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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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A fantastic first week of research collaboration at the "Combinatorics of McKay and Wormald" research program. www.matrix-inst.org.au/events/combi...

It's a real privilege to have both Brendan McKay and Nick Wormald present—two pioneers whose foundational work continues to shape the field.

The Reasoning Void
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There is a straight line from when people started decrying diversity statements as "political tests" to now replacing them with actual political tests.

l FINANCIAL REVIEW Russia-Ukraine war - Exclusive Queensland firm probed over parts in Russian 'Frankenstein' missile Andrew Tillett Foreign affairs, defence correspondent

So it’s a problem for conservative media when our missile parts are used by Russia but not by Israel???? You cannot make this shit up. It is so incredibly racist.

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. @jessielilley.bsky.social Got in before me! I'm launching a new independent media outlet with Antoun Issa, formerly of the Guardian and Al-Monitor.

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New State Department style guide requires trans people to be misgendered in all communications | Katelyn Burns Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon

Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

Crazy that this is the first piece that decided to actually examine if Gaza “cost the Greens votes”. If the party ever wants to get outside the white enclaves of Sydney and Melbourne this kind of campaigning is what they need to do, and it pays off? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Baraka Arrested for 'Trespassing' at Controversial Immigrant Detention Facility - Insider NJ Authorities with Homeland Securities Investigations at the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall this afternoon arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

Y'all ICE just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for "trespassing" at one of their black site detention centers. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

This is pretty much all we get from the media, a constant message of how extreme we are for wanting Australia to stop breaching international law and actually sanction Israel which is carrying out daily massacres and starving kids to death. None of our many other policies are mentioned.

It’s a very dark reflection on the state of Australian politics that Labor (including Albanese) seem more satisfied with defeating Bandt than Dutton.

Progressive voters are tricking themselves into thinking this election was a great result, but Australia’s centre of gravity keeps going right.

Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)

Bleak.

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A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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Israel approves plans to intensify Gaza operations, official says An Israeli official says Cabinet ministers have approved plans to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip.

BREAKING: Israeli ministers agree on plan to capture all of Gaza and remain there for an unspecified amount of time, two officials say.

As every election, worth pointing out that the Greens win 1-2 reps seats despite winning 12% of national vote, while the Nats win 10+ seats on just 4% of natl vote

Two arrested over bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio attended by millions Two people have been arrested in connection to an alleged planned attack on Brazil’s LGBTQ community at the singer’s Sunday concert, police say

“Two people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to detonate explosives at a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro, in what authorities believe was an attempt to target Brazil’s LGBTQ community. More than 2 million people were in attendance.”

Labour promised trans people dignity. I am not sure it knows the meaning of the word | Nicky Bandini The terror I felt after coming out as a trans woman was assuaged by the acceptance I encountered in the real world. Someone should let our policymakers know, says football writer and broadcaster Nicky...

Had to take a step out of my sports writing comfort zone this week to say a thing that needed to be said.

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Visas terminated for 15 UCF students "We reach out to relay that information to the student and advise they leave the country."

Wow—15 international students at the University of Central Florida have had their visas revoked as a result of the school's signed partnership with ICE. One was detained. Literally handed over to immigration cops by their own university. Despicable.

FRX17 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2018) 262 FCR 1; [2018] FCA 63 (9 February 2018) Pre-teen refugee at risk of developing psychotic depressive illness and with history of suicide attempts ordered to be transferred for acute, specialist, inpatient care, not available on Nauru, through interlocutory injunction. AYX18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 283 (6 March 2018) Ten-year-old refugee with a history of attempts on his own life ordered by the Court to be transferred to Australian specialist inpatient care, not available on Nauru, through interlocutory injunction. DCQ18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 918 (15 June 2018) Thirty-year-old with a history of attempts on her own life ordered by the Court to be transferred to Australia for termination of pregnancy, not available on Nauru, through interlocutory injunction.

BAF18 v Minister for Home Affairs (2018) 162 ALD 115; [2018] FCA 1060 (11 July 2018) Seventeen-year-old refugee with history of self-harm and suicide ideation ordered by the Court to be transferred to specialist inpatient or acute community-based care, not available on Nauru, through interlocutory injunction. DJA18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 1050 (11 July 2018) Two-year-old refugee with encephalitis who had already been transferred to Port Moresby ordered by the Court to be transferred to Australia for appropriate care, not available on Nauru, through interlocutory injunction. DRB18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 1163 (25 July 2018) Twenty-seven-year-old refugee who had potentially suffered a penetrating eye injury ordered to be transferred to appropriate medical assessment and care, not available on Nauru, through interlocutory injunction. DWE18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 1121 (26 July 2018) Child suffering resignation syndrome with a history of self-harm ordered by the Court to be transferred to specialist inpatient care in Australia, through interlocutory injunction. EHW18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 1350 (31 August 2018) Forty-six-year-old refugee on Manus Island who was diabetic, blind in one eye from an assault in Papua New Guinea and going blind in the other who was also at an elevated risk of suicide ordered to be removed from Papua New Guinea to Australia for treatment. ELF18 v Minister for Home Affairs [2018] FCA 1368 (3 September 2018) Female refugee previously hospitalised “for a considerable period” after a violent incident on Nauru, suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and at risk of self-harm ordered to be transferred to Sydney for inpatient care. [Insufficient characters...]

As Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton repeatedly argued in court against providing life-saving medical care to lawful refugees and asylum seekers in Australia's care.

Here's a list of just some of the lives he tried to subject to negligent care in 2018 alone.

A significant trigger warning here.

University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.

"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."

Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.

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Israel has attacked Yarmouk stadium in Gaza city, where thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians have taken shelter.

Melbourne cinema says threats caused it to cancel fundraising screening of Oscar-winning Palestinian displacement film Exclusive: Jewish Council of Australia’s Sophia Kagan says she was told there were protests planned against the screening of No Other Land in Elsternwick

A Melbourne cinema cancelled a Jewish Council of Australia screening of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land after saying threats were received. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

Hope the tests stay negative and you feel better soon.

An Australian was denied US entry for bizarre reasons. He’s not alone One Australian traveller says he’s now $15,000 out of pocket after being denied entry to the US after “enhanced vetting”. His crime? Choosing a cheap fare.

Another source for the incident:

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