready (if there are any Palestinians left).”

Gestures.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

X lost its appeal in the case where it tried to argue eSafety couldn't fine them for failing to answer questions on tackling terror or child abuse material because the original notice was issued to Twitter, and they claimed Twitter "ceased to exist" when it became X.

This is not going away.

this has killed me. dua lupa is completely OzLit-pilled. she's texting katy perry about Cloudstreet's depiction of Aussie suburban life. her next album is just titled "ALIBRANDI"