dr honk*

Defence skips competitive tender process to award Palantir multimillion-dollar contract Defence awards Palantir multi-million dollar contract without competition.

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/917863...
We knew #Morrison was utterly corrupt, but #Marles & @australianlabor.bsky.social are really having a crack! #CorioVotes #AustraliaVotes #auspol

Fuck Trump

Fuck Netanyahu

Fuck Khamenei

It is entirely possible, nay completely rational, to hold all these opinions at once.

The peoples of the USA, Israel and Iran deserve so much better.

#NoWar #NoWarWithIran

When Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult,” he said more than he intended I can think of countless words to describe former Australian of the Year, Grace Tame. Brave. Strong. Whip-smart. Uncompromising. Fearless. As a young woman who courageously confronted her own harrowing experience of grooming and rape to advocate for other survivors, successfully overturning laws that had historically silenced victims, it’s hard to see her in any other light. At every turn, through the most gruelling and public of reckonings, Tame treated her voice as a responsibility, even when it wasn’t hers to bear. So, when Anthony Albanese opted for “difficult” as a descriptor during a light-hearted word-association game at the Future Victoria Summit, it was hard to stomach. The PM even paused, long enough to suggest he understood the choice, and then delivered it with a wry smile. “Difficult.” The contrast in his language elsewhere was striking. Asked to describe Donald Trump in one word, Albanese chose “President.” A simple, institutional descriptor for a man accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, found liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, convicted of felony crimes relating to hush money payments, and repeatedly named in the Epstein files. A man who has repeatedly referred to women as animals (or worse). When the topic turned to the Australian women detained in Syria after aligning with ISIS, Albanese said, “they made their bed, they’re lying in it”. Ruthless condemnation to a complex humanitarian and legal debate that concerns women who were likely abused and children who are innocent. And then there was Australia Day. “Great!” he offered, enthusiastically, with no mention of the date remaining profoundly divisive and painful for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait people. > View this post on Instagram > > A post shared by ABC News (@abcnews_au) Altogether, it’s a curious calibration of language. Somewhere along the line, the PM, who in his first years of government tracked as steady and quietly competent, appears to have absorbed the misguided memo that Australians are seeking a callous strongman. Deserted women and children? Pfft. Needless pain for First Nations communities? What of it? Support for a courageous advocate and survivor of sexual assault? Not likely. Albanese could have chosen any number of words to describe Tame, but “difficult” showed a side of him that rings alarmingly for many of us. Because women are used to being called difficult. We know this word intimately. If we don’t laugh at the offensive joke. If we refuse to smooth the tension in a room. If we speak up against uncomfortable truths. We’ve encountered it in boardrooms, in media commentary, in classrooms, in politics, and often around our own dinner tables. Tame grasped the subtext immediately. This morning, she reposted a series of social media posts including one that read: “‘Difficult’ is the misogynist’s code for a woman who won’t comply. History tends to call her ‘courageous’.” > View this post on Instagram > > A post shared by Harrison James (@itsharrijames) Greens leader Larissa Waters put it plainly, saying labelling women as “difficult” won’t “stop us from speaking truth to power.” And that’s the core point. Grace Tame is not “difficult” for the hell of it. She is difficult for those who would prefer silence. She is difficult to change the outcomes for so many women who have been destroyed by the system. History is rarely shaped by the agreeable. It tends to remember the women who disrupted, who agitated and who made it impossible to look away. Difficult, on the other hand? Is confronting the sad reality that Albanese may not be the man and leader we thought him to be. Share this AlbaneseGrace Tame by Tarla Lambert-Patel 2 days ago ## Stay Smart! Get Women's Agenda in your inbox * Email * Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Δ ## Latest news ### Mette Frederiksen calls early Danish election amid tensions over Trump’s Greenland threat ### Grace Tame isn’t ‘difficult’. She’s doing the work powerful men won’t. ### Hillary Clinton testifies over Epstein files, says Trump should do the same ### Politicians say immigration threatens ‘Australian values’, but research shows no one knows exactly what that means ### The grassroots movement reshaping how new mums find their ‘village’ ### How an International Court judge thinks about hope

When Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult,” he said more than he intended https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/when-albanese-called-grace-tame-difficult-he-said-more-than-he-intended/ #AUSpol

I mean, the U S government are completely evil bastards but ALSO fuck Anthropic. #Republicans #Serveillance #FuckAI #Athropic

"As shown in the most recent annual report, the university’s finances are strong and healthy.

