Hayden Starr

I wonder if leaders will ever admit that smearing all protests to stop the genocide actually contributed to the genocide. Will there ever be that level of self reflection and honesty or are we just going to get fake surprise like this after mass death.

It's incredible how much better our cities can be with some simple changes.

Making cycling and public transport safer and more accessible makes our cities healthier and less congested for everyone, including drivers.

Rare moment of good discourse from the dark place

Nailed it

The US pharmaceutical lobby is mad that Australia pays reasonable prices for medicine!

Remember, they are STILL MAKING A PROFIT. If they weren't, they don't have to sell to Australia.

From an Australian: kindly get stuffed.

Tired: tax big super balances
Wired: fix super because it's too stressful spending it

God is dead

Exactly. Farmers are so often held up as a shield for the interests of the rich and powerful - looking at the mining lobby

My family have been farmers for generations. I know it's a tough gig.

But that is no reason why we shouldn't reduce the generous tax concessions on the biggest superannuation balances.

If we want to help farmers, there are other ways rather than facilitating tax avoidance for our richest. #auspol

No baby formula has entered Gaza for four months because of Israel’s genocidal blockades. There is nothing left to feed babies and their mothers can not produce milk as they themselves are starving. There is no defending what Israel is doing. No justification.

Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries

This is an excellent visual for how bad the North West Shelf extension is
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ABC's coverage has significantly privileged Israeli perspectives over Palestinian voices, data shows.

We deserve better from our national broadcaster.

Important work from @deepcutnews.bsky.social ⤵️

I can't believe we're using the phrase "HUMAN WIFE"

Imagine agreeing to the interview??

My guy, certain things are best kept private.

Watching one whole minute of him talking about his love for the AI, and THEN HIS HUMAN WIFE ENTERS THE CHAT

Does anyone else feel like they're in a constant battle with the parasitic technology and social platforms that were supposed to make our lives better?

@edzitron.com's writing is a light in the darkness, a voice of sanity in the mire of AI-fuelled delusion.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...

The Onion, 2003

"Mugged by reality": Australia's AUKUS disaster with Malcolm Turnbull - The Australia Institute Australia traded sovereignty for security with the AUKUS submarine deal, but it might end up with neither.

This week on After America, I spoke to former PM Malcolm Turnbull about the dreaded Aukus review. As he put it - Aukus demanded Australia trade our sovereignty for our security, and now we may well end up with neither. australiainstitute.org.au/post/mugged-...

How good is test cricket

In approving Woodside's North West Shelf gas export plant extension, the Government has put big gas ahead of Australians.

“This expansion will do vast damage and deliver almost no benefit to Australia or Australians," said @rodcampbell.bsky.social #climate #auspol

Makes gas lobby happy I guess

As a political economist and historian, I know how powerful fossil capital is.

I know we're going to blow past our COP targets.

I know that liberal net zero politics is insufficient.

I know that there is a huge global fossil fuel production gap.

But its still a gut punch to see it play out.

This is cooked beyond belief.

The WA Government interfered in this scientific report to increase the acceptable threshold of gas industry pollution.

Big kudos to lead author Professor Baddeley for speaking out.

Other countries tax their oil and gas industries. Australia subsidies ours.

Our research found while gas prices boomed in 2022, LNG companies made windfall gains of up to $40 billion. PRRT take increased by less than $1 billion.

It's time to fix the tax loopholes that Big Gas exploits. #auspol

Woodside boss Meg O’Neill got paid $7.45m last year

Scott Morrison needs to stop writing the Beetoota's headlines for them

Former NSW Labor Premier and Federal Foreign Minister Bob Carr. 👇 #auspol #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

Tweet from Bob Brown Foundation showing a massive log on a truck. Text says "The tragedy of native forest logging continues in Lutruwita / Tasmania. This photo was taken this morning in the Derwent Valley. This destruction is taxpayer-funded, fuelling climate collapse and driving wildlife to extinction. #EndNativeForestLogging NOW. #politas"

It's unfathomable that we are still allowing the publicly subsidised destruction of these ancient giants. Awful.

This new way of doing things appears to be corrosive not just to students but also to teachers. Koebler’s investigation shows that the AI lobbyists courted schools by making appeals to instructors, showing them that the likes of ChatGPT would make curriculum-building and assignment-giving that much easier. Now, teachers, too, seem to be taking the easy way out, as a recent New York Times story shows that college professors have been using chatbots to create their lesson plans, just as their students are using them to complete said lesson. The result of all of this is so obvious that it doesn’t really bear repeating, but I guess will anyways: Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds. The tech industry’s subscriber-based, “as-a-service” model is obviously on full display here, except that the subscription will be to intellectual capacity. The more you subscribe, the less “organic” capacity you’ll have.

"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds"

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My @smh @theage cartoon.