"The level of cuts management continue to propose are neither needed nor can they be carried out without substantially damaging education and research". (Claire Duncanson, UCU) 2/2

Edinburgh University taking strike action after plans for 1,800 job losses University of Edinburgh faces renewed UCU industrial action ballot over £140m funding cuts and up to 1,800 job losses, with union opposing…

'Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh are to begin strike action following management's plans for £140 million in cuts and up to 1,800 job losses.' 1/2

WEIR: I was, yeah. Toto took mine. So, I think it's 12 or 13 questions, one-word answers if possible. Let's go. PRIME MINISTER: I’ll try. WEIR: You'll try. Sussan Ley. PRIME MINISTER: Best wishes. WEIR: Angus Taylor. PRIME MINISTER: Leader. WEIR: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. PRIME MINISTER: Grub. WEIR: It was clearly a popular announcement earlier this week about the letter you sent to the UK Prime Minister, British Prime Minister. Craig Tiley? PRIME MINISTER: Legend. WEIR: Oscar Piastri. PRIME MINISTER: Winner. WEIR: We hope! One Nation voters? PRIME MINISTER: Frustrated. WEIR: Pauline Hanson. PRIME MINISTER: Divisive. WEIR: Australia Day. PRIME MINISTER: Great. WEIR: Grace Tame. PRIME MINISTER: Difficult. WEIR: Donald Trump. PRIME MINISTER: President.

These are so revealing. Absolutely petrified of saying something that might cost him votes on the right.

Also
"WEIR: ISIS brides?
PRIME MINISTER: Made their bed, they’re lying in it."

He really is the Scott Morrison of John Howards.

Insufficient data on human health risks, but antibiotic use approved anyway Tasmania's health department and environment watchdog questioned the scientific rigour behind an application to use the antibiotic florfenicol in salmon farms, including a lack of evidence about its i...

#StateOfTAS

Surely this BS #SalmonIndustry has to be stopped.

Accountability & Consequences must follow

people need to go to Jail !! shut this Industry down FFS

#BanSalmonFarming #AusPol #EnviroDestruction

#Australia #auspol

“Nobody’s ever seen anything like it before.”

srsly how

Anthony Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult” in a News Corp word game. Donald Trump was merely “president”.

Throughout history women who fight to better society get punished and labelled problems

Men who are convicted criminals and whose policies kill are more likely to get a pat on the back

Absolutely our worst Prime Minister. #auspol

“NT environmentalists ‘gobsmacked’ at federal green light to bulldoze nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna
Daly River region is home to threatened species such as the ghost bat, Gouldian finch, pig-nosed turtle and red goshawk.” #auspol

NT environmentalists ‘gobsmacked’ at federal green light to bulldoze nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna Daly River region is home to threatened species such as the ghost bat, Gouldian finch, pig-nosed turtle and red goshawk

Murray Watts is an environmental vandal.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The 23 Australian children stuck in Syria are not responsible for their parents. They need our government’s support to return | Donald Rothwell If the circumstances of those from Roj camp become even more perilous, the Albanese government may be forced to intervene

The children have the explicit right to family life under the UNCRC. It is incumbent on the #auspol Government to return all the children & their parents. It is abuse to deprive these children of their rights, dignity and safety.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I wish this weren’t the case but it is.

im never happy when someone dies but this person made the world a worse place, especially for women and girls. #AbortionIsHealthcare #ReproductiveRights

If you're with commonwealth bank now is a good time to leave them #auspol

You can share it with us though right?

At the AI conference, Altman also downplayed concerns about the water datacenters require. “Water is totally fake. It used to be true. We used to do evaporative cooling in datacenters, but now … we don’t do that,” Altman said. “You see things on the internet, [like]: ‘Don’t use ChatGPT. It’s 17 gallons of water for each query or whatever.’ This is completely untrue – totally insane.” CNBC reported that “some newer data centers no longer rely on water at all”. The director of the Southern New Hampshire University office of sustainability, Mike Weinstein, told the Guardian he was skeptical of the argument from Altman and other AI advocates that the power such infrastructure demands is justified because the technology will help alleviate global problems.

Effective Altruist blogger Andy Masley is single-handedly responsible for creating this scoffing line among billionaire tech goblins (notably a bunch of leftist accounts here seem to repeat it too)

Water consumption issues are not just real: they're crippling

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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How does 1 country have the right to do this for the whole world?! Fucking disgusting.

Developer signs Trump Tower deal for Gold Coast worth $1.5b Plans are underway for a $1.5 billion Trump Tower on Surfers Paradise, which would be one of Australia's tallest towers if approved.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, trying to ban women's right to abortion on the one hand, while green-lighting real estate developments benefiting violent pedophiles on the other.

"Trump Tower deal signed for Gold Coast as developer pushes against 'misconceptions'"

That is some bonkers shit.

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Weezer’s ‘Sweater Song’ if it were a panto.

Hope the first day goes well! You’ve chosen a great course and a wonderful discipline.

People talk about how much energy it makes to train an AI model…But it takes a lot of grass and hay to make a cow pat

Imagine there would have been a great @kudelka.bsky.social cartoon about the political response to the Australian women and children in the Syrian detention camp